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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.

James has directed a range of operas for ETO – including, most recently, the critically-acclaimed Il tabarro (Puccini) and Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. In 2010, he directed the world premiere of Alexander Goehr’s opera, Promised End. His production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (performed by ETO in 2004 and revived in 2010) was nominated for an RPS Award.

Other operatic work includes Katya Kabanova, Rusalka, Susannah, Eugene Onegin, Orfeo, Jenufa, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, 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).

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
London

Training
Cambridge; GSMD; NOS

Opera
Tosca; La Boheme; Madam Butterfly; Don Pasquale; Les pêcheurs de perles (All ENO); Il Trovatore; Tosca (Opera Queensland); Tosca (ONZ)

Ballet
Swan Lake (Covent Garden, Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres); Sleeping Beauty; Romeo and Juliet; Nutcracker (ENB); Cinderella (Göteborg Ballet); and ballets for Sylvie Guillem (Japan)

Recordings
Radio (with Adelaide SO); Turandot excerpts for the film Life of David Gale (Alan Parker)

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

From Moville, Co Donegal, Niamh is an hons graduate of NUI Maynooth and University of Limerick. Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland she then attended RNCM graduating with a Postgraduate Diploma in Performance with Distinction. She continues her studies with Anne Mason.

The first recipient of ETO’s Young Artist Bursary Niamh’s operatic performances include Cherubino, The Marriage of Figaro, Hermia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 3rd lady, The Magic Flute, Smeton, Anna Bolena, Mrs Ott, Susannah and Olga, Eugene Onegin (all ETO), Dorabella, Cosi fan tutte (Mananan Opera Festival), Maurya, Riders to the Sea (Opera Fringe Northern Ireland); Cherubino, Le Nozze di Figaro, Mercedes, Carmen (Opera Brava); Eurynome, Penelope (Wexford Festival Opera).

Recent performances include Anitra in Grieg’s Peer Gynt with Sam West and the New London Sinfonia, Verdi Requiem with Armonico Consort and Sir Willard White, Rosina, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, 1st Norn in concerts of Götterdämmerung with The Wagner Society and David Syrus, and Hansel in NI Opera’s production of Hansel and Gretel.

Cheryl Enever graduated from Bath Spa University as a cellist before training as a lyric soprano. She has sung for Royal Opera House, creating the lead soprano role of Joanna in the community opera Ludd and Isis; Franzi, Wienerblut, Tatyana, Eugene Onegin, Donna Anna, Don Giovanni and First Lady, Magic Flute (for ETO).

Other roles include Tosca, Tosca, Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte and Pamina, Magic Flute (Opera a la Carte); Countess Almaviva, Le Nozze di Figaro and Donna Anna under Ben Ellin; Countess, Capriccio (The Wagner Society); Eva, Der Meistersinger, The Mastersingers under Anthony Legge at the Linbury Studio Theatre; cover Tamiri, Il Re Pastore for the Classical Opera Company; and Sandrina, L’infedeltà delusa (BCO).

Her concert work has included Verdi Requiem (Cadogan Hall); Brahms Requiem, Mahler Fourth and Eighth Symphonies (BIF); Beethoven Ninth Symphony and Mass in C (Rochester Cathedral); Mozart C Minor Mass, Requiem (St John’s Smith Square, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge), Solemn Vespers and Exsultate Jubilate (Queen Elizabeth Hall); Fanshawe African Sanctus; Handel Messiah with the London Festival Orchestra.

Andrew studied at Royal Northern College of Music and St Petersburg Conservatoire. He has performed more than 60 opera roles including Lotario, Ariodate, Falstaff, Bottom, Bartolo, Blitch, Alfonso, Donald and Araspe (All ETO); Ben Selim (Royal Opera House), Nachtigal (Grange Park Opera), Golaud (Glyndebourne Touring Opera), Faninal (Scottish Opera), Basilio (Welsh National Opera), Sacristan (Opera North), Colline (English National Opera) etc.

Recordings include Nyman, Love Counts and Mozart 252 (MNR); Michael Berkeley, Jane Eyre (Chandos); Stravinsky, The Flood (Twentieth Century Classics).

Born
South Wales

Training
GSMD; Birmingham Conservatoire

Awards
Countess of Munster Scholarship

Opera
Almaviva Barber of Seville (Swansea City Opera; Savoy Opera); Passareno Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); Remondado Carmen (OHP); Dorvil La Scala di Seta (GSMD)

Concerts
Handel Messiah (Derby Cathedral); Rossini Petit Messe Solennelle (Canterbury Festival); Mozart Requiem (St David’s Hall, Cardiff)

Born
Tunbridge Wells

Training
RNCM

Awards
Rosin Kay Memorial; Frederic Cox Award; Peter Moores Scolarship

Opera
Don Alfonso Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera by Definition); Zaretsky Eugene Onegin (ETO); Guglielmo Cosi Fan Tutte (Glyndebourne Touring); 2nd prisoner Fidelio, Cover Ferdinand Betrothal in a Monastery (Glyndebourne Festival); Germont Pere La Traviata (Opera En Plein Air; Idee Fixe)

Concerts
Rossini Petite Messe Solenelle (St John’s Smith Square); Tippet A Child of Our Time (Bridgewater Hall); Elgar Dream of Gerotius (Liverpool Philharmonic Hall)

Born
Wolverhampton

Training
Birmingham Conservatoire, RCM

Awards
Van Beugel Scholarship (RCM)

Opera
Aurelius King Arthur (Lautten Compagney, Berlin); Sandy The Lighthouse (Montepulciano Festival); Sailor Dido and Aeneas (ETO); Elder Gleaton Susannah (Wexford Festival), Fenton Falstaff, Giocondo La Pietra del Paragone (Stanley Hall Opera)

Concerts
Bach St John Passion (Irish Baroque Orchestra); Handel Messiah (English Chamber Orchestra, Gåvle Symphony Orchestra); Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle (Rome)

Broadcasts
Floyd Susannah (RTE Radio); The Lighthouse (RAI Radio, Italy)

Future
The Fairy Queen (Aix-en-Provence Académie)

Born
Edinburgh

Training
RCM; Napier University

Awards
RCM Opera Scholasrhip; Clara Butt Award

Opera
Filipyeviva Eugene Onegin (Riverside Opera); Maddalena Rigoletto (European Chamber Opera); The Witch Hansel & Gretel (Buxton Festival Opera

Concerts
Bach St Matthew Passion (Beijing); Mahler Symphony No. 3 (Edinburgh Festival); MacMillan Raising Sparks Cantata (Milan)

Recordings
BBC Broadcasts including premiere performances of songs by MacMillan

Born
Lincolnshire

Training
RAM; GSMD

Awards
G Embley Memorial Prize Winner; National Federation of Music Societies Award Winner; Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Prize Finalist; Royal Overseas League Finalist; Associated Board Scholarship Winner

Opera
Cunegonde,Candide, Zerbinetta,Prologue Ariadne Auf Naxos (Birmingham Opera Company);Susanna,The Marriage Of Figaro (English Touring Opera );Miranda The Gentle Giant (ROH 2); Ms Pescado Armida (Channel 4 Television)

Concert
Stravinsky Le Rossignol (CBSO Symphony Hall Birmingham); Mahler Symphony no.8 (Symphony Hall Birmingham); Bernstein Mass (LSO Barbican Hall London) Openning Ceremony, World Athletics Championships.

Recordings
Ms Pescado Judith Weirs Armida (Channel 4 Television); Valkyrie Flashmob (BBC Television)