Opera Tenor & Actor
Jeffrey Carl
Viva Verdi and Puccini
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.
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
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
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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.