British bass-baritone Ossian Huskinson joined the Jette Parker Artists Programme in the 2024/25 Season. He is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, where he was a Bicentenary Scholar. He was a finalist in the 2022 Neue Stimmen and 2023 Paris Opera competitions, and winner of the Mozart Prize in the 2024 Tenor Viñas Competition. He was also named Young Vocal Talent of the Year (2022–23) by The Critics’ Circle and was a Harewood Artist for English National Opera (2022/23). Roles include Sciarrone (Tosca), Harashta (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Speaker (The Magic Flute) for ENO, Jupiter (Platée Summer 2024), Zaretsky (Eugene Onegin), Pluto (Orfeo) and Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos) for Garsington Opera, Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) for Dorset Opera, Pietro (Simon Boccanegra) for Deutsche Oper Berlin and Seneca (L'incoronazione di Poppea) for Opéra de Toulon. His debut solo recital The Roadside Fire, with pianist Matthew Fletcher, was released on Linn Records in 2022. 2024/25 Royal Opera roles include Marquis (La traviata), Angelotti (Tosca), Mandarin (Turandot) and Wagner (Faust). 2025/26 roles include Angelotti, Mandarin, Marquis and Abimelech (Samson et Dalila), and cover Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro).
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