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  • DELIBES Lakmé

    Cadogan Hall
    Feb 2024

    • As Lakmé's father, Nilakantha, James Platt gave an intelligent and thoughtful performance, making the role a little more than just blood and thunder. It was a great pleasure listening to Platt shaping the vocal lines,

    • Matching Thomas’s strength and passion was Nilakantha, Lakmé’s formidable father, sung here by bass-baritone James Platt, his voice perfectly placed, and his diction the clearest of all singers on the night.

    • James Platt as Nilakantha displayed an immensely strong and secure bass-baritone that spoke of the character’s serious nature in every way

  • VERDI Requiem

    Bridgewater Hall and York Minster
    Oct 2022

    • James Platt’s bass was suitably bold, again with unerring emphasis on the meaning of the text.

    • James Platt’s bass was portentous at the ‘Confutatis’ and added gravitas to the solo ensembles.

    • James Platt’s sonorous bass thundered out in ‘Mors stupebit et natura. ★★★★★

  • MAHLER Symphony No. 8 'Symphony of Thousand'

    Royal Albert Hall
    Oct 2022

    • James Platt were utterly secure as Pater Ecstaticus and Pater Profundus respectively. ★★★★

  • VERDI Aida

    Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
    May 2023

    • To add to this formidable trio in the leading roles, we were also treated to some excellent support from British bass James Platt, who played the role of the King of Egypt in convincing style

    • James Platt was a fine King of Egypt

    • James Platt delivered an imposing turn as the King of Egypt

  • ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius

    London Philharmonic Orchestra/Edward Gardner at the BBC Proms
    Sep 2022

    • And what a barrel-chest of a bass voice James Platt deployed as the Angel of the Agony

    • Platt’s contribution as the priest and the Angel of the Agony were as sonorous and implacable as anyone could want.

    • James Platt’s Priest and Parsifalian Angel of the Agony had equal authority; what a difference it makes to have a true bass, and not just a bass-baritone, in these roles.

  • WEBER Der Freischütz

    Dutch Natioanl Opera
    Jun 2022

    • James Platt's sonorous bass lent itself superbly to the role of Agathe's father, the wood-backed Kuno.

    • James Platt charms with a powerful bass as Kuno.

    • James Platt as Kuno has a beautiful timbre, effortless and spacious like a thunderclap in the mountains.