Stuart Jackson
Tenor
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Stuart Jackson
Tenor
Unfurling an operatic fullness of tone, he is exciting – fearless...Gramophone
As an internationally renowned British tenor of opera and lieder, Stuart Jackson has featured as soloist on the stages of Wigmore Hall, Glyndebourne, Royal Danish Opera, and the Royal Opera House.
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Stuart Jackson was a choral scholar at Christ Church, Oxford reading Biological Sciences before studying at the Royal Academy of Music with Ryland Davies.
In the 25/26 season Stuart makes his main stage debut for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden singing First Armed Man Die Zauberflöte, before returning to Opera North to sing Bob Boles Peter Grimes while covering the title role. He also returns to Royal Danish Opera for Arnalta and will appear at the 2026 Garsington Festival.
Past opera highlights include Jupiter Semele for Opéra de Lille, Komische Oper Berlin and Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Prologue and Quint The Turn of the Screw at Opéra national de Lorraine, Nancy.
Stuart’s concert repertoire ranges from Bach, through Beethoven and Mozart, to the 20th Century.
Last season he made his Amsterdam Concertgebouw recital debut singing Mahler Das Lied von der Erde, sang Evangelist St Matthew Passion with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and ended the season at the 2025 BBC Proms for Handel’s Alexander’s Feast.
Other concert highlights include Frank Martin’s Golgotha Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Britten War Requiem Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Britten Serenade with the Britten Sinfonia at the Aldeburgh Festival.
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Stuart Jackson, on the other hand, puts his imposing stature at the service of the nurse Arnalta, and if the humour of his last monologue is very effective, he also offers the audience a moment of grace in the lullaby Oblivion soave.
Opera Online
The Viennese audience will not soon forget this tenor. He formed the emotional centre of the production. With increasing intensity and empathy he described the biblical events, having the appropriate vocal colour and the necessary intensity for every situation and mood. For every connection, every break, Jackson – who took on the role at very short notice – found the right measure and made a lasting impression.
Die Presse
Stuart Jackson, as the Evangelist, serves up a complete contrast in graceful tenor splendour … Imagine that KS Michael Schade meets Jörg Schneider from the Vienna State Opera – voilà, and there you have this delicate voice, which also has the potential to cause a sensation.
Klassik begeistert
Stuart Jackson … brings an open and unaffected humanity to the role
Gramophone
“…while Stuart Jackson (Septimius) made Handel’s lines sound as inevitable as breathing, his phrasing exquisite.”
The Guardian
Selected Discography —
Handel: Theodora
GramophoneThe balance of Cohen’s vigorously confident singers and players allows him to make his ensemble a major character in the story...The soloists also play their parts, led by Louise Alder as the death-welcoming Theodora.
Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
GramophoneAlarcón and Cappella Mediterranea are experts at this repertoire and play with skill, commitment, energy and some innovative continuo devices to reflect, emphasise and punctuate the singers...I found this a Poppea worthy of its creators’ eternally modern genius.
Jommelli: Il Vologeso
GramophoneThe cast is excellent. Stuart Jackson, so impressive at this year’s Proms as the Evangelist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion, reveals all the facets of Verus’s troubled character...This is a fine achievement by The Mozartists and Ian Page.
Handel: Brockes-Passion
BBC Music MagazineYou’re in safe hands here. Arcangelo bring their Baroque expertise to this pristine interpretation of Handel’s Brockes Passion. The soloists are fabulous...
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