James Cleverton
Baritone
Having garnered a reputation as an extremely versatile singing-actor, James Cleverton has been seen in a variety of repertoire ranging from Mozart and Wagner to Contemporary and New Music.
James Cleverton | Wir arme Leut | Wozzeck | Berg
James Cleverton | Ach wir armen Leute | Hänsel und Gretel | Humperdinck
Cleverton’s current engagements include the role of Sir Tommy Crawshaw in the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Railway Children at Glyndebourne Opera and the Queen Elizabeth Hall; Angelotti Tosca for Welsh National Opera; and cover Alberich Siegfried, and Balstrode Peter Grimes for The Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Future projects include returns to The Royal Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Cleverton’s previous seasons’ highlights include Alberich Das Rheingold, The Protector Written on Skin, Foreman Jenůfa, Pablo in Thomas Adès The Exterminating Angel, Mathieu Andrea Chenier, Johann Werther, Barone Douphol La Traviata,(Royal Opera, Covent Garden); John Sorel Der Konsul (Opernhaus Zürich); J. Robert Oppenheimer Doctor Atomic, Aristaeus Man The Mask of Orpheus, Mr Kallenbach Satyagraha,Horemhab Akhnaten, the Photographer in the world premiere of Jack the Ripper and Punch Punch and Judy (English National Opera); the title role inSchweitzer’s Jakob von Gunten and Papageno Die Zauberflöte (Theater Saint Gallen); Chou En-lai Nixon in China (Irish National Opera); Dulcamara L’elisir D’amore, Papageno Die Zauberflöte and Marco Il Trittico (Scottish Opera); Ford Falstaff (Grange Park Opera); Sharpless Madam Butterfly & Marcello La bohéme (Royal Albert Hall); Gusmano Alzira (Buxton International Festival); Frank Die Fledermaus, Marco Il Trittico and Barone Douphol La Traviata (Welsh National Opera); Leonid Sonata for Broken Fingers (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group); Barone Douphol La traviata(Opera North); Kyoto Iris, Gualtiero Edgar and White Rabbit in the world première of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Opera Holland Park) and roles at the Salzburger Festspiele, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Garsington Opera, International G&S Festival, D’Oyly Carte Company, and Opéra de Rennes. Further roles include Beckmesser Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Alberich Der Ring des Nibelungen, the title role Wozzeck, Johannes Morgen und Abend, Stern Anna Nicole, Theseus The Minotaur, 'N' Dionysus and the title role Jakob Lenz.
He can regularly be seen performing with leading orchestras such as The Hallé Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under illustrious conductors such as Sir Mark Elder, Sir Antonio Pappano, Donald Runnicles, Carlo Rizzi, Daniel Oren, Jakub Hrůša, Marc Albrecht, Edward Gardner, Franz Welser-Möst, Thomas Adès and Karen Kamensek.