Opera Baritenor & Actor
Jeffrey Carl
Viva Verdi and Puccini
Jeffrey Carl
THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Toronto-born Canadian/British Baritenor and multiple Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council/Chalmers Foundation winner Jeffrey Carl has performed over 35 lead baritone roles in Europe, North and South America, as well as oratorio and song recitals across the World. 2023 marked his expanded repertoire into the tenor genre, while still singing his established baritone roles. As a recitalist, his passion for foreign cultures has enabled him to have sung so far in 19 different languages.
Baritone highlights 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 in Athens. 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 and was subsequently 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.
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. Still active in the high baritone Verdi and Puccini works, he is slowly incorporating various tenor roles. He still performs his favourite oratorio Carmina Burana, however now singing both roles.
ACTOR
FROM STAGE TO SCREEN
In the throes of the early pandemic, Jeffrey entered the world of film, TV and voice-over acting. Most recently he was a principal in the German film Leica, SKR Films/Sagi-Kahane-Rapport, filmed on special 8k lenses from Hollywood belonging to the Leica family, a game show host in the Music Video ‘That Song’ by Niiva and Justin Alexis, was a principal in the new David Merry and Marty Putz Comedy, Switched at Death, released worldwide, was a lead in the emotional short Joe and Andy, and was a principal in Stalkers, by Paul Thompson, near release. He was a lead in Season Two of The Haunted Museum on Discovery+ by Eli Roth, a principal in the series Emerg, by Azed Majeed, an actor in the Series Urban Legend, He has appeared in 3 full features in Sci-Fi and Horror – Purgatory, by Jonathan Rigas (Best Canadian Feature Nominee Hollywood North Film Awards 2022), and Canadian Student Film Nominee Tools of Refinement (a Montréal Film Festival finalist). His next release is a principal in the feature film Powdered Ink, by Jonathan Rigas (in post).
SCREEN
FILM & TELEVISION
Recent credits include:
Leica
Prosecutor
SKR Films/Sagi-Kahane-Rapport
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
His voice over work includes a national political party commercial 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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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.