JamesAtkinson

Press

• Guglielmo | Cosi Fan Tutte | Welsh National Opera

  Wales Millennium Centre

  Feb 2024

  • James Atkinson’s strong baritone Guglielmo emerges with a touch more strength of character…

    • Nicholas Kenyon, The Telegraph
    • 25 February 2024

• Bernard Labadie | Orchestre symphonique de Montréal | Haydn | Creation

  Maison Symphonique Montreal

  Apr 2023

  • ...et chez la basse James Atkinson, une prononciation claire, une très belle expressivité et une intelligence du texte (les notes délicatement posées à la fin de « Und Gott machte das Firmament » figurent agréablement les flocons de neige). ...and in the bass James Atkinson, a clear pronunciation, a very beautiful expressiveness and an intelligence of the text (the delicately placed notes at the end of "Und Gott machte das Firmament" pleasantly represent the snowflakes).

    • Backtrack
    • 10 April 2023

• Masetto | Don Giovanni | Welsh National Opera

  Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

  Feb 2022

  • The country bumpkins Zerlina (Harriet Eyley) and Masetto (James Atkinson, who made more of this usually one-dimensional role than anyone I have previously experienced) made an engaging contrast to all this heavy drama.

    • Midlands Music Review
    • 27 February 2022

  • James Atkinson imposes a lot in the role and delivers, tall in nature and voice.

    • Buzz
    • 01 March 2022

• Homelands

  CD

  Oct 2023

  • Baritone James Atkinson sings a selection of songs from Schumann’s Liederkreis Op.39. They are all tastefully performed, technically assured and pleasing on the ear…

    • Opera Today
    • 10 January 2024