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Nicholas Jenkins NSO music director
Nicholas Jenkins studied at Merton College, Oxford, Trinity College of Music and the GSMD. He built his career as a singer and chorus master, and is currently Music Director to 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, and guest chorus master to Chœur du Châtelet, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, and the Philharmonia Chorus.
Recently he has he conducted three performances of Massenet Don Quichotte at La Monnaie, concerts for Opéra de Toulon, The Elixir of Love for Blackheath Halls Opera, and The Turn of the Screw at Dartington Festival. He was also assistant conductor and chorus master for Platée (Paris Opera), and Norma (Paris Châtelet). He has also assisted Marc Minkowski for Meyerbeer Les Huguenots and Verdi Il Trovatore (La Monnaie, Brussels).
During 2010/11 he will conduct Tavener Ikon of Light with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. He will be assistant conductor for Roméo et Juliette (Netherlands Opera) and Cendrillon (Opéra Comique - Paris).
During 2011/12 he conducts La Périchole (Opéra de Limoges).
Other forthcoming engagements include assistant conductor to Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic for Carmen at the Salzburg Festival and Salzburg Easter Festival 2012. He conducts a staged Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle (Kunstfest Weimar, Bregenz Festival, Paris Opéra Comique, Berlin Radialsystem, Opéra de Dijon, Hannover KunstFestSpiele, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg), Eugene Onegin (Blackheath Halls Opera).
Nicholas has previously conducted L’Ile de Tulipatan and Der Jasager (Opéra de Lyon), Tobias and the Angel, Idomeneo, The Poisoned Kiss, The Rhine Fairies and Hugh the Drover (New Sussex Opera), Katori The Lily of the Valley (ROH Linbury), Così fan tutte (Oxford Playhouse, Besançon) and Nabucco (Blackheath Halls). He has also worked extensively as assistant conductor to Marc Minkowski, at Paris Opera, Paris Châtelet, La Monnaie, Opéra de Lyon, and the Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg Festivals.
Recently he has he conducted three performances of Massenet Don Quichotte at La Monnaie, concerts for Opéra de Toulon, The Elixir of Love for Blackheath Halls Opera, and The Turn of the Screw at Dartington Festival. He was also assistant conductor and chorus master for Platée (Paris Opera), and Norma (Paris Châtelet). He has also assisted Marc Minkowski for Meyerbeer Les Huguenots and Verdi Il Trovatore (La Monnaie, Brussels).
During 2010/11 he will conduct Tavener Ikon of Light with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. He will be assistant conductor for Roméo et Juliette (Netherlands Opera) and Cendrillon (Opéra Comique - Paris).
During 2011/12 he conducts La Périchole (Opéra de Limoges).
Other forthcoming engagements include assistant conductor to Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic for Carmen at the Salzburg Festival and Salzburg Easter Festival 2012. He conducts a staged Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle (Kunstfest Weimar, Bregenz Festival, Paris Opéra Comique, Berlin Radialsystem, Opéra de Dijon, Hannover KunstFestSpiele, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg), Eugene Onegin (Blackheath Halls Opera).
Nicholas has previously conducted L’Ile de Tulipatan and Der Jasager (Opéra de Lyon), Tobias and the Angel, Idomeneo, The Poisoned Kiss, The Rhine Fairies and Hugh the Drover (New Sussex Opera), Katori The Lily of the Valley (ROH Linbury), Così fan tutte (Oxford Playhouse, Besançon) and Nabucco (Blackheath Halls). He has also worked extensively as assistant conductor to Marc Minkowski, at Paris Opera, Paris Châtelet, La Monnaie, Opéra de Lyon, and the Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg Festivals.
Sally Silver Mireille
Michael Scott Vincent
Quentin Hayes Ourrias
Sarah Pring
Taven
Taven
Robert Presley
Ramon
Ramon
Sally Silver's career began in her home country of South Africa, where she is one of South Africa's most renowned singers, performing throughout the country in both in opera and in concert with all the major orchestras. She is now an Irish Citizen.
Her extensive concert repertoire spans works from Handel to the 21st century, including works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Berlioz, Rossini, Dvorak, Verdi and Richard Strauss. She has performed works commissioned for her by Naresh Sohal with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and with the Dante Quartet, Edinburgh String Quartet and the Medici String Quartet.
