Jason Wasley

In 1991 he received the Sleath -Lowery award whilst studying at the Victorian College of the Arts. Jason is a Green Room award recipient and was the youngest male ever awarded the prestigious Herald-Sun Aria. He went on to win the National heat of the Placido Domingo world Operalia contest and represented Australia in Vienna. Jason studied Italian at Bertrand Russell Institute of Languages in Padova. He then moved to London where he was accepted into the National Opera Studio.

Jason has performed professionally in Italy, the United Kingdom, Greece, Singapore, China and around Australia with companies such as Glyndebourne festival opera, British Youth Opera, Pegasus Opera Company, D’Oyly Carte Opera, Welsh National Opera, Singapore lyric Opera, State Opera of South Australia, Melbourne Opera, Victoria State Opera, Victorian Opera and Opera Australia.

Jason has performed a wide and varied repertoire over his long career starting as a Baritone with notable roles including Papageno from The Magic Flute, Figaro from The Marriage of Figaro, Escamillio from Carmen, the Boatswain in H.M.S. Pinafore, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Peter in Hansel and Gretel, Belcore in The Elixir of Love, Sid in Albert Herring and Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia. He performed the title role in the British premiere of Kullervo by Aulis Sallinen and Marcello Shaunard in La Boheme (under the baton of Richard Gill).

In 2006, he moved to tenor in Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the title role in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, Handels Messiah and performed the roles of Don José in Carmen and Cavaradossi in Tosca,  Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Alfredo in La Traviata, Florestan in Fidelio the title role of Wagner’s Rienzi, Rodrigo in Otello, Max in Der Freischütz, Calaf in Turandot and the title role of Wagner’s Tannhauser.

In 2015 Jason moved to musical theatre performing in Women in War, (Athens, Greece) and starred alongside Delta Goodrem as Old Deuteronomy for the Australasian tour of CATS.