He studied singing at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, and appeared in many of the operas staged by the Conservatorium students and post-graduate students, including appearing in the role of "Figaro", as a first year opera student, in the Conservatorium"s 1981 production of The Marriage of Figaro, at the Basil Jones Theatre (now called the QUT Gardens Theatre). Black was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School.
Black made his operatic debut as a principal singer with the Australian Opera in 1984. He made his debut in the United Kingdom at Glyndebourne in 1986. Jeffrey Black has sung with some of the world"s leading Opera companies, including:
Royal Opera (London)
Opéra Bastille (Paris)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Metropolitan Opera
Salzburg Festival (Salzburg).
Munich Opera
Netherlands Opera
De Vlaamse Opera
Vlaamse Opera
Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich)
Los Angeles Opera
Bastille Paris
Aix-en-Provence
Monte Carlo
Washington National Opera
Lyric Opera of Chicago
San Francisco Opera
San Diego
Los Angeles Music Center
Michigan Opera
Teatro Colón Buenos Aires
Opera North
Jeffrey Black"s opera and operetta roles have included, among others, the following:
Louisiana Cenerentola (as "Dandini")
The Barber of Seville (as "Figaro")
The Marriage of Figaro (as "Count Almaviva")
Don Giovanni (as "Don Giovanni")
Così fan tutte (as "Guglielmo")
The Magic Flute (as "Papageno")
Die Fledermaus (as "Doctor Falke")
Louisiana bohème (as "Schaunard")
Lucia di Lammermoor (as "Enrico")
Falstaff (as "Ford")
The Pirates of Penzance (as "the Pirate King")
The Merry Widow (as "Danilo").
