'In TIME for CHRISTMAS'

‘In TIME FOR CHRISTMAS’ CATRIONA CLARK Soprano LAURA KELLY Mezzo-Soprano NICHOLAS RANSLEY Tenor DAVID STEPHENSON Baritone RICHARD SUART Baritone BRYAN EVANS Music Director and Piano DAVID EDWARDS Director

PART 1 PART 2 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO MOZART EDGAR PUCCINI Overture Bryan Evans Questo amor vergogna mia David Stephenson

THE MESSIAH HANDEL DON PASQUALE DONIZETTI The trumpet shall sound David Stephenson Un foco in solito Richard Suart Every valley shall be exalted Nicholas Ransley ALCINA HANDEL DIE FLEDERMAUS J STRAUSS Tornami a vagheggiar Catriona Clark The Laughing Song Catriona Clark Be my love BRODSKY FAUST GOUNOD Nicholas Ransley Faites-lui mes aveux Laura Kelly COSÌ FAN TUTTE MOZART LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES BIZET Soave sia il vento Catriona Clark, Laura Kelly Au fond du temple saint Nicholas Ransley David Stephenson David Stephenson Have some Madeira my dear FLANDERS AND SWANN LAKMÉ DELIBES Richard Suart Dôme épais, le jasmin Catriona Clark Laura Kelly LA BOHÈME PUCCINI Quando m’en vo Catriona Clark Place settings JEREMY NICHOLAS Richard Suart Mrs Worthington NOEL COWARD Richard Suart LE NOZZE FIGARO MOZART Crudel, perchè finora Catriona Clark Ae fond kiss ARR GEORGE MACILWHAM David Stephenson Catriona Clark David Stephenson VANESSA SAMUEL BARBER Must the winter come so soon Laura Kelly GIGI LERNER AND LOWE The night they invented champagne Catriona Clark, Laura Kelly RUDDIGORE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN Nicholas Ransley, David Stephenson When the night wind howls Richard Suart The Vatican Rag TOM LEHRER L’ARLESIANA CILEA Richard Suart È la solita storia del pastore Nicholas Ransley The Holy City STEPHEN ADAMS DIE LUSTIGE WITWE LEHÁR Nicholas Ransley Da geh ich zu Maxim David Stephenson The Three Kings DIE FLEDERMAUS J STRAUSS The Twelve days of Christmas Champagne Catriona Clark Nativity carol The Company Laura Kelly O Holy night Nicholas Ransley We wish you a merry Christmas Richard Suart Jingle Bells

5th and 6th December 2013, Stuckeridge House, Oakford, Devon (sponsored by JM Finn & Co) 7th December, 2013, The Great Barn, Fingest, Buckinghamshire BIOGRAPHIES

