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The English counter-tenor, James Hall, studied at the Royal College of Music, and was the recipient of the Sir Geraint Evans Prize in 2009 and 2010, and the inaugural Somerset Song Prize in 2013.
Praised by The Arts Desk for his ‘flawless, stand-out’ performances on opera, concert and theatre stages around the world, James Hall enjoys great success in baroque and contemporary repertoire, and regularly appears with some of the world’s leading ensembles and opera companies.
In the 2018-2019 season, James Hall made his Glyndebourne Festival debut for their revival production of George Frideric Handel’s Rinaldo, and his house and role debut at the Opéra National de Montpellier as Oberon in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other performances in recent seasons include a tour of Purcell and Blow duets with counter-tenor Iestyn Davies at Wigmore Hall and the Palace of Versailles, Guildenstern in Brett Dean’s Hamlet for Glyndebourne on Tour, Narciso for Grange Festival’s production of G.F. Handel’s Agrippina, and the role of Farinelli alongside Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance in the Olivier and Tony Award nominated play Farinelli and the King on Broadway, New York City. Further ahead, he makes his first appearance with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, has his house debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin as Oberon in B. Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and sings Goffredo in Glyndebourne on Tour’s Rinaldo.
Last season (2019-2020) saw James Hall's first appearance with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and debuts at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (January-February 2020) as well as the Venice Biennale as The Boy in Written on Skin. In the UK he sang Goffredo in Glyndebourne on Tour’s Rinaldo, and a concert with Sir George Benjamin to mark the composer’s 60th birthday at the Royal Festival Hall. This season (2020-2021) he takes on the title role of Tamerlano for the Theater Bielefeld, Hamor in Handel’s Jeptha in Bregenz, roles in Monteverdi’s Ulisse for the Maggio Musicale and sings in numerous concerts with Collegium Vocale Ghent.
James Hall has created the roles of Leon in Laurence Osborn’s The Mother with director Frederic Wake-Walker and Mahogany Opera Group, and Johan in the world premiere of David Bruce’s Nothing for Glyndebourne. On the concert platform, he joined The English Concert and Harry Bicket at Wigmore Hall for J.S. Bach Advent Cantatas, as well as their performance of G.F. Handel’s Rinaldo at Carnegie Hall, where he made his debut performing with Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. He sang Adalberto in G.F. Handel’s Ottone with George Petrou and Il Pomo d'Oro at Festival de Beaune, Hamor in G.F. Handel’s Jephtha with the Academy of Ancient Music, Zephyrus in W.A. Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus with Ian Page and Classical Opera, joined Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company for their recent performances of G.F. Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms for BBC Radio 3, W.A. Mozart's Requiem with Masaaki Suzuki and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and J.S. Bach St John Passion (BWV 245) with Harry Bicket and the Royal Northern Sinfonia. |