She has appeared throughout Europe in a wide range of operatic roles with the Opéra de Metz, Opéra de Rennes, Opéra de Nantes, Berlinerkammeroper, Den Anden Oper and the National Reisopera. She has sung in Thomas Adès Powder Her Face in Nantes, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Berlin and Marguerite in Les Huguenots in Metz She received great acclaim for her performances of the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor and as Elvira in I Puritani with Scottish Opera.
Last September, Sally scored a great personal success when she replaced Lyuba Orgonosova at 24 hours notice in a Bel Canto Concert singing Bellini and Donizetti in the Weimar Kunstfest. 2011 engagements include Angelica in a new production of Handel's Orlando at Scottish Opera; Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek for Music Theatre Wales with performances in the Buxton, Cheltenham and Edinburgh Festivals; a rare performance of Sullivan’s The Martyr of Antioch and The Tempest in the Bloomsbury Theatre.
She has two solo recordings of songs by Balfe and Wallace with Richard Bonynge for future release on Guild.
Her extensive concert repertoire spans works from Handel to the 21st century, including works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Berlioz, Rossini, Dvorak, Verdi and Richard Strauss. She has performed works commissioned for her by Naresh Sohal with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and with the Dante Quartet, Edinburgh String Quartet and the Medici String Quartet.
She has appeared throughout Europe in a wide range of operatic roles with the Opéra de Metz, Opéra de Rennes, Opéra de Nantes, Berlinerkammeroper, Den Anden Oper and the National Reisopera. She has sung in Thomas Adès Powder Her Face in Nantes, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Berlin and Marguerite in Les Huguenots in Metz She received great acclaim for her performances of the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor and as Elvira in I Puritani with Scottish Opera.
Last September, Sally scored a great personal success when she replaced Lyuba Orgonosova at 24 hours notice in a Bel Canto Concert singing Bellini and Donizetti in the Weimar Kunstfest. 2011 engagements include Angelica in a new production of Handel's Orlando at Scottish Opera; Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek for Music Theatre Wales with performances in the Buxton, Cheltenham and Edinburgh Festivals; a rare performance of Sullivan’s The Martyr of Antioch and The Tempest in the Bloomsbury Theatre.
She has two solo recordings of songs by Balfe and Wallace with Richard Bonynge for future release on Guild.
Michael Scott is a recent graduate of the RCM International Opera School where he studied with Justin Lavender. Recent performances include Don José in Co-Opera’s touring production of Carmen in Wellingborough, Harrow, and Malvern; Max in Claxton Opera’s Der Freischütz and Rodolfo in La Bohème with the Nationale Reisopera Resident Artists Programme in the Netherlands.
The American tenor made his debut in 2005 singing Don Curzio in New Jersey Opera Theater’s production of Le nozze di Figaro. That autumn he was invited to be a Resident Artist with Dicapo Opera Theatre in New York singing Parpignol in La Bohème and Elder Gleaton in Susannah. Other roles include Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia with the MSM Accompanying Seminar, the Tenor Roles in Lost Childhood with IVAI-Tel Aviv, Pasek in The Cunning Little Vixen, Erster Geharnischter in Die Zauberflöte, and Jeník in The Bartered Bride with RCMIOS, as well as covering several roles with the MSM Opera Studio. Michael is a member of the Co-Operative Opera Company in London with whom he sang Rodolfo in their premiere production of La Bohème in 2009 and 2010.
On the concert platform he has sung Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Bryn Athyn Symphony and the Cambridge Sinfonia and Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge for Claxton Opera. Michael has given recitals in New York, Bethlehem PA, Glenside PA, Florence and London. Michael was also a member of the first-ever RCM team that competed on BBC’s University Challenge last autumn.
The American tenor made his debut in 2005 singing Don Curzio in New Jersey Opera Theater’s production of Le nozze di Figaro. That autumn he was invited to be a Resident Artist with Dicapo Opera Theatre in New York singing Parpignol in La Bohème and Elder Gleaton in Susannah. Other roles include Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia with the MSM Accompanying Seminar, the Tenor Roles in Lost Childhood with IVAI-Tel Aviv, Pasek in The Cunning Little Vixen, Erster Geharnischter in Die Zauberflöte, and Jeník in The Bartered Bride with RCMIOS, as well as covering several roles with the MSM Opera Studio. Michael is a member of the Co-Operative Opera Company in London with whom he sang Rodolfo in their premiere production of La Bohème in 2009 and 2010.
