Grange Park Opera

Julian Close began his career reading for PhD in Applied Physics at University of Leeds, before studying at the Royal Northern College of Music. He has since appeared with major companies throughout the UK including The Royal Opera, London, English National Opera, Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Welsh National Opera and West Green House Opera. He sang Theatre Manager / Banker in Berg’s Lulu at Dutch National Opera and Baron Ochs in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier at Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. His North American engagements have included projects at the Metropolitan Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Pacific Symphony and Washington National Opera.

Recent engagements have included Indra in Massenet’s Le Roi de Lahore for Dorset Opera Festival, Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for Saffron Opera Group, Talpa Il tabarro and Simone Gianni Schicchi. He also sang in Puccini’s Il trittico for Scottish Opera, First Soldier Salome and Sparafucile Rigoletto for Irish National Opera, a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Sparafucile Rigoletto and Dvořák’s Stabat Mater at the St Endellion Festival. For Longborough Festival Opera, Julian Close sang Hunding Die Walküre and Hagen Götterdämmerung in last Summer’s cycles of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Julian Close is delighted to be making his debut with Grange Park Opera in Don Carlo (2026).