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Nicholas Jenkins music director/ conductor
Michael Moxham director
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Michael Moxham graduated with joint honours in Drama & English from Surrey University. This was followed by 6 months study of Italian theatre in Milan, funded by a scholarship from the Italian Institute of Culture, working at the Piccolo Teatro under Giorgio Strehler and in Florence with Jonathan Miller.
Michael is Director of Productions for NSO, for whom he has directed: Lucia di Lammermoor, Falstaff, Tobias and The Angel (also an educational project linked to local schools), followed by The Poisoned Kiss by Vaughan Williams.
Elsewhere Michael recently directed; Xerxes, Opera Theatre Company, Irish Tour and La Voix Humaine, Wexford. La Calisto, Birmingham Conservatoire; Il Capello Di Paglia, TCM (part of the college's centenary celebrations and a UK première); La Traviata, Guildford Opera Company and Dido and Aeneas, Opera Exclusive
In the field of Theatre & Musical Theatre Michael recently directed Dogs Barking, which was invited to the Toronto Fringe Festival and The Underbelly, Edinburgh; The Brick, Man in the Moon Theatre and Room, The White Bear Theatre and Edinburgh Assembly Rooms (both were UK premieres, both received Time Out Critics Choice, and the latter was awarded 5 stars by The Scotsman); Cabaret, TCM and The Shoemaker’s Wife & Don Perlimplin, GSA, Yvonne Arnaud.
In the 90's Michael founded a mixed-media theatre company Chamber Productions, using film, video and sound, with foreign trips funded by The British Council. He directed; I'm Dreaming...But am I ?, Pirandello, which he also translated, the production toured extensively and received Best Foreign Production Award in Budapest as-well as being short listed for The Independent Critic’s Award and The Scotsman Fringe First Award; A Place with the Pigs, Fugard, UK/Hungary Tour; A King Listens, an adaptation of Italo Calvino's short work and Thyestes, Seneca.
Michael has also worked closely with Keith Warner as Co-Director on: Whirlwind, Streetwise Opera; Don Giovanni, Teatre an Der Wien (which Michael will revive this summer) and Joan of Arc, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome and as 1st Assistant Director on The Ring, ROH. As part of his work on The Ring, Michael directed a Proms performance of Walkure, which opened the 2005 season and was broadcast live on BBC4, with Placido Domingo, Bryn Terfel, Lisa Gasteen, conducted by Antonio Pappano. He has been Assistant Director to Keith Warner on Carmen, Reggio Teatro, Torino; La Finta Giardiniera, Opera Zuid, Maastricht; Turn of The Screw and Macbeth, La Monnaie, Brussels; Rosenkavalier, Spoleto Festival and Tristan and Isolde, Opera North and Bochum Symphonia; to Michael McCaffrey on Marriage of Figaro, Opera Ireland; to Graham Vick on Zaide, CBTO, UK Tour and to Nurea Espert on Madama Butterfly, Scottish Opera and UK Tour.
Michael has devised and directed many workshops including extensive work with NSO and South Coast Schools, Age Concern, Streetwise Homeless Opera as-well-as Opera Scenes for Birmingham Conservatoire, RCM and recently two projects for Birbeck College.
Michael is Director of Productions for NSO, for whom he has directed: Lucia di Lammermoor, Falstaff, Tobias and The Angel (also an educational project linked to local schools), followed by The Poisoned Kiss by Vaughan Williams.
Elsewhere Michael recently directed; Xerxes, Opera Theatre Company, Irish Tour and La Voix Humaine, Wexford. La Calisto, Birmingham Conservatoire; Il Capello Di Paglia, TCM (part of the college's centenary celebrations and a UK première); La Traviata, Guildford Opera Company and Dido and Aeneas, Opera Exclusive
In the field of Theatre & Musical Theatre Michael recently directed Dogs Barking, which was invited to the Toronto Fringe Festival and The Underbelly, Edinburgh; The Brick, Man in the Moon Theatre and Room, The White Bear Theatre and Edinburgh Assembly Rooms (both were UK premieres, both received Time Out Critics Choice, and the latter was awarded 5 stars by The Scotsman); Cabaret, TCM and The Shoemaker’s Wife & Don Perlimplin, GSA, Yvonne Arnaud.
In the 90's Michael founded a mixed-media theatre company Chamber Productions, using film, video and sound, with foreign trips funded by The British Council. He directed; I'm Dreaming...But am I ?, Pirandello, which he also translated, the production toured extensively and received Best Foreign Production Award in Budapest as-well as being short listed for The Independent Critic’s Award and The Scotsman Fringe First Award; A Place with the Pigs, Fugard, UK/Hungary Tour; A King Listens, an adaptation of Italo Calvino's short work and Thyestes, Seneca.
Michael has also worked closely with Keith Warner as Co-Director on: Whirlwind, Streetwise Opera; Don Giovanni, Teatre an Der Wien (which Michael will revive this summer) and Joan of Arc, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome and as 1st Assistant Director on The Ring, ROH. As part of his work on The Ring, Michael directed a Proms performance of Walkure, which opened the 2005 season and was broadcast live on BBC4, with Placido Domingo, Bryn Terfel, Lisa Gasteen, conducted by Antonio Pappano. He has been Assistant Director to Keith Warner on Carmen, Reggio Teatro, Torino; La Finta Giardiniera, Opera Zuid, Maastricht; Turn of The Screw and Macbeth, La Monnaie, Brussels; Rosenkavalier, Spoleto Festival and Tristan and Isolde, Opera North and Bochum Symphonia; to Michael McCaffrey on Marriage of Figaro, Opera Ireland; to Graham Vick on Zaide, CBTO, UK Tour and to Nurea Espert on Madama Butterfly, Scottish Opera and UK Tour.
