Josh Lovell

The Canadian tenor Josh Lovell’s broad repertory reaches from Baroque works to contemporary music.

His engagements in the 2024/25 season will include his return to La Scala, Milan as Ritornello in a new production of Florian Leopold Gassmann’s L’opera seria, his debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro as Lindoro (L’italiana in Algeri), Grimoaldo in Handel’s Rodelinda at the Frankfurt Opera and Jupiter / Apollo (Semele) at the Atlanta Opera. In the 2023/24 season his appearances have included Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at the Paris Opéra and Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

At the Vienna State Opera, where he was previously a member of the ensemble, he has sung roles such as Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) and Fenton (Falstaff). In 2019 he participated in the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project, in which capacity he sang Poisson (Adriana Lecouvreur).

His recent engagements have also included his debuts at the Glyndebourne Festival as Ernesto and at La Scala as Ferdinand in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest. On the concert platform his recent performances include Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Clistene in Cimarosa’s L’Olimpiade with Les Talens Lyriques under Christophe Rousset for the Opéra Royal de Versailles.

Josh Lovell has won awards in numerous competitions, including first prize at the 39th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in 2021.