Colin Judson
Making frequent featured role appearances with the Glyndebourne Festival, English National Opera, Covent Garden, as well as in France and Canada, Colin Judson has established himself as a noteworthy tenor. Upcoming in 23/24 Colin returns to Royal Opera House for Goro in Madama Butterfly and Spoletta in Tosca and to Opera North in Falstaff.
Other recent engagements include Glyndebourne for a tour of Le nozze di Figaro, and Monostatos in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Royal Opera House, Bernstein’s A Quiet Place with Opéra National de Paris, Wagner’s Siegfried with Grimeborn Opera, Puccini’s Tosca with the English National Opera, and both Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier at Garsington Opera as well as an unexpected jump in to Deutsche Oper Berlin’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
During the 2019-2020 season Judson was heard with the Berlin Philharmonic as the Gamekeeper in Rusalka and the Night Porter in Death in Venice at Covent Garden. His schedule for 2018-2019 called for War and Peace with the Welsh National Opera, Priest of Amon in Akhnaten for English National Opera and The Gamekeeper in Rusalka at Glyndebourne. Colin began the 2017/18 season with Bob Boles in Peter Grimes for the Bergen Festival, followed by his North American debut as Laca in Jenufa with Pacific Opera Victoria, and Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte and Goro in Madama Butterfly both with Opéra de Toulon. Earlier in 2018, Colin made his company debut with Opéra de Montréal as Khruschev in JFK for Opéra de Montréal, sang Don Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro for English National Opera and the Night Porter in Death in Venice for the Royal Opera/Covent Garden. In the summer of 2018, he was at Garsington Opera for Dr. Cauis in Falstaff.
Colin debuted at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Pang (Turandot) and returned for Vogelgesang (Die Meistersinger – conducted by Pappano) and Monostatos in the David McVicar production of Die Zauberflöte. For the Glyndebourne Festival, his roles have included the Witch of Endor in Saul (Cummings) Squeak in Billy Budd (Elder), Vogelgesang in Die Meistersinger (Jurowski), Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro (Ticciati), Remendado in Carmen (Jordan), Pásek in The Cunning Little Vixen (Jurowski) and Bardolfo in Falstaff (Elder). A favourite at English National Opera, his roles include Third Jew in Salome, Timorous/Lord Lechery/Messenger in The Pilgrim’s Progress (Brabbins), Don Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro and Tchekalinsky in Queen of Spades. Further credits include Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Opera North, Sellem in The Rake’s Progress for Scottish Opera, Nick in La Fanciulla del West (Corti) at the Edinburgh Festival, Rustighello in Lucrezia Borgia and Mime in Siegfried for Longborough Festival. Outside of the UK, highlights include Mime in Siegfried in Lisbon (Letonja), Strasbourg (Flor) and for Finnish National Opera in Helsinki (Segerstam), Snout in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Teatro Real, Madrid, Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro for Der Nationale Opera, Amsterdam, Truffaldino in L’Amour des trois oranges in Limoges and Bob Boles in Peter Grimes for Opéra de Lyon (Ono). Colin has appeared regularly for Oper Köln where his roles have included Hirt/Junger Seeman in Tristan und Isolde, Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte, Spoletta in Tosca and Goro in Madama Butterfly.
Concert engagements include the Verdi Requiem (Hereford Cathedral), Haydn’s Nelson Mass (Brighton Festival), Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Britten’s War Requiem at the Megaron in Athens.
January 2024
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““By far the most accomplished of this cast is Colin Judson, who has already sung Mime in David McVicar’s Siegfried in Strasbourg…and it showed. This was the most completely thought-through, incisively sung and word perfect individual performance on stage, fit for any theatre in the world.” [Siegfried, Longborough Festival Opera] ”
