Opera Tenor & Actor

Jeffrey Carl

Viva Verdi and Puccini

Jeffrey Carl sitting by the water in Toronto, Canada

Jeffrey Carl

THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Toronto-born Canadian/British tenor/baritone and multiple Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council/Chalmers Foundation winner Jeffrey Carl has performed over 35 lead roles in Europe, North and South America, as well as oratorio and song recitals across the World. This year marks his debut in his new tenor repertoire. As a recitalist, his passion for foreign cultures has enabled him to have sung so far in 19 different languages.
Previous baritone lead roles include Tosca, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, Otello, Aïda, La Traviata, Un Ballo in Maschera, Macbeth, Falstaff (Ford), I Vespri Siciliani, Nabucco, La Bohème, Hérodiade, Madama Butterfly, Hamlet, Don Giovanni, Cavalleria Rusticana, Carmen, The Rake’s Progress (live for RAI 2 Modena, Reggio Emiglia, Pesaro,) Turandot (Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro), Caterina Cornaro (London and Cyprus), and a Verdi Gala at the Megaron Athens. He recently reprised Germont and Rigoletto, with the new Southern Ontario Lyric Opera, receiving very high praise from Opera Canada. In Canada, he created roles in two world-première operas by Harry Somers/La Serinette (CBC) and In Search of Zoroaster, by R. Murray Schafer. In London he created 3 roles in Havergal Brian’s The Cenci, Royal Festival Hall (BBC).
Recordings include Richard Bonynge’s Giuditta (2 roles) Hadley/Riedel, and The Czarevich Gustafson TELARC, La Bohème EMI Pappano, Lusignano in Donizetti’s Caterina Cornaro Migenes/Bonynge London (live) and a solo disc ‘Arias’/National Opera Orchestra of Moldova/Dohotaru.
He recently made his Maison Symphonique début in Montréal (Carmina Burana – Orchestre de Nouveau Monde (Michel Brousseau) and at the Salle Odysseé in Gatineau (Yves Léveillé). He debuted in Il Tabarro in the inaugural production of Opera Niagara, opposite MET soprano Aprile Millo in the summer of 2018 and was personally invited by her to sing in her Verdi D’Oro Prize gala in the Teatro Verdi in Busseto, followed by her Cadogan Hall recital début as her guest artist, in London. He made his role debut in Il Corsaro in Italy in the summer of 2019, where he said farewell to his baritone repertoire.
His first tenor appearance was in the new opera Conan and the Stone of Kelior by Kyle McDonald, voicing the villainous and demanding role of Kelior, and his first oratorio was the Beethoven 9th Symphony. His new repertoire includes Cavaradossi, Riccardo, Don Carlo, Manrico, and other roles in the Verdi and Puccini cannon. He still performs his favourite oratorio Carmina Burana, however now singing both roles.

Canada Council for the Arts
Ontario Arts Council | Conseil Des Arts de l'Ontario

REPERTOIRE

OPERA & ORATORIO

Bizet

Carmen

Don José

Giordano

Andrea Chénier

Andrea Chénier

Gounod

Faust

Faust

Mascagni 

Cavalleria Rusticana

Turiddù

Massenet

Hérodiade

Hérod

Puccini

Il Tabarro

Luigi

La Bohème

Rodolfo

Madama Butterfly

Pinkerton

Tosca

Cavaradossi

Turandot

Calaf

Saint-Saëns

Samson et Dalilah

Samson

Verdi

Aïda 

Radamès

Don Carlo 

Don Carlo

Un Ballo in Maschera 

Riccardo

La Forza del Destino

Don Alvaro

Otello

Otello

Rigoletto

Il Duca

La Traviata

Alfredo

Il Trovatore

Manrico

I Vespri Siciliani   

Arrigo

Beethoven

Symphony No9

Missa Solemnis

Handel

Messiah

Mahler

Das Lied von der Erde

Mozart

Requiem

Orff

Carmina Burana Both Roles

Puccini

Messa da Gloria

Rossini

Stabat Mater

Verdi

Messa da Requiem

Stages

A Few Places I’ve Sung

Amadeus Choir

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Birmingham Symphony

Bournemouth Symphony (uk)

Brampton Singers

Brighton Symphony (uk)

British Youth Opera

Cadogan Hall London (uk)

Cambridge Symphony (uk/on)

Cambridge Arts Theatre (uk)

Cambridge Arts Festival (uk)

Casa di Riposo di Verdi Milano

Chelsea Opera Group (uk)

Chisinau Symphony Moldova

DECCA

Deutsche Rundfunk Orchester

Dorset Opera

Dublin Opera

Elora Festival

EMI

English Festival Opera

English Youth Opera Orch.

