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

Dan D’Souza sings The Magistrate in Waiting for the Barbarians for Nederlandse Reisopera.

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.

NEW ARTIST

James Black Management is delighted to announce General Management of the baritone James Cleverton.

Hilary Cronin is Soprano Soloist for Handel’s Brockes Passion, now streaming on The English Concert’s Handel for All

OPERA NOW

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

FEATURED EVENTS THIS MONTH

25 SEPTEMBER 2026

Eleanor Dennis sings Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Ulster Orchestra conducted by Anna Handler.

25, 27 SEPTEMBER 2026

Toby Spence sings Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice for Opera Lombardia at Teatro Grande di Brescia.

3, 5 SEPTEMBER 2026

Marcus Farnsworth sings J. S. Bach’s B Minor Mass with Arcangelo directed by Jonathan Cohen

19, 21, 22 SEPTEMBER 2026

John Savournin’s Charles Court Opera production of Iolanthe is performed at Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and Theatre Royal Winchester.

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.