Opera Artists Management — James Black Management

Ossian Huskinson Winner of The Mozart Prize at Tenor Viñas 2024
Member of the Jette Parker Artists Programme at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Winner of The 2022 Critic’s Circle Young Talent (Voice) Award

Ella Taylor Winner of Second Prize at the 2020 Kathleen Ferrier Awards

Grace Durham Winner of the 2019 International Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cesti

Winner of the Grand Prix of the Concours international d'interprétation de la Mélodie Française de Toulouse 2019

Hilary Cronin Winner of First Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2021 London Handel International Singing Competition

Dan D’Souza A Harewood Artist at English National Opera and Holder of the Inaugural Nicholas Folwell Scholarship
Winner of an Exceptional Prize at Tenor Viñas 2025

Egor Zhuravskii Winner of The Mozart Prize at Tenor Viñas 2025

Josef Jeongmeen Ahn Finalist at the 2026 Concorso Toti Dal Monte

Highlights

ARTIST OF THE MONTH

Hilary Cronin sings Angel Gabriel in the premiere of Errollyn Wallen’s A Christmas Miracle for Mahagony Opera.

NEW CD

Hear Hilary Cronin and Gwilym Bowen in Finzi’s For St Cecilia, In terra paz andn Sinfonia da Camera, now available on Hyperion CD.

John Savournin joins English National Opera to sing both Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore and The Learned Judge in Trial by Jury this month

NW DVD / BLU-RAY

John Savournin’s Scottish Opera production of Trial by Jury, a co-production with Opera Holland Park and D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, is now available on Opus Arte DVD / Blu-ray.

OPERA NOW

Hilary Cronin is interviewed in the Autumn 2026 edition of Opera Now. Read it on her HomePage.

FEATURED EVENTS THIS MONTH

7, 11, 20, 28, 29 NOVEMBER 2026

Hilary Cronin sings Handel’s Messiah on with Handel+Haydn Society, Boston.

14, 15 NOVEMBER 2026

Ella Taylor sings Blaze in Spark for Glyndebourne.

19, 22, 26, 28 NOVEMBER 2026

Catherine Carby sings Juno in Semele for Pinchgut Opera.

13, 25 NOVEMBER 2026

Toby Spence sings Mortimer in Lessons in Love and Violence with London Philharmonic Orchestra.

22, 30 NOVEMBER 2026

Ossian Huskinson sings Count Ribbing in Un ballo in maschera for London’s Royal Ballet & Opera.

Committed to meeting the needs of both artists and promoters, James Black Management is a small, dynamic agency working in opera and concert throughout the UK and Europe, as well as, increasingly, in North America and the Far East.