Email

email

Website

website

Baritone

Seán Boylan

Singer

Artist

Approved

Irish baritone Seán Boylan graduated with Distinction from the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with Robert Dean. 
Recent operatic roles include Guglielmo Così fan tutte (Garsington Opera), Tarquinius The Rape of Lucretia (Potsdam Winteroper), Moralès Carmen (Irish National Opera) and the title role in Don Giovanni (Nevill Holt Opera). 
This season he will sing Alcandro L’Olimpiade with Irish National Opera and the Irish Baroque Orchestra conducted by Peter Whelan in Ireland, London (Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House), Nouvel Opéra Fribourg and Teatro Tino di Lorenzo in Noto, Sicily. In 2024 Seán will compete in the 42nd International Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition in Jurmala, Latvia. He will return to Irish National Opera and Garsington Opera in later seasons. 
He has covered the roles of Pluto/Aristaeus Orpheus in the Underworld (English National Opera) and Demetrius A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scottish Opera). As a member of the Alvarez Young Artist Programme at Garsington Opera in 2019 he covered the title role of Don Giovanni, for which he was awarded the Helen Clark Award by Garsington Opera. Other operatic roles include Notaio Gianni Schicchi (London Schools Symphony Orchestra at Barbican Hall); Novice’s Friend Billy Budd (St. Endellion Festival); Silvio Pagliacci, Frank Die Fledermaus, Olivier Capriccio, Dandini La Cenerentola, Assan The Consul and the title role in Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet (Guildhall School of Music & Drama).
In recital, he has performed at Song in the City; LSO St Luke’s; Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, Clifden Arts Festival in Galway; St Columba’s Church in Ennis and Rosemary Street, Belfast. Concert engagements include Handel’s Messiah (Nevill Holt Opera), Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Deutscher Chor London), Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music (Ulster Orchestra.) He has also performed with the Cambridge Philharmonic, Galway Cathedral, Dublin’s National Concert Hall, the Drogheda Classical Music Series, The Abbey Theatre, the Dublin Fringe Festival and a live broadcast with Irish National Opera and mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy in Kilkenny Castle, Ireland. He has collaborated with pianist Iain Burnside on several projects including “Drums & Guns”, a project commemorating the centenary of World War I and the Dublin Easter 1916 Rising, which was performed in Dublin, London and New York City (Lincoln Center). 
He has participated in masterclasses with Dame Ann Murray (in the Irish Culture in Britain series at Wigmore Hall); Elly Ameling, Robert Holl, Roger Vignoles and Julius Drake (all at the Franz Schubert Institut in Baden bei Wien) and with Graham Johnson as part of the Song Guild at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Boylan studied piano, organ and voice at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (where his singing teacher was Virginia Kerr), receiving many regional and national prizes before focusing his studies on singing. He has been invited to perform for several presidents of Ireland, HM King Charles III and at festivals across Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe and the USA. At the Guildhall School of Music and Drama he was a Guildhall School Scholar and a Gwen Catley Scholar, supported by the Amar-Frances & Foster-Jenkins Trust. He was the winner of the NI Opera Festival of Voice 2014.

English

Sean Boylan

Fin ch'han dal vino from Mozart's Don Giovanni, performed by baritone Seán Boylan. Recorded live at Kilkenny Castle as part of the Mezzo Masterpiece's series.

Seán Boylan / Repertoire

Repertoire

Explore more about Seán Boylan