The Marriage of Figaro

Designs for theatre, opera and dance. Joanna’s opera engagements include The Rape of Lucretia (RCM); Flavio, Eugene Onegin, Falstaff, Alcina, Le nozze di Figaro, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Cunning Little Vixen (all ETO). She has also worked with the ROH, SO, and 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.

Born London
Training York University, RAM
Opera Apollo et Hyacinthus, Bastien und Bastienne, La Finta Semplice, Il Re Pastore, Adriano in Siria, Artaxerxes (Classical Opera Company), The Marriage of Figaro (QEH), Cosi fan tutte (Holland Park Opera, Opava, Czech Republic), Varieté (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival), three ‘Studio Nights’ (devised by Ian for ENO)
Concert Classical Ensemble Concert Series (Wigmore Hall)
Other Ian is conductor and artistic director of the Classical Opera Company and a professor at the RAM

Born Chichester
Theatre Honeymoon Suite (ETT / Royal Court), Fragile Land (Hampstead Theatre), The Associate (NT Loft and on tour), Mean Tears (Sheffield Crucible Studio), Four Nights in Knaresborough (national tour), Tragedy: A Tragedy (Gate), Accomplices, Mr England (RNT Studio / Sheffield Crucible), A Penny for a Song (Oxford Stage Co / Whitehall), Hushabye Mountain (ETT / Hampstead), Rosmersholm (Southwark Playhouse), The Robbers (Latchmere), Sugar Sugar, Goldhawk Road, Bad Company (Bush)
Other Until recently, Paul was Acting Head of the National Theatre Studio. He will be directing Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads by Roy Williams at the Cottesloe Theatre in April.

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).

Aideen was born in Dublin and trained in Dublin and London. Her opera engagements include Turn of the Screw, Le nozze di Figaro, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cosi fan tutte, Mary Queen of Scotts, Jenufa and Tosca (all for ETO); Dialogues des Carmélites (RCM). In theatre, Aideen’s work has included Lighten Up, The Thought That Counts and In One Ear (Theatre Rites); Greed and Kiss My Echo (Clod Ensemble); Hirja and Dogs Barking (Bush Theatre); Coyote on a Fence (Royal Exchange Manchester/ West End). Aideen’s dance work includes A Compas (Paco Pena); Ether and Bhakti (Angika Dance Co.); Kaash and Polaroid Feet (Akram Khan Co.).

Born Reading
Training RAM, Cambridge University
Awards Henry Wood Scholarship (RAM), Bob Harding Bursary (Havant Symphony Orchestra)
Opera Conductor La Cenerentola (GTO), Musical Director Falstaff (Aberdeen International Youth Festival), Conductor Pelleas et Melisande (GTO), Music Staff L’Opera Seria (Musica Nel Chiostro), Conductor The Marriage of Figaro (ETO)
Concert Mahler Symphony No.5 (University of London Symphony Orchestra), Handel Messiah (Newbury Choral Society), Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (West Forest Sinfonia)
Other Music Director of Newbury Choral Society and University of London Symphony Orchestra

Born London
Training Trinity College of Music
Awards 1998 American Express Prize for Outstanding Performance
Opera Caronte L’Orfeo (ENO), Papageno The Magic Flute (Mid-Wales Opera), The Elder The Country of the Blind (Aldeburgh Festival/ENO Contemporary Opera Studio), Bosun Billy Budd (ROH), Tonio I Pagliacci (Opera Holland Park)
Concerts Bernstein Whitehouse Cantata (London Symphony Orchestra), Orff Carmina Burana (RFH), Puccini Tosca (St John’s, Smith Square).
Recordings Harasta The Cunning Little Vixen (BBC cartoon, cond. Nagano), Bernstein Whitehouse Cantata (Deutsche Grammaphone), guest soloist Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 2)
Future Abbot Curlew River (BOC/BBC Proms 2004), Leporello Don Giovanni (Garden Opera)