Michael has devised and directed many workshops including extensive work with NSO and South Coast Schools, Age Concern, Streetwise Homeless Opera as-well-as Opera Scenes for Birmingham Conservatoire, RCM and recently two projects for Birbeck College.
Yann Seabra was born in Manaus-Amazon Brazil. He has worked in the theatre for 13 years in various roles including costume and set designer, rehearsal director, dancer, choreographer’s assistant and dance teacher.
Yann first studied at the Artes School of Amazonas where his interest in theatre, dance and visual arts started. Yann later graduated from the Motley Theatre Design, a prestigious theatre design school in London founded by Margaret ‘Percy’ Harris and now led by Alison Chitty.
Yann’s design commissions include the costume design for Pequenas Alegrias by choreographer Henrique Rodovalho, part of Phoenix Dance Theatre’s 2007 UK Tour and the set design for Danca La Que Eu Danca Ca by Decio Otero in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 2008 he was designer and choreographer for NSO’s The Poisoned Kiss.
Yann has worked with various international dance companies including Companhia de Bailado Contemporaneo in Portugal and Ballet Stagium in Sao Paulo where he was also involved with social development projects. He has worked with choreographers such as Robert Cohan, Dharshan Singh Bhuller, Marisa Van Stockert, Vasco Wellenkamp, Rita Judas, Fin Walker, Rui Horta, Didy Veldman, Arthur Pita and Javier de Frutos.
Yann first studied at the Artes School of Amazonas where his interest in theatre, dance and visual arts started. Yann later graduated from the Motley Theatre Design, a prestigious theatre design school in London founded by Margaret ‘Percy’ Harris and now led by Alison Chitty.
Yann’s design commissions include the costume design for Pequenas Alegrias by choreographer Henrique Rodovalho, part of Phoenix Dance Theatre’s 2007 UK Tour and the set design for Danca La Que Eu Danca Ca by Decio Otero in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 2008 he was designer and choreographer for NSO’s The Poisoned Kiss.
Yann has worked with various international dance companies including Companhia de Bailado Contemporaneo in Portugal and Ballet Stagium in Sao Paulo where he was also involved with social development projects. He has worked with choreographers such as Robert Cohan, Dharshan Singh Bhuller, Marisa Van Stockert, Vasco Wellenkamp, Rita Judas, Fin Walker, Rui Horta, Didy Veldman, Arthur Pita and Javier de Frutos.
Yann Seabra designer
Daniel Norman was a choral scholar at New College Oxford, where he read Engineering. He went on to study in the US and Canada and at the RAM. In his first year out of college he made his debuts at the QEH with Trevor Pinnock (St John Passion), the RFH with David Atherton, the Wigmore Hall with Graham Johnson, Almeida Opera and the Aldeburgh Festival with David Parry and at the Barbican with Richard Hickox.
Opera credits have included Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw in the GFO and Porto, Dr Blind Die Fledermaus for GTO, his Covent Garden debut as Borsa Rigoletto, Mime Das Rheingold in Oxford, and Martinu’s Mirandolina at Garsington, Tanzmeister Ariadne auf Naxos with Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO, Mao in Nixon in China for Opera Boston and in Verona, Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos for L’Opéra National de Paris and Tanzmeister in Ariadne at Garsington, Elemer in Arabella at Garsington and the Electrician in Adès’s Powder Her Face both in David Alden’s Almeida/Aldeburgh production, (also a film for Channel 4, in Vienna, in Boston, and at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg). With the Early Opera Company he played the title role in Thomas Arne’s Alfred (Covent Garden Festival), Acis in Acis and Galatea and Oronte in Alcina. He played Fenney/Hugo Mines of Sulphur at the Wexford Festival, Bob Boles Peter Grimes (Endellion Festival), Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera Zuid, Hermes in Tippett’s King Priam (National Reisoper), Eurimaco in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria and Valetto in L’Incoronazione di Poppea for the Bayerische Staatsoper and New Israeli Opera and performed the first official staging of all five Britten Canticles in Westminster Abbey with Streetwise Opera (working with London’s homeless). Daniel also appeared in Nuno Corte Real's The Bronze Boy in Porto and Lisbon.