On the concert platform he has sung Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Bryn Athyn Symphony and the Cambridge Sinfonia and Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge for Claxton Opera. Michael has given recitals in New York, Bethlehem PA, Glenside PA, Florence and London. Michael was also a member of the first-ever RCM team that competed on BBC’s University Challenge last autumn.
Quentin Hayes studied at Dartington Arts College, at the GSMD and the National Opera Studio. He made his debut as Figaro Barber of Seville for GTO. In 1988 he created the lead role of Eddy in Turnage’s first opera, Greek, at the Munich Biennale.
Since winning the VARA Dutch Radio Prize at the Belvedere Singing Competition, Vienna, in 1992 he has subsequently sung for all the leading UK opera companies: ENO (Ford, Papageno, Kuligin, Proust Life with an Idiot) and five years on contract at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden where roles included Ping, Herald Lohengrin, Schaunard, Yamadori, Ned Keene, Nachtigall Die Meistersinger, Fourth Master Palestrina, Agravain Gawain, Angelotti, Novice's Friend Billy Budd, Marullo Rigoletto and Dominik Arabella.
He has sung with orchestras including LSO, Halle, Berlin Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic and the Bournemouth Symphony. Recent engagements include Love for Three Oranges (Grange Park), Sweeney Todd (Fleet Street), Scenes de la Chasse (Opera de Montpellier) and Gonzalo in Ades’ The Tempest (Concertgebouw), Don Fernando Fidelio (WNO), Elgar’s Light of Life (Tokyo Symphony Orchestra) and title role Rigoletto (Luxembourg and Thaxted Festivals). He gave a thrilling performance in the role of Conrad in NSO’s UK première of Offenbach’s Die Rheinnixen in 2009
Since winning the VARA Dutch Radio Prize at the Belvedere Singing Competition, Vienna, in 1992 he has subsequently sung for all the leading UK opera companies: ENO (Ford, Papageno, Kuligin, Proust Life with an Idiot) and five years on contract at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden where roles included Ping, Herald Lohengrin, Schaunard, Yamadori, Ned Keene, Nachtigall Die Meistersinger, Fourth Master Palestrina, Agravain Gawain, Angelotti, Novice's Friend Billy Budd, Marullo Rigoletto and Dominik Arabella.
He has sung with orchestras including LSO, Halle, Berlin Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic and the Bournemouth Symphony. Recent engagements include Love for Three Oranges (Grange Park), Sweeney Todd (Fleet Street), Scenes de la Chasse (Opera de Montpellier) and Gonzalo in Ades’ The Tempest (Concertgebouw), Don Fernando Fidelio (WNO), Elgar’s Light of Life (Tokyo Symphony Orchestra) and title role Rigoletto (Luxembourg and Thaxted Festivals). He gave a thrilling performance in the role of Conrad in NSO’s UK première of Offenbach’s Die Rheinnixen in 2009
Sarah Pring studied at the GSMD and at the NOS, and trained as a soprano. At Glyndebourne she was awarded the Sir John Christie Award for roles such as Alice Ford in the season and the Esso/ Glyndebourne Touring Award for the roles of First Lady Die Zauberflöte, Berta and Despina.
Soprano roles also included the title role Princess Ida for ENO; for Scottish Opera, Tatyana; for Opera North Concepcion L'Heure Espagnole; for Wexford Festival Opera, Luciana Comedy of Errors. During the transition from soprano to mezzo, she sang Niece Peter Grimes at the Châtelet, ENO and at Glyndebourne, and Nymph Rusalka at ENO.
Her mezzo roles include Madam Larina, Wellgunde Götterdämmerung and Berta Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the ROH, Flora for Opera North, Madam Larina and Berta for Castleward Opera, and Gertrude Stein in the première of Picasso - Out of the Blue (Ian McQueen).
In concert Sarah has sung with the orchestra of the 18th Century in Lisbon, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, in numerous music festivals and on BBC's Friday Night is Music Night. Recital venues include the Purcell Room, St Martin in the Fields and an appearance in the Young Artist's series at the ROH.
