JohnFindon
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Rowan Bidmead
Dominic Domingo
Grace Hewett
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
About John
British tenor, John Findon studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Opera Course. He was a Harewood Artist at English National Opera from 2022 – 2024 and a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne Festival in 2017.
This 2024/25 season, John will sing the title role of Peter Grimes in Barbora Horáková's new production at Dutch National Opera and cover the role in Deborah Warner’s production at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. He will then make two house and role debuts; Bacchus Ariadne auf Naxos at Opéra de Rouen and Narraboth Salome at Teatro di San Carlo. In the Summer, John will give a role debut as Andrei Mazeppa at Grange Park Opera and make concert debuts at the BBC Proms and with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Recent highlights include his role debuts as Don Jose Carmen at Glyndebourne Festival and title role of Peter Grimes at English National Opera. He made his house debut at Bayerische Staatsoper for 1st Armoured man and 2nd Priest Die Zauberflöte, a role debut as Steva Jenůfa at English National Opera, revived the role of Luke The Handmaid’s Tale at English National Opera, before spending the summer at Glyndebourne Festival for 1st Armed Man/2nd Priest Die Zauberflöte and cover Melot Tristan und Isolde.
On the concert platform, John recently made debuts with the Helsinki Radio Symphony for The Dream of Gerontius conducted by Nicholas Collon, BBC Symphony Orchestra for Luigi Nono’s Canti di vita e d’amore with conductor Martyn Brabbins, with Ulster Orchestra for Dvořák’s Stabat mater conducted by Jac van Steen and made a studio recording of Pamela Harrison’s The Dark Forest with the BBC Philharmonic.
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
Selected Repertoire
| Bizet | Carmen (Don José) |
|---|---|
| Britten | Peter Grimes (title role and Bob Boles) • Owen Wingrave (Sir Philip) • Rape of Lucretia (Male Chorus) |
| Dvorak | Rusalka (The Prince) |
| Handel | Rodelinda (Grimoaldo) • Semele (Jupiter) |
| Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel (Witch) |
| Janacek | The Cunning Little Vixen (Cock) • Jenufa (Steva) |
| Korngold | Die tote Stadt (Paul) |
| Leoncavallo | Pagliacci (Canio) |
| Mozart | Idomeneo (title role) • La clemenza di Tito (Tito) • Die Zauberflote (Monostatos, First Armed Man) |
| Puccini | Tosca (Spoletta) |
| Shostakovich | Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Zinoviy Borisovich) |
| Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos (Bacchus) |
| Strauss | Salome (Narraboth) |
| Tchaikovsky | Iolanta (Vodemont) • Mazeppa (Andrei) |
| Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Walther) • Das Rhinegold (Mime/Loge) • Die Walkure (Siegmund) • Siegfried (Mime and Siegfried) • Gotterdammerung (Siegfried) • Tristan und Isolde (Melot) |
| Weber | Der Freischutz (Max) • Oberon (Huon) |
News
Press
Britten Peter Grimes
Dutch National OperaOct 2024John Findon is the young tenor who replaced the ailing Issachah Savage in the title role. Findon stepped into the role last minute, which fits him like a glove. A rare type of tenor, he manifests a deep baritonal treasure trove right down to the pianissimo. From the dark depths jump up illuminated color accents: a Caravaggian chiaroscuro! A fine actor he is, too. His bipolar tormented Grimes, alternately adrift and out of control (after which he beats himself up), then manically driven or dreamy, is utterly believable.
- Esther Chayes, Opera Gazet
- 09 October 2024
In any case, for the dress rehearsal and the premiere, the English tenor John Findon was called upon, who had recently played the role elsewhere and had managed to master the direction in half a day. He pulled out all the stops to make the premiere a great success and received a huge ovation.
- Peter Franken, Place de l'Opera
- 07 October 2024
John Findon [had] the Herculean task of memorising a staging that had taken five weeks to make in just one night. He does so commendably, delivering a moving Grimes with a capacity to express both the brutality and the poetry inherent to his character.
- Shirley Apthorp, Financial Times
- 08 October 2024
It is instead British tenor John Findon, who is not a stranger to Grimes stand-ins, having stepped in almost exactly a year ago at English National Opera. … what’s for sure is that his resonant voice and humble embodiment of this complex figure is one that makes its mark.
- Hattie Butterworth, Gramophone
- 06 October 2024