Concert performances have included Britten War Requiem in Warsaw, Schumann Lieder at the Wigmore Hall, Wozzeck with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Evangelist in St John Passion (RFH), Tippett A Child of Our Time(CBSO and Northern Sinfonia), Britten Les Illuminations and Mozart Requiem with Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic, Die schöne Müllerin in Oxford, Britten Nocturne at St John’s Smith Square, Britten Serenade and Schubert Die schöne Müllerin in Tel Aviv, Britten St Nicolas in Porto, Stravinsky Les Noces with Martha Argerich, St Matthew Passion at the Concertgebouw and in Denmark, Beethoven 9th Symphony (Minnesota Orchestra and RPO), Holst Savitri (Nash Ensemble), Sam Kaplan in Weill’s Street Scenes at the BBC Proms, a R. Strauss & Tchaikovsky Recital at the Wigmore Hall, St John Passion for The King’s Consort, Judas in Birtwistle’s The Last Supper for London Sinfonietta in Italy, Argento’s Jonah & the Whale in Boston, Messiah (RFH), Mozart Requiem (St John’s Smith Square), Carmina Burana (Cheltenham Festival), Delius Mass of Life (BBC Philharmonic), Haydn Stabat Mater with Europa Galante, Stravinsky’s In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (CBSO), a recital at Kings Place as part of the NMC Songbook series, Savitri with London Sinfonietta and regular appearances at the Three Choirs, Cheltenham, Chelsea, Lichfield and Endellion Festivals.
Recordings include four volumes of the Hyperion Schubert Edition with Graham Johnson, Beethoven 9th Symphony with the Minnesota Orchestra (Gramophone Editor’s Choice and nominated for a Grammy 2007), Maintop in Billy Budd with Richard Hickox and the LSO, Adès Powder Her Face on DVD, Slender in Sir John in Love with Hickox and the Northern Sinfonia, Janacek Sedmdesat Tisic, Carmina Burana (Meridian), Brett Dean’s Winter Songs with the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS) and Hugh Wood’s Comus with the BBCSO and Sir Andrew Davis. Daniel recently released his debut solo CD: Britten Winter Words and Who Are These Children? with Christopher Gould on BIS records.
Recent engagements include White Minister Le Grand Macabre for ENO, Britten Canticles at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Maxwell Davies Taverner with BBC Scottish Symphony, Messiah for the Minnesota Orchestra & Chorale, Beethoven 9th Symphony at the Barbican and Carmina Burana for the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Columbia. Future engagements include St Matthew Passion at Bath Abbey and Basilio Le Nozze di Figaro for Garsington Opera, and Moser Die Meistersinger for Glyndebourne Festival.
Opera credits have included Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw in the GFO and Porto, Dr Blind Die Fledermaus for GTO, his Covent Garden debut as Borsa Rigoletto, Mime Das Rheingold in Oxford, and Martinu’s Mirandolina at Garsington, Tanzmeister Ariadne auf Naxos with Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO, Mao in Nixon in China for Opera Boston and in Verona, Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos for L’Opéra National de Paris and Tanzmeister in Ariadne at Garsington, Elemer in Arabella at Garsington and the Electrician in Adès’s Powder Her Face both in David Alden’s Almeida/Aldeburgh production, (also a film for Channel 4, in Vienna, in Boston, and at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg). With the Early Opera Company he played the title role in Thomas Arne’s Alfred (Covent Garden Festival), Acis in Acis and Galatea and Oronte in Alcina. He played Fenney/Hugo Mines of Sulphur at the Wexford Festival, Bob Boles Peter Grimes (Endellion Festival), Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera Zuid, Hermes in Tippett’s King Priam (National Reisoper), Eurimaco in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria and Valetto in L’Incoronazione di Poppea for the Bayerische Staatsoper and New Israeli Opera and performed the first official staging of all five Britten Canticles in Westminster Abbey with Streetwise Opera (working with London’s homeless). Daniel also appeared in Nuno Corte Real's The Bronze Boy in Porto and Lisbon.
Concert performances have included Britten War Requiem in Warsaw, Schumann Lieder at the Wigmore Hall, Wozzeck with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Evangelist in St John Passion (RFH), Tippett A Child of Our Time(CBSO and Northern Sinfonia), Britten Les Illuminations and Mozart Requiem with Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic, Die schöne Müllerin in Oxford, Britten Nocturne at St John’s Smith Square, Britten Serenade and Schubert Die schöne Müllerin in Tel Aviv, Britten St Nicolas in Porto, Stravinsky Les Noces with Martha Argerich, St Matthew Passion at the Concertgebouw and in Denmark, Beethoven 9th Symphony (Minnesota Orchestra and RPO), Holst Savitri (Nash Ensemble), Sam Kaplan in Weill’s Street Scenes at the BBC Proms, a R. Strauss & Tchaikovsky Recital at the Wigmore Hall, St John Passion for The King’s Consort, Judas in Birtwistle’s The Last Supper for London Sinfonietta in Italy, Argento’s Jonah & the Whale in Boston, Messiah (RFH), Mozart Requiem (St John’s Smith Square), Carmina Burana (Cheltenham Festival), Delius Mass of Life (BBC Philharmonic), Haydn Stabat Mater with Europa Galante, Stravinsky’s In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (CBSO), a recital at Kings Place as part of the NMC Songbook series, Savitri with London Sinfonietta and regular appearances at the Three Choirs, Cheltenham, Chelsea, Lichfield and Endellion Festivals.
Recordings include four volumes of the Hyperion Schubert Edition with Graham Johnson, Beethoven 9th Symphony with the Minnesota Orchestra (Gramophone Editor’s Choice and nominated for a Grammy 2007), Maintop in Billy Budd with Richard Hickox and the LSO, Adès Powder Her Face on DVD, Slender in Sir John in Love with Hickox and the Northern Sinfonia, Janacek Sedmdesat Tisic, Carmina Burana (Meridian), Brett Dean’s Winter Songs with the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS) and Hugh Wood’s Comus with the BBCSO and Sir Andrew Davis. Daniel recently released his debut solo CD: Britten Winter Words and Who Are These Children? with Christopher Gould on BIS records.
