Recent performances include Dandini La Cenerentola (Opera East), Lord Dunmow A Dinner Engagement and Louis The Wandering Scholar (Opera East), understudy of Guglielmo Cosí fan tutte (Opera North and Garsington Opera). In the summer he created the roles of Mohammed and Alec Harvey in the world premieres of Manifest Destiny by Keith Burstein and Brief Encounter by Peter Wiegold. He has also performed in concert this year with the orchestras of Welsh National Opera, Opera North and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Other recent roles include Marcello La Bohème, Harashta The Cunning Little Vixen and Masetto Don Giovanni (English Touring Opera), and both Count and Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro (British Youth Opera & Opera Brava).

Upcoming engagements include Don Giovanni title role for Opera North, the Mozart Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2005, and Belcore L’elisir d’amore for Grange Park Touring Opera.

Concert recitals in partnership with pianist Mark Packwood have included: Finzi’s Earth and Air and Rain, Jake Heggie’s Thoughts Unspoken and Poulenc’s Le Travail du Peintre in the Crush Room at Covent Garden. Also Schubert’s Winterreise and Schumann’s Liederkreis op.39 for the Schubert Society and a programme of English song for the Housman society. He has sung Zarzuela in a televised concert in Spain, and also participated in a fund-raising gala at the Linbury, Covent Garden. Together with tenor Alexander Anderson-Hall, he regularly performs in a selection of fully produced shows, which they have devised under the name of Opera Galleria.

His website is at www.jamesmcorancampbell.co.uk