DIVA OPERA was founded by Anne Marabini Young (Portland), Carmen (Philadephia), Lucrezia Borgia RICHARD SUART Baritone was born in Lancashire and Bryan Evans in 1996 and since then has given (Minneapolis) The Screams of Kitty Genovese and studied at the RAM. He has sung operatic roles more than 1,200 performances of forty different fully (New York, London, Edinburgh), Le Nozze di Figaro , for all the major British opera houses including The staged operas and concert programmes for festivals, Il Barbiere di Siviglia , Fidelio and Carmen (Singapore), Royal Opera Covent Garden, English National theatres and charities throughout Great Britain, Dido and Aeneas (Temple Festival, London), Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North and the Channel Islands, France, Switzerland, Germany, Bluebeard's Castle and Il Prigioniero (Dallapiccola) Garsington and internationally in Munich, Rotterdam, Sweden, Russia, Greece, Slovenia, Japan and Italy, for the Philharmonia Orchestra and La Traviata , Gelsenkirchen, Milan, Strasbourg and Paris. He has including a performance of La Cenerentola at Teatro Falstaff and Rigoletto for Diva Opera. He will direct sung Ko-Ko The Mikado for English National Opera La Fenice in Venice in 2004. Annually the company Les Contes d’Hoffmann for Diva Opera in 2014. for the past 25 years, twice at New York City Opera, gives more than 50 performances and this year has in Venice and in Holland. His recordings range from received critical acclaim throughout Europe for its CATRIONA CLARK Soprano studied at the RCM and Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre to The Fairy Queen and productions of The Barber of Seville and La Traviata . at the RSAMD. She has sung roles including Papagena most of the Savoy Operas. Generally considered the Plans for 2014 include new productions of Don Die Zauberflöte , Arline The Bohemian Girl, Kate leading patter man of his generation, he has Giovanni and The Tales of Hoffmann . For further Pinkerton Madama Butterfly , Zerlina Don Giovanni , appeared at the BBC Proms as the Duke of Plaza- information please see www.divaopera.com. Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro , Sandman and Dew Fairy Toro, the Lord Chancellor and Sir Joseph Porter. He Hänsel und Gretel , Eurydice Orphée aux Enfers , has performed his own show As a Matter of Patter ANNE MARABINI YOUNG General Director and Musetta and Mimì La Bohème , Adele Die Fledermaus , throughout the UK and as far afield as South Africa Founder of Diva Opera began her career as a Frasquita Carmen and Cio Cio San Madama Butterfly and the Middle East. Soprano and worked for companies including The for companies including Opera Bohemia, Opera Australian Opera, Glyndebourne, English National North, Edinburgh Festival, British Youth Opera, Opera DAVID STEPHENSON Baritone studied at the RCM. Opera, Pavilion Opera and Television New Zealand in South, English Pocket Opera and Diva Opera. Roles include Germont La Traviata , Guglielmo Così fan roles including Dorabella Così fan tutte , Cherubino tutte (Scottish Opera), Escamillo Carmen , Silvio Le Nozze di Figaro , Rosina Il Barbiere di Siviglia , First LAURA KELLY Mezzo Soprano was born in Glasgow Pagliacci , Sharpless Madama Butterfly (WNO), Jailer and Second Ladies Die Zauberflöte , Mimì La Bohème , and studied at the RSAMD, the RAM and on the Dialogues des Carmelites , Marullo Rigoletto , Enrico Donna Elvira Don Giovanni and Santuzza Cavalleria English National Opera Baylis Programme. Roles Lucia di Lammermoor and Andrey Shchelkalov Boris Rusticana . She founded Diva Opera in 1996. include Alisa Lucia di Lammermoor , Olga Eugene Godunov (ENO), Escamillo (Raymond Gubbay/RAH), Onegin , Siebel Faust , Hermia A midsummer night’s Scarpia Tosca , Escamillo, David L’amico Fritz , Enrico, BRYAN EVANS Music and Artistic Director of Diva dream , Jenny Die Dreigroschenoper , Nancy Albert Sharpless (Opera Holland Park), Almaviva Le Nozze Opera studied at The RCM. He has performed at Herring , Juno Semele , Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel , di Figaro , Guglielmo, Marcello La Bohème , Falke Die venues including the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall and Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro for companies including Fledermaus , Dandini La Cenerentola , Enrico, Eugene St. John’s Smith Square and on BBC Radios 3 and 4 English National Opera, Opera Bohemia, Stanley Hall Onegin , Don Giovanni, Malatesta Don Pasquale and and on Channel 4 and BBC Television. He has Opera and Royal Academy Opera. For Diva Opera she Peter Hänsel and Gretel (Diva Opera). In 2014 he will accompanied over 3000 performances world-wide has sung Second Boy Die Zauberflöte and Rosina Il sing Germont La Traviata for Opera New Zealand. and conducted Don Giovanni, L’elisir d’amore, Le Barbiere di Siviglia . Plans for 2014 include Third Boy Nozze di Figaro, Lucio Silla, The Rape of Lucretia and The Magic Flute for English Touring Opera. MATTHEW MULLER Stage Manager was born in Il Matrimonio Segreto . He is also Music Director for London and studied at the GSMAD. Theatre and opera Les Azuriales Opera and was awarded an MBE for NICHOLAS RANSLEY Tenor studied at the GSMAD. work includes Stage Manager at the Hampstead Services to music and opera in 1993. He has sung roles including Don José Carmen , Nadir Theatre, Pavilion Opera and Opera a ̀ la Carte. Les Pêcheurs de Perles , Camille The Merry Widow , He is studio manager for BBC radio plays and music DAVID EDWARDS Director was born in London and Rodolfo La Bohème, Almaviva Il Barbiere di Siviglia , videos and production manager for corporate graduated in Classics from Cambridge University. He Duke Rigoletto , Nemorino L’elisir d’amore , Don conferences, productions and award ceremonies in has directed productions including Katya Kabanova, Ramiro La Cenerentola , Paris La Belle Hélène , the UK, Europe, USA and the Far East. He was Der Rosenkavalier, Attila, Stiffelio (Royal Opera House, Cavaradossi Tosca , Aristée/Pluton Orphée aux Enfers tour manager for Tim Minchin during his 2008 Covent Garden), Simon Boccanegra and Arabella (San for companies including Central Festival Opera, Cork national tour and Stage Manager for the 'opera Francisco), Der fliegende Holländer (San Diego), Opera, English National Opera, English Touring Opera, highlights' tour with Scottish Opera. He has been Die Zauberflöte , Albert Herring , Il Tabarro/Gianni Lyric Opera (Dublin), Mid Wales Opera, Opera Holland Stage Manager for Diva Opera since 1998. Schicchi , Falstaff, (Tokyo), Dialogues des Carmélites Park, Scottish Opera, Opera North and Diva Opera.

DIVA OPERA: 115 Princes Gardens, London W3 0LR Tel: 020 8932 8555 Fax: 020 8896 0454 Email: [email protected] www.divaopera.com General Director: Anne Marabini Young, Music Director: Bryan Evans MBE, Patrons: The Lord and Lady Laidlaw of Rothiemay, Marilyn Horne