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Developing new creative partnerships enables us to push the boundaries of our artistic programming. We are excited to be working with Daniel Kramer and his team at to present this new production of . Some of our Open Air Theatre audience may be experiencing opera for the first time – and we hope that you will continue that journey of discovery with English National Opera in the future; opera audiences intrigued to see this work here, may in turn discover the unique possibilities of theatre outdoors.

Our season continues with Shakespeare’s directed by Max Webster and, later this summer, Maria Aberg directs the mean, green monster musical, Little Shop of Horrors.

Timothy Sheader William Village Artistic Director Executive Director

2 Edward White Benson entertained the writer one One, about the haunting of a child, leaves the group evening in January 1895 and - as James recorded in breathless. “If the child gives the effect another turn of There can’t be many his notebooks - told him after dinner a story he had the screw, what do you say to two children?’ asks one ghost stories that heard from a lady, years before. ‘... Young children man, Douglas, who says that many years previously he owe their origins to (indefinite in number and age) ... left to the care of heard a story too ‘horrible’ to admit of repetition. “It’s servants in an old country house … The servants, beyond everything. Nothing that I know touches it… for the Archbishop of wicked and depraved, corrupt and deprave the children; dreadful - dreadfulness … for general uncanny ugliness Canterbury. Yet it was the children are bad, full of evil ... The servants die and and horror and pain.” their apparitions, figures return to haunt the house Thrilled, the group demand to hear it, but the his Grace who first and children, to whom they seem to beckon ... It is all dangerous manuscript is in a packet in a locked drawer obscure and imperfect, the picture, the story, but there caught the imagination in Douglas’s apartment in . It is sent for and is a suggestion of strangely gruesome effect in it.’ of Henry James with while they wait, he relates how he came by it. Many a chilling tale of a Benson left no account of his own source for this years ago he knew the governess herself (‘charming and sketchy tale and did not live to see the publication, agreeable’) who told him her terrible story, and sent him governess and her three years later, of The Turn of the Screw, James’s the manuscript before she died. The youngest daughter young charges in a famous reimagining of the story. But as co-founder of of a poor country parson, Douglas explained, she the Cambridge Ghost Society decades earlier, the future took the post of governess to two orphaned children, remote country house. Archbishop clearly had a lively interest in material of following the death of the previous incumbent. Their this kind. glamorous and charming guardian dazzled her and she agreed to his strange conditions - that she does Perhaps James, with his bizarre but unverifiable source, not trouble him for any reason whatsoever. And thus was deliberately wrapping one further teasing layer of the scene is set - an isolated country house, orphaned impenetrability around his story of shadows, spectres children, a mysterious death, and an innocent and and unutterable horrors. All good ghost stories tend, inexperienced young woman cut off from the external after all, to be established thus: a third or-fourth-hand world, and the governess’s narrative begins. tale, fogged with time, and dimmed by different voices, whose truth is so terrible it must not be looked Debate continues to rage about James’s profoundly at face on - and James employs this longstanding ambiguous story. Is it a gothic romance in which narrative device in the novella itself. We approach the the valiant governess battles forces of evil, or is it a story at several removes. A preface sets the scene. A character study of a sexually repressed, hysterical and group of friends sit around a fire telling spooky stories. ultimately insane woman? It is for sure a study of “IT’S BEYOND EVERYTHING. NOTHING THAT I KNOW Image, opposite: as Quint and as the Governess in TOUCHES IT… FOR DREADFUL – DREADFULNESS… FOR the ’s production of The Turn Of The Screw, 1954. Photo: Denis De Marney/Getty Images GENERAL UNCANNY UGLINESS AND HORROR AND PAIN.”

43 4 innocence corrupted, but who is innocent and who “You’re mine. You must be free.” A 1982 filmed version The young Britten was far from the first and certainly corrupts? The tension of both book and opera depend (available in chunks on YouTube) has the governess not the last to be so gripped by James’s story. It has on what is unsaid. We are ignorant of what went on in a virginal white dress that is progressively defaced inspired many other creative interpretations, perhaps in the past; we are unsure of what is really happening with black swirls as innocence retreats – or madness most famously in the form of the 1961 in the present. So many events both unspeakable advances – until in the last scene the entire front is , starring Deborah Kerr, or more obliquely and unspoken. In James’s narrative we have only the covered in black as if colonised by some dreadful virus. 2001's The Others, directed by Alejandro Amenábar governess’s word for what unfolds since neither children And it’s this closing scene that continues to provoke and starring Nicole Kidman. directed nor servants admit to seeing the ghosts. Is there a the most debate. To whom are Miles’s final words a prequel, , with as conspiracy of silence, or are Quint and Miss Jessel a addressed? Who is the devil? a sadomasochistic Quint, while countless novelists, projection of the governess’s own disturbed erotic including Rumer Godden, Joyce Carol Oates and fantasies? The destruction of innocence was a theme that Britten Sarah Walters, have explored the possibilities latent returned to again and again in his . , in the story. A new movie version called The Turning Benjamin Britten first came across James’s novella , Death in , (another exec-produced by Steven Spielberg is currently being when he was 18 and heard a radio play on the BBC. Henry James story with a libretto by Piper) even the filmed in Ireland with Finn Wolfhard (Mike from Netflix’s “Wonderful, impressive but terribly eerie and scarey” comic are all concerned in their own Stranger Things) as Miles, while one of several TV [sic] he wrote in his diary. It must have stayed with ways with corruption, with what is 'good' and 'evil'. adaptations was a 2009 production that featured - pre- him, and two decades later the composer worked with The Turn of the Screw is about ‘the vulnerability of Downtown Abbey - Michelle Dockery as the Governess librettist Myfawny Piper who distilled James’s novella innocence at all ages’ said Piper. Is there a definitive paired with Dan Stevens as a sceptical psychiatrist to into a series of 16 short vignettes, interspersed with reading of the text? Did Britten believe in the whom she is telling her story. musical variations on the ‘screw’ theme. “Don’t worry innocence of the virginal governess, or was she the about having the characters act in a haunted way or malign presence whose deranged fantasies destroy One recent opera production by fringe company say spooky things. Leave all that to the music,” Britten the children? Paul Kildea, Britten’s biographer, quotes OperaUpClose took a similar starting point, with the the work’s ecstatic reception in Venice, he said “It Image, above: Deborah Kerr in The Innocents, Image, below: Henry James by Alvin Langdon directed by Jack Clayton, 1961. Coburn, 1913 © Mary Evans Picture Library told her. Piper, “I don’t think Ben really took sides: but James’s unfortunate governess revealed in the prologue as started slowly, and soon there was this rush of enormous Photo: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images enthusiasm from the audience - which absolutely took But the tightening claustrophobia of story certainly underlines his [Britten’s] own emotional a patient in a mental hospital. Other directors have you by the bowels and broke your heart. We didn’t quite James’s single-person narrative could attitude to the corruptibility of innocence. That evil destabilised the work's subtle balance by rendering know what had happened. There was something like 43 not be replicated on a theatre stage exists whether in life or in the mind… and is capable of the ghosts too, well, ghostly; and yet Quint and curtain calls.” The British premiere was only weeks later, where the audience’s gaze is free to causing the loss of innocence - he was quite certain.” Miss Jessel’s insidious remoteness must also be on 6 October 1954 by the Sadler's Wells Opera - the roam, and in giving the ghosts bodily maintained - make them too corporeal and allow company we know today as English National Opera, its form and even things to say (they never them physical contact with the children and the story US premiere was in New York in 1958. In 1959 it was the utter a word in James’s text) Britten becomes the lurid ‘potboiler’ that James himself labelled first opera to be filmed for British independent television, and Piper could have risked sacrificing it in an 1898 letter to his fellow author H G Wells. and today it is one of the most performed English- the book’s tension and ambiguity. Yet Britten’s The Turn of the Screw was commissioned by language operas in the world. such was their skill that the mystery the Venice Biennale and given its world premiere on and profound ambiguity remain, “DID BRITTEN BELIEVE IN THE 14 September 1954 at the Teatro , Venice, offering an unavoidable challenge for performed by the English Opera Group with Britten’s any production of the opera. Are the INNOCENCE OF THE VIRGINAL life partner Peter Pears as Quint. It’s a , ghosts real, or are they projections of a scored for a smaller group of instruments, in this case troubled mind? There’s plenty of clues GOVERNESS, OR WAS SHE some 13 musicians playing wind, string and percussion. in the libretto to suggest the deranged Listen out for the tubular bells, and the , whose governess is the malign spirit. “They are THE MALIGN PRESENCE eerie sounds, influenced by Balinese gamelan music, are mine, mine, the children. I will never intimately associated with the presence of Quint. Imogen Tilden is an arts commissioning editor and abandon them” she sings. “My dear, David Hemmings, then a 13-year-old male soprano, later writer for , covering classical music, jazz, You know, you are always watching,” WHOSE DERANGED FANTASIES best known as the fashion photographer in Michelangelo folk and world music. She edits www.theguardian.com/ says Miles. Quint and the governess are Antonioni’s BlowUp, created the role of Miles. Recalling music/classical-music-and-opera ghastly mirror images - both tell Miles, DESTROY THE CHILDREN?”

