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English bass.

James Platt was educated in Manchester at Chetham's School of Music, then in London at the Royal Academy of Music and on the opera course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  He was a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne in 2013, and from 2014 to 2016 was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists programme at the Royal Opera House.

With Scottish Opera he has sung Verdi (Dr Grenvil) and Tchaikovsky (Zaretsky, Bertrand Iolanta).  At the Edinburgh Festival he sang Second Soldier Salome, which was recorded.

Other operatic engagements in UK include:

Royal Opera House: Monteverdi (Caronte L'Orfeo); Rossini (Blansac La scala di seta); Verdi (Dr Grenvil); Mussorgsky (Frontier Guard Boris Godunov); Tchaikovsky (Zaretsky).

Welsh National Opera (High Priest Nabucco); Glyndebourne (Notary Don Pasquale); Opera North (Commendatore); Chelsea Opera Group (Moses Mosè in Egitto).

Continental work includes La Scala Milan (Ortel Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg); Savonlinna Festival (High Priest); Holland Festival (Second Soldier).