The 2024-25 season sees Oliver make several major role debuts. Oliver starts the season debuting as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana for Blackheath Halls. He goes on to make his role and house debut at Wexford Opera Festival, as Sir Christopher Hatton in The Critic. Early in 2025, Oliver will return to Opera North to debut as Erik in The Flying Dutchman. He goes on to debut Bob Boles and cover Peter Grimes in Peter Grimes at Welsh National Opera. His year is completed by returning to Garsington Opera to sing Jacquino and cover Florestan in Fidelio.
Oliver’s recent operatic highlights include Tichon Káťa Kabanová for Opéra National de Lyon; Jenik The Bartered Bride for Garsington Opera; Seemann/Ein Hirt in Tristan und Isolde for Opéra de Rouen; High Priest in Idomeneo for Teatro Real, Madrid and Opera di Roma; Alfredo in La traviata for Opera North; Walther in Blond Eckbert and Damon in Acis and Galatea for the Potsdam Winter Opera/Potsdam Kammerakademie; Miro in Anna for the Grange Festival; Don Jose in Carmen for Opera Holland Park; Italian in Tenor Der Rosenkavalier for Garsington Opera; Jacquino in Fidelio for Opera North; Ein Soldat in Der Kaiser von Atlantis with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Mademoiselle Bouillabaisse in Offenbach’s Mesdames de la Halle for the Glyndebourne Festival.
His concert engagements have included Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra/Alexander Walker; Vaughan-Williams’ Serenade to Music with the London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski and at the The Last Night of the Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo; 2nd Nazarene in concert performances of Salome with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits; Handel’s Messiah with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/ Sofi Jeannin; Beethoven Symphony No.9 with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Edo de Waart and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Christopher Warren-Green and Mozart Requiem with the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra; Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Matthew Hall and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Philharmonia Orchestra/David Hill.
Oliver is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and was a participant in the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project.