Etobicoke Symphony Orch.

Freiburg Choral Society

Groningen Symphony

Guildford Symphony

Huddersfield Choral Society

Istituto Italiano London (uk)

Istituto di Cultura Montréal

Kings College Cambridge

Kings Theatre Edinburgh

Kingston Symphony

Laval Choral Society

Liverpool Philharmonic (uk)

London Philharmonia (uk)

London Symphony Orch. (uk)

Maison Symphonique Montréal

Megaron Athens (Gr)

Milton Keynes Symphony (uk)

Modern Baroque Opera (Vancouver)

Opera Cyprus Nicosia

Opera della Luna (uk)

Opera East (uk)

Opera Europa (uk EU)

Opera Holland Park

Opera in Concert Toronto

Opera York

Orchestre de Nouveau Monde

Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal

Oxford Philamusica

Pellegrini Opera

Peterborough Symphony (uk)

Queen Elizabeth Hall (uk)

Roy Thompson Hall

Royal Albert Hall (Willcocks)

Royal Festival Hall

Royal Opera Covent Garden

Slovak Symphony Orchestra

SONY

St Martin in the Fields

Théâtre du Châtelet Paris

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara

Teatro Comunale di Modena

Teatro di Livorno

Teatro Piacenza

Teatro Comunale Alighieri Ravenna

Teatro Municipal Rio de Janeiro

Teatro Pergolesi Jesi

Teatro Municipale Regio Emilia

Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza

Teatro Verdi di Pisa

Teatro Verdi Busseto - Parma

TELARC

Thessaloniki Symphony Orch.

Tunbridge Wells Choral Soc.

Vancouver Opera

Aprile Millo and Jeffrey Carl at Cadogan Hall London recital debut
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“Jeffrey Carl was magnificent as the elder Germont, his ‘Di Provenza” sumptuous …providing the most emotionally charged moments of the performance. Carl’s acting and vocal expertise let the audience share in the emotional tug of war experienced by the status-driven Germont – here a silver fox who could personally relate to his own son’s passionate affair with the beautiful Violetta.”  OPERA CANADA Feb 2017 issue Southern Ontario Lyric Opera (SOLO) Burlington ON Sept 17, 2016, by Dawn Martens

Dawn Martens
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“British-Canadian baritone Jeffrey Carl sang the title role. The only real “name” on the program, Carl is a legitimate Verdi baritone, with plenty of ring in his tone, and capable of enormous sustained power in the highest part of his range. He gave a nuanced portrayal of Verdi’s bitter, hunchbacked buffoon … His Pari siamo was a tour de force, swirling with powerful sub currents of contempt, self-loathing and despair.”

 Ottawa Citizen  Natasha Gauthier  April 17, 2016

 Ottawa Citizen
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‘[N]obody could compete with the evil presence of Jeffrey Carl as Scarpia. This role was a gift for Carl, who has a great future ahead of him playing the bad guy—when he glares at the audience even the back row can see the whites of his eyes. James Naughtie asserted in his programme note that Scarpia’s first entrance is ‘the moment at which the atmosphere of Tosca is established’, and in this production at least it was true; Carl’s Scarpia was at the same time terrifying and hugely entertaining, without over-simplifying the character.’  Opera Holland Park, London –  Erica Jeal, Opera

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‘Without hesitation! It has been a long time since we have attended a performance so convincing, intelligent, ironic and meritoriously profound, as Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress which opened the opera season on Friday, and which provoked our total, indeed terrified, admiration. At a comparable height at the opening, better even that the rosiest of expectations, [were] all the company of singers…the superb Shadow of Jeffrey Carl, diabolical but with an exceptional musical command’  Gazzetta di Modena

Gazzetta di Modena
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‘It’s to the great credit of the guest soloist, British-Canadian opera singer, Jeffrey Carl, that he brought such fiery conviction to his delivery. Although Feast is a standard part of Carl’s repertoire, he sang his baritone part with such an intensity that was something to behold as well as hear.’   Belshazzar’s Feast – Amadeus Choir, Toronto, Nova Amadeus Orchestra Rome

Eric McMillan

HISTORICAL REPERTOIRE

Bellini

I Puritani

(Riccardo)

Bizet

Carmen

Don José (Escamillo)

Les Pêcheurs de Perles

(Zurga)

Donizetti

Caterina Cornaro

Lusignano

Lucia di Lammermoor

Edgardo  (Enrico)

Giordano

Andrea Chénier 

Chénier  (Gérard)

Gounod

Faust

Faust (Valentin)

Havergal Brian

The Cenci

Multiple

Lalo

Le Roi d’Ys

(Karmac)

Mascagni

Cavalleria Rusticana

Turiddù (Alfio)

