“Joshua Collier, brimming with passion and sensuality with a brilliant high notes, and heart-wrenching tenderness…THE REAL THING.”

American tenor, Joshua Collier, known for ”brimming with passion and sensuality” and having “delivered brilliant high notes as well as heart-wrenching tenderness” was hailed as “the quintessential Italianate tenor” and “the real thing” for a production of Puccini’s Tosca in 2024.

A graduate of The New England Conservatory (Masters in Music - Vocal Performance), he has performed throughout New England and beyond in roles including: Rodolfo (La Boheme - Southern Vermont Lyric Theatre), Nemorino (L’Elisir D’Amore - Opera Company of Middlebury), Chevalier de La Force (Dialogues of the Carmelites - Sarasota Opera), Calaf (Turandot - Opera Company of Middlebury), Macduff (Macbeth - Raylynmor Opera) B. F. Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly - BARN OPERA), Camille (The Merry Widow - Opera Wilmington), Tamino (Die Zauberflote - Opera New Hampshire), Tony (West Side Story - Asheville Lyric Opera), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Lowell House Opera), Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia - Opera Brittenica), Frederic (The Pirates of Penzance - Opera Providence), Fabrizio (The Light in the Piazza - Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre), among others.

In addition to the lyric stage, Mr. Collier has performed the tenor solos in much of the symphonic and oratorio repertoire including Requiem by both Verdi and Mozart, Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings (op.31), Rejoice in the Lamb, Abraham and Isaac - All by Benjamin Britten, Elijah and Paulus of Mendelssohn, Handel’s Messiah, as well as Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the Coronation Mass of Mozart.

Throughout his career, he has been fortunate to work with such conductors as Stephen Lord, Lidiya Yankovskaya, John Moriarty, Emmanuel Plasson, Andy Anderson, and Michael Sakir, among others.

Mr. Collier founded the Bostonian opera company, Opera Brittenica, championing the works of Benjamin Britten, in 2013, and is currently is the Artistic Director of Opera Vermont based in Brandon, Vermont, For more information, please visit jrctenor.com


Nessun Dorma - Puccini’s Turandot (May 22, 2024 - Nicolas Giusti, Piano)

E Lucevan Le Stelle - Puccini’s Tosca (May 22, 2024 - Nicolas Giusti, Piano)

Nessun Dorma Turandot in concert (Maestro Cailin Marcel Manson, NERO)

  • B. F. Pinkerton - Madama Butterfly

  • Don Jose - Carmen

  • Calaf - Turandot

  • Cavaradossi - Tosca

  • Rodolfo - La Bohème

  • Nemorino - L’Elisir d’Amore

  • Joshua Collier, Tenor

  • Montresor - The Cask of Amontillado