Nick Allen

Tenor

Nick graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2011. He made his operatic debut in Canada as Peter Quint in the Benjamin Britten opera The Turn of the Screw as part of the annual Banff Summer Arts Festival. He played the roles of ‘Frederic’ in The Pirates of Penzance and ‘Nanki-Poo’ in The Mikado on the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company’s first UK tour.

Other roles include ‘Rat’ in the newly-commissioned opera Fever Pitch, based on the novel by Nick Hornby (Highbury Opera Theatre), and ‘Tobias’ in Jonathan Dove’s Tobias and the Angel.

Nick performed on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune alongside Iain Burnside, in his play about the life and work of Ivor Gurney, ‘A Soldier and a Maker’. As well as regularly performing with ‘Impropera’ – presenting improvised opera - he has performed in two operas written specifically for babies and toddlers! 

He has performed with the chorus for Opera North (Carousel) and numerous productions for Opera Holland Park. Nick also works regularly as a session singer and has recently been heard on recordings for the West End and for the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.


Previously for Longborough: Nemorino (cover)/L'elisir d'amore (2023)