Press
“He could sing the National Anthem and make it sound sexy.”
Arts & Culture Magazine, Sydney
“Tall, handsome, rich in tone and heading up a spectacular operatic career’.”
The Washington Post
]PAPPAGENO] "He is, plainly, a singing phenomenon. His Pappageno is a knock-out….He turns in a masterly performance. His baritone voice is exceptional – large and rich, with a kind of halo around the tone. In addition, he is a highly gifted actor, finding just the right street-smart naivety and humour for the part. He is also tall and good looking with an out-going personality and that extra something that can only be defined as star-quality. Here surely, is another world-beater.”
The Australian
[GERMAN LIEDER] “Physically a commanding presence, Jeffrey Black has a baritone of outstanding bravura and scope. Australia has had a long reputation for great and enduring baritone and bass voices; now add Jeffrey Black (31 Years). His beauty of tone is added to an easy command of language – Italian, French or Russian – it was all so convincingly flowing. But for me, towering above all the group and the entire programme – were three Mahler songs in German.
The Washington Post
“Don Giovanni making his first electrifying entrance. The effect is sensational. The opening sets the tone for the entire production. It is sex, sex and sex again – without love, without scruples, conquests for the excitement of the chase and the score-board – blatant, animalic and shockingly magnetic. Of course, to get away with it, you need a dashing, handsome baritone with an outstanding voice and enough charisma for half a dozen professional seducers. You need Jeffrey Black, the Australian baritone, on this showing… one of the greatest Giovani’s of all time. His voice grows still more in beauty and in volume, adding what can only be described as a kind of glowing halo around the tone.”
The Australian
[TANNHAUSER] “Jeffrey Black, reaffirmed his stature as a force to be reckoned with on the world’s Operatic stages. His beautiful dark baritone restored the popular Abendstern to its innate nobility.”
— Sydney
[FIGARO] “The Australian Baritone, Jeffrey Black, handsome beyond belief, makes his Count Almaviva virile and violent – a formidable opponent to (Bryn Terfel’s) Figaro.”
— The Lady
[THE MERRY WIDOW] “Combining well with (Lesley) Garrett, Jeffrey Black characterises the incorrigible Danilo as no dandy but a drunken rake… with great sexual chemistry generated.”
— The Stage
Vogue, Australia