5 6 First published in The governess sees the figure of an required a small cast: 4 adult singers been in a production when they’ve as significant and meaningful as what very easy person. He was the master’s the children’s guardian”, Mrs Grose 1898, when one unknown man on the tower and his and two children, a boy and a girl. gone all the way and made clear this is stated, and therefore Britten allows valet. It’s said he was sent to the will say “Yes, you should do that.” face at the window; she also sees a is really some kind of abuse. It can be the opera to be open to more than country house because of an illness. But when the Governess says “But Soprano Janis Kelly, who shares reviewer described woman. Mrs Grose, the housekeeper, hinted at in all sorts of ways – even one reading. After all, to whom does That could have been alcoholism, or he said not to disturb him”, she’ll the role of Mrs Grose in these identifies the man as Peter Quint (the just having a glass of wine or Flora Miles address his final words ‘Peter some kind of psychological problem, respond with “Well, he does hate it as ‘the most performances at Regent’s Park Open master’s valet) and the woman as wearing Miss Jessel’s dress or putting Quint, you devil’ before he dies? Is or even venereal disease. And Mrs worries.” She’s someone who is Air Theatre, has a long history with hopelessly evil story Miss Jessel (the former governess); on make-up – because those were the ‘devil’ Quint or the Governess? Grose had to cope with him, and sitting in the middle of it all, and that’s this opera, having previously sung the but both are dead. the sorts of things that would have probably suffered quite a lot from true of Britten’s music as well.’ that we have ever Flora, the Governess and Miss Jessel. Miss Jessel, the previous governess been frowned upon in the 1890s.’ that. The situation was probably read’, Henry James’s A subtle, self-conscious exploration Her intimate – possibly unique – who had a relationship with Quint, Hugely experienced in opera from much better for Mrs Grose when of the haunted house of Victorian association with the piece places her Janis agrees that Britten possessed is a character Janis has assumed the baroque to the present day (she’s The Turn of the Screw Miss Jessel first came along. But once culture, The Turn of the Screw can be in a special position to offer insight the uncanny ability of being able more than once. ‘She’s controlled by appearing in ’s Marnie Miss Jessel fell under Quint’s malign traces the story of a read as a straightforward frightening into the characters. to completely enter the world of Quint and is really rather a lost soul.’ in New York this autumn and in the influence, she was lost to Mrs Grose.’ ghost story. But are the apparitions the child. ‘He had a real insight into Janis played the role alongside her premiere of ’s Jack the Ripper: young, inexperienced ‘My introduction to the opera was of Quint and Miss Jessel what they both the lives of young boys and youngest sister (as Flora) at Grange After Miss Jessel’s death – we’re never The Women of Whitechapel at ENO playing Flora in ’s governess who is seem? James imbues his text with girls, an understanding of what Park, where they could use their told how in James or Myfanwy Piper’s next year), Janis’s observations about production for ENO when I was about Image, above: Janis Kelly. Raphaelle Photography sexual and social unease, which happens when you’re experimenting personal connection to great effect. masterly libretto, though it’s inferred Britten’s vocal writing are perceptive. charged with the care 25. Jonathan liked to feel there were give the story an eerily equivocal and growing up and pushing the Janis also sang Miss Jessel at the that she may have fallen pregnant by of Miles and Flora, spirits in the room. When we started ‘Sometimes the writing is tricky. She kept her eye on me and helped atmosphere. Might these apparitions boundaries. I loved that in Flora – her Théâtre du Capitol de Toulouse, with Quint and taken her own life – Mrs to rehearse, he liked to conjure up the Britten doesn’t always put the me so much. She sang Mrs Grose two small orphaned actually be in the governess’s head? naughtiness and wilfulness.’ Anita Watson who also performs the Grose is once again responsible for feeling that there might be unseen expected emphasis on the words – most beautifully and never tried to Governess in this production. the children. ‘Mrs Grose saw quite a children abandoned Probably the most famous of all presences. He allowed me to explore Janis later sang the Governess in a not on the first beat of the bar, where sing it like an older person. That’s lot of what took place between Quint ghostly tales, James’s novella has the possibilities of the character and production for the Bath and Wessex Now for this collaboration between you would expect, but on the second who I’ll have in mind when I step out by their uncle at his and Jessel,’ Janis continues, ‘and I continued to fascinate right up until we did quite a bit of improvisation Opera, as well as covering the role ENO and Regent’s Park Open Air or third beat. Actually, that’s what to sing the role at Regent’s Park.’ believe would have felt guilty because grand country house. the present day. Composer Benjamin in order to enter the world of the at ENO. ‘I love the ambiguity of this Theatre, Janis completes the circle of makes this such a marvellous piece she couldn’t say anything to the Philip Reed Britten, whose faithful operatic children.’ person. On the one hand, she feels female roles in Britten’s opera with because it’s not punctuated by the children’s absentee guardian.’ adaptation dates from 1954, had like she’s a heroine and that she’s Mrs Grose, a role she will be sharing bar lines. It feels as if we’re speaking. Miles and Flora are orphans under the known James’s novella since his going to save these children; but on in this run of performances with The arrival of the new Governess must None of the vocal lines are “fill-ins”; legal protection of a guardian who teens when he heard the BBC radio the other hand, the music can imply Sarah Pring. have been a tremendous relief to Mrs in the ensembles, I feel you make wants as little to do with them as broadcast of ‘a wonderful, impressive that she’s taken it further than that, Grose. ‘The Governess is somebody arias out of any of the lines.’ possible. ‘They must have been very ‘At the start of the opera, Mrs Grose but terribly eerie and scary play – The and she’s conjuring most of it up in to whom Mrs Grose can pass on the young when their parents died. They has been alone with Flora for a while, As she has been preparing Mrs Grose Turn of the Screw by Henry James’. her own head. I’ve done it so many responsibility for Miles (now returned perhaps were with grandparents for as Miles has been away at school, for these performances, Janis has In 1933 he read James’s ‘glorious and ways, and don’t believe one way from school) and Flora.’ a time and later with Mrs Grose. And and is desperate for company. I don’t kept in mind her first Mrs Grose, eerie’ novella, which he considered is better than another. It’s the one then, of course, with Miss Jessel, but think she’s an “old” woman, as It’s evident that Mrs Grose doesn’t when she played Flora at ENO. That ‘an incredible masterpiece’. He was you’re doing now that is the right one perhaps not so long with her before people were old then at 45 or 50. want to think badly of the children. was the soprano , who was therefore familiar with James’s novella for the moment.’ Peter Quint arrives on the scene.’ She is a capable individual, able to ‘She has this really loving quality also Janis’s mentor in her early days when Myfanwy Piper, wife of the Janis’s point about ambiguity is an run this big house. And remember, about her, it’s very gentle and is there with the company. ‘She was always artist and stage designer John Piper, What happens between Quint, Jessel, important one and surely something she was there when Quint and Miss in her music too. I think she’ll do thinking about what she was doing, suggested The Turn of the Screw as Miles and Flora is never made explicit which attracted Britten. What’s not Jessel were alive, and witnessed what anything to keep the peace. If the taking in everything and processing. suitable for operatic treatment. It only in the novella or the opera. ‘I’ve never articulated in The Turn of the Screw is Quint was like. I don’t think he was a Governess says “I think I’ll write to

