Jeffrey Black

For other people named Jeff Black, see Jeff Black (disambiguation).

Jeffrey Black
Born: 1962
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Opera singer
Notable Roles
Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro Figaro in The Barber of Seville Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni Guglielmo in Così fan tutte Papageno in The Magic Flute Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus Schaunard in La bohème Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor

Jeffrey Black (born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1962), is an internationally acclaimed opera singer. He studied singing at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, and appeared in many of the operas staged by the Conservatorium students and post-graduate students, including appearing in the role of "Figaro", as a First year Opera Student, in the Conservatorium's 1981 production of The Marriage of Figaro, at the Basil Jones Theatre (now called the QUT Gardens Theatre), (which was the Conservatorium's location prior to its move to its present location at South Bank).

Jeffrey Black won the Marianne Mathy Scholarship in the Australian Singing Competition in 1983 and the Armstrong-Martin Scholarship in 1985.

Jeffrey Black made his operatic debut as a principal singer with the Australian Opera in 1984. He made his United Kingdom debut at Glyndebourne in 1986. ,

He currently resides in Barnes, southwest London, UK with his wife Janice, son and daughter Tiffany.

Jeffrey Black has sung with some of the world's leading Opera companies, including:

• Royal Opera (London)
• Opéra Bastille (Paris)
• Glyndebourne Festival Opera
• Metropolitan Opera
• Salzburg Festival (Salzburg).
• Munich Opera
• Netherlands Opera
• De Vlaamse Opera
• Vlaamse Opera
• Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich)
• LA Opera
• Bastille Paris
• Aix-en-Provence
• Monte Carlo
• Washington National Opera
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
• San Francisco Opera
• San Diego
• Los Angeles Music Center
• Michigan Opera
• Teatro Colón Buenos Aires
• Opera North

Roles

Jeffrey Black's opera and operetta roles have included, among others, the following:

• La Cenerentola (as "Dandini")
• The Barber of Seville (as "Figaro")
• The Marriage of Figaro (as "Count Almaviva")
• Don Giovanni (as "Don Giovanni")
• Così fan tutte (as "Guglielmo")
• The Magic Flute (as "Papageno")
• Die Fledermaus (as "Dr. Falke")
• La bohème (as "Schaunard")
• Lucia di Lammermoor (as "Enrico")
• Falstaff (as "Ford")
• The Pirates of Penzance (as "the Pirate King")
• The Merry Widow (as "Danilo")

References

• ^ Jeffrey Black - winner of the Mathy Award in 1983
• ^ Jeffrey Black - Opera Australia official website

External links

• Jeffrey Black at the Internet Movie Database
• Jeffrey Black - Queensland Conservatorium Alumni
• Queensland Conservatorium
• Jeffrey Black photos — National Library of Australia
• Performance photos of Jeffrey Black — National Library of Australia