John Twitchen is a versatile tenor, who particularly enjoys performing in opera and oratorio, and has extensive experience as an ensemble singer. He has performed roles with opera companies across the UK, including Longborough Festival Opera, Dorset Opera, Carshalton Opera, Riverside Opera, Ensemble OrQuesta, Southeast Opera and London BelCanto Festival. He is also an experienced oratorio singer, and has worked with choral societies in London, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Newcastle and the Southeast of England. Roles include Evangelist in Bach’s St John’s Passion, Elijah in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Uriel in Haydn’s Creation, and Jesus in Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge, as well as tenor solos in Stainer’s Crucifixion, Puccini’s Messa Di Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem and Grand Mass, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle.
The Magic Flute
✭✭✭✭✭ Twitchen makes a fine Tamino, presenting a noble front to those ladies... Twitchen also presents a genuinely conflicted Tamino. Most of all though he conveys a vocal clarity and embodied stoicism that seem to predestine him for the Temple. - Simon Jenner, Fringereview.co.uk
✭✭✭ John Twitchen, tenor, excels as Tamino - Susan Elkin, Londonpubtheatres.com
✭✭✭ John Twitchen (Tamino) seemed to have the role in his blood - Colin Clarke, Classicalexplorer.com
Don Giovanni
✭✭✭✭ He has a confident, bright, clean sound, effortless in his control and colouring, touchingly showing his character’s confusion with his beloved’s attitude – bravo, Sir! - Phillip Rham, Everythingtheatre.co.uk
