Creswell, James

Performance History James Creswell (Seattle, Washington)

2026–27 Season: Comte des Grieux, Manon

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Crespel in Les Contes d’Hoffmann; Pharisee of Capernaum and Newscasters in Mark Adamo's The Gospel of Mary Magdalene; Comte des Grieux in Manon; Frère Laurent in Romeo and Juliet; Bartolo in The Marriage of Figaro; Rocco in Fidelio

Recent and Upcoming: Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro (Paris Opera); Swallow in Peter Grimes (Opera North); Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer (Welsh National Opera, Irish National Opera); Nettuno in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (Garsington Opera); Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin (Santa Fe Opera); Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra (Grange Park); Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance (English National Opera); Rocco in Fidelio (Amsterdam’s Dutch National Opera); Commander in Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale (ENO); Caronte in L’Orfeo (Santa Fe); Vodnik in Rusalka (Santa Fe); Nourabad in Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Opera North); Fafner in Das Rheingold (ENO); Marquis of Calatrava in La Forza del Destino (Paris, London’s Royal Ballet and Opera); Father Trulove in The Rake’s Progress (Metropolitan Opera); Count Walter in Luisa Miller (ENO); Il Cieco in Mascagni’s Iris (Scottish Opera); Oroveso in Norma (Frankfurt Opera); Publio in La Clemenza di Tito (LA Opera); Phorbas in Enescu’s Oedipe (Amsterdam); Ashby in La Fanciulla del West (Metropolitan Opera); Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte (Garsington, Scottish Opera, Metropolitan Opera); Blind Ballad Singer in Britten’s Gloriana (Madrid’s Teatro Real)

Merola Opera Program 2000