‘A great triumph for the Jette Parker Artists, most notably for Jamie Woollard in the role of police captain Zuniga. He sings with a gorgeous, crushed velvet, treacle-rich bass that positively entrances. He also shows great maturity in his stage presence, convincing as the bullying authoritarian’ – Opera Wire
Jamie Woollard is a British bass. Highlights of the 25/26 season include returns to Glyndebourne as Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Royal Ballet & Opera for Count Ceprano in Rigoletto. He will also make his debut at Opera North as Antonio in Le Nozze di Figaro, and at The Grange Festival as Colline in La bohéme.
He was a Jette Parker Artist at the Royal Ballet & Opera for the 2023 to 2025 seasons. His roles here included Zuniga in Carmen, Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin, Count Ceprano in Rigoletto, Dumas in Andrea Chénier, and Sciarrone in Tosca. Cover roles are Timur (Turandot), King of Egypt (Aida), Colline (La bohème), Orest’s Tutor (Elektra), Angelotti (Tosca), and Zebul (Jephtha).
In Summer 2023, Jamie performed with Glyndebourne Festival Opera as a Jerwood Young Artist, where he covered Snug in Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream and played Thierry in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites. Other credits include Apollo & Titye (La descente d'Orphée, Charpentier) for the Vache Baroque Festival; Commendatore (Don Giovanni) for Brunswick Vocal Arts and Waterperry Opera, Saul (Saul, Handel) with Consort of Twelve, and Polyphemus (Acis & Galatea) for Eboracum Baroque. He is a Samling Artist, a BBC Music Magazine ‘Rising Star’ 2023, and was awarded second prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards 2021. In concert, Jamie has performed as a soloist at Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, Cadogan Hall with The Mozartists, with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performing Handel’s Messiah at the Symphony Hall.
Jamie is a graduate of the Royal College of Music Opera Studio; whilst at the RCM, he performed the roles of Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Immigration Officer (Flight, Dove), Il Re in Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco, and Jupiter (Orpheus in the Underworld, Offenbach). Prior to his studies at RCM, Jamie graduated from Durham University with a BA in History & Economics.
August 2025