Recent engagements include White Minister Le Grand Macabre for ENO, Britten Canticles at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Maxwell Davies Taverner with BBC Scottish Symphony, Messiah for the Minnesota Orchestra & Chorale, Beethoven 9th Symphony at the Barbican and Carmina Burana for the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Columbia. Future engagements include St Matthew Passion at Bath Abbey and Basilio Le Nozze di Figaro for Garsington Opera, and Moser Die Meistersinger for Glyndebourne Festival.
Daniel Norman
Hugh
Hugh
Born in Tasmania, Simon Thorpe studied at the GSMD, where he was awarded the Harold Rosenthal Prize. He spent a year at the National Opera Studio. A finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Competition, he now studies with Robert Dean.
His engagements have included Escamillo, Pacheco Inés de Castro for Scottish Opera, Zurga for Dorset Opera, Zurga, Lescaut Manon Lescaut and Sharpless for Opera Holland Park, Escamillo and Germont Père for ETO, Donald Billy Budd, The Foreman Jenufa, Marcello and Ford for WNO, The Duke Roméo et Juliette, Kuligin Katya Kabanova, Sharpless and Marullo Rigoletto for Opera North and Alfio Cavalleria Rusticana and Guglielmo Le Villi for Chelsea Opera Group.
He sang Pacheco with Scottish Opera in Lisbon, Sharpless and Scarpia for Lyric Opera, Dublin, and Sharpless for Singapore Lyric Opera, whilst his engagements in the Antipodes have included The Steward Flight and Roucher Andrea Chénier with the State Opera of South Australia and The Forester The Cunning Little Vixen, Private Willis Iolanthe and Montano Otello for Opera Australia.
His recordings include Second Mate / Arthur Jones Billy Budd with Kent Nagano and the Hallé Orchestra for Erato, and he sings regularly throughout the country in concert, at major venues including the Barbican Hall, the QEH, the RAH, St John’s, Smith Square, the Fairfield Halls and the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Particular highlights have included the Fauré Requiem with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, conducted by Nicholas Cleobury, Messiah with Emma Kirkby and the Armonico Consort, Elijah at St David’s Hall, Cardiff, and Mozart Requiem with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowacewski, as well as regular concerts for Raymond Gubbay.
He has recently sung Belcore for WNO, Alfio for Dorset Opera, Falke for London Lyric Opera, Anckarström for Cork Opera 2005 and Eternal Light: A Requiem for Rambert Dance Company.
Current engagements include Bassa Selim Die Entführung aus dem Serail for WNO, Scarpia for Opera Project (which he will also cover for WNO) and the title role in Rigoletto for Clonter Opera and Opera Project.
His engagements have included Escamillo, Pacheco Inés de Castro for Scottish Opera, Zurga for Dorset Opera, Zurga, Lescaut Manon Lescaut and Sharpless for Opera Holland Park, Escamillo and Germont Père for ETO, Donald Billy Budd, The Foreman Jenufa, Marcello and Ford for WNO, The Duke Roméo et Juliette, Kuligin Katya Kabanova, Sharpless and Marullo Rigoletto for Opera North and Alfio Cavalleria Rusticana and Guglielmo Le Villi for Chelsea Opera Group.
He sang Pacheco with Scottish Opera in Lisbon, Sharpless and Scarpia for Lyric Opera, Dublin, and Sharpless for Singapore Lyric Opera, whilst his engagements in the Antipodes have included The Steward Flight and Roucher Andrea Chénier with the State Opera of South Australia and The Forester The Cunning Little Vixen, Private Willis Iolanthe and Montano Otello for Opera Australia.
His recordings include Second Mate / Arthur Jones Billy Budd with Kent Nagano and the Hallé Orchestra for Erato, and he sings regularly throughout the country in concert, at major venues including the Barbican Hall, the QEH, the RAH, St John’s, Smith Square, the Fairfield Halls and the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Particular highlights have included the Fauré Requiem with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, conducted by Nicholas Cleobury, Messiah with Emma Kirkby and the Armonico Consort, Elijah at St David’s Hall, Cardiff, and Mozart Requiem with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowacewski, as well as regular concerts for Raymond Gubbay.
He has recently sung Belcore for WNO, Alfio for Dorset Opera, Falke for London Lyric Opera, Anckarström for Cork Opera 2005 and Eternal Light: A Requiem for Rambert Dance Company.
Current engagements include Bassa Selim Die Entführung aus dem Serail for WNO, Scarpia for Opera Project (which he will also cover for WNO) and the title role in Rigoletto for Clonter Opera and Opera Project.
Simon Thorpe
John the Butcher
John the Butcher
Celeste Lazarenko
Mary
Mary
Celeste Lazarenko trained at the Sydney Conservatorium and at the GSMD. She is continuing her studies with Rudolf Piernay.
Last season Celeste sang Soprano Soloist Hydrogen Jukebox by Philip Glass for Opera Angers-Nantes and covered the title role of Partenope, Nora Riders to the Sea, the soprano solo in Luonnotaur and Clemence L’Amour de Loin for ENO.
