Jonathan May
bass baritone

Jonathan May is one of Britain's leading bass-baritones. Regularly engaged in Britain by the Royal Opera Covent Garden and Welsh National Opera, Jonathan is also a frequent performer in France, where Classica-Repertoire magazine awarded him the accolade 'one of the most beautiful of all current bass voices'.

Recent performances included

• La Forza del Destino (Alcalde) for Royal Opera, Antonio Pappano
• La Rondine (Périchaud) for Royal Opera, Emmanuel Villaume and Nicolas Joel
• Curlew River (Traveller) for Opera de Rouen, David Stern and Yoshi Oida (reprised for the Japan Society New York)
• Rigoletto (Monterone) for Welsh National Opera, Michael Klauza and James McDonald
• Don Carlos (Phillipe/Flemish Deputy) for Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi and John Caird
• Mazepa (Orlik and Kochubey) for Welsh National Opera, Alexander Polianichko and Caurier/Leisher
• Don Giovanni (Commendatore) for Welsh National Opera,Michal Klauza and Elaine Kidd
• The Bear (Smirnov) for Severn Opera, Shrewsbury, John Moore
• Madama Butterfly (Bonze) for Opera North, Wyn Davies and Tim Albery
• La Damnation de Faust (Brander) for RSNO, Stéphane Denève
• Letters of A Love Betrayed (Eugenio, premiere) for Music Theatre Wales - Michael Rafferty and Michael McCarthy

Current season

• Doctor in Daniel Kramer's South Bank Show award-winning production of Birtwistle's Punch and Judy  for Grande Théâtre de Genève
• Sparafucile in Scottish Opera's new production of Rigoletto
  
  
• Messiah for Warwick University, Paul McGrath
• The Dream of Gerontius for St Andrew's Chorus, Michael Downes