Joel Allison
bass-baritone
© Deutsche Oper Berlin
Joel Allison is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, singing Bijou / Alcindor in this production of Adolphe Adams’ Postillon de Lonjumeau. He studied in Toronto and Ottawa and was awarded a scholarship from the friends of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, whose Ensemble he joined in 2021/22. This season you can hear this Canadian bass-baritone there singing Fritz Kothner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), the Speaker (Die Zauberflöte), a Flemmish Deputy (Don Carlo), the Commissariat (Intermezzo), Robert (Les Vêpres Siciliennes), Ceprano (Rigoletto) and 1st Nazarene (Salome). His roles at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto included the Father (Hänsel und Gretel), Hunter (Rusalka) and King of Egypt (Aida), Saretzki (Eugene Onegin), Superior Senator in the world premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s HADRIAN and Schaunard (La bohème). He has also sung Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at Saskatoon Opera, Leporello (Don Giovanni) at Music Niagara and the Westben Arts Festival and Dr Roland Angeler in Marius Felix Lange’s The Magic Island’s Song at the Salzburg Festival. Much sought-after for concert work, he has sung with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Thirteen Strings, the Theatre of Early Music, the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Orchestre Classique de Montréal, the Toronto and Tilford Bach festivals and the Festival international de musique baroque de Lamèque in works by Bach, Mozart and Purcell.