7 8 COMPOSER LIBRETTO ORIGINAL STORY

Our Hunting Fathers, an ambitious song-cycle for soprano and orchestra, Mary Myfanwy Evans was born in London in 1911 and educated at Born in New York in 1843, Henry James became one of the most influential which confirmed Britten’s virtuosic vocal and instrumental technique. He was St. Hugh's College, Oxford, where she pursued interests in art and literature. writers of his day, writing 20 novels, 112 tales, 12 plays, several volumes of already earning his living as a composer, having joined the GPO (Post Office) After discovering the works of Mondrian and Kandinsky during a visit to Paris travel and criticism, as well as literary journalism. Film Unit the previous year; the collaboration he began there with the poet W. in 1934, she founded and edited Axis, an English review of abstract art that H. Auden was to prove an important one throughout his career. promoted the British and French avant-garde. She edited the journal from Whilst he had private tutors as a youth, he had no formal education. At 1935 to 1937. the age of 12 his father took the family to Europe, where they moved from Britten found himself in the United States at the outset of World War Two Switzerland to France to Germany. Leaving an everlasting impression on and stayed there for three more years, returning to Britain in 1942. In America She met the artist John Piper at a summer painting party in Suffolk in 1934. James, he returned to Europe in 1875 to live, initially in Paris. He wrote he produced a number of important works, among them the orchestral They married in 1937, settling at Fawley Bottom, near Henley, where their literary and topical letters for the New York Tribune and started work on his Sinfonia da , the song-cycle Les Illuminations for high voice and farmhouse became a regular meeting place for artists, musicians, architects novel The American, before moving to London in 1876. Works in this period strings, and his Concerto. With the opera he also made his and poets, including Alexander Calder, Kenneth Clark and ; included Daisy Miller, The Europeans, Washington Square and first essay in a genre that would be of particular importance to him. Betjeman wrote two poems about Ms. Piper, Myfanwy and Myfanwy at The Portrait of a Lady. Oxford, both published in 1940. Back in Britain, where as a conscientious objector he was excused military In the 1880s James concentrated on themes of social reform and service, he began work on the piece that would establish him beyond Besides editing Axis, Ms. Piper edited a book of essays, The Painter's Object revolutionaries, with The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima and question as the pre-eminent British composer of his generation – the opera and wrote a biography of Frances Hodgkins for the Penguin Modern Painters The Tragic Muse, and subjects of the developing consciousness and moral Peter Grimes, premiered to an ecstatic reaction on 7 June 1945. The Young series. From the late 1930's through the early 50's, she worked mainly as her education of children with What Maisie Knew, The Turn of the Screw and Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of husband's assistant and brought up their four children. The Awkward Age. Purcell – a cornerstone of the orchestral repertoire – was first performed in the following year. Indeed, Britten now composed one major work after Ms. Piper had known Benjamin Britten since the mid-1940's when her Other notable works include The Aspern Papers, Owen Wingrave, In The another, among them the operas The Rape of (1946), Albert Herring husband designed the sets for several operas, including Cage, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. (1947), Billy Budd (1951), (1953), The Turn of the Screw (1954), and Billy Budd, and it was she who suggested Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw as a subject. She also wrote the libretto for Britten’s He retained his American citizenship until 1915 but, when World War Noye’s Fludde (1957), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1960), Owen Wingrave One broke out, he became a naturalized citizen of England in protest over (1970–71) and (1971–73); the for and Owen Wingrave, another Henry James story, which Britten was commissioned to write for television in 1968. In 1971, Britten once again invited Ms. Piper to America's failure to enter the war. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in orchestra (1958), the (1961–62), a Symphony (1963) for Literature in 1911, 1912 and in 1916, when he received the Order of Merit Rostropovich and his orchestral Suite on English Folk Tunes (1974). write a libretto for what would be his final opera, Death in Venice based on the novel. from King George V. He died on 28 February 1916. Photograph by Lotte Meitner-Graf © (4th March 1973) Supplied by The Lotte Meitner-Graf Archive Britten’s importance in post-War British cultural life was enhanced by his (LotteMeitnerGraf.com); Juanita, the grandmother of Sholto McMillan (who shares the role of founding of the English Opera Group in 1946 and the Festival two Ms. Piper also wrote a play The Diary of a Seducer based on Kierkegaard, as Miles in this production) was a photographer and, assisting in the studio of Lotte Meitner-Graf, was well as the for 's Easter and several operas by the involved in this Britten studio shoot. years later. His career as a composer was matched by his outstanding ability as a performer: he was both a refined pianist and a spontaneous and fluent Welsh composer Alun Hoddinot, including What the Old Man Does Is Always conductor – his Mozart was particularly highly esteemed. Britten’s later career Right, The Rajah's Diamond and The Major. She died at the age Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on the east coast of was clouded by bouts of ill-health, culminating in heart disease. He never fully of 85, on 18 January 1997. England, on 22 November 1913. Although he was already composing recovered from open-heart surgery in 1973, and died on 4 December 1976, vigorously as a child, he nonetheless felt the importance of some solid at the age of 63, a few months after being appointed a life peer – the first guidance and in 1928 turned to the composer Frank Bridge. Two years composer ever to know that honour. later he went to the in London, studying with Arthur Benjamin, Harold Samuel and . While still a student, he wrote his ‘official’ Op. 1, the for chamber ensemble, and the for and string trio. In 1936 he composed Reprinted by kind permission of Boosey & Hawkes.

9 10 Daniel Alexander Sidhom Fiona Dunn , Daniel Alexander Sidhom, Elen Willmer, Sholto McMillan, Ellie Bradbury

SHOLTO McMILLAN This is Ellie’s professional operatic at Newcastle-under-Lyme school and LEO JEMISON Miles debut. She studies ballet and plays Harrow school, and he is a veteran Miles (Cover) , violin and the recorder. and winner of many Speech and Sholto is a Music Scholar at the Leo is currently studying at St John’s Drama trophies of the Newcastle- Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Notable engagements include: Primary School, Penge. He will join under- Lyme Festival for Music, Holland Park, with Scott Price as Beauty and the Beast (Chichester his brother at Trinity School, Croydon Speech and Drama. Head of Music and Choir Master. He Festival); Bugsy Malone (Capitol in September as a music scholar. is taught singing by Anita Morrison Theatre, Horsham); High School Daniel has been a student at Leo recently sang as a solo treble and Susanne Dymott. Musical (Nomad Theatre); K.Dee.K.Danceworks since 2011 with his brother for Bernstein’s Mass Shakespeare Street (Build An Opera). where he trains in Ballroom and He is a treble in the Schola Cantorum at the with Marin Latin American Dancing, achieving of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial Ellie was delighted to perform in the Alsop, and Mendelssohn’s treble high accolades in both examinations School. presence of Her Majesty duet I Waited for the Lord in Notre and competitions. He has also The Queen at Chichester Festival Dame and St Martin-in-the-Fields Recent performances include: participated in many charity concerts Theatre in November 2017. She with Bromley Boy Singers, directed Monteverdi Vespers (with His and choir concerts and competitions. has given concerts in Germany with by Travis Baker. Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts); West Sussex Youth Orchestra and (); Handel’s He plays the bassoon, percussion Choir, and will tour Belgium in 2018. ELEN WILLMER (Holy Trinity, Sloane Square); and , and is a member of Flora Praetorius’ Mass for Christmas several bands with Bromley Youth Morning (with the Gabriele Consort DANIEL ALEXANDER Elen sang in ENO’s Queen of Spades Music Trust. Leo is interested in , Janis Kelly, Ellie Bradbury Elen Willmer Sholto McMillan at John’s, Smith Square) and SIDHOM (Coliseum, 2015) with girls from Old marine biology and in his spare (BBC Proms). Miles Palace School, and also in Il Trittico time enjoys wildlife documentaries and Œdipe (Royal Opera House). and football, and trying to teach his Sholto also plays the piano and Daniel was a student at the Junior rescue dog Bowie to improve his ball guitar. He has performed lead roles RNCM where he studied voice with Elen studies singing with Sarah fetching skills. in a number of amateur drama Ian Gray, and piano with Manola Forbes. She has been a chorister at productions over the years for Hatfield. Until 2017 he studied Croydon Minster since she was 7 groups such as Perform. Sholto bassoon privately with Simon and is now joint Head Girl, holding considers Led Zeppelin among his Dewhurst, and took private lessons the Royal School of Church Music greatest musical influences. for speech and drama with Angela Bishop’s Award. With the Minster Walker. He is a chorister at Derby Choir she has sung at the Festival ELLIE BRADBURY Cathedral and, since 2017, a , St Paul’s and numerous other scholar at Harrow Boarding School cathedrals. She was selected to Flora studying piano (ABRSM Grade 8) with perform with the London Mozart Ellie studies singing with Ansy Mark Smith, bassoon (ABRSM Grade Players as their 2016 ‘Christmas Boothroyd and is a member of 5) with Rachel Edmonds, and singing Chorister’. the West Sussex Youth Choir, (ABRSM Grade 8) with Mary Nelson. Elen is a keen dancer and has the Chichester Festival Youth Theatre From 2017 he has been a member ISTD Gold Jazz award. She studies and Showdown Theatre Arts. She of Harrow’s Elite Vocal Ensemble tap, modern and jazz at Cavat has attended several Build An - Byron Consort, and sang solo in Theatre Arts, performing at the Opera summer schools, and is also Churchill Songs (). Fairfield Halls and the Barn Theatre passionate about . He was awarded a music scholarship Oxted.

