Jeremy Kleeman

bass-baritone

Bass-baritone Jeremy Kleeman is very grateful to have had his operatic pursuits in 2014 and 2015 supported by the Joseph Sambrook Opera Scholarship with the Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust.

Having graduated from Victorian Opera’s Developing Artist Program in 2013, Jeremy is beginning to establish himself as a regular on the operatic stage.

In 2015 Jeremy will appear in The Flying Dutchman, I puritani, Sweeney Todd, and Seven Deadly Sins for Victorian Opera. This following a successful 2014 which saw him perform Colline in La bohème for Opera New England, and for Victorian Opera the roles of Marchese d’Obigny in La traviata and Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods, the latter for which he was commended by ArtsHub for his “rich, dark chocolate baritone”.

In 2013 Jeremy was a member of the Best Ensemble Green Room Award winning cast of The Magic Pudding – The Opera, performing Albert the Pudding in the adaptation of the classic Australian tale with music by Calvin Bowman and libretto by Anna Goldsworthy. Kleeman made several other appearances in Victorian Opera’s 2013 season, including Nixon in China, Puss in Boots, Sunday in the Park with George, Maria de Buenos Aires, and Rush Hour.

Jeremy is an experienced oratorio singer, having featured as bass soloist in Fauré’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Mozart’s Missa Brevis in D, Gounod’s Messe solennelle de Sainte-Cécile, and Schubert’s Mass in G for companies including the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra and St Francis Church, Melbourne.

Jeremy has also enjoyed recent success in major singing competitions; last year he won the Welsh Male Choir Singer of the Year, and in the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Aria the People’s Choice Award and 3rd Place. Jeremy has also been a prize-winning finalist in the National Liederfest and the IFAC Australian Singing Competition.