Celeste’s other operatic roles have included Ninfa L’Orfeo for Opera North (where she has also covered the roles of La Musica L'Orfeo and Elmira The Fortunes of King Croesus), Governess Turn of the Screw as part of the Kiev Festival 2005 with the National Music Academy Chamber Orchestra, and Barbarina in the English première of The Little Green Swallow by Jonathan Dove. Whilst at the Guildhall, Celeste also sang Rosina La Finta Semplice and Nanetta Falstaff.
Celeste has extensive experience on the concert platform in oratorio and has performed as far afield as Hong Kong, London, Italy, Germany, Utah and South Africa. She is a frequent concert soloist in Australia and has performed Handel’s Messiah with both the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras. Her last visit included a performance of Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.
Other engagements include a return to Angers-Nantes and Rennes to sing Celia Lucio Silla, Sandrina La Finta Giardiniera for Opera de Baugé and Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten at Opéra de Dijon.
Last season Celeste sang Soprano Soloist Hydrogen Jukebox by Philip Glass for Opera Angers-Nantes and covered the title role of Partenope, Nora Riders to the Sea, the soprano solo in Luonnotaur and Clemence L’Amour de Loin for ENO.
Celeste’s other operatic roles have included Ninfa L’Orfeo for Opera North (where she has also covered the roles of La Musica L'Orfeo and Elmira The Fortunes of King Croesus), Governess Turn of the Screw as part of the Kiev Festival 2005 with the National Music Academy Chamber Orchestra, and Barbarina in the English première of The Little Green Swallow by Jonathan Dove. Whilst at the Guildhall, Celeste also sang Rosina La Finta Semplice and Nanetta Falstaff.
Celeste has extensive experience on the concert platform in oratorio and has performed as far afield as Hong Kong, London, Italy, Germany, Utah and South Africa. She is a frequent concert soloist in Australia and has performed Handel’s Messiah with both the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras. Her last visit included a performance of Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.
Other engagements include a return to Angers-Nantes and Rennes to sing Celia Lucio Silla, Sandrina La Finta Giardiniera for Opera de Baugé and Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten at Opéra de Dijon.
Clarissa Meek studied at the GSMD with Ellis Keeler. On leaving she joined Scottish Opera where early roles included title role lolanthe (broadcast by BBC), Violin Pupil Street Scene and, for Scottish Opera Go Round, Madam Larina Eugene Onegin.
Other early work included a long relationship with Glyndebourne where she created the roles of Fear and Model in The Second Mrs Kong, gained critical acclaim for her performance of Madam Larina and was awarded their Erich Vietheer Memorial Award. She was also seen as Mother in Misper at Glyndeboume. For NSO she has sung Polia The Enchantress, Simon's Wife Danton's Death and Fyodr Boris Godunov.
In concert her repertoire is widely varied and engagements have taken her throughout Britain and Europe, most notably Messiah in Hanover and at Glyndeboume, Dream of Gerontius at St Asaph’s Cathedral, Haydn’s Stabat Mater at Aldeburgh, Verdi’s Requiem at Paisley Abbey, Sea Pictures at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, Les Nuits d’Été with the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, a BBC Symphony Orchestra broadcast as Ursule Béatrice et Bénédict and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Bamberger Symphoniker under Walter Weller. Most recently she has sung Elijah with the RSNO.
Engagements include Second Lady Die Zauberflöte and Second Squire Parsifal at the Royal Opera House, Mayerling for the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, Virtu/Pallade L’incoronazione di Poppea with Netherlands Opera in New York, Fox Cunning Little Vixen with ETO and with Opera Theatre Company in Ireland and in Brno ; Katisha and Mrs Grose The Turn of the Screw for Grange Park Opera; Alcmene, Die Liebe der Danae at Garsington, and Annie Fisher, Friend of the People, with Scottish Opera. Hostess in ENO’s Bake for One Hour, Heavenly Voice in Stephen Barlow’s new opera King at Canterbury Cathedral and May Night at Garsington. She recently sang the Sorceress Dido and Aeneas, Les Noces and 2nd Maid in Electra with Opera North.
Future plans include Zita Gianni Schicchi and Frugola Il Tabarro for ETO and further work at ROH.
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Other early work included a long relationship with Glyndebourne where she created the roles of Fear and Model in The Second Mrs Kong, gained critical acclaim for her performance of Madam Larina and was awarded their Erich Vietheer Memorial Award. She was also seen as Mother in Misper at Glyndeboume. For NSO she has sung Polia The Enchantress, Simon's Wife Danton's Death and Fyodr Boris Godunov.
In concert her repertoire is widely varied and engagements have taken her throughout Britain and Europe, most notably Messiah in Hanover and at Glyndeboume, Dream of Gerontius at St Asaph’s Cathedral, Haydn’s Stabat Mater at Aldeburgh, Verdi’s Requiem at Paisley Abbey, Sea Pictures at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, Les Nuits d’Été with the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, a BBC Symphony Orchestra broadcast as Ursule Béatrice et Bénédict and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Bamberger Symphoniker under Walter Weller. Most recently she has sung Elijah with the RSNO.