11 12 Rhian Lois Janis Kelly

JANIS KELLY ’ Lyric Hammersmith); Grimgerde Previously for ENO: Phaeton Mrs Grose (Teatro Real‚ Madrid/English National Die Walkure (London Philharmonic The Day After, Florizel (cover) The Opera); Marcellina (Garsington); Orchestra); Selene Berenice with Winter’s Tale, Younger Man Between Janis Kelly studied at the RSAMD Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw, Lawrence Cummings for the Worlds (ENO/Barbican). (now Royal Scottish Conservatoire) Mrs Coyle Owen Wingrave (Théâtre re-opening of the Linbury, and in her native Glasgow‚ at the Royal Notable engagements elsewhere du Capitole‚ Toulouse); Berta Emily in a revival of 4:48 Psychosis College of Music in London and with include: Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Il barbiere di Siviglia‚ Madame (Opera National de Rhin). Elisabeth Grümmer in Paris. Widely Progress (Göteborg Symphony Jouvenot Adriana Lecouvreur, Nella recognized as one of the great conducted by Barbara Hannigan); Gianni Schicchi (Royal Opera House); singing actresses of her generation‚ RHIAN LOIS The Young King (cover); Lessons Berta (); Christine Janis Kelly’s work continues to take The Governess In Love and Violence (Royal Opera Intermezzo ( Festival); Sister her to the world’s leading Opera House); Pastore/Spirito L'Orfeo Helen in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Currently an ENO Harewood Artist, Houses‚ ranging from the operatic (Bayerische Staatsoper); Anthony Walking (Eugene Opera‚ Oregon); Welsh soprano Rhian Lois is graduate and concert platform‚ to Hollywood (Longborough Foreign Princess (Grange of the Royal Welsh College of Music films and soundtracks. Festival); The 8th Door and Opera Park). She appears as Mrs Rutland and Drama, Royal College of Music Highlights tour (); Future engagements for ENO: in Nico Muhly’s Marnie at the and . Soloist Johann Strauss Gala (National Polly Nichols Jack the Ripper: The in November Future engagements for ENO: Concert Hall, Dublin); Orpheus Women of Whitechapel 2019. 2018. Valencienne Orpheus in the Underworld (Opera Previously for ENO: Over the last 2019. Danube); 30 years, Marcellina and Countess RACHAEL LLOYD (Glyndebourne). Previously for ENO: Susanna The ‚ ‚ Miss Jessel Marriage of Figaro, Atalanta Xerxes, Rose ‚ Mrs Naidoo Rachael Lloyd trained at Guildhall Musetta La bohème, Frasquita Rachael Lloyd William Morgan ‚ Mrs Nixon Nixon in School of Music and Drama. , Young Woman Between China‚ Iris ‚ Yum Yum The Worlds, First Niece Peter Grimes, Mikado‚ Despina Cosi fan Tutte‚ Previously for ENO: Woman/ Papagena The Magic , Yvette Romilda Xerxes, as well as roles Mother The Day After, Pitti-Sing The The Passenger. Toby Purser in operas by Monteverdi‚ Purcell‚ Mikado, Third Lady . Humperdink‚ Offenbach and Notable engagements include: Notable engagements include: Birtwistle. Angelika Figaro gets a Divorce Carmen (Raymond Gubbay Ltd.); (Grand Théâtre de Genève – house Janis received worldwide acclaim Kate Pinkerton debut, European premiere); Adele for her portrayal of the title role in (Royal Opera House); Amastre (Welsh National ’s ‚ (Early Opera Company/ Opera); Zerlina (Santa which she has performed at the English Touring Opera); Dido (TPT Fe); Papagena The Magic Flute (Royal Manchester International Festival Theater Thüringen); Cornelia Giulio Opera House). (World Premiere)‚ Sadler’s Wells‚ Cesare (Glyndebourne); Meg Page Toronto and Portland; in concert at (Glyndebourne on Tour); Royal Opera House and Teatro Real‚ Mme Anderson WILLIAM MORGAN Madrid‚ and is now available on CD (Théâtre du Châtelet); Ravel’s Trois The Prologue / Peter Quint (). Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé; Karl William Morgan is an ENO Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Most recent appearances Harewood Artist. He trained at the Peace with the London Philharmonic include: Mrs Lovett Sweeney Todd National Opera Studio and the Royal Orchestra. (); Mrs Nixon College of Music, London. (Metropolitan Opera‚ New York/ Recent and future engagements Future engagements for ENO: Omroep Muziek); Lady Billows Albert include: Alisa The Writer Jack the Ripper: The Herring (Los Angeles Opera); Hazel (Royal Opera House); Emily 4:48 Women of Whitechapel 2019, Hot George in the World Premiere of Psychosis (Royal Opera House/ Biscuit Slim Paul Bunyan.

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SARAH PRING Schicchi, Giorgetta Il tabarro, Stella Previously for ENO: Cover Brighella (Scottish Mrs Grose I Gioielli della Madonna, Musetta Almaviva . Opera); Fenton Falstaff (Cambridge La bohème (Opera Holland Park); Philharmonic Society, semi-staged Sarah Pring trained at the Guildhall Born in Llandudno, North Wales, Lucia Lucia di Lammermoor (Buxton concert performance); Johnny School of Music and Drama and the Elgan studied at the Royal Northern Festival Opera); Fiordiligi Così fan Inkslinger Paul Bunyan (Welsh National Opera Studio. College of Music in Manchester tutte (Den Jyske Opera); Donna National Youth Opera); Male Chorus and the Guildhall School of Music Future engagements for ENO: Elvira Don Giovanni (Finnish National The Rape of Lucretia (Guildhall and Drama in London. He joined Alisa Lucia di Lammermoor 2018. Opera); Donna Elvira, Anne Trulove School of Music and Drama); title Scottish Opera as an Emerging Artist The Rake’s Progress, Violetta La role Albert Herring (Royal Northern Previously for ENO: Alisa Lucia for the 2016/17 season. Elgan is a traviata (Scottish Opera). College of Music); Orbin in Elgar’s di Lammermoor, Mrs Alexander 2018/19 ENO Harewood Artist and Caractacus with the Huddersfield Satyagraha, Mayor’s Wife Jenufa. Elin is equally in demand on the is generously supported by an Opera Choral Society and Orchestra of concert platform with repertoire Awards Foundation bursary. Notable engagements include: under the baton of including Bruckner Mass in F Minor, Lady Bertram (The Awards include the Stuart Burrows . Brahms Requiem, Dvorak Te Deum, Grange Festival); Mother Hansel and International Voice Award, Kerry Fauré Requiem, Mendelssohn , Gretel (Opera North); Marcellina Keane Young Artist Award at the Mozart Coronation Mass, Mass in C ANITA WATSON Le nozze di Figaro, Waltraute Die 2015 Les Azuriales Festival, Osborne Minor and Requiem, Rossini Petite The Governess Walküre (Welsh National Opera); Zita Roberts Blue Riband Prize at the Messe Solennelle and Stabat Mater, Gianni Schicchi (Opera Holland Park/ National Eisteddfod of Wales and the Anita Watson studied at the Rutter Requiem and Verdi Requiem. Singapore Lyric Opera); Madame Urdd National Eisteddfod Conservatorium of Music before Larina (Staatsoper Recent and future engagements Scholarship. joining the Cologne Opera Studio Stuttgart): Berta Il barbiere di Siviglia, include: Kupava The Snow Maiden, and the Jette Parker Young Artist Elgan is also an 2018/19 Equilibrium Giovanna , Annina La Nedda I (Opera North); Programme at Young Artist, a new programme Elin Pritchard Sarah Pring traviata (Royal Opera House). Violetta (Den Jyske Opera); Tosca House, . set up by international soprano and (English Touring Opera); Marie Sarah has also been awarded both conductor, Barbara Hannigan. Elgan Notable engagements include: The Daughter of the Regiment the Sir John Christie Award and will sing the title role in Stravinsky’s The Governess The Turn of the (Buxton Festival/Opera Della Luna); Glyndebourne/ESSO Touring Award. The Rake’s Progress in performances Screw (La Fenice, Venice / Théâtre du Adalgisa in a concert performance ^ at La Monnaie in Brussels and also Capitole, Toulouse); Gretel Hänsel Elgan Llyr Thomas Future plans include Glasha in Jenufa of with the Chelsea Opera performances in the USA and UK. und Gretel, First Lady Die Zauberflöte at Covent Garden, and the release of Group; Beethoven Symphony No. 9 As well as the Stravinsky, he will (Royal Opera House); Donna Anna a recording of Letters from Lony by (Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra); sing the tenor solo in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Opera Australia/ . Poulenc Gloria (Royal Philharmonic Requiem with the Danish National Nederlandse Reisopera/Landestheater Orchestra); Haydn St Nicholas Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen Salzburg/Scottish Opera/Teatro (English Chamber Orchestra); Mahler ELIN PRITCHARD with Hannigan . He will La Fenice, Venice); Pamina Die Symphony No. 4 (Northern Chords Miss Jessel make his house debut at the Opera Zauberflöte (Welsh National Opera); Festival); Vaughan Williams Sea National de Bordeaux singing Count Mimì La bohème (Opera North/ Welsh Soprano Elin Pritchard Symphony (Brighton Philharmonic); Almaiva in Laurent Pelly’s production Nederlandse Reisopera); Anne is a graduate of the Alexander Hathaway – Eight Arias for a Bardic of Il barbiere di Siviglia, conducted by Trulove The Rake’s Progress (Teatro Gibson Opera School at the Royal Life (Buxton Festival); Brahms Marc Minkowski. Municipal de Santiago). Conservatoire of Scotland, where she Requiem (Ulster Orchestra); Opera was awarded a Master of Opera with Galas for Clonter Opera and the Notable engagements include: Anita won First Prize in the ARD distinction and a Master of Music, Samling Foundation (Wigmore Hall). Count Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia Music Competition, , the and of London’s National Opera (Théâtre des Champs Elysees, Australian Singing Competition, and Studio. She is also a Samling Artist. ELGAN LLY^R THOMAS Paris); Spoletta Tosca (Llangollen the SWR Emmerich-Smola Prize, as International Musical Eisteddfod, well as prizes in the Queen Sonja Notable engagements include: The Prologue / Peter Quint semi-staged concert performance Competition, Neue Stimmen and Micaëla Carmen (Mid Wales Opera); Future engagements for ENO: with Orchestra of Welsh National Operalia. Female Chorus The Rape of Lucretia Johnny Inkslinger Paul Bunyan, Opera); Nemorino The Elixir of Love, (British Youth Opera); Miss Jessel Normanno (Cover Arturo) Lucia di Titorelli/Flogger/Berthold The Trial, The Turn of the Screw, Nella Gianni Lammermoor (2018). 15 Regent’s Park Theatre and English National Opera present 22 — 30 Jun

