Canadian tenor Josh Lovell, described by The Guardian as “a handsome sounding tenor with a warm, liquid voice and easy high notes,” is quickly gaining recognition on the world’s most prestigious stages. An incredibly versatile artist, his repertoire spans from the Baroque to the Romantic periods, as well as modern works of the 20th century.

A former member of the Wiener Staatsoper ensemble, Lovell’s roles there included Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Fenton in Falstaff, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier, Ruodi in Guillaume Tell, Lurcanio in Ariodante, Andres in Wozzeck, Noboru in Henze’s Das verratene Meer, Telemachus in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and Lukas in a staged ballet version of Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten.

Outside of Vienna, Lovell has made notable debuts at Teatro alla Scala as Ferdinand in Thomas Adès’ The Tempest, the Glyndebourne Festival as Ernesto in Don Pasquale, the Bolshoi Theater as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Oper Leipzig as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Gérald in Lakmé at the Berlin Philharmonie, and the Bayerische Staatsoper as Florville in Il signor Bruschino and the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier. He has also performed Don Gomez de Féria in Saint-Saëns’ Henry VIII at the Bard Festival.

An avid concert artist, Lovell has performed extensively in works by Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Britten, Vaughan Williams, and Bach. Highlights include Bach’s Coffee Cantata with Music of the Baroque, Messiah with The International Music Foundation and the Victoria Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Sinfonietta Rīga, and the Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Victoria Philharmonic Choir. He has also appeared with ensembles such as the Wiener Philharmoniker, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, and L’Orquestra Simfònica de les Balears.

A native of Victoria, British Columbia, Lovell was nominated for Opus Klassik’s Opera Recording of the Year award for his performance in Offenbach’s La Princesse de Trébizonde with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the winner of the 39th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, the Grand Prize and Opera Prize winner of the 52nd Annual International Vocal Competition’s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, the 2nd place winner of the 2018 Dallas Opera competition, and the 3rd place winner of the Marcello Giordani Foundation competition.