Darren Jeffery has made over two hundred appearances at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden and has become well known for his performances at English National Opera which include Leporello/Don Giovanni, Donner/The Rheingold, Speaker/The Magic Flute, Mr. Flint/Billy Budd, Stǎrek/Jenufa and Hobson/Peter Grimes.
He has appeared at the Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence festivals and with most of the UK’s festival opera companies.
He was a finalist in the Seattle International Wagner Competition in 2008 and has since sung the title role in Der Fliegende Holländer, Wotan, Fasolt and Donner/Der Ring des Nibelungen and Kothner/Die Meistersinger von Nűrnberg for companies such as Glyndebourne, Chicago Lyric Opera, Melbourne Opera and Nederlandse Reisopera. He recently gave a series of recitals in Victoria, Australia entitled ‘The Wanderer’ as part of a new Wagner festival.
Other roles outside the UK include Raimondo/Lucia di Lammermoor (New Israeli Opera), Mr. Flint/Billy Budd (Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow), Der Herrscher/Das Wunder der Heliane in the Netherlands, Trulove/The Rake’s Progress (La Monnaie) and a number of roles at Teatro Real, Madrid.
Concert appearances include Christus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra, the BBC Proms (Elijah, Le Rossignol, Les Troyens, Serenade to Music, Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross) and the major choral works of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Elgar, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Verdi, among others.
He has appeared on several occasions with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and collaborated with many of the world’s leading conductors and orchestras. He has also contributed to recordings, two of which, with the London Symphony Orchestra, won Grammy awards.
Recent and future engagements include Helge / Festen (Finnish National Opera) Kothner/Meistersinger (Glyndebourne, Norwegian National Opera) Sprecher/Die Zauberflöte, Monterone/Rigoletto and Father / Hansel und Gretel (Covent Garden and Longborough) title role / Maometto Secondo and the world premiere of Silver Birch (Garsington), Doctor / Marnie, Foreman / Jenufa and Beaton / Mary Queen of Scots (ENO), title role in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Höllander and The Ruler / Das Wunder der Heliane (Nationale Reisopera), Achilla / Giulio Cesare (Opera North), Don Alfonso/ Cosi fan tutte (Malmö Opera), Wotan / Das Rheingold (Longborough Festival), Sacristano / Tosca and Father Trulove / The Rake’s Progress for The Grange Festival.