Baritone Jack Holton was a 2022/23 National Opera Studio Young Artist, and is currently a Young Artist with Opera Prelude and the Musicians Company. Notable awards include the Musicians’ Company 2022 Saloman Seelig Award and a Help Musicians UK Sybil Tutton Opera Award (2022 and 2021). He was also awarded the Anne Pashley and Gita Furber awards at GSMD for the academic year 2020/21, and has been an Opera Awards Foundation bursary award winner.
His roles in the last year include Julian (alternate) in The Fabulist at Charing Cross Theatre, and Fiorello in The Barber of Seville and Captor in Tosca at Opera Holland Park. He also sang at the 2024 International Opera Awards ceremony at Bayerische Staatsoper. Jack has recently played Henri in The Runaway Royal and Guglielmo (cover) in Così fan tutte at Opera North, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte for Baseless Fabric, and Count Ribbing in Un Ballo in Maschera for Chelsea Opera Group.
Other notable roles include La Poigne in Margot la Rouge, Count Anckarström in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (Opera Holland Park [Young Artist]), Sky Masterson in Loesser’s Guys and Dolls (West Green House Opera), the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Rogue Opera, The Merry Opera Company), the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Oxford Alternative Orchestra/The People’s Opera).
In Spring 2025, Jack covered the roles of Ned Keane in Peter Grimes and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, as well as perform Count Almaviva in Figaro Cwta, an abridged version of the opera designed to introduce newcomers to opera, for school groups and music service groups, all at Welsh National Opera. This Autumn Jack will play Maximilian in Candide for WNO.
Jack also frequently leads workshops independently and with the Musicians Company in primary and secondary schools, and works with Opera Holland Park’s Inspire programme.
Jack is represented by Musichall Ltd.