music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN libretto by MYFANWY PIPER after a story by HENRY JAMES

COMPANY 22 | 25 | 27(mat) | 29 | 30(eve) 23 | 26 | 27(eve) | 30(mat) CREATIVE TEAM The Prologue William Morgan Elgan Lly^r Thomas Conductor Toby Purser The Governess Anita Watson Rhian Lois Director Timothy Sheader Miles Daniel Alexander Sidhom Sholto McMillan Designer Soutra Gilmour young children in her charge Flora Elen Willmer Ellie Bradbury Movement Director Jenny Ogilvie Mrs Grose the housekeeper Janis Kelly Sarah Pring Lighting Designer Jon Clark Peter Quint a former man-servant Elgan Lly^r Thomas William Morgan Sound Designer Nick Lidster for Autograph Miss Jessel a former governess Elin Pritchard Rachael Lloyd Season Associate Director (Voice) Barbara Houseman Fight Director Paul Benzing Miles (Cover) Leo Jemison Assistant Conductor Adam Hickox Assistant Director Fiona Dunn MEMBERS OF THE ENO ORCHESTRA Leader Janice Graham

first violin Janice Graham; second violin Sophia Durrant; Rebecca Chambers; Production Manager Andy Beardmore cello Jonathan Ayling; double Graham Mitchell; flute Claire Wickes; oboe Ruth Bolister; Deputy Production Manager Ned Lay Barnaby Robson; bassoon Meyrick Alexander; John Thurgood; harp Alison Martin; Costume Supervisor Anna Josephs /percussion William Lockhart; piano/celeste Murray Hipkin Wig Designers Richard Mawbey, Sue Pedersen Props Supervisor Sharon Foley Assistant Costume Supervisor Laura Crosbie Company Stage Manager Sarah Hopkins-Thomas Production Partner: Deputy Stage Manager Bethan McKnight Performances are given by permission of Assistant Stage Managers Sorcha Doherty, Alice Jenkins #TheTurnoftheScrew #OAT2018 Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited. Technical Assistant Stage Manager Ida Heggen

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Artistic Director Timothy Sheader Executive Director William Village Commercial Director Andy Locke

ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE SOUND Head of Administration & Assistant to COSTUME, HAIR & MAKEUP Season Sound Designer Nick Lidster for Autograph the Executive Director Cat Gray Head of Wardrobe Ashley Duckworth FOR ENGLISH NATIONAL Production Sound Engineer Shane Kavanagh for Autograph Administration Assistant & Assistant to Head of Wigs, Hair & Makeup Nicky Sims Head of Sound James Hassett the Artistic Director Kati Donlon Deputy Head of Wardrobe Sara Markwick Sound No. 2 Philip Michael OPERA Accountants for Kingston Smith LLP Anna Ganjolla, Vineetha Sastry, Wardrobe Assistants Rebecca Clarendon, Sound No. 3 Megan Ritchie Joseph Nelson Allana Newbury Sound Hire supplied by Autograph Chief Executive Stuart Murphy Dressers Debbie Johnson Artistic Director Daniel Kramer CATERING Costume Makers Denise Heywood, Ash Luton, VISITOR SERVICES & ESTATES Music Director Martyn Brabbins Head of Catering Lawrence Keal Kevin Mathias, Sten Vollmuller Head of Visitor Services & Estates Elinor Williams Head Chef Richard Dryden Millinery Hannah Trickett Deputy Head of Visitor Services & Estates Jack Gavin Deputy Head of Catering Leon Scott Dyeing & Breaking Down Nicola Killeen textiles Visitor Services Manager & Producing Director Terri-Jayne Griffin Catering Supervisors Sophie Beard, Diana Blazewicz, Masks Carolyn Watson-Dubisch Education Co-ordinator Mairtin Dwyer Head of Casting Michelle Williams Jessie Carpenter, Isabella Darby, Makeup Supplied by Visitor Services Manager Megan Griffith Casting Assistant Jennifer Kelly Katy Higgins, Kostas Kaloskamis, Box Office Supervisors Ari Beadie, Victor Correia, Liz Wheeler Company Manager Nicole Richardson Tanith Lindon, Urszula Kusiel-Moroz, LIGHTING Front of House Supervisors Hanna Brunt, Victor Correia, Hannah Roe Assistant Company Manager Lucy Anderson Alex Morelo, Ryan Towart, Head of Lighting Adam Squire Head of Music Martin Fitzpatrick Dimitrios Varytimosoglou, Deputy Head of Lighting Joe Kirk Box Office Assistants Max Alexander-Taylor, Music Coordinator & Issy Veysey, Lighting Board Operator Charlie Jones Amy Bianchi, Samantha Campbell, PA to the Music Director Hannah Rose Cooper Denzel Westley-Sanderson Lighting Programmer Victoria Brennan Evangeline Cullingworth, Repetiteurs: Richard Peirson Chefs Dean Fawcett (sous), Production LX James Bentley, Abbi Fearnley, Michael Donohue, Sarah Fisher, Murray Hipkin Lorena Talens, Mohamed Lalalli Martin Strods, Ian Jardine, Amy Lawrence, Karen Liu, Andrew Smith Kitchen Assistants supplied by Appetite4work Dan Large, Doug Currie, Jessica Lovell Catering Assistants Jemma Bentham, Hugo Campos, Matthew Zelmanowicz, Ben Nichols Director, Orchestra & Heather Carpenter, Lighting supplied by Whitelight Front of House Assistants Hannah Alexander, Oliver Byng, Music Department Richard Meads Shannon Chapman, Akilah Clarke, Almudena Castro, Sophie Corker, Orchestra Logistics Manager Kevin Elwick Eve Cross, Larissa Daunat, MARKETING & PARTNERSHIPS Kayleigh Cousins, Georgia Homewood, Orchestra Assistant Lauren Woods Montel Douglas, Jess Durand, Head of Partnerships & Events Marianne Richardson Katie-Ann Hudson, Felicity Hughes, Head of ENO Harewood Artists Theodora Ebeling, Nathalie Ferreira, Senior Marketing Officer Morag Shackerley-Bennett Shauna Mc Erlaine, Mark McKenzie, Vocal Training & Development Jane Robinson Gustavs Frelihs, Shauna Gavaghan, Senior Partnerships & Events Officer Olivia Hood Joe Miller, Wendy Parry, Tazmyn Gebbett, Frances McCann, Marketing & Events Assistant Tara Geraghty Gina Ranheim Bjerkan, essica Millward, Alyssa Moseley, Georgina Rowlands, Pietro Tranchida, Lewis Palfrey, Sera Park, PRESS Tilly-Jane Wilson, Gino Wouters Kaleigh Reason, Michelle Rose, For Jo Allan PR Jo Allan, James Travis-Lever, Caleb Rowan, Susannah Shaw, John Potter, Sara Boytchev WITH THANKS TO: Bright Green Promotions, Feast Creative (design), Holly Stringer, George Timberlake made (tourism), SurePrint Services (print), Target Live (media). PRODUCTION Annie Lydford, Anthony Jarvis, Florence Carr, Emily Jervis, Philip Reed (ENO). Head of Stage Chris Easton Photographers: David Jensen (venue), Johan Persson (rehearsal & production). Production Administrator Annegret Kuhnigk Deputy Head of Stage Alex Hunt Chaperones Kate Brayn, Jan Cassidy, Bea & Co Set Constructed by MDM Props Ltd