Recent engagements: Mayor’s Wife GTO, Annina ROH, Alisa Lucia di Lammermoor ENO, Larina Opéra de Caen, Mother Hansel and Gretel Opera North, her WNO début as Marcellina, Mayor’s Wife Jenufa; for ENO, Alisa; for Scottish Opera and ENO, Trigesta Croesus and Mother Hansel and Gretel for Opera North in concert, Enrichetta I Puritani for Chelsea Opera Group, Annina La Traviata, Larina, Lisa Cyrano de Bergerac ROH, La Marquise La Fille du Régiment and Larina Opera Holland Park.
Current season/future plans: Annina for ROH on tour in Japan, Marcellina for WNO and OHP, Mrs. Granthan Ludd and Isis ROH Education, Innkeeper’s Wife The Cunning Little Vixen for Glyndebourne.
Soprano roles also included the title role Princess Ida for ENO; for Scottish Opera, Tatyana; for Opera North Concepcion L'Heure Espagnole; for Wexford Festival Opera, Luciana Comedy of Errors. During the transition from soprano to mezzo, she sang Niece Peter Grimes at the Châtelet, ENO and at Glyndebourne, and Nymph Rusalka at ENO.
Her mezzo roles include Madam Larina, Wellgunde Götterdämmerung and Berta Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the ROH, Flora for Opera North, Madam Larina and Berta for Castleward Opera, and Gertrude Stein in the première of Picasso - Out of the Blue (Ian McQueen).
In concert Sarah has sung with the orchestra of the 18th Century in Lisbon, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, in numerous music festivals and on BBC's Friday Night is Music Night. Recital venues include the Purcell Room, St Martin in the Fields and an appearance in the Young Artist's series at the ROH.
Recent engagements: Mayor’s Wife GTO, Annina ROH, Alisa Lucia di Lammermoor ENO, Larina Opéra de Caen, Mother Hansel and Gretel Opera North, her WNO début as Marcellina, Mayor’s Wife Jenufa; for ENO, Alisa; for Scottish Opera and ENO, Trigesta Croesus and Mother Hansel and Gretel for Opera North in concert, Enrichetta I Puritani for Chelsea Opera Group, Annina La Traviata, Larina, Lisa Cyrano de Bergerac ROH, La Marquise La Fille du Régiment and Larina Opera Holland Park.
Current season/future plans: Annina for ROH on tour in Japan, Marcellina for WNO and OHP, Mrs. Granthan Ludd and Isis ROH Education, Innkeeper’s Wife The Cunning Little Vixen for Glyndebourne.
Tony Baker was born in Lancashire and trained in theatre design at the Central School of Art and Design. Over the past 20 years he has designed sets and costumes for many of the world’s leading Opera Houses and his work includes Orlando and Le Coq D’Or (ROH), Giulio Cesare (Australian Opera) and for the Grand Theatre de Geneve, Mitridate, Schoeck’s Venus, Norma and a co-directed and designed Beatrix Cenci (Alberto Ginastera). He has also designed Der Freischütz for the Théâtre des Champs Élysées and Lausanne; Una Cosa Rara for the historic Drottningholm Court Theatre, Stockholm, Don Giovanni for Opera Zuid, and Nabucco for Nationale Reisopera; Norma for the Liceu, Barcelona; Leonora Teatro Communale di Bologna; Fidelio Vlaamse Opera; Le Coq d’Or Rome; Giulio Cesare and the European première of Orphée (Glass), for the Royal Opera Copenhagen.
He has worked extensively in the USA where he designed Otello (Dallas), Mitridate (Santa Fe), Giulio Cesare (Los Angeles) and for New York City Opera Handel’s Semele & Rinaldo. In the UK he has worked for WNO, Garsington, Opera North, Buxton Festival, Mid Wales Opera, the Guildhall School, Opera 80 and NSO.
In 2001 he made his first move into directing as well as designing by staging Der Freischütz in Bilbao. In 2006 he directed and designed a critically acclaimed production of Tippett’s The Knot Garden in Montepulciano (the Italian première). in 2007 and 2008 he produced and directed two specially devised Gilbert and Sullivan productions, Patience and Thespis at the historic Victorian Theatre, Normansfield, Teddington. in 2008 he directed Stephen Oliver’s A Man of Feeling (Arcola Theatre).
He has been a visiting Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, a guest Lecturer at the Central School of Speech and Drama and at Rose Bruford College.
He is delighted to be returning to NSO, the company where he made his operatic design debut in 1989 with Gounod’s Faust.
