Flavio

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, Jenufa, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as Teseo and Alcina (ETO); Ariodante, Erismena, Flavio, The Cunning Little Vixen (ETO and OTC); The Marriage of Figaro (RCM and ETO); Tolomeo (London Handel Festival/ ETO); 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), The Cunning Little Vixen (Moravian National Theatre, Brno).

Jonathan is from Liverpool and studied at Exeter University and GSMD. Roles include Tolomeo/ Tolomeo (ETO), Bertarido/ Rodelinda (GFO); Amadigi/ Amadigi (Ireland, Paris, NYork); Nireno/ Giulio Cesare (ROH); Les Oiseax de passage (Teatro communale, Bologna); Trinculo/ The Tempest (Strasbourg); Orfeo/ L’Orfeo (Osaka). In concert Jonathan has performed with AAM, OAE, RLPO, RSNO, EBS, Gabrieli Consort, Ulster Orchestra under such conductors as Gardiner, Hickox, Parry, Fischer, Glover, Parrott, Mortensen, Bolton, Bicket. Recordings include Mattheus-Passion (Miller/ Goodwin); Agrippina, (Gardiner); Buxtehude Cantatas (Immerseel); La conversione di Clodoveo (Gester); Israel in Babylon (Fontaine).
Jonathan is baroque specialist at BBIOS. Conducting appearances include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater for artist Dorothy Cross/ OTC Dublin; Teseo (ETO). Plans include Orfeo (Akademie fur Alte Musik im Saarland) and Flavio (Lucca).

Designs for theatre, opera and dance. Joanna’s opera engagements include The Rape of Lucretia (RCM); Eugene Onegin, Falstaff, Alcina, Le nozze di Figaro, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Cunning Little Vixen (ETO). She has also worked with the ROH, SO, OTC Dublin. Joanna’s designs for theatre include The Young Vic, Hampstead Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Salisbury Playhouse and The Lyric Hammersmith. She designed The Noise of Time for Theatre de Complicité at the Lincoln Centre NY, Barbican Centre London and European Festivals. Dance designs include Cholmondeleys, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company and London Contemporary Dance Theatre. She is Senior Lecturer in Scenography at Central School of Speech and Drama.

Kevin’s designs include The Shawshank Redemption (Wyndhams Theatre, West End); The Nose (The Performance Corporation – winner for Best Lighting Design, Irish Times Theatre Awards for 2008); Dr. Ledbetter’s Experiment (Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Kilkenny Festival); The Yokohama Delegation (Kilkenny Festival); Drive-By (Dublin Fringe Festival and Canterbury Festival); This is our Youth (Bedrock Productions); Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Hänsel und Gretel, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Il viaggio a Reims, Pagliacci, The Medium and Suor Angelica (Wexford Festival Opera 2002-2008); La Tragédie de Carmen (WFO and ETO – nominated Best Opera, Irish Times Theatre Awards 2007); The Little Magic Flute (ETO and OTC); The Kiss, Hänsel und Gretel, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Xerxes (OTC).

Paula studied at RCM and the Schwob School of Music. She has received the Karaviotis Prize at the Les Azuriales International Competition. At RCM, she was a finalist for the Young Concert Artists Trust and received the Coutts & Co. Award along with the Sir Thomas Allen Scholarship supported by a Clayton Award. Operatic roles include Pamina/ The Magic Flute (ETO); Gilda/ Rigoletto (Preggio Opera Festival, Italy); Atalanta/ Atalanta (Handel Society); Bastienne/ Bastien und Bastienne (Skipton Camerata); Mimi/ La bohème and Inez/ Il trovatore (Opus I Opera); Grasshopper/ The Cunning Little Vixen (RCM). Concert engagements include City of Dreams (Philharmonia Orchestra concert series 2009); City Music Society series (Eric Falk Trust Award). Additionally, Paula has recorded a Peroni advert soundtrack.

Angelica studied in Norway; Bel Canto Scandinavia, Denmark; RCM and the BBIOS. In 2006/7 she was the recipient of the Opperby-Stokowski Scholarship and in 2006 she also was given the Young Musician of the Year award from the Odd Fellow Slagelse, Denmark. Angelica is currently a member of the International Opera Studio Zurich. Opera roles include Fox/ The Cunning Little Vixen; Cherubino/ Le nozze di Figaro, Teseo/ Teseo, Waltraute/ Die Walküre, Waltraute/ Wellgunde/ Nibelungen for Children and as a soloist in the ballet version of Peer Gynt (Opernhaus Zurich). Future engagements include Bregenzer Festspiele/ Das Portrait – a new opera by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Concert performances include Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle and Haydn Missa in tempore belli (Bath Philharmonia).

Carolyn, born in Carrickfergus, studied at the RSAMD and OTC, Dublin on the Young Artists Programme and will be Associate Artist at WNO (2010). Operatic roles include Maddalena/ Rigoletto, Prince Orlofsky/ Die Fledermaus and Dorabella/ Cosi fan tutte (Samling Foundation); Nicklaus/ Les contes d’Hoffmann (Mid Wales Opera); Second Lady/ The Magic Flute (OHP); Concepcion/ L’Heure espagnole, Meg Page/ Falstaff and Chloe/ All That Money Can Buy. Carolyn also has a wealth of concert performances including Janacek The Diary of One Who Disppeared (Bath International Festival) with Joanna Macgregor; Mozart Requiem (Orquesta Sinfonica De Radio Television Espanola); Handel Messiah (RAH). Recordings include Mozart Cosi fan tutte (BBC Radio 3); Plowman Cries Like Silence (London Mozart Players).

James studied at RCM and was selected by OPERA NOW as amongst ‘Who’s Hot’ for his performance as Nerone/ Agrippina at the London Handel Festival. Operatic engagements include Giuliano/ Eliogabalo (GPO); Andronico/ Tamerlano (Opera by Definition); Ascanio/ Ascanio in Alba (Classical Opera Company); Oberon/ A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ON); Medoro/ Orlando (Early Opera Company). Concert engagements include Handel Messiah (both Choeur de Chambre de Namur and Hallé); J.S. Bach St. John Passion (Irish Chamber Orchestra); Other Shakespearean Dreamers (Liceu, Barcelona). Future engagements include Oberon/ A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Garsington Opera) and J.S. Bach Cantata 106 (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra). Recordings include J.S. Bach St. John Passion (RTE); Dove The Adventures of Pinocchio (Opus Arte DVD); In Tune (BBC Radio 3).

Joseph trained at GSMD. Operatic roles include Eumete/ Il ritorno d’Ulisse (Teatro Real, Madrid); Orfeo/ L’anima del filosofo (Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing); Il Conte/ Le nozze di Dorina (Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci); Snout/ A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Teatro Di San Carlo, Naples); Polimone/ Il Tito (Opéra national du Rhin). Joseph’s recent concert engagements have included J.S. Bach B Minor Mass (Capella Cracoviensis); Handel Messiah (Choeur de Chambre de Namur) and Purcell Dido and Aeneas (New London Consort). He has also appeared on a number of recordings including Handel Israel in Babylon (K617); Monteverdi Vespers 1610 (DG); Mozart Mass in C Minor (Erato); Purcell King Arthur (Glossa); Vivaldi Arsilda, regina di Ponto (CPO).

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).