19 2120 P’yongyang, Somersaults, The Soft NICK LIDSTER for (Leicester Haymarket); Privates On Personal Voice Coach includes: of Her Palm (Finborough). AUTOGRAPH Parade (Noel Coward); A Chorus Line for Jude Law, Obsession (Barbican); Sound Designer (); Kiss Me Kate (Noel Coward); Anna Christie Direction includes: Dr Angelus Notable engagements elsewhere: Award Best Play Revival/UK Tour and Pitchfork Disney (Shoreditch Town (Opera North); The Vote (Donmar (); Hamlet TOBY PURSER (Finborough). Nick is a senior member of the For Grange Park Opera, he has Barbican); The Gershwins’ Porgy Hall); (Manchester Warehouse/Channel 4); Urinetown (Wyndham's); for Clive Owen, Conductor Autograph design team. conducted Madama Butterfly, and Bess (Olivier Award nominated, Royal Exchange); I See You (Royal jenny-ogilvie.com (Apollo); The Last Five Years (St Old Times (Broadway); for Daniel Toby is an ENO Mackerras Fellow. Eugene Onegin, Rigoletto and Best Musical Revival); Court); Les Blancs, , Current projects: The Band (Opera James Theatre); Annie Get Your Gun Radcliffe, The Cripple of Inishmaan Fortunio, which was also performed (Olivier Award winner, Best Musical Strange Interlude, Antigone House, Manchester). (Sheffield Crucible). (Noel Coward/Broadway), How to For ENO: The Marriage of Figaro, JON CLARK at the Buxton Festival. For Opera Revival; also at the Novello); Hello, (National Theatre); Cyrano de Succeed in Business (Broadway) and La Traviata. Lighting Designer For Regent’s Park: Peter Pan, On Della Luna, The Daughter of Dolly! (Olivier Award winner, Best Bergerac (Roundabout Theatre, Equus (Gielgud/Broadway). The Town, BARBARA HOUSEMAN Toby Purser’s combination of passion the Regiment, Orpheus in the Musical Revival; Evening Standard Tony nomination); Merrily We Roll For Regent’s Park: . (2017 Olivier Best Sound Design Season Associate Director She is the author of Finding Your and intellect, structure and freedom, Underworld, Tales of Offenbach Award winner, Best Musical); Into Along (Menier/West End/Huntingdon Opera includes: The Exterminating nomination). (Voice) Voice and Tackling Text [and Subtext] poetry and drama have earned him and The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief the Woods (Olivier Award winner, Theatre); Bull (/Tour); Angel (The Metropolitan Opera, both published by Nick Hern Books immediate attention and praise from (UK Premiere). Other operatic Best Musical Revival/available on Reasons to be Pretty (Almeida); Recent projects: The Public Barbara has been Voice and Text Royal Opera House, Salzburg Festival, and Artistic Director of Dangerous critics (“galvanising” The Telegraph, performances have included Haydn’s Digital Theatre; also Public Theater/ Assassins (Menier); The Homecoming Administration and Constitutional Coach at Regent’s Park since 2009 Royal Danish Opera); Written on Spaces Theatre Company. “such musical energy” , The Apothecary and La Canterina Delacorte Theater, New York). (Trafalgar Studios); Urinetown (St Affairs Committee Takes Oral and Season Associate Director since Skin (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, “briskly energetic” The Guardian) for Bampton Classical Opera, Hänsel James Theatre); The Commitments Evidence on Whitehall’s Relationship 2014. Other theatre includes: The Royal Opera House, Lincoln Center and audiences around the world. und Gretel and Die Entführung aus (Palace Theatre/Tour); The Little Dog with Kids Company (Donmar PAUL BENZING Magistrate (National Theatre); New York, Bolshoi , Paris, Voice and text coach credits dem Serail for British Youth Opera Laughed (Garrick); Hecuba, Warehouse); The Girls (Phoenix Fight Director Founder and Principal Conductor of Barnum (Chichester Festival); Imagine Amsterdam, Vienna); Kròl Roger include: Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly); and Le Comte Ory for Chelsea Opera (RSC); The Love and The Collection Theatre). the ground-breaking Orion Orchestra, This (New London); Hobson’s Choice, (Royal Opera House/Opera Australia. The Ferryman (Gielgud); Rosencrantz For Regent’s Park: Into the Woods, Group. For Pimlico Opera, he has ( Theatre, Olivier Award his talent has prompted invitations The Clandestine Marriage, Love in Green Room Award for Lighting Theatre includes: Hey! Mr & Guildenstern are Dead (Old Vic); . conducted productions in various nomination); Angels in America from English National Opera (where a Maze (Watermill); Rodgers and Design); Lucia di Lammermoor (Royal Producer (Cameron Mackintosh’s The Curious Incident of the Dog prisons, with a cast of inmates (Lyric, Hammersmith); In a Forest Credits include: Sweeney Todd, he holds a position as ENO Mackerras Hammerstein’s , The Opera House); The Winter’s Tale, La 30th Anniversary Royal Gala, in the Night-Time (Gielgud/Tour); performing alongside professionals Dark and Deep (Vaudeville); Opera Private Lives, Pajama Game Conducting Fellow), New Sussex Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic); bohème, (English National Lyceum); Martin Guerre (UK Bus St Joan, All Female Trilogy, Les Liaisons in repertoire include Carmen the Shots 2011/2012, Quartett (Royal (Chichester Festival/West End); Opera (as their new Musical Director), The Star Throwers, Unless (Stephen Opera); Hamlet (Glyndebourne/ and Truck Tour); Miss Saigon Dangereuses, Coriolanus, Trelawny Musical, Les Misérables, Sugar, Sister Opera House); Carmen, , Hansel National Anthems (Old Vic); Journey’s Grange Park Opera, Opera National Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); ). (UK Tours/Japanese Productions/ of the Wells (Donmar Warehouse); Act, Sweeney Todd and West Side and Gretel (Opera North). End, The Country Wife, The Sea, de Paris, St Petersburg Festival Misconceptions (Derby Playhouse); Malmo Sweden); Les Misérables Kenneth Branagh Season (Garrick); Dr Story. Theatre includes: The Lehman Marguerite (West End); Making Noise Orchestra and many leading British Streetcar to Tennessee (Young (UK Tours/Berlin/Concert versions Faustus (Duke of York’s); Richard III, Trilogy, Absolute Hell, Amadeus, Quietly, American Buffalo (Donmar orchestras. Working with the Royal Vic); Achilles (Edinburgh Fringe JENNY OGILVIE in Belfast/Scandinavian Arena (Trafalgar Studios); Sweet As You Like It, Othello (National Warehouse); The Revenger’s Tragedy, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and TIMOTHY SHEADER First); Wild, Wild Women (Orange Movement Director Concert Tour); Bird of Youth, , Theatre); , The Winter’s Nation, Emperor and Galilean, the tenor Jesús León, he recorded Director Tree); Arms and the Man (National (Donmar Warehouse, 2004 Olivier The Playboy of the Western World, Jenny is an actor, director and Tale, King Lear (RSC); The Jungle Antigone (National Theatre); What Bel Canto, now available on Opus Tour); Piaf, Sweet Charity (Sheffield Best Sound Design nomination); Design for Living (Old Vic); The Timothy Sheader has been Artistic movement specialist. (also Young Vic), Cat on a Hot the Butler Saw, Beasts and Beauties Arte CD. Crucible; TMA Best Musical Award); Sweeney Todd (Royal Opera House/ Ladykillers (Gielgud); The Government Director and Joint Chief Executive of Tin Roof, King Charles III (Olivier (Hampstead); Othello (Ludlow (Aarhus Teater, Movement direction and ENO); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Inspector (Young Vic); All’s Well That As Artistic Director of the Peace Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre since nomination, also Broadway, Sydney Festival); Moonlight and Magnolias, Denmark). choreography in theatre Tour); Sinatra (London Palladium/UK Ends Well (Shakespeare’s Globe). and Prosperity Trust, he has been 2007. and UK Tour), Three Days of Of Mice and Men, Sleuth (Watermill); and opera includes: Love and Tour); Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester Barbara was also Voice and Text Coach furthering cultural collaboration Rain (Olivier nomination), Doctor Close the Coalhouse Door, For Regent’s Park, productions Information (Sheffield Crucible); Festival); (ENO); Parade for the Royal Shakespeare Company between the UK and the Middle SOUTRA GILMOUR Faustus, Made in Dagenham, The Blue Remembered Hills, Catch 22 include: Jesus Christ Superstar La Traviata (Longborough Festival); (2008 Olivier Best Sound Design for six years. East with concerts in Beirut and Designer Commitments (West End); The (Northern Stage); Who’s Afraid of (Evening Standard Award winner, Absolute Hell (National Theatre); nomination); Passion, Spelling Bee, London, bringing together Western Inheritance, Life of Galileo (Young Associate Director (Voice and Virginia Woolf? (Sheffield Crucible); Best Musical; Olivier Award winner, For Regent’s Park: Into the Woods B (Royal Court); (Scottish City of Angels (Donmar Warehouse); and Middle Eastern opera singers, Vic); A Streetcar Named Desire Text) credits includes: Romeo and Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne), Best Musical Revival; also at The Lyric (also Delacorte Theater, New York). Opera/Opera Ventures); Britten’s Imagine This (New London); helping relaunch the Beirut Orpheus (Young Vic/New York); Richard III Juliet (Naples Festival), The Comedy Seven Acts of Mercy (RSC); Crazy For Opera of Chicago); A Tale of Two A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mother Courage (National Theatre, Choir, and taking music and musical Theatre includes: Strictly Ballroom (Almeida), Limehouse (Donmar of Errors, More Grimm Tales (Young You (UK Tour); War Horse (UK Tour/ Cities; Running Wild (also UK Tour); (); A Midsummer 2010 Olivier Best Sound Design instruments to Syrian children in the (Piccadilly Theatre); Knives and Warehouse); The Lorax (Old Vic/ Vic). West End). Peter Pan (Olivier Award nominated, Night’s Dream (Young Vic); Lucia di nomination); Lend Me A Tenor The refugee camps on the Lebanese/ Hens (Donmar Warehouse); Romeo Toronto/US Tour); Fatherland Best Family and Entertainment); To Lammermoor (); Musical (Gielgud); Finding Neverland Syrian border. and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); (Manchester International Festival). Kill a Mockingbird (WhatsOnStage Three Sisters (Southwark Playhouse);

