Tenor

Oliver Johnston

British tenor Oliver Johnston is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and was a participant in the 2016 Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project. Highlights in his 2023/24 season include Walther Blond Eckbert and Damon Acis and Galatea for the Potsdam Winter Opera/Potsdam Kammerakademie. On the concert platform, Oliver sings Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Matthew Hall, Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Philharmonia Orchestra/David Hill, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Christopher Warren-Green, and Verdi’s Requiem with Oxford Bach Choir/Benjamin Nicholas. Future seasons include returns to Welsh National Opera and Garsington Opera. Recent engagements include Tichon Káťa Kabanová for Opéra National de Lyon, Alfredo La Traviata for Opera North, Miro Anna for the Grange Festival, Don Jose Carmen for Opera Holland Park; Italian Tenor Der Rosenkavalier for Garsington Opera; Jacquino Fidelio for Opera North; Ein Soldat Der Kaiser von Atlantis with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; house debuts at Teatro Real Madrid and Opera di Roma as High Priest Idomeneo; Mademoiselle Bouillabaisse in Offenbach’s Mesdames de la Halle for the Glyndebourne Festival and Jenik The Bartered Bride at Garsington Opera. His concert engagements have included Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra/Alexander Walker; Vaughan-Williams’ Serenade to Music with the London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski and at the The Last Night of the Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo; 2nd Nazarene in concert performances of Salome with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits; Handel’s Messiah with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/ Sofi Jeannin; Beethoven Symphony No.9 with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Edo de Waart and Mozart Requiem with the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra.