Jack O’Kelly is from County Carlow in Ireland. He studied with Veronica Dunne in Dublin, and won Best Male Voice in The Golden Voice of Ireland Competition. Jack’s operatic debut was with Opera Theatre Company as Guglielmo Così fan tutte. In 1988 he sang Masetto Don Giovanni for Dublin Grand Opera.

He has worked in oratorio and on the concert platform with the RTE orchestras and was a member of the RTE Chamber Choir before joining the WNO Chorus in 1988 where roles include Alessio La sonnambula, Baron La traviata, Man in Crowd Tornrak, José Castro La fanciulla del West, Marullo Rigoletto, Minister Iphigénie en Tauride, Silvano Un ballo in maschera, Gaoler Tosca, Registrar Madama Butterfly, Custom House Sergeant La bohème, Narumov The Queen of Spades, 2nd Nazarene Salome, Woodsman Don Carlos, Officer The Barber of Seville and Monterone Rigoletto.