Colin Judson Tenor

Colin Judson studied singing in the Guildhall School of Music and graduated in 1992. His repertoire includes the roles of Remandado (Carmen) for the British Youth Opera, Frederic (The Pirates of Penzance), Don Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Isaac (La Gazza Ladra), Count Almaviva (The Barber of Seville), Monostatos, First Priest, Tamino (The Magic Flute), Ferrando (Così fan tutte) and Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas). With the English Touring Opera, he sang the title-role in Werther and with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera he performed the triple roles ofThe Prince/Kammerdiener/The Marquis in Lulu directed by Graham Vick, and Gaston (La Traviata) in their 1997 autumn tour, as well as Coryphée (Le Comte Ory) and Andrew (The Last Supper). He sang in Carmen at the Royal Albert Hall. He performed for the Oper Köln the roles of Hirt/Junge Seemann (Tristan und Isolde), Monostatos (The Magic Flute), Spoletta (Tosca), Venditore (Il Tabarro), Goro (Madama Butterfly) and Gaston (La Traviata), Pedrillo (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail) and a Truffaldino (The Love of Three Oranges). With the Scottish Opera, he sang Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Borsa (Rigoletto), Jaquino (Fidelio). Recent performances include The Rape of Lucretia for the New Sussex Opera. He appeared at the Teatro Real de Madrid in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and also at the Opéra national du Rhin, the Opéra de Bordeaux and the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse. In 2021 he sang Valzacchi (Der Rosenkavalier) and Triquet (Eugen Onegin) at the Garsington Opera, Spoletta (Tosca) at the English national Opera and Snout (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at the Deustche Oper Berlin.

In his Paris Opera debut