Baritone

Seán Boylan

Rigoletto, Fledermaus

Biography

Seán has previously appeared with Irish National Opera as Alcandro in Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade and as Moralès in Bizet’s Carmen. He graduated with Distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with Robert Dean. In Ireland, he studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with Virginia Kerr. At the Guildhall School he was a Guildhall School Scholar and a Gwen Catley Scholar, supported by the Amar-Frances & Foster-Jenkins Trust. He was the winner of the NI Opera Festival of Voice 2014 and was a semi-finalist in the 42nd International Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition 2024. Recent operatic roles include Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte (Garsington Opera); Tarquinius in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia (Potsdam Winteroper); the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Nevill Holt Opera & Garsington Opera) and Pluto/Aristaeus (cover) in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld (English National Opera). In the 2024/2025 season Seán makes his Electric Picnic debut, returns to the Abbey Theatre for Augusta Gregory’s Grania and will appear as Frank in Johann Strauss’s Fledermaus for INO.

November 2024