Jerome Knox

Jerome Knox was born in London and is a graduate of the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he was the inaugural Gleneagles scholar. He previously trained at the Royal College of Music and at Edinburgh University. In 2020, he won the prestigious London Handel Festival Competition and is now much in demand in both concert and operatic repertoire. His many recent stage appearances include Clodomiro in Handel's Lotario for his Swiss debut in Payerne and, in the UK, Nick Shadow The Rake's Progress with English Touring Opera, and a return to Scottish Opera for their 2024 spring Opera Highlights tour. He has also recently sung Marcello La bohème, Don Prudenzio Il viaggio a Reims, Pallante Agrippina, Astolfo Lucrezia Borgia and Afron The Golden Cockerel (all for English Touring Opera), as well as Aeneas Dido & Aeneas, Polyphemus Acis & Galatea and Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro (all for Waterperry Opera). Equally at home on the concert platform, recent highlights include his Belgian debut with the Flemish Radio Choir as soloist in Handel’s Messiah and Christus and arias in the Bach St John Passion for the London Handel Festival. He now features regularly at the Wigmore Hall with the London Handel Players, including concerts of Bach cantatas and Magnificat (with interpolations). His other operatic roles include Dandini La Cenerentola, Faust in Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel, title role Don Giovanni, Oreste Iphigénie en Tauride, Melisso Alcina, Schaunard La bohème, Death Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Dr Falke Die Fledermaus, title role Eugene Onegin and Pallante Agrippina, appearing with companies across the UK, including Scottish Opera, Glyndebourne, British Youth Opera and Garsington Opera, and, on film, the roles of Le Chat in VOPERA's award-winning version of L'enfant et les sortilèges, and ETO's Handel-inspired film project, Aidan. In recital, he has sung at the Händel-Festspiele in Halle, and at the London Handel Festival, as well as giving a joint recital with baritone Roderick Williams at Music at Paxton, supported by the prestigious Momentum scheme. 2024 also saw a first appearance at the Ludlow English Song Weekend in celebration of this year’s C.V. Stanford anniversary. Other concert appearances include Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and Dona Nobis Pacem, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Bach’s St John Passion (including staged appearances with ETO), B Minor Mass and Christmas Oratorio, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, and Hérodes L’enfance du Christ.