Anna Bolena

James is General Director of ETO and has written original libretti for two operas and translations for three others, as well as several works of fiction.

Operatic work includes: Katya Kabanova, Rusalka, Susannah, Eugene Onegin, Orfeo, Erismena, Jenufa, Anna Bolena, Mary, Queen of Scots, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as Teseo and Alcina (ETO); Ariodante, The Cunning Little Vixen (ETO and OTC); Tolomeo (London Handel Festival/ ETO); Flavio, Tamerlano, Amadigi, Rodelinda, L’elisir d’amore, Katya Kabanova and The Rake’s Progress (OTC); Cinderella (De Vlaamse Opera/ Transparant); Don Giovanni (Canadian Opera Company); La Voix humaine (Teatro Nacional São João, Oporto); staging of Kurt Weill songs (Culturgest, Lisbon); La Spinalba (Casa da Musica, Porto).

Born
UK

Training
Wimbledon School of Art

Opera:
Saul and Hansel & Gretel (Opera North), The Shops (Bregentz Festival) Girl of Sand (Almeida Opera) A Better Place (ENO) Mary Stuart nominated for best opera production Southbank show awards and Cosi Fan Tutte (ETO) Marriage of Figaro (Opera Ireland Touring Nominated for Best Costume Design by Irish Times)

Theatre:
The Lover & The Collection (Comedy Theatre) Last Easter (Birmingham
Rep) Angels in America (Lyric Hammersmith) The Caretaker
(Sheffield/Tricycle The Evening Standard nomination for Best Set Design)
Brief History of Helen of Troy (ATC/Soho Theatre TMA nomination for Best
Touring Production) HAIR (Gate Theatre Time Out nomination for Best
Musical) Shadow of a Boy (National Theatre) Country Music (Royal Court)
Our Friends in the North (Northern Stage) When the World was Green (Young
Vic) Lovers & War (Strindberg’s Intima Theatre, Stockholm) Animal (Soho
Theatre).

Opera and theatre work: Choreographer: The Cunning Little Vixen (ETO, OTC); Sweeney Todd (RAM); Who Killed Mr Drum (Treatment Theatre), Jenufa, Eugene Onegin, Susannah and Don Giovanni ( ETO); Casanova (Told by an Idiot); Tartuffe and The Hypochondric (Liverpool Playhouse) Director: Hänsel und Gretel (Stowe Opera); Jephtha (ETO). Le nozze di Figaro and Eugene Onegin (Iford Arts)
Bernadette’s career as a dancer and performer includes working for Tanztheater Wuppertal, ARC Dance Company, Siobhan Davies, Aletta Collins, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, Corp Feasa and many leading choreographers and directors in dance, opera and theatre.

Born
Ontario Canada

Training
Queen’s University (Ontario)

Opera
Marsinah, Kismet (Arcola Theatre); Barbarina Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera á la Carte); Lisi (role)/Franzi (cover) The Spirit of Vienna (ETO); Cobweb A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ETO); Ensemble/Dance Captain Iolanthe (D’Oyly Carte); Frasquita Carmen (Kingston Symphony)

Concerts
Haydn The Creation, Mozart C minor Mass (Canterbury Cathedral); From Lamplight to Limelight (Canterbury Festival); Mozart Requiem (Whitstable Choral)

Recordings and Film
Noise Ensemble – Original Soundtrack; Reporter Exodus Channel 4 / Art Angel

Born Warrington

Training GSMD, NOS, studies with Jacqueline Bremar

Awards John Christie Award and Esso Singer’s Prize (Glyndebourne), International Singer of the Year at the Llangollen International Eistedfodd, Harold Rosenthal Opera Award.

