Grange Park Opera

Dutch-Canadian tenor James Schouten was raised in the United Kingdom and studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Alexander Gibson Opera School, the Royal College of Music and Goldsmiths’ College, UoL. His performed operatic roles include: Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex (New Palace Opera), Loge Das Rheingold (Regents’ Opera), The Architect Taj Mahal (Grange Park Opera), Bacchus Ariadne auf Naxos (Trentino Music Festival), Alfred Die Fledermaus (Kentish Opera), Le Prince Charmant Cendrillon (RCS Opera), Don Jose Carmen (Opera in Oborne), Laca Jenufa (Fulham Opera) and Eisenstein Die Fledermaus (Opera Gold). James has also performed scenes of Siegmund Die Walküre (Wagner Society, UK), Peter Grimes Peter Grimes (RCS Opera) and Le Mari Les Mamelles de Tiresias (RCS Opera).

Recent contemporary projects include Nebuchadnezzar in Joseph Cabons’ To Himself, Alone, Jawad in Orlando Gough’s Weather The Storm (Garsington Opera/Rosetta Life), Federico in Ed Lambert’s In Five Years’ Time (Tête-à-tête Festival, London) and Jon/Composer/Musical Director of lockdown micro-opera Threshold for OperaVision’s 2020 competition Opera Harmony.

He recently won 1st Place and the Audience Prize at the 2024 Carole Rees Mastersingers Competition, performed in the Clonter Opera Prize (2024), won the Ye Cronies Competition at RCS (2023) and reached the final of Marmo All’Opera in Carrara, Italy (2022).

2026 performances include Narraboth Salome (Regents’ Opera), Froh Das Rheingold (Grange Park Opera) and a concert performance of Káťa Kabanová as Boris Grigorjevič (New Palace Opera). James is also preparing for the title role in Regents’ Opera’s upcoming 2027 production of Parsifal.