Source: oclarke@owlartistmanagement.co.uk
This season, Jacques Imbrailo will make his role debut in the title role of Eugene Onegin at the Opéra national de Lorraine; he will appear at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as Ned Keene Peter Grimes conducted by Michele Mariotti and he will return to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Tadeusz The Passenger and to the Staatsoper Hamburg as Don Alfonso Cosi fan tutte.
In the 2023/24 season, Jacques’ operatic engagements included the title role of Don Giovanni in a new production for Malmö Opera; Conte Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro for Hamburg Staatsoper and he returned to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Tadeusz in a new production of The Passenger directed by Tobias Kratzer and conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. While on the concert platform he appeared with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in the Faure Requiem; with the Dutch Radio Orchestra singing the role of Jesus in a concert performance of Frank Martin’s Golgotha and he made his debut at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, singing the title role of Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise conducted by Kent Nagano.
In the 2022/23 season, Jacques made role debuts as Yeletsky Pikovaya Dama for La Monnaie, Brussels and Chou En-lai Nixon in China for Teatro Real and his house debuts as the title role of Don Giovanni for Ópera de Oviedo, Ned Keene Peter Grimes for Opéra national de Paris and Horatio in Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Bayerische Staatsoper, which he also recently performed at the Metropolitan Opera.
Other operatic highlights include: his role debut as Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet for Washington Concert Opera; Valentin Faust in Baden Baden; Alphonse XI La favorite and Tarquinius The Rape of Lucretia at the Houston Grand Opera; Vincenzo Gellner La Wally at Theater an der Wien; Ned Keene Peter Grimes at the Teatro Real; Don Giovanni and Horatio in the World Premiere of Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Glyndebourne Festival; Aeneas Dido and Aeneas at the Bolshoi Theatre and Opéra de Lille; he created the role of Joachim Messner in the World Premiere of Jimmy López Bel Canto at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and he returned to the title role of Don Giovanni at Perm Opera with Teodor Currentzis.