Engagements include Second Lady Die Zauberflöte and Second Squire Parsifal at the Royal Opera House, Mayerling for the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, Virtu/Pallade L’incoronazione di Poppea with Netherlands Opera in New York, Fox Cunning Little Vixen with ETO and with Opera Theatre Company in Ireland and in Brno ; Katisha and Mrs Grose The Turn of the Screw for Grange Park Opera; Alcmene, Die Liebe der Danae at Garsington, and Annie Fisher, Friend of the People, with Scottish Opera. Hostess in ENO’s Bake for One Hour, Heavenly Voice in Stephen Barlow’s new opera King at Canterbury Cathedral and May Night at Garsington. She recently sang the Sorceress Dido and Aeneas, Les Noces and 2nd Maid in Electra with Opera North.
Future plans include Zita Gianni Schicchi and Frugola Il Tabarro for ETO and further work at ROH.
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Clarissa Meek
Aunt Jane
Aunt Jane
Nicholas Jenkins studied at Merton College, Oxford, and the GSMD. He built his career as a singer and chorus master, and is currently Music Director of New Sussex Opera and Chorus Master to the Chœur des Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble. He was the first ever full-time Chorus Master to Grange Park Opera (2006 season), and has been guest chorus master to Chœur du Châtelet - Paris, Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música Catalana - Barcelona, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Musikfest Bremen, Philharmonia Chorus, Sussex Chorus, and TCM Chorus.
During 2009/10 he conducts three performances of Massenet Don Quichotte at La Monnaie, starring José van Dam and Jennifer Larmore, the British Première of Offenbach Die Rheinnixen (The Rhine Fairies) with NSO, three concerts with the Orchestra of Opéra de Toulon, Donizetti The Elixir of Love for Blackheath Halls Opera Project, The Turn of the Screw at Dartington Festival, and concerts including the Mozart and Duruflé Requiems. He is assistant conductor and chorus master to Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre for Rameau Platée (Opéra National de Paris), and to Jean-Christophe Spinosi for Bellini Norma (Paris Châtelet). He is also guest chorus master to the Philharmonia Chorus for Orff Carmina Burana at the RAH.
During 2010/11 he will conduct Tavener Ikon of Light with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir in Tallinn and Glasgow, and Vaughan Williams Hugh the Drover for New Sussex Opera. He will be assistant conductor for Gounod Roméo et Juliette (De Nederlandse Opera), Meyerbeer Les Huguenots (La Monnaie), chorus master and assistant conductor for Massenet Cendrillon (Opéra Comique, Paris). During 2011/12 he conducts a staged Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle (Kunstfest Weimar, Berlin, Hannover, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Bregenz Festival).
His has conducted Offenbach L’Ile de Tulipatan and Weill Der Jasager / Der Neinsager (Opéra de Lyon), Dove Tobias and the Angel, Mozart Idomeneo and Vaughan Williams The Poisoned Kiss (New Sussex Opera), Katori The Lily of the Valley (ROH Linbury), Così fan tutte (Oxford Playhouse, Opéra-Théâtre de Besançon), Nabucco (Blackheath Halls), elsewhere Dido and Aeneas, Ruddigore, The Boy Friend, The Seven Deadly Sins, as well as many orchestral and choral concerts.
Nicholas has worked extensively as assistant conductor to Marc Minkowski, at Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet - Paris, Théâtre de la Monnaie - Brussels, Opéra de Lyon, and the Festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Bremen, Salzburg and Santiago (Carmen, Haydn The Creation, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Idomeneo, Offenbach Die Rheinnixen (Les Fées du Rhin), Purcell Dido and Aeneas, Rameau Platée, La Cenerentola, Wagner Die Feen, and Handel/Haydn/Purcell Homage to Saint Cecilia), alongside artists including Jennifer Larmore, Jessye Norman and Anne Sofie von Otter. Other conductors he has assisted include David Parry (Opera Rara recordings: Offenbach Vert-Vert and Entre Nous), and Jean-Christophe Spinosi (Opéra National de Paris - Handel Alcina).
During 2009/10 he conducts three performances of Massenet Don Quichotte at La Monnaie, starring José van Dam and Jennifer Larmore, the British Première of Offenbach Die Rheinnixen (The Rhine Fairies) with NSO, three concerts with the Orchestra of Opéra de Toulon, Donizetti The Elixir of Love for Blackheath Halls Opera Project, The Turn of the Screw at Dartington Festival, and concerts including the Mozart and Duruflé Requiems. He is assistant conductor and chorus master to Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre for Rameau Platée (Opéra National de Paris), and to Jean-Christophe Spinosi for Bellini Norma (Paris Châtelet). He is also guest chorus master to the Philharmonia Chorus for Orff Carmina Burana at the RAH.
During 2010/11 he will conduct Tavener Ikon of Light with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir in Tallinn and Glasgow, and Vaughan Williams Hugh the Drover for New Sussex Opera. He will be assistant conductor for Gounod Roméo et Juliette (De Nederlandse Opera), Meyerbeer Les Huguenots (La Monnaie), chorus master and assistant conductor for Massenet Cendrillon (Opéra Comique, Paris). During 2011/12 he conducts a staged Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle (Kunstfest Weimar, Berlin, Hannover, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Bregenz Festival).
