Biography
Young Australian-Greek-British baritone Jeremy Boulton has joined the ensemble of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich this autumn, and started his season with a role debut as Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte. As an opera studio member at the Gärtnerplatz, he has performed a variety of roles there, including Masetto Don Giovanni, Fiorello Il barbiere di Siviglia, Vicomte Cascada Die lustige Witwe, Dancaire, Morales Carmen, Bob Old Maid and a Thief, Le Podestat Le docteur Miracle, Freddy My fair lady, and Bishop Myriel Les Misérables.
Guest engagements have taken him to Saarländisches Staatstheater in the role of Death Savitri, to Theater Erfurt as Marco Gianni Schicchi and to St. Gallen as Bishop / Combeferre Les Misérables. He has also performed roles such as Marcello La Bohème, Demetrius A Midsummer Night's Dream, Papageno Die Zauberflöte, Conte Le nozze di Figaro, Aeneas Dido and Aeneas, Uberto La serva padrona, Baron Reintal in Lortzing's Die Opernprobe, Secret Police Agent The Consul, Roger Quilter Percy, Colas Bastien & Bastienne and Corny Collins Hairspray. Concert highlights include the solos in Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, Händel's Messiah, Dixit Dominus, J.Haydn's Missa Sancti Nikolai, Charpentier's Messe de Minuit, Bach's Cantatas BWV 38, 82, 166, M.Haydn's Regina Coeli and Telemann's Machet die Tore Weit.
Jeremy Boulton studied at the Opera School of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Maree Ryan AM. He has participated in masterclasses led by Richard Bonynge AC, CBE, Jessica Pratt, Gerald Finley OC, CBE, Barbara Frittoli, Fabio Armiliato, Graham Pushee and Dr. Graham Johnson OBE. He attended the Georg Solti Accademia in 2023 and is the Co-Creator of the opera podcast So You Think You Can Belto? In 2022, he was awarded the Marianne Mathy Scholarship and Nicole Car Prize at the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition. He won 1st Prize at the Sydney International Song Prize, 2nd Prize in the Bel Canto Award from the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation and 2nd Prize in the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship. He received the Theater Erfurt engagement at the 41st Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition and shared 1st Prize at the 4th Fresno State Art Song Festival in California, USA.