Thomas Atkins

Born in New Zealand, Thomas Atkins is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and was a Jette Parker Young Artist (2016–18). Previous roles for The Royal Opera include Narraboth (Salome), Gastone (La traviata), Roderigo (Otello), Pilade (Oreste), Faninal’s Major-Domo (Der Rosenkavalier), Poisson (Adriana Lecouvreur), Enrique (The Exterminating Angel) and Don José in Carmen (Wilton's Music Hall). Recent highlights include debuts at Paris Opera as Der Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer), Staatsoper Hamburg as Alfredo (La traviata), Glyndebourne as Tom Rakewell (The Rake’s Progress), Grange Park Opera as Boris (Kát'a Kabanová) and Teatro de la Maestranza as Števa (Jenůfa), and a return to Göteborg Opera as Rodolfo (La bohème). Engagements for 2024/25 include his role and house debut as Nemorino (The Elixir of Love) for English National Opera, a return to Norwegian National Opera as Tom Rakewell, Lensky (Eugene Onegin) for Semperoper Dresden and Andrei Khovansky (Khovanshchina) at the Salzburg Easter Festival.