James Young

Winner of both the 2021 John Wegner and Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto award(s), Australian Opera Singer James Young has worked with some of the world’s leading vocal pedagogues, coaches and conductors. In the 2023 season, James debuted the title role in Rachmaninoff’s Aleko, Sprecher in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and returned to Orff with another seldomly presented opera De temporum fine comoedia – Das Spiel vom Ende der Zeiten in the role of Anachoreten. The 2022 season sees James returning to Schloss Henfenfeld for performances in the role of Masetto in Don Giovanni. After liederabends in Bayreuth and Nuremberg, he performed Baculus in Lortzing’s opera Der Wildschütz at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, where he is also currently completing a Master’s degree in Opera Sing