Jeffrey Black

[3] In 1983 Black won the Marianne Mathy Scholarship in the Australian Singing Competition which enabled him to pursue further vocal training at the National Opera Studio in London in 1984.

[1] He also performed and recorded the roles of Nerone and Ottone, both transposed down an octave from the original score, in Claudio Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with the AO in 1988.

His roles with that company included Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute (1986),[1] Schaunard in Giacomo Puccini's La bohème (1986),[1] Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus (1986),[7] Dandini in Rossini's La Cenerentola (1987),[8] Figaro in The Barber of Seville (1989),[1] Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (1990),[1] Enrico in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (1996 and 2003),[1][9] the title role of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (1997),[10] Wolfram in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser (1998)[11] Rodrigo in Verdi's Don Carlo (1999),[12] the Count in Richard Strauss's Capriccio (2000),[13] Belcore in L'elisir d'amore (2001),[14] Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro (2002),[15] and Danilo in The Merry Widow (2004).

[19] He performed the role of Fieramosca in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in 1992, and returned there in 1995 as Riccardo in Bellini's I puritani.

[1] In 2000 Black made his debut with the Michigan Opera Theatre as Captain Balstrode in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes.

[20] In 2004 he portrayed Escamillo in Opera Queensland's production of Georges Bizet's Carmen with Yvonne Fontane in the tile role.

[22] In 2009 Black sang the title role in a concert version of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra with the Chelsea Opera Group at Queen Elizabeth Hall.