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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 returns to Wexford Festival Opera as First Joueur The Gambler and Don Sallust The Rose of Castille; and in Spring 2027 returns to English Touring Opera as Spoletta in Robin Norton-Hales new production of Tosca.
His most recent highlights include Bob Evert/Kinch Jonathan Dove’s Itch (Opera Holland Park Young Artist); Second Attendant in Harbison’s A Full Moon in March (Royal Ballet & Opera); and Garcia La tragédie de Carmen (Wexford Festival Opera). He also covered Marco The Gondoliers (English Touring Opera); and Frederic The Pirates of Penzance (English National Opera).
Other engagements include Don Pelagio in Haydn’s La canterina (Buxton International Festival); Pasek The Cunning Little Vixen (Rattle/London Symphony Orchestra – Barbican, Philharmonie de Paris); and covered Lensky Eugene Onegin (West Green House Opera).
While on the Opera Course at the GSMD roles included Oronte Alcina, Walther/Hugo/Old Woman Blond Eckbert; Father Rentería in the premiere of Stephen McNeff’s A Star Next to the Moon, and Il principe Aprile in Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco. 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, 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)
16 – 31 October 2026
Balfe: The Rose of Castille
Conductor: Rebecca Warren
Director: Heather Hadrill
17 – 30 October 2026
Prokofiev: The Gambler
Conductor: Valentin Uryupin
Director: Ivan Popovsky
13 December 2026
Bach: Christmas Cantata BWV 63
Handel: Dettingen Te Deum
Conductor: John Andrews