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ADAM HICKOX FIONA DUNN competition. She was leader of BBC With 2,359 seats, our home, the REGENT’S PARK The theatre’s ambition of reaching Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is managed by Regent’s Park Theatre Ltd (RPT) NOW, with whom she performed the iconic on new audiences beyond the Park has and is licensed by Westminster City Council. RPT has three wholly owned Assistant Conductor Assistant Director THEATRE LTD Mendelssohn and Nielsen concertos, St Martin’s Lane, is the largest theatre seen their productions of subsidiaries, Regent’s Park Enterprises Ltd through which it operates the bar and Producer Born into a musical family, many Studied at King’s College University and assistant leader of the LSO, in London’s West End. It was designed Pride and Prejudice, Lord of the catering services for the theatre, Regent’s Park Productions Ltd and Regent’s Park of Adam Hickox’s early musical and RADA. participating in its Barbican chamber for Sir Oswald Stoll by , Established in 1932, the award- Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird Ventures Ltd. experiences came as a treble – he was series with Bashmet and Previn. She the leading theatre architect of his winning Regent's Park Open Air tour the UK and Ireland, the For Regent’s Park as Associate a chorister in Wells Cathedral Choir has appeared as guest leader with day. Between April 2016 and July Theatre is one of the largest theatres latter subsequently transferring REGENT’S PARK THEATRE LTD The Registered Office for all companies Director: On The Town, Peter Pan, for the 2008/09 year. Before this, he most of the UK’s leading opera and 2017, 346,400 people came to in London. Situated in the beautiful to the Barbican for a month-long Registered in England No. 759557 is: Stage Door Gate, Open Air Theatre, All My Sons, , The Sound Of Registered Charity No. 231670 Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, London, performed until the age of 12 as a symphony orchestras, and is Artistic enjoy an ENO performance either at surroundings of a Royal Park, both residency, and their co-production Music. Patron: DBE NW1 4NU treble at Opera Australia. Director of the English Sinfonia. Her the London Coliseum or at another its stage and auditorium are entirely with Chichester Festival Theatre of Joint Chief Executives Resident Director: Lord of the Flies, work has also embraced many other venue in London. In addition, more uncovered. The theatre is celebrated Michael Morpurgo’s Running Wild Adam is currently studying orchestral Timothy Sheader (Artistic Director) Telephone: 0844 375 3460 To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park areas, from contemporary music to than 188,000 people saw an ENO co- for its bold and dynamic productions toured the UK in 2017. conducting at the Royal Academy of William Village (Executive Director) Group VAT Registration No: and Tour). chamber music, as well as leading for production outside of the UK. (Jesus Christ Superstar, , Music under . He begins The 2016 sell-out production of Trustees 997 3013 90 many film soundtracks. Recordings , The Crucible, this season as assistant conductor Associate Director: Strictly Ballroom It is central to ENO’s mission to ensure Jesus Christ Superstar won the Cllr Robert Davis MBE DL (Chairman) include Dohnányi’s Second Violin Henry V), with audiences of over ENO in The Turn of the Screw, (Piccadilly Theatre). that price is never a barrier for people Olivier Award for Best Musical Stuart Griffiths OBE Details correct at the time of going to Concerto (ASV), Delius’s First and 140,000 each year during its and his most recent engagements wanting to enjoy great opera. 42,500 Revival and Evening Standard Award Toni Racklin print. Latest details and full terms and As Assistant and Staff Director: Second Violin Sonatas and Walton’s 18-week season. have included Vivaldi’s Gloria for tickets at £20* or less are available for Best Musical, and the production Jim Reed conditions at openairtheatre.com La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor Sonata (EMI) and Holst’s solo violin Sir Peter Rogers the Klosters Music Festival, and across ENO’s 2018/19 season (around “Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre returned to the Open Air Theatre (Royal Opera House); Pajama works (Naxos). conducting BBC NOW under the 23% of tickets to every show) and has been transformed into one for an extended engagement in Game (Chichester Festival); Hamlet, Martin Wilkinson tutelage of Martyn Brabbins. A recent we provide great seats at significantly of the capital’s most exciting 2017 ahead of a run at the Lyric Don Giovanni, The Cunning Little William Village (Company Secretary) graduate of Gonville and Caius ENGLISH NATIONAL reduced prices to Under 30s and full- spaces.” The Guardian Opera of Chicago in Spring 2018. Vixen, Imago, The Rape of Lucretia college Cambridge, where he read OPERA time students through our Access All The production embarks on a North (2014/15), The Turn of the Screw Timothy Sheader and William REGENT’S PARK ENTERPRISES LTD music, Adam was the conductor of Producer Arias scheme. American Tour in Autumn 2019. (Glyndebourne). Village were appointed Joint Chief Registered in England No. 06626067 the Cambridge University Symphony English National Opera believes that We nurture talent across the entire Executives in 2007. During their Directors Orchestra. As an actor Fiona has worked for 20 opera of the highest quality should company, whether on-stage, tenure, the theatre’s productions of Cllr Robert Davis MBE DL years with companies in the West Engagements in the last year have be accessible to everyone. A national backstage, or in the pit; and we To Kill a Mockingbird and The Sound William Village End, Chichester Festival Theatre and included conducting Monteverdi's company of international standard, provide a platform for young singers of Music won the WhatsOnStage Minerva, RSC, Repertory companies REGENT’S PARK PRODUCTIONS LTD Vespers of 1610 in King's ENO forges ground-breaking to develop global careers. 80% of Best Play Revival and Best Musical throughout the UK, in radio and Registered in England No. 09082210 College chapel, a performance of collaborations across art forms, and ENO singers and conductors are British Revival Awards respectively, Into the on TV. Directors Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony our world-class productions inspire, born/trained/resident. Woods won the Olivier Award for Cllr Robert Davis MBE DL No. 1 in West Road concert hall Future work includes: Cendrillon surprise, and captivate. We sing in Best Musical Revival and transferred For more information on ENO and our Sir Peter Rogers with Cambridge University Chamber (Glyndebourne). English and believe that singing in to the Delacorte Theatre, Central upcoming productions, please visit William Village Orchestra, and a run of Stravinsky's our own language connects the Park, New York in 2012, and eno.org The Rake's Progress. performers and the audience to the Hello, Dolly! won the Evening REGENT’S PARK VENTURES LTD JANICE GRAHAM *plus £2.25 booking fee drama onstage, and enhances the Standard Award for Best Musical In 2016, Adam co-founded the Leader Registered in England No. 09279742 experience for all. alongside a further three Laurence Directors Endelienta Ensemble, which Janice Graham studied at the Purcell Olivier Awards. 2011’s record- Cllr Robert Davis MBE DL brings together postgraduate ENO performs a wide repertoire of School, the Guildhall and the Juilliard breaking production of Crazy for Sir Peter Rogers instrumentalists for a series of opera from classic favourites and School, won scholarships to study You transferred directly to London’s William Village concerts in Cornwall, including seminal works, to contemporary titles at Tanglewood and in 1990 was the West End, winning the Olivier Award Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony. and brand new commissions. In 2017 Gold Medal Winner of the LSO/Shell for Best Musical Revival and Best we staged the World Premieres of Costume Design. operas Marnie and The Winter’s Tale.