He has worked extensively in the USA where he designed Otello (Dallas), Mitridate (Santa Fe), Giulio Cesare (Los Angeles) and for New York City Opera Handel’s Semele & Rinaldo. In the UK he has worked for WNO, Garsington, Opera North, Buxton Festival, Mid Wales Opera, the Guildhall School, Opera 80 and NSO.
In 2001 he made his first move into directing as well as designing by staging Der Freischütz in Bilbao. In 2006 he directed and designed a critically acclaimed production of Tippett’s The Knot Garden in Montepulciano (the Italian première). in 2007 and 2008 he produced and directed two specially devised Gilbert and Sullivan productions, Patience and Thespis at the historic Victorian Theatre, Normansfield, Teddington. in 2008 he directed Stephen Oliver’s A Man of Feeling (Arcola Theatre).
He has been a visiting Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, a guest Lecturer at the Central School of Speech and Drama and at Rose Bruford College.
He is delighted to be returning to NSO, the company where he made his operatic design debut in 1989 with Gounod’s Faust.
Tony Baker
director/ designer
director/ designer
American baritone Robert Presley, a native of the Gulf Coast of Alabama, moved to the UK from San Francisco, California, where for a number of years he was a member of the chorus of San Francisco Opera. Trained at the University of Southern Mississippi and at Kent State University in Ohio, he made his professional opera debut at the age of nineteen with the Mississippi Opera as Betto di Signa in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. His UK opera debut was Ford Falstaff with New Sussex Opera in 2004 and he has returned to the company for the role of Ashmodeus in Jonathan Dove’s Tobias and the Angel (2007) and The Voice of Neptune in Idomeneo (2008).
He toured England and Wales with Garden Opera in 2005 as Magnifico La Cenerentola, and sang with that company on its third annual tour to Kenya in March 2006. Later that year he made his debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as soloist in the Beethoven 9th. He has sung Germont for Longborough Festival Opera, Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger, Act III, for London’s Wagner Society, the Beethoven 9th for Liverpool’s Cornerstone Music Festival, Ford for Opera Project and Germont for Riverside Opera, a role he repeated for France’s Opéra de Baugé in July/August 2009.
Later that year he sang the title role in Macbeth for English Opera Singers, and Don Alfonso Così fan tutte for English Chamber Opera. In summer 2010 he returned to Baugé for the title role in Rigoletto. Recent engagements have included Amonasro Aida for Riverside Opera, Tonio and Germont for Garden Opera, and his first Alberich in Das Rheingold in a well-received production by the newly-formed Fulham Opera in London.
He toured England and Wales with Garden Opera in 2005 as Magnifico La Cenerentola, and sang with that company on its third annual tour to Kenya in March 2006. Later that year he made his debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as soloist in the Beethoven 9th. He has sung Germont for Longborough Festival Opera, Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger, Act III, for London’s Wagner Society, the Beethoven 9th for Liverpool’s Cornerstone Music Festival, Ford for Opera Project and Germont for Riverside Opera, a role he repeated for France’s Opéra de Baugé in July/August 2009.
Later that year he sang the title role in Macbeth for English Opera Singers, and Don Alfonso Così fan tutte for English Chamber Opera. In summer 2010 he returned to Baugé for the title role in Rigoletto. Recent engagements have included Amonasro Aida for Riverside Opera, Tonio and Germont for Garden Opera, and his first Alberich in Das Rheingold in a well-received production by the newly-formed Fulham Opera in London.
Caroline Pope Opera includes: Semele and Lohengrin (ROH);Eugene Onegin (ENO) Of Thee I Sing, Let ‘em Eat Cake and The Abduction from the Seraglio (Opera North). The première of John Taverner’s Mary of Egypt and Noye’s Fludde (Aldeburgh); L’incontro improvisso (Garsington); The Marriage of Figaro (Scottish Opera); The Gondoliers (D’Oyly Carte), Cheryomushki (Pimlico Opera); for NSO Tannhäuser directed by Keith Warner and with Tony Baker Thespis, (Gilbert and Sullivan's first ‘lost’ work).
Theatre includes Medea (Almeida, West End and Broadway), The Night Season and All the Daughters of the War (National Theatre); A Doll’s House (West End and Broadway) The Three Musketeers (The Gate) and The Sound of Music, (West Yorkshire Playhouse). For film and television her work includes; Hot Fuzz, Jane Eyre with Zeffirelli, Wuthering Heights, Labyrinth. The multi Award winning short Syrup, Nearly Famous (Kudos) Scarlet and Black (BBC) and Demob (ITV). Other work includes Mimbre (acrobatic trio, National Theatre) Partita (aerialist duet, Linbury Studio) and the Art Troupe Spartacus (Basel, Miami Beach, Serpentine Pavilion and Tate Triennial).
