Born in Northampton, James Geidt is a recent graduate from the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Glenville Hargreaves and Jonathan Papp, having previously completed his Masters with Distinction at the RAM.  Prior to this, James was a Choral Scholar in the choir of New College, Oxford.

 

In 2024, James returned to Garsington opera as an Alvarez Young Artist where he sang Demetrius in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, covered Momus in Rameau's Platée and was a recipient of the Simon Sandbach award for his achievements across the season.

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Operatic roles to date include the Hunter in Dvořák’s Rusalka for Garsington Opera and the Edinburgh International Festival, The Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas for the Vache Baroque Festival, Gaspar in Donizetti’s Rita and Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Le Comte in Massenet’s Chérubin, Forester in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen, L’horloge Comtoise and Le Chat in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges all for Royal Academy Opera.  In 2023, James stepped in to join the intimate Vokalensemble at the Staatsoper Hamburg for a revival of Sciarrino's Venere e Adone.

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In concert, James has appeared at the Birmingham Symphony Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Palau de la Música Catalana, Auditorio Nacional de Musica, Cadogan Hall and the Three Choirs Festival.

 

Current and future engagements across 2024/25 include performances of Handel’s Messiah in the Sheldonian Theatre for the Oxford Bach Choir, for the Exeter Philharmonic Choir and for Ampleforth College in York.  James will also sing Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs for Ealing Choral Society and the role of Peter in Elgar's The Apostles with the Philharmonia, also for the Oxford Bach Choir.