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Rhian Lois ^ This first collaboration between Regent’s Park Open Welsh tenor Elgan Llyr Thomas became a Harewood at Wilton’s Music Hall in September.) In collaboration with and afterwards with Edward Gardner on Eugene Onegin Air Theatre and English National Opera is notable for Artist during the 2017/18 Season, following a period the Philip Loubser Foundation, English National Opera at the Opéra Bastille, Paris. Away from ENO, my opera featuring three singers who are ENO Harewood Artists – at Scottish Opera as an Emerging Artist. Earlier this is very proud to offer the ENO Mackerras Fellowship work has included the UK premiere of a Johann Strauss soprano Rhian Lois and Elgan Lly^r Thomas and season he covered the role of Count Almaviva in Rossini’s for conductors. It celebrates the legacy of Sir Charles , Das Spitzentuch der Königen, with director William Morgan – as well as one of the company’s two The Barber of Seville for ENO, and his performance at Mackerras (1925–2010), the company’s inspirational Jeff Clarke and Opera della Luna, and fulfilled a life-long Mackerras Fellows, Toby Purser, as conductor. Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, singing Prologue/Peter Music Director between 1970 and 1977, by providing ambition of conducting , which I did Quint in The Turn of the Screw, marks his stage debut a unique opportunity for an exceptional emerging in rehearsal as assistant conductor to Anthony Negus at The ENO Harewood Artist scheme is named after Lord with the company. Already under his belt are Nemorino in conducting talent to develop their skills through a Longborough Opera.’ Harewood, managing director of the company during The Elixir of Love for Scottish Opera, Spoletto in Puccini’s structured two-year programme with mentoring from the 1970s and 1980s, who was not only a passionate And further challenges lie beyond The Turn of the Screw Tosca, with Sir Bryn Terfel and the Orchestra of Welsh ENO’s Music Director. advocate of opera in English but also of developing for Toby. ‘I have also been appointed Music Director of National Opera at the 2017 Llangollen International home-grown talent. The scheme, which has around In a recent interview for Inside ENO (ENO Friends’ New Sussex Opera, with my first production scheduled Musical Eisteddfod, Almaviva at Paris’s Théâtre des ^ ten members who stay for two to three years, gives magazine), Toby reflected on his time as a Mackerras for a UK tour in November 2018. With my own Elgan Llyr Thomas Champs-Elysées, and Brighella in Strauss’s Ariadne auf opportunities for emerging singers to perform in leading Fellow. orchestra, the Orion Orchestra, I programme at least one Naxos for Scottish Opera and Opera Holland Park. He’s roles at ENO whilst receiving world-class, specialist opera gala per year, and with them I am about to embark a tenor to look out for at the London Coliseum as he ‘My period of work at ENO has allowed me a huge range coaching support and guidance. Funded entirely through on a three-year concert series, Alpha and Omega. Finally, starts his Harewood tenure; upcoming ENO roles include of experience and repertoire, all of them inspiring, and all individual donations, the programme is already a decade as Artistic Director of the Peace and Prosperity Trust, I Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor this autumn. of them offering me invaluable insight and opportunities. old and has been the springboard for the careers of have been furthering cultural collaboration between My first production was acting as Assistant Conductor several notable singers. These include leading Wagnerian William Morgan is a new recruit to the ENO Harewood the UK and the Middle East, with concerts in Beirut and to on Berg’s , for sure my bass- and soprano Sarah Tynan, Artist scheme. He made his ENO debut three years London, bringing together Western and Middle Eastern greatest musical challenge to date, and one in which who returns to ENO next season to sing her first Lucia ago in the premiere of ’s Between Worlds, opera singers, helping relaunch the Beirut Orpheus Choir, I could not have been more fortunate than in having di Lammermoor and Hanna Glawari, the ‘Merry Widow’ in a production directed by which and taking music and musical instruments to Syrian Mark’s guidance. After this, I assisted Ryan Wigglesworth of Lehár’s perennially popular operetta. was presented at the Barbican Theatre. Since then, he children in the refugee camps on the Lebanese–Syrian on the world premiere of his opera The Winter’s Tale, has performed in ’s The Day After, the border.’ Rhian Lois, who shares the role of the Governess with during which I was invited to conduct a large proportion inaugural production of ENO Studio Live, and is due Anita Watson in this production of The Turn of the Screw, of the stage and piano rehearsals, as well as working It is highly fitting that, as an ENO Mackerras Fellow Toby, to take the role of Hot Biscuit Slim in the company’s William Morgan is soon to leave the programme. Her progress within with the cover cast. This season I worked on another is conducting these performances of The Turn of the production of Britten’s Paul Bunyan in September. A ENO, from roles such as Papagena in Mozart’s The Magic world premiere, Marnie by Nico Muhly, assisting ENO Screw. Sir ’s final appearance at the founding member of soprano and conductor Barbara Flute, through contemporary works such Tansy Davies’s Music Director Martyn Brabbins, and in the spring London Coliseum was in 2009 conducting this opera. Hannigan’s Equilibrium project, William is due to sing Between Worlds, to her recent acclaimed Susanna in acted as Assistant Conductor on Daniel Kramer’s new Those justly acclaimed ENO performances were the Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress under Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, tells its own success production of La Traviata, which I also conducted for one first he had conducted in fifty years, having learned it Hannigan’s baton during 2018/19 in several European story. And her appearances elsewhere – at the Royal performance in April.’ at the composer’s elbow, as it were, in the 1950s, and cities. Like Elgan, it will be fascinating to see how William Opera House, Welsh National Opera and Santa Fe, for conducting it for the English Opera Group in the mid- develops as an artist during his time at ENO. Being a Mackerras Fellow has opened up opportunities example – mean she acts an ambassador for 1950s, and for an early television recording in 1959. for Toby away from the Coliseum. ‘Thanks to my ENO the company and the Harewood Artists beyond the The Turn of the Screw is conducted by Toby Purser, one Toby Purser experiences, I was invited to assist Mark Wigglesworth London Coliseum. of two ENO Mackerras Fellows. (The other – Matthew on concerts over the summer in Adelaide and Sydney, Philip Reed Kofi Waldren – will be conducting Britten’s Paul Bunyan

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