Jacques le Roux

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jacques le Roux
Occupation	Opera Singer
Date Of Birth	May 21, 1981(1981-05-21)
Age	43
Birthplace	Ladysmith
Country	South Africa
Birth City	KwaZulu-Natal
Horoscope	Gemini

Jacques le Roux Biography

Jacques le Roux is one of the most popular and richest Opera Singer who was born on May 21, 1981 in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Jacques le Roux (born 21 May 1981 as Hermanus Jacobus le Roux) is a South African tenor, concert and opera singer.

Jacques le Roux won in 2010 the „Ulrich-Burkhardt-Förderpreis“ of the South Thuringia State Theatre Meiningen, which declared him as the artist of the year 2010. 2016 he was nominated for the Austrian Music Theatre Price for his interpretation of Peter Quint in Benjamin Britten’s “Turn of the Screw”. After his recording of Bellini’s Canzone di Camara, the south German newspaper stated that Jacques le Roux is a musical event of world ranking.

In 2007 he became part of the chamber opera in Munich, and in the following years 2008 and 2009 Le Roux sang as youngest member of the ensemble at the State opera of Meiningen in Germany. After working as a concert and opera singer in South Africa, the Netherlands, France, the Czech Republic, Russia, Norway, Poland, Jacques le Roux finally relocated permanently to Austria. Since 2010/2011 he is part of the fixed opera ensemble of the state theatre in Linz, Austria. In 2013, he played a key role in the opening of the new opera house in Linz where he sang the leading male role in the world premiere of the Philip Glass opera The Lost. He has sung the leading male roles in world and European premieres of composers such as Ernst Ludwig Leiter, William Bolcom, Moritz Eggert and Helmut Schmidinger.

Jacques le Roux Net Worth

Jacques le Roux is one of the richest Opera Singer from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jacques le Roux 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 2006 le Roux was part of the Resident Artist Program of the Nationale Reisopera in Enschede, the Netherlands, where he sang the role of Pedrillo in The Abduction from the Seraglio, an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The following year 2007 marked his European stage debut. His success in the role of Don Ramiro in G. Rossini’s La Cenerentola, at the World Youth Opera Schloss Weikersheim in Germany, guaranteed him new engagements and further productions in Europe.

Born in South Africa in Colenzo-Ladysmith in the then province of Natal, Jacques le Roux discovered his passion for music at an early age. His mother, an organist in the local church, took his early music education upon herself and gave him his first music lessons. Pursuing a better life, the family relocated to Vereeniging, a city in Tranvaal now known as Gauteng, where Jacques le Roux at the age of 14 started studying piano and clarinet at the local gymnasium conservatory. It was during these years that he discovered his singing talent. This finally lead him to further his music studies at the Conservatorium of the North-West University in Potchefstroom, where he studied voice under Prof. Werner Nel. In 2006 the singer went abroad to the Netherlands and Germany in pursuing an international opera career. He now resides in Austria.

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James Ranked on the list of most popular Opera Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Jacques le Roux celebrates birthday on May 21 of every year.