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 recent highlights include a return to Scottish Opera for their Opera Highlights tour, several appearances with English Touring Opera, singing roles including Marcello La bohème, Don Prudenzio Il viaggio a Reims, Astolfo Lucrezia Borgia, Afron in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel and Pallante Agrippina, as well as Aeneas Dido & Aeneas, Polyphemus Acis & Galatea and Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro for Waterperry Opera.

His many other operatic roles include Dandini La Cenerentola, Faust in Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel, the title role Don Giovanni, Oreste Iphigénie en Tauride, Melisso Alcina, Schaunard La bohème, Death Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Dr Falke Die Fledermaus, the 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.

His solo concert highlights include his Wigmore Hall debut in 2023, singing Bach Cantatas with the London Handel Players, Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall (also with both the London Handel Festival and the London Mozart Players), alongside performances of 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 in L’enfance du Christ.