Don Giovanni

Born
Beverley

Training
University of Bristol

Theatre
Henry V, Mirandolina (Royal Exchange Theatre) The Canterbury Tales (RSC: Stratford, West End and International tour); She Stoops to Conquer (Birmingham RCP and National Tour); A Number, The Comedy of Errors, Bird Calls (Sheffield Crucible); Madness In Valencia (RSC: The Other Place); Nakamitsu (Gate Theatre); Noises Off (Arena Stage, Washington DC); Journeys Among the Dead (Young Vic); Bed Show (Bristol Old Vic); The Anniversary (Garrick Theatre, London); John Bull’s Other Island (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Tartuffe (Watermill Theatre and national tour)

Opera
Sweetness and Badness (WNO)

Other
Jonathan was an Assistant Director at the RSC from 1999-2001

Michael performs a wide and varied operatic repertoire, working at the ROH, Covent Garden, ENO and ETO with regular appearances at festivals including Aldeburgh, Buxton and Montepulciano. As a member of the music staff of the Wiener Staatsoper, he assisted Claudio Abbado and worked closely with many of the world’s leading singers. He has conducted extensively throughout Germany notably Kassel, Wiesbaden and Mannheim, holding the position of resident staff conductor and as Associate Conductor for the London Handel Society, he has introduced many rarely performed Handel operas to the London stage. His recording with tenor Alfie Boe and the Orchestra of SO will be released this autumn.
Michael is Music Director for ETO and Director of Opera at RCM.

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).

Andrew studied at RNCM and St Petersburg Conservatoire. Opera roles include Patsy Love Counts (Almeida Festival); The House of the Gods (Music Theatre Wales); Leporello Don Giovanni (BOC); Falstaff Falstaff (ETO); Ben Selim Dom Sebastien (ROH). Recent concerts include Verdi Requiem (RLPO); Brahms Requiem (RTE Orchestra Dublin); Britten War Requiem (Orchestra de l’Ile de France). Recordings include Michael Berkeley Jane Eyre (Chandos); Stravinsky The Flood (Twentieth Century Classics); Mozart The Marriage of Figaro (BBC TV).

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
Reading

Training
RNCM; NOS

Awards
Prizewinner 2003 Cardiff Singer of the World; 2nd Prize 2000 Kathleen Ferrier Awards

Opera
Eugene Onegin Eugene Onegin (ETO); Henry Kissinger Nixon in China (ENO); Papageno Magic Flute, Schaunard La Boheme and Falke Die Fledermaus (SO as Company Principal Artist); Nick Shadow Rake’s Progress (GFO); Escamillo Carmen (Castleward and Cork Opera House)

Concerts
Rosenblatt Recital (St John’s, Smith Square); Walton Belshazzar’s Feast (Hallé); Britten War Requiem (Bydgoscz/Filarmonika Pomorska); Bernstein Candide (Edinburgh Festival); Bellini La Straniera (LPO)

Recordings
Fauré Requiem; A Masked Ball, Madam Butterfly and The Carmelites (Chandos); Il Diluvio Universale, La Straniera (Opera Rara)

Future Plans
Papageno (OHP); Alfio Cavalleria Rusticana and Shelkalov Boris Godunov (ENO); Renato Ballo in maschera (Reisopera); Belcore L’elisir d’amore (WNO);

Born
Reykjavík

Training
GSMD; Hafnarfjör_ur School of Music

Opera
Liberto Poppea (ENO); Ensemble L’Orfeo (ENO); Sellem The Rake’s Progress (Icelandic Opera); Sailor La Dido & Aeneus (ON); Poet Shadowplay (Icelandic Opera).

Concerts
Bach Christmas Oratorio (Hallgrímskirkja); Berlioz Messe Solennelle (King’s College Cambridge); Handel Messiah (La Maestranza, Seville)

Recordings
Ìslands Minni (Toast to Iceland)

Born
Newport South Wales

Training
RAM; RWCMD

Awards
Dame Eva Turner Prize for Dramatic Soprano; Harriet Cohen Memorial Prize; Sir Geraint Evans Scholarship

Opera
Adina L’Elisir D’Amore (Opera della Luna and Ilford Arts); Bertha Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Scottish opera); Queen of the Night The Magic Flute (Royal Academy Opera); Noemie Cendrillon (Royal Academy Opera); Abigaille Nabucco (Crosskeys Choral Society)

Concerts
Bellini and Donizetti extracts Mira O Norma (Wales Millenium Centre); Gala Concert with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Dennis O’Neill; Rossini Petite Messe (Duoma di Barga, Tuscany);

Recordings
Gala with Dennis O’Neill and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (S4C Television)

Future
Rosina Barber of Seville (WNO); Gretchen Lorting’s Der Wildschutz (Buxton Opera House)

Born
Brackley

Training
BC, RCM, NOS

Opera
Dancairo Carmen (CBSO); English Clerk Death in Venice (ENO); Angelotti Tosca and Nachtigall Die Meistersinger (ROH); Faber The Knot Garden (Montepulciano Festival); Noye Noyes Fludde (Nuremberg Festival); Papageno Zauberflöte (ETO and Lyrique-en-Mer), Quain Thwaite and Elephant The Cricket Recovers (Almeida/Aldeburgh); Giant Gentle Giant (ROH2); Nanni Country Matters (ETO)

Concerts
Handel Messiah (The Sixteen’s Tour of Spain), Mozart Requiem (Mostly Mozart Festival, Barbican) Shostakovich Symphony No. 14 (City of London Sinfonia)

Recordings

Brahms Volkslieder (Crear Classics); Lalande Music for the Sun King (Hyperion); Spicer Easter Oratorio (Birmingham Bach Choir)

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

Future
English Clerk Death in Venice (La Monnaie, Brussels), Abn-Hakia Iolanta (Opera Holland Park)

Born
Cambridge

Training
RNCM

Opera
Capulet Romeo & Juliet (Bampton Classical Opera); Frank Die Fledermaus (Scottish Opera); Schaunard La bohème (Castleward Opera); Abbot Curlew River (Opéra de Rouen); Philip The Last Supper (Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Deutsche Staatsoper)

Concerts
Bach St Matthew Passion (Apollo Chamber Orchestra); Finzi In terra Pax (Victoria Hall, Singapore); Handel Messiah (Academy of Ancient Music)

Recordings
Friday Night is Opera Night (BBC Radio 2); Opera Works (BBC TV)

Future
Philip The Last Supper (London Sinfonietta); Rocco Leonora (Bampton Classical Opera); Scottish Opera); Baron La traviata (Scottish Opera)