Joseph Doody
Tenor
Anglo-Irish tenor Joseph Doody was born in West Yorkshire. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Music, and the National Opera Studio in London.
His many recent appearances at home and abroad include his English National Opera debut as Nemorino L’elisir d’amore, Aufidio Lucio Silla (Salzburg Landestheater), Tsar Berendey in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden and Ramiro La Cenerentola (both for English Touring Opera), Mordecai Esther (Solomon’s Knot; Halle Handel Festival, Wigmore Hall), Count Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia (Charles Court Opera; Wilton’s Music Hall), Alessandro Il re pastore and Italian Tenor/Guglielmo Viva la Diva (Convenienze E Inconvenienze Teatrali) (Buxton Festival), Count Errico La vera constanza (New Chamber Opera; Oxford), Toby Robinson Crusoe (West Green House Opera) and Mosquito The Cunning Little Vixen (Welsh National Opera).
Joseph has just opened his 2025-26 season with his Canadian debut as Ramiro La Cenerentola for the Opéra de Québec, having finished a busy 24-25 season with his debut for Longborough Festival Opera as Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia and Orpheus Orpheus in the Underworld for IF Opera.
Among his other recent performances, Joseph has featured as Captain Trevor in a new critically-acclaimed and Gramophone Awards-nominated recording of C.V. Stanford’s Shamus O’Brien (Retrospect Opera); his other operatic roles include title role Albert Herring, Tom Rakewell The Rake's Progress, Jupiter Semele, Basilio Le nozze di Figaro, Pylade Iphigénie en Tauride, Ernesto Don Pasquale, Leicester Maria Stuarda and Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia.
In concert, Joseph appears regularly in a wide variety of repertoire including both Bach Passions both as Evangelist and tenor soloist (arias). Concert highlights include Beethoven Missa Solemnis with Southbank Sinfonia, Orff Carmina Burana at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Bach St John Passion with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and the Monteverdi Vespers at St John’s, Smith Square, alongside performances of both Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and Les Illuminations, and the Rossini Stabat Mater.
Le ténor anglo-irlandais Joseph Doody a fait ses études à l'Université d'Édimbourg, au Royal College of Music et au National Opera Studio à Londres.
Parmi ses récents rôles sur scène, ses débuts à l'English National Opera dans Nemorino L’elisir d’amore, Aufidio Lucio Silla (Salzburg Landestheater), le Tsar Berendey Snegourotchka (Rimsky-Korsakov) et RamiroLa Cenerentola (tous deux pour l'English Touring Opera), Mordecai Esther (avec l'ensemble Solomon’s Knot au Händel Festspiele de Halle, en Allemagne, ainsi qu'au Wigmore Hall à Londres), le Comte Almaviva Le Barbier de Séville (Charles Court Opera au Wilton’s Music Hall à Londres), Alessandro Il re pastore (Mozart) et le Ténor italien/Guglielmo Viva la Diva (Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, Donizetti) au Festival de Buxton, le Comte Errico La vera constanza (New Chamber Opera à Oxford), Toby Robinson Crusoe (West Green House Opera) et le Moustique La Petite Renarde Rusée (Welsh National Opera).
Après avoir terminé une saison 2024-2025 très active avec ses débuts au Longborough Festival Opera dans le Conte Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia et le rôle-titre d'Orphée aux Enfers pour IF Opera, Joseph Doody a remporté un grand succès pour ses débuts canadiens dans Ramiro La Cenerentola à l'Opéra de Québec.
Il avait auparavant chanté le rôle-titre Albert Herring, Tom Rakewell The Rake's Progress, Jupiter Semele, Basilio Le nozze di Figaro, Pylade Iphigénie en Tauride, Ernesto Don Pasquale, et Leicester Maria Stuarda.
En concert, il a notamment chanté les deux Passions de Bach (Évangéliste et airs de ténor), la Missa Solemnis de Beethoven avec le Southbank Sinfonia, les Carmina Burana de Carl Orff à l'Usher Hall à Édimbourg, la Passion selon Saint-Jean avec l'Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields et les Vêpres de la Vierge de Monteverdi à St John’s, Smith Square à Londres, la Serenade
Reviews | La Cenerentola | Opera Canade | Opéra de Québec 2025
“Joseph Doody as the Prince... was the production’s revelation. The tenor’s vocal sound was reminiscent of a young Juan Diego Flórez and the confident ping of his high notes was simply thrilling. Watch his career erupt”
Reviews | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Midlands Music Making | Longborough Festival Opera 2025
"Joseph Doody is an appealing, resourceful Almaviva, ringing and supple"
Reviews | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Planet Hugill | Longborough Festival Opera 2025
"Joseph Doody has clearly grown into Rossini's primo uomo roles. Here, he produced high-wire coloratura in spades [with] an ability to spin an elegant and imposingly elaborate line."
Reviews | La Cenerentola | BachTrack | English Touring Opera 2023
“Joseph Doody as the Prince... was the production’s revelation. The tenor’s vocal sound was reminiscent of a young Juan Diego Flórez and the confident ping of his high notes was simply thrilling. Watch his career erupt”
Reviews | La Cenerentola | Opera Magazine | English Touring Opera 2023
“Joseph Doody, a born tenore di grazia... was the picture of romantic ardour, singing with shapely phrasing and stonking high notes”
Reviews | La Cenerentola | The Guardian | English Touring Opera 2023
“Prince Ramiro is sung by Joseph Doody in a megawatt tenor with all the high notes”