Future work includes Kiss Me Kate, (Magdeburg).
Theatre includes Medea (Almeida, West End and Broadway), The Night Season and All the Daughters of the War (National Theatre); A Doll’s House (West End and Broadway) The Three Musketeers (The Gate) and The Sound of Music, (West Yorkshire Playhouse). For film and television her work includes; Hot Fuzz, Jane Eyre with Zeffirelli, Wuthering Heights, Labyrinth. The multi Award winning short Syrup, Nearly Famous (Kudos) Scarlet and Black (BBC) and Demob (ITV). Other work includes Mimbre (acrobatic trio, National Theatre) Partita (aerialist duet, Linbury Studio) and the Art Troupe Spartacus (Basel, Miami Beach, Serpentine Pavilion and Tate Triennial).
Future work includes Kiss Me Kate, (Magdeburg).
Caroline Pope
choreographer
choreographer
Paul Waite started singing at the age of seventeen with Bristol and Bath Operatic Societies, playing many roles in the Theatres Royal in Bath & Bristol, The Colston Hall, Bristol, and in the Pump Rooms and Assembly Rooms in Bath.
He then joined WNO’s touring group, Opera For All, for four consecutive tours, appearing in numerous towns and villages throughout Wales, England , Scotland, including a performance of the Barber of Seville for The Prince of Wales at R.A.F.Cranwell. Roles included Don Basilio, Doctor Bartolo, The Bonze, Matteo Fra Diavolo, Colline and the comic acting role of Frosch the jailor.
He filled in his diary between O.F.A. tours by joining other touring groups including Southern Opera, The World of Gilbert and Sullivan, and Gilbert and Sullivan For All. The latter led to a contract with The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, with whom he appeared in a kaleidoscope of major roles whilst touring continuously throughout the British Isles, Europe, and The USA and on one memorable occasion, a command performance of H.M.S. Pinafore for The Queen at Windsor Castle.
After leaving the D’Oyly Carte, he ceased touring full time and settled in London. He now appears regularly as principal singer with various choirs and companies, and recently sang Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin song cycle in the Municipal Theatre in Cherbourg.
He then joined WNO’s touring group, Opera For All, for four consecutive tours, appearing in numerous towns and villages throughout Wales, England , Scotland, including a performance of the Barber of Seville for The Prince of Wales at R.A.F.Cranwell. Roles included Don Basilio, Doctor Bartolo, The Bonze, Matteo Fra Diavolo, Colline and the comic acting role of Frosch the jailor.
He filled in his diary between O.F.A. tours by joining other touring groups including Southern Opera, The World of Gilbert and Sullivan, and Gilbert and Sullivan For All. The latter led to a contract with The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, with whom he appeared in a kaleidoscope of major roles whilst touring continuously throughout the British Isles, Europe, and The USA and on one memorable occasion, a command performance of H.M.S. Pinafore for The Queen at Windsor Castle.
After leaving the D’Oyly Carte, he ceased touring full time and settled in London. He now appears regularly as principal singer with various choirs and companies, and recently sang Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin song cycle in the Municipal Theatre in Cherbourg.
Paul Waite
Amboise
Amboise
Karl Oskar Sørdal is a Norwegian lighting designer who comes originally from Stavanger. He in his third year at Rose Bruford College studying (BA Hons) Lighting Design.
Karl has worked on numerous productions from dance and theatre; most recently he lit the “Seemingly Invisible” production for Smoking Apples Theatre, “Fair Trade” for SomoSQuien Dance Company and Yerma by Frederico Garcia Lorca, directed by Peter Bramley.
Karl has been working professionally in the industry for the last 6 years.
Karl has worked on numerous productions from dance and theatre; most recently he lit the “Seemingly Invisible” production for Smoking Apples Theatre, “Fair Trade” for SomoSQuien Dance Company and Yerma by Frederico Garcia Lorca, directed by Peter Bramley.
Karl has been working professionally in the industry for the last 6 years.
Karl Oskar Sørdal
lighting designer
lighting designer