Born Windermere
Training Leeds University, RSAMD, NOS
Awards John Scott Award, Sybil Tutton Award, Countess Of Munster Musical Trust
Opera Don Ottavio Don Giovanni (Mid Wales Opera), Alfredo La Traviata (Opera Holland Park), Schoolmaster/Mosquito/Cock The Cunning Little Vixen (ETO, Scottish Opera), Charlie Despard The Young Man with the Carnation (Almeida Festival), Goro Madam Butterfly and Charles Lamb Monster (Scottish Opera)
Concert Opera Gala (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra), Haydn The Creation (English Haydn Festival), Verdi Requiem (Brentwood)
TV Schoolmaster The Cunning Little Vixen (BBC TV cartoon, cond. Nagano)

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 Exeter
Training ENO Baylis, Birmingham Conservatoire, King’s College, London
Opera Mustardseed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bridesmaid The Marriage of Figaro (both ETO), La Sirena La Liberazione di Ruggiero (St.John’s Smith Square), Ines Die Drei Pintos (Opera Omnibus), education performances and projects for ETO, Opera North and ROH
Concert Young Artists Series (Blackheath Halls), new music at Brighton, Kings Lynn, Hoxton and York Late Music Festivals & Britten-Pears School, Berio Laborintus II / Soloist I (Composers Ensemble, Dartington Hall)
Recordings Scelsi Intégrale des oeuvres chorales (New London Chamber Choir, Percussive Rotterdam), Dove Death of a Princess (Channel 4)
Futre Birtwistle Ring A Dumb Carillon (The Warehouse, London)

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)

Born Canterbury
Training Open University, Cambridge University
Opera Count The Marriage of Figaro (ETO), Vicar Albert Herring (GTO), Ferryman Curlew River (Aldeburgh), John The Last Supper (GFO & Berlin Staatsoper), Steward Flight (GFO)
Concert Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at RFH), Tavener Hymn of Dawn (Waterfront Hall, Belfast), Tavener The Veil of the Temple (RAH & Lincoln Center, New York)
Recordings Recent releases of music by Tavener for BMG and Decca

Born Hertford
Training Oxford University (Organ Scholar), GSMD
Awards The Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders
Opera Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BYO), Joabel David et Jonathas (William Christie), Tenor role Orfeo ed Euridice (Scottish Opera), Tamino The Magic Flute and Ferrando Così fan tutte (St John’s Opera Company), King Ouf I L’Étoile, First Elder Susanna and Arv Maskarade (GSMD)
Concerts Bach St. John Passion (Berlin Philarmonie), Haydn Creation (Dublin International Organ and Choral Festival), Handel Acis and Galatea (Norfolk and Norwich Festival)
Recordings Nelson Mass (Metronome), Le Marriage forcé (ASV), Simunye (Erato)

Born London
Training RAM
Awards Peter Moores Scholarship, Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award 2001, Oratorio Prize and Henry Cummings Prize (RAM)
Opera Junius The Rape of Lucretia (BYO, RAM), Second Prisoner Fidelio (GFO, Le Châtelet), Trojan Man Idomeneo and Customs Official La Boheme (GFO), The Monk The Black Monk (Sirius Ensemble), Forester The Cunning Little Vixen and Buonafede Il Mondo della Luna (RAO), Tancredi Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (BOC)
Concert Mozart Requiem (London Strings, St John’s Smith Sq), Bach St Matthew Passion (Sussex Chorus), Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Banbury), Haydn Creation (RAH)

Born Trinidad
Training GSMD, NOS
Awards Ricordi Opera Prize, Susan Longfield Award, Maggie Teyte Memorial Prize
Opera Carmen Carmen (RAH), Louis XV Armchair/Bat L’Enfant et les Sortileges, Natasha The Electrification of the Soviet Union and Flora La Traviata (GFO), Suzuki Madama Butterfly and Dalila Samson and Dalila (ONI)
Concerts Elgar The Dream of Gerontius (St Albans Cathedral), Handel Messiah (Durham Cathedral), Vivaldi Gloria (Southwell Minster)