Rupert Charlesworth, who has been praised for his ‘stunning technique and musicality’, enjoys a busy career at the opera theatre and on stage.

This upcoming season, Rupert will sing Fabio in Bérénice with il Pomo d’Oro and Lord Darnley in Mary, Queen of Scots at the Oper Leipzig.

In past seasons, Rupert appeared at Glyndebourne as Sellem in Rake Progress, Madame Beurrefondue in Offenbach’s In the Market for Love; Oronte in Alcina for Opera de Paris and the Royal Opera House in London, Prinz in Love of Three Oranges and Jonathan in Saul at the Komische Oper Berlin. For the 2019/20 season, Rupert joined the ensemble of the Staatsoper in which he performed Tamino in Die Zauberflöte; Narraboth in Salome. In concert Rupert performed Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with Noord Nederlands Orkest and Messiah with La Cetra Barockorchester.

Rupert’s operatic roles include; Laertes in Brett Dean’s Hamlet for Glyndebourne Touring; Marzio in Mitridate at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Bob Boles in Peter Grimes; Melot in a concert version of Tristan at Opéra de Lyon and Celidoro in I portentosi effetti della Madre Natura in Potsdam; Emilio in Partenope at English National Opera; Tanzmeister Ariadne auf Naxos, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Damon in Acis and Galatea all for the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In concert he has appeared as Narrator in Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda with the Orquestra Barroca Casa da Musica, Porto, under Laurence Cummings, as well as Third Angel and John in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin with the Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra.

Other previous engagements include; Soldier Der Kaiser von Atlantis for English Touring Opera and Hermit Wakening Shadow – Luke Styles’ realisation of Britten canticles – for the Glyndebourne Jerwood Programme under Vladimir Jurowki; the première of Joanna Lee’s The Way Back Home for English National Opera.

On the concert platform, Rupert has worked with many highly regarded conductors and orchestras including; Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski; Nicholas Kraemer; Laurence Cummings; Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Tonu Kaljuste; Ensemble Café Zimmermann; Capella Amsterdam / Daniel Reuss; Ensemble Matheus /  Jean-Christophe Spinosi; Accademia Bizantina / Ottavio Dantone.

Rupert Charlesworth read Music at King’s College London and studied with Philip Doghan. He trained at the Royal Academy of Music where he was generously supported by the Karaviotis Scholarship, the John Kenneth Adams Scholarship, the Josephine Baker Trust, the Countess of Munster Trust and Mr and Mrs Sommerville.

Rupert Charlesworth was a 2011 Academy Laureate of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and won both the Jury and Audience prizes of the 2013 Handel Singing Competition which he repeated at the 2014 International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cesti. In 2023 the production of Alcina at the Royal Opera House in which he sang the role of Oronte, won the Olivier Award for “Best New Opera Production”.