Biography

Jamie Woollard is a Jette Parker Artist at the Royal Opera House for the 2023 to 2025 seasons. Roles at ROH in these seasons are Zuniga in Bizet's Carmen, Zaretsky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Count Ceprano in Verdi's Rigoletto, Second Prisoner in Beethoven’s Fidelio, Dumas in Giordano's Andrea Chénier, and Sciarrone in Puccini's Tosca. Cover roles are Timur (Turandot), King of Egypt (Aida), Colline (La bohème), Orest’s Tutor (Elektra), Angelotti (Tosca), and Zebul (Jephtha).

In Summer 2023 Jamie performed with Glyndebourne Festival Opera as a Jerwood Young Artist where he covered Snug in Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and played Thierry in Poulenc's Dialogues des carmélites.

Jamie is a Samling Artist, a BBC music magazine ‘Rising Star’ 2023, and was awarded second prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards 2021. In concert, Jamie has performed as a soloist at Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, Cadogan Hall with The Mozartists, with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performing Handel’s Messiah at the Symphony Hall.

Jamie graduated from the Royal College of Music Opera Studio in 2023. At the RCM he performed the roles of Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Immigration Officer (Flight, Dove), Il Re in Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco, and Jupiter (Orpheus in the Underworld, Offenbach). Whilst studying he debuted at the Royal Opera House in the premiere of three opera scenes (Lost and Found, March ‘22) including Bass aria ‘Detritus’ (Laura Reid), and covered Segeste & Tullio in Handel’s Arminio (Linbury Theatre, April ‘23). Other credits include: Apollo & Titye (La descente d'Orphée, Charpentier) for Vache Baroque Festival; Commendatore (Don Giovanni) for Brunswick Vocal Arts, Saul (Saul, Handel) with Consort of Twelve, and Polyphemus (Acis & Galatea) for Eboracum Baroque.