Massenet

Hérodiade

Hérode (Vitellius)

Mozart

Così  fan tutte

(Guglielmo)

Don Giovanni

(Don Giovanni)

Puccini

Il Tabarro

Luigi (Michele)

La Bohème

Rodolfo (Marcello)

Madama Butterfly

Pinkerton (Sharpless)

Tosca

Cavaradossi (Scarpia)

Turandot

Calaf (Ping)

Saint-Saëns

Henry VIII

(Henry VIII)

Samson et Dalilah

Samson (Grand Prêtre)

Somers

Louis Riel

(Louis Riel)

Smetana

Brandenburgers in Bohemia

(Tausendmark)

Stravinsky

Rake’s Progress

(Nick Shadow)

Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin

(Onegin)

Iolanta

(Robert)

Tchouhadjian

Arsace

(Arsace)

Thomas

Hamlet

(Hamlet)

Verdi

Aïda

Radamès (Amonasro)

Attila

(Ezio)

Don Carlo

Don Carlo (Rodrigo)

Ballo in Maschera

Riccardo (Renato)

Ernani

(Don Carlo)

Falstaff

(Ford)

I Masnadieri

(Francesco)

Il Corsaro

(Seid)

La Forza del Destino

Don Alvaro (Don Carlo)

Macbeth

(Macbeth)

Nabucco

(Nabucco)

Otello

Otello (Iago)

Rigoletto

Duca (Rigoletto)

Simon Boccanegra

(Simon)

Stiffelio

(Stankar)

La Traviata

Alfredo (Germont)

Il Trovatore

Manrico (Conte di Luna)

I Vespri Siciliani

Arrigo (Monforte)

Wagner

Tannhäuser

(Wolfram)

() Denotes performances sung as a baritone.

ACTOR

FROM STAGE TO SCREEN

In the throes of the early pandemic, Jeffrey entered the world of film, TV and voice-over acting. Has appeared in 3 full features in Sci-Fi, Horror and a Comedy (one a North Hollywood Film Festival Winner), 8 short films (one a Montréal Film Festival finalist) and will soon be seen as a lead in the Discovery+ series The Haunted Museum, by Eli Roth. His film Switched at Death, by David Merry and Marty Putz arrives in theatres worldwide shortly.

His voice-over credits include an Italian animé for a national Canadian political party for the Federal Election, as well as commercial and industrial works in both French, Italian and German internationally.

SCREEN

FILM & TELEVISION

Embark on a captivating journey through Jeffrey Carl’s expanding career, from commanding the operatic stage to gracing the silver screen.

That Song - music video

Game Show Host

That Good Graphic Niiva/Justin Alexis

Switched at Death

Principal

Home Invasion Studios/David Merry

Stalkers

Principal

Basic Strategy/ P. Thompson

The Haunted Museum

Lead

Discovery Plus/ Justin Harding/Eli Roth

Urban Legend The Harvest

Actor

Urban Story Productions Inc.

Emerge eps 105

Principal

TLN Media Group/ Azed Majeed

Raha and Rachel

Principal

Nedda Sarshar

Feeling Fine

Supporting

Fateema Al-Hamayadeh

Purgatory *

Supporting

Two Brick Productions Jonathan Rigas

Tools of Refinement **

Lead

TMU FF/ Nicole Vacval

Joe and Andy

Principal

Conestoga College

Metamorphosis Revisited

Principal

Red Naga Films/Alex Sayapov

Into Schrödinger’s Box

Actor

Amir Ganjavie

Looking for Richard

vocals

20th Century Studios/Al Pacino

Cutthroat Island

vocals

MGM/Renny Harlin

Recording Studio
Jeffrey Carl
Jeffrey Carl - Tenor

VOICE-OVER

ON AIR

Jeffrey Carl’s experience now extends to the realm of voice-over work, a dynamic journey that including many diverse projects. Noteworthy among these is his contribution to a national political party in Italian,  playing a staunch Professor in the ongoing podcast series ‘Y2K Redux,’ and other works in international corporate and educational instructional videos and commercials. His passion is speaking foreign languages and playing with accents, which have enabled him to expand to dubbing work as well. He has recorded in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Portuguese.

2021 Federal Election Anime short

Italian

The Infinity Forge

Y2K Redux Podcast ongoing

Professor Kenneth Morris

Soto-Falcon

Vision Video Infomertial

Voice

Manny Bains

Industrial Farm Combine Tutorial Italy

Italian

Interactive Advantage Corporation

CONTACT ME

GET IN TOUCH

Embark on a captivating journey through Jeffrey Carl’s illustrious career that spans across continents and cultures. From commanding the operatic stage to gracing the silver screen, Jeffrey’s multifaceted talent shines brightly in every performance.