Photo Claire Newman-Williams 2025

"the solid silver timbre of Patrick Jeremy"
- L'Ape Musicale (Roma)

Australian artist Patrick Jeremy lives in London and has enjoyed performing in musical theatre and opera around the world, from his hometown the Festival City of Adelaide, to Sydney, Rome, Vienna, London, New York, Canada and through Asia. He made his European debut at the Rome Opera, as Rick in the Châtelet production of I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky by John Adams.

For the past five years, Patrick Jeremy covered and performed the role of the Engineer in Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Miss Saigon. From 2020-2022 Patrick was engaged for the Vienna production with a new German libretto, reopening VBW’s historic Raimund Theater. He was then cast in the 2023 Australian production, opening at the Sydney Opera House with Opera Australia before touring to Melbourne and Adelaide. In 2024 Patrick embarked on the GWB Asia Tour of Miss Saigon with a third cast, performing in Manila, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung, Taipei and Singapore.

In London, Patrick Jeremy performed in West End Bares, and enjoyed singing and tapping his way around the country in the UK Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie, playing Bun Foo and dancing in the ensemble. He was then invited to reprise his role in this musical in Canada.

Patrick Jeremy received a Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George at the State Opera of South Australia. He followed this with Giorgio in Sondheim's Passion, both shows winning Best Musical in the Adelaide Theatre Awards. Patrick Jeremy has been performing in musicals since childhood, as the Mayor of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz with the Gordon Frost Organisation, and shows with State Theatre Company, State Opera and The Australian Ballet. Musical theatre credits at the Adelaide Festival Centre include Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me Kate, Scranton Slim in Guys & DollsInto the Woods and The Secret Garden. Patrick toured Australia in the Broadway production of The King & I, for John Frost & Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House, covering and playing Lun Tha. He received critical acclaim as Puck in a national tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Dubbed “the tenor in tap-shoes”, Patrick Jeremy made his New York cabaret debut at one of New York’s best-known cabaret venues, Don’t Tell Mama, and his London cabaret debut at the Covent Garden Theatre Museum, whilst undertaking a directing fellowship at the English National Opera.  He was the winner of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival Scholarship, the Young Achiever of the Year and the Churchill Fellowship.

As a Young Artist at the State Opera of South Australia, Patrick became well known for crossover roles, including two seasons as the title role in Bernstein’s Candide. He performed in numerous operas, covering and playing a number of character roles, as well as the popular Opera Australia productions of operettas Die FledermausThe Mikado and Orpheus in the Underworld and the Australian Premiere of Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick.

Patrick Jeremy developed a penchant for French chamber opera, studying with Jean-Paul Fouchécourt in France before singing Le Mari in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Silvio in Bizet’s Le Docteur Miracle, and the baryton-martin roles in Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortilèges, and is now preparing Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. 

His concert repertoire includes tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah and Pilate in Arvo Pärt’s Passio.

“totally charming and entertaining… Patrick is a triple threat”
– Cabaret Hotline, New York.