Joshua Bloom

Joshua Bloom Bass

Biography

Born in Australia to musician parents, Joshua Bloom studied cello and double bass and was a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne. He then studied history at the University of Melbourne, earning a Bachelor of Arts. After making his professional opera debut in The Barber of Seville with OzOpera, he joined Opera Australia’s Young Artists Program in Sydney, followed by the Merola Program and the Adler Fellowship at San Francisco Opera.

Among his recent engagements are the Four Devils (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) at the Staatsoper Hamburg and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Tristan Moses (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) at Stuttgart Opera, and John Claggart (Billy Budd) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. During the 2025–2026 season, he performs, among other roles, Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at Glyndebourne, The Mayor (La gazza ladra) in Bielefeld, and Rambo (The Death of Klinghoffer) in Florence.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Nixon in China (Henry Kissinger), 2023.

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Immerse in the Paris Opera universe

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