His has conducted Offenbach L’Ile de Tulipatan and Weill Der Jasager / Der Neinsager (Opéra de Lyon), Dove Tobias and the Angel, Mozart Idomeneo and Vaughan Williams The Poisoned Kiss (New Sussex Opera), Katori The Lily of the Valley (ROH Linbury), Così fan tutte (Oxford Playhouse, Opéra-Théâtre de Besançon), Nabucco (Blackheath Halls), elsewhere Dido and Aeneas, Ruddigore, The Boy Friend, The Seven Deadly Sins, as well as many orchestral and choral concerts.
Nicholas has worked extensively as assistant conductor to Marc Minkowski, at Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet - Paris, Théâtre de la Monnaie - Brussels, Opéra de Lyon, and the Festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Bremen, Salzburg and Santiago (Carmen, Haydn The Creation, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Idomeneo, Offenbach Die Rheinnixen (Les Fées du Rhin), Purcell Dido and Aeneas, Rameau Platée, La Cenerentola, Wagner Die Feen, and Handel/Haydn/Purcell Homage to Saint Cecilia), alongside artists including Jennifer Larmore, Jessye Norman and Anne Sofie von Otter. Other conductors he has assisted include David Parry (Opera Rara recordings: Offenbach Vert-Vert and Entre Nous), and Jean-Christophe Spinosi (Opéra National de Paris - Handel Alcina).
William Robert Allenby studied at the RAM and the RSAMD and studied with Michelle Wegwart and with Theodor Uppman in New York.
William sang with Scottish Opera, Opera North and the D’Oyly Carte Opera before joining Glyndebourne Opera in 1993, performing roles in La traviata, Arabella and Eugene Onegin and appearing regularly on Channel 4 and at the Proms. Since leaving Glyndebourne in 1997 he has sung in Belgium, Holland, France, Italy, Spain, Iceland, Australia, Asia and in the UK. Roles include; Germont Père(Buxton Opera House), Araspe Tolomeo (Musiktheater Transparent- Antwerp), Morales (Opera Ireland), Alfio (Saigon Opera House), Marullo (Bermuda Festival), Belcore and Assan The Consul, (both for Opera Holland Park). He has worked regularly at ENO since 1999 and has sung Marcello for the ENO Bayliss Project.
In contemporary music he has made many appearances including; Judge Parke The Blackened Man by Will Todd (World Première), Duke of Cornwall Vision of Lear by Toshio Hosakawa (UK Première), both at the Linbury and the title role The Blind Man at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge.
Recently he has sung Dr Bartolo and Antonio Marriage of Figaro (Iford Festival Opera), Sacristan, Sciarrone and Jailer in Tosca (Opera Project), and the Teacher Der Jasager by Kurt Weill (Arcola Theatre, London). His current season includes: Dr Wilhelm Reischmann in Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers (ENO/Young Vic), Sacristan Tosca, Stage Technician The Makropulos Case, Pish Tush Mikado (all at ENO), Alcade/Surgeon La forza del destino, Il torrigiano Francesca da Rimini (both with Opera Holland Park).
In concert William has appeared with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Iceland Symphony, RPO, RTE Concert Orchestra, Philarmonic Orchestra of Gran Canaria and the LPO. He has also appeared at some of the world’s leading Early Music Festivals in Holland, Italy, France and Antwerp and with the renowned Italian music ensemble Mala Punica
William sang with Scottish Opera, Opera North and the D’Oyly Carte Opera before joining Glyndebourne Opera in 1993, performing roles in La traviata, Arabella and Eugene Onegin and appearing regularly on Channel 4 and at the Proms. Since leaving Glyndebourne in 1997 he has sung in Belgium, Holland, France, Italy, Spain, Iceland, Australia, Asia and in the UK. Roles include; Germont Père(Buxton Opera House), Araspe Tolomeo (Musiktheater Transparent- Antwerp), Morales (Opera Ireland), Alfio (Saigon Opera House), Marullo (Bermuda Festival), Belcore and Assan The Consul, (both for Opera Holland Park). He has worked regularly at ENO since 1999 and has sung Marcello for the ENO Bayliss Project.
In contemporary music he has made many appearances including; Judge Parke The Blackened Man by Will Todd (World Première), Duke of Cornwall Vision of Lear by Toshio Hosakawa (UK Première), both at the Linbury and the title role The Blind Man at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge.
Recently he has sung Dr Bartolo and Antonio Marriage of Figaro (Iford Festival Opera), Sacristan, Sciarrone and Jailer in Tosca (Opera Project), and the Teacher Der Jasager by Kurt Weill (Arcola Theatre, London). His current season includes: Dr Wilhelm Reischmann in Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers (ENO/Young Vic), Sacristan Tosca, Stage Technician The Makropulos Case, Pish Tush Mikado (all at ENO), Alcade/Surgeon La forza del destino, Il torrigiano Francesca da Rimini (both with Opera Holland Park).
In concert William has appeared with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Iceland Symphony, RPO, RTE Concert Orchestra, Philarmonic Orchestra of Gran Canaria and the LPO. He has also appeared at some of the world’s leading Early Music Festivals in Holland, Italy, France and Antwerp and with the renowned Italian music ensemble Mala Punica
William R Allenby
Constable
Constable
Grant Doyle
Showman/ Sergeant
Showman/ Sergeant
Grant Doyle was born in Adelaide and studied at the RCM, subsequently joining the ROH Young Artists’ Programme. His roles for the ROH include Tarquinius The Rape of Lucretia, Harlequin Ariadne auf Naxos, Schaunard, Bello La Fanciulla del West, Demetrius A Midsummer's Night Dream, Morales, Steersman Tristan und Isolde, Marullo, Rolla I Masnadieri, Imperial Commissioner Madama Butterfly, Huntsman Rusalka and Narrator in Dominique LeGendre’s Bird of Night.
