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Born in London, tenor Jonah Halton graduated from the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, under the tutelage of Amanda Roocroft.
In the current season he makes his Irish debut as Garcia La tragédie de Carmen (Wexford Festival Opera); and Annibale/Marco (cover) The Gondoliers (English Touring Opera).
Since completing his studies in 2024, Jonah has already worked and performed with many of the UK’s leading opera companies. His most recent highlights include Bob Evert/Kinch Jonathan Dove’s Itch (Opera Holland Park Young Artist); Frederic (cover) The Pirates of Penzance (English National Opera); and Second Attendant in Harbison’s A Full Moon in March (Royal Ballet & Opera).
His other professional work includes Don Pelagio in Haydn’s La canterina (Buxton International Festival); Head Peasant/Lensky (cover) Eugene Onegin (West Green House Opera); and Pasek The Cunning Little Vixen (Rattle/London Symphony Orchestra – Barbican, Philharmonie de Paris).
While on the GSMD Opera Course roles included Oronte Alcina, Father Rentería in the premiere of Stephen McNeff’s A Star Next to the Moon, Il principe Aprile in Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco and Walther/Hugo/Old Woman in Weir’s Blond Eckbert. Other credits in training include Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, Leicester Maria Stuarda, Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw and Italian Singer Capriccio.
In concert Jonah has performed as tenor soloist for Dodgson Te Deum (Sinfonia Smith Square); Beethoven Symphony No.9 (North London Symphony Orchestra); Handel Messiah (Croydon); Haydn The Creation (Hemel Hempstead); Bach St John Passion (Buxton Musical Society); Stainer The Crucifixion (Potters Bar); Handel Esther (Greenwich); and Mendelssohn Elijah (High Wycombe).
In recital he has performed a selection of Neapolitan songs with tenor Freddie de Tommaso as part of Opera Holland Park’s Opera in Song series. He has also sung in recitals at the Franz Schubert Institute (Baden bei Wien); Schumann Dichterliebe (Inner Temple); and Three Auden Songs as part of BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion (Milton Court Concert Hall), broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Don Pelagio / La Canterina / Buxton International Festival / 2024
“Tenor Jonah Halton’s sweet and gentle vocal presence matches perfectly… Halton’s Don Pelagio delivers one of the best musical moments in an aria that mocks the highfalutin manner of opera seria.”
(The Stage)
“It is Halton’s Don Pelagio who gets most of the laughs, whether releasing his inner diva in his dramatic aria, getting flustered when Gasparina uses her wiles on him, or instructing the Bailiff to leave the orchestra.”
(The Opera Critic)
Oronte / Alcina / Guildhall School of Music & Drama / 2024
“Halton’s grasp of bel canto and his way with elaborate passagework was quite simply a sheer joy. His arias were a thing of expressive beauty, and I can’t wait to hear him in a more dramatically challenging bel canto role.”
(Planet Hugill)
Second Attendant / Full Moon in March / Royal Ballet & Opera / 2024
“The other, tenor Jonah Halton, was vocally lucid and dramatically commanding.”
(The Guardian)
“British-born tenor Jonah Halton brings a stylized passion to the stage both vocally and dramatically.”
(London Unattached)
“Jonah Halton delivered the passages at either end of the opera with beautiful clarity and as much of a degree of lyricism that the score allows…”
(Opera Today)
20, 24, Mar | 11, 18, 25, 29 Apr | 2, 7, 9, 16, 21 May 2026
Sullivan: The Gondoliers
Conductor: Jack Ridley
Director: Liam Steel
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