Opera – Alice Ford Falstaff (ETO),Tosca Tosca (ETO) Madame Butterfly Madame Butterfly (HPO), Countess The Marriage of Figaro (GTO, ETO and HPO), Donna Anna (GTO) Mimì La Bohème (Opera Zuid), Cleone Ermione (GFO), Micaela Carmen (RAH, WNO), Pamina The Magic Flute (ENO), Nancy Silas Marner (City of Birmingham Touring Opera), Tatyana Eugene Onegin (HPO)

Concert Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ (Helsinki Philharmonic), Beethoven Symphony no. 9 (Helsinki Philharmonic), Mahler Symphony no. 2 (Kaplan and London Philharmonic) Four Last songs (Strauss) Mansfield Street Concert series. Italian Song recital (Verdi and Bellini) Mansfield Street Concert series. Opera Gala – Lakeland Symphonia with Wyn Davis.

TV / Recordings Cleone Ermione (Glyndeborne and Channel 4), Damigella and Virtu L’Incoronazione di Poppea (BBC Wales) Title role in Cornet Christoff Rilke’s songs of Love and death (Siegfried Matthus) BBC radio 4

Born
Lancashire

Training
RNCM

Awards
Anne Ziegler; ESSO Award

Opera
Don Giovanni Don Giovanni (Cork Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Belcore The Magic Flute, Belcore The Elixir of Love (ON); Kramer Tangier Tattoo (Glyndebourne On Tour); Pish-Tush The Mikado (La Fenice)

Concerts
Handel Messiah (Guildford Philharmonic); Orff Carmina Burana (Symphony Hall, Birmingham); Rachel Portman The Water Diviner’s Tale (BBC Proms)

Recordings
Puccini La Rondine (EMI); Verdi Il Trovatore (EMI)

Radio
The Proms; Friday Night is Music Night (BBC)

Born
York

Training
National Opera Studio; RAM

Awards
1st Prize National Mozart Competition 2007; Susan Chilcott Scholarship

Opera
Nancy Albert Herring (GTO); Flora La Traviata (Opera Holland Park); Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro (GTO)

Concerts
Mozart Requiem (BBC Welsh Proms); Jonathan Dove All You Who Sleep Tonight (Glyndebourne Jerwood Project); English Song Recital (Leeds Lieder Festival)

Future
2nd Lady (GTO); Nancy (Paris Opera Comique)

Born
Brazil

Training
Cardiff International Academy of Voice; GSMD; University of Rio de Janeiro

Opera
Tamino Zauberflöte (Teatro Amazonas/TMRJ); Don Otavio Don Giovanni (Teatro Amazonas); Le Comte Ory Le comte Ory (Nantes/Angers); Giannetto La Gazza ladra (Massy); Don Ramiro La Cenerentola (Belgrade National Theatre); Il conte d’Almaviva Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Teatro Amazonas) Nemorino L’Elisir d’Amore (TMRJ); Fenton Faltaff (Palácio das Artes/GSMD); Fadinard Il Cappelo di Paglia di Firenze (TMSP); Orfeo Orfeo (TMRJ/TMSP); Tebaldo I Capuleti ei Montecchi (TMRJ); Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi (GSMD) Nadir Les Pecheurs des Perles (TMRJ)

Concerts
Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Teatro Amazonas); Britten Les illuminations (Teatro Amazonas); Rossini Stabat Mater (Ravenna); Mozart Requiem (TMRJ) Carl Orff Carmina Burana (TMRJ) Bach Magnificat (Sala Cecilia Meirelles)

Recordings
Gianni Schicchi (Radio Cultura SP); Stabat Mater (RAI 3) Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (Radio cultura SP)

Born
London

Training
RCM; BBIOS; Guildhall

Awards
Rosemary Bugden Junior Fellowship (RCM); Veronica Mansfield Scholarship (RCM)

Opera
Hansel Hansel & Gretel (OTC); Rosina Barber of Seville (Grange Park, Pimlico Opera); Nancy T’Ang Nixon in China (ENO); Hermia Midsummer Night’s Dream (ETO); Second Lady The Magic Flute (ON); Tisbe La Cenerentola (WNO)

Concerts
Wagner Wesendock Lieder (Metropolitan Orchestra of Lisbon); Handel Messiah (Huddersfleild Choral); Remembrance Day Concert (St David’s Hall, Cardiff)

Recordings
Earth Story – Soundtrack (BBC)