Other appearances in Europe include his debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid as Der Einäugige Die Frau ohne Schatten and later Demetrius. Last year he made his debut with Opera North as Sasha Paradise Moscow returning to sing Albert Werther and in the acclaimed production of Ruddigore as Robin Oakapple/Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, and he recently sung The Apparition of a Poet The Adventures of Mr Broucek for Scottish Opera. He has also sung Marcello for Raymond Gubbay (RAH). Schaunard GOT and Frederic Lakmé and Marcello (Opera Holland Park).
In Australia, Grant has appeared as the Count Le nozze di Figaro, Pooh-Bah and Yamadori. He sang King Phillip II in Isaac Nathan's ballad opera Don John of Austria especially orchestrated by Sir Charles Mackerras for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and recorded by the ABC.
He played the lead role in the Channel 4/ABC film of The Eternity Man, which won the 2009 Rose d’Or Award for Best Performing Arts programme; he also recorded the Forester for the BBC animated film of The Cunning Little Vixen with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Kent Nagano and created the role of Carlo in Judith Weir’s Armida for Channel 4. Other roles include the title roles in Owen Wingrave, Don Giovanni and Thomas’ Hamlet, Papageno, Silvio, Escamillo, Frank/Fritz Die tote Stadt, Figaro Barber of Seville, Dandini, Belcore, Sid Albert Herring, and Nathan in Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice.
Engagements this season include Count Le Nozze di Figaro (Garsington), title role in The Fantastic Mr Fox (Opera Holland Park), Billy in Turnage’s Anna Nicole (ROH), Ned Keene (Las Palmas) and Starbuck in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick (Adelaide).
Other appearances in Europe include his debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid as Der Einäugige Die Frau ohne Schatten and later Demetrius. Last year he made his debut with Opera North as Sasha Paradise Moscow returning to sing Albert Werther and in the acclaimed production of Ruddigore as Robin Oakapple/Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, and he recently sung The Apparition of a Poet The Adventures of Mr Broucek for Scottish Opera. He has also sung Marcello for Raymond Gubbay (RAH). Schaunard GOT and Frederic Lakmé and Marcello (Opera Holland Park).
In Australia, Grant has appeared as the Count Le nozze di Figaro, Pooh-Bah and Yamadori. He sang King Phillip II in Isaac Nathan's ballad opera Don John of Austria especially orchestrated by Sir Charles Mackerras for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and recorded by the ABC.
He played the lead role in the Channel 4/ABC film of The Eternity Man, which won the 2009 Rose d’Or Award for Best Performing Arts programme; he also recorded the Forester for the BBC animated film of The Cunning Little Vixen with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Kent Nagano and created the role of Carlo in Judith Weir’s Armida for Channel 4. Other roles include the title roles in Owen Wingrave, Don Giovanni and Thomas’ Hamlet, Papageno, Silvio, Escamillo, Frank/Fritz Die tote Stadt, Figaro Barber of Seville, Dandini, Belcore, Sid Albert Herring, and Nathan in Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice.
Engagements this season include Count Le Nozze di Figaro (Garsington), title role in The Fantastic Mr Fox (Opera Holland Park), Billy in Turnage’s Anna Nicole (ROH), Ned Keene (Las Palmas) and Starbuck in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick (Adelaide).
Peter Kirk
Turnkey
Turnkey
After completing a BSc Econ in International Politics Peter Kirk studied singing with Ameral Gunson at Trinity College of Music and is currently studying with tenor Justin Lavender at RCM.
His opera roles include Acis Acis and Galatea c. Sir Charles Mackerras (Jubilee Hall), Vitaliano Giustino (Handel), Albert Herring (c. Steuart Bedford) and Congressman Two Boys (Nico Muhly) for ENO. Over the past year Peter has worked for Opera North The Adventures of Mr Broucek, Raymond Gubbay (Carmen at the 02), English National Opera and Opera Holland Park.
He has recently sung live on BBC Radio 3's In Tune with Petroc Trelawny and performed Italian opera arias for the Save the Children Venetian masked ball at the Intercontinental Hotel Park Lane.
Peter is very grateful to the Mario Lanza Foundation and Derek Butler Trust for their support whilst he’s training.
His opera roles include Acis Acis and Galatea c. Sir Charles Mackerras (Jubilee Hall), Vitaliano Giustino (Handel), Albert Herring (c. Steuart Bedford) and Congressman Two Boys (Nico Muhly) for ENO. Over the past year Peter has worked for Opera North The Adventures of Mr Broucek, Raymond Gubbay (Carmen at the 02), English National Opera and Opera Holland Park.
He has recently sung live on BBC Radio 3's In Tune with Petroc Trelawny and performed Italian opera arias for the Save the Children Venetian masked ball at the Intercontinental Hotel Park Lane.
Peter is very grateful to the Mario Lanza Foundation and Derek Butler Trust for their support whilst he’s training.