Autumn Performances 2020
The Magic Flute
PERFORMANCES ON 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19 AND 21 NOVEMBER A new Magic Flute
At last year’s Festival we premiered a needs to tell a story through music brand new, large-scale production of and theatre. Die Zauberflöte. We threw everything Our dedication at Glyndebourne is to at it: masses of scene changes, ensemble music making, ensemble props galore, puppets, and exquisite acting, and a way of working which costumes… Our plan was to revive is collaborative. So while we call this the production at Glyndebourne a semi-staging, the performers don’t this autumn, and take it out on the view it that way: for them it is the full road to visit our regular touring thing. Mozart and Schikaneder were partners’ theatres. both practical theatre people, and we Alas, Covid-19 struck, and we all know think they would have approved of how 2020 has developed since. We left our refusal to give up in the face of it as late as possible to cancel our Tour, adversity! hoping that everything would right It is an unusual year, and this is an itself in time, but with social distancing unusual performance – and we hope in place, and touring venues closed, we you enjoy it: it’s not often you get to sit had to start to think very differently. in this beautiful theatre to experience We realised that an interval doesn’t great music and theatre with so much work with social distancing, nor does space around you. Think of it as an up a costume fitting, nor can a stage crew grade to first class, and sit back... but function properly (for this production don’t relax too much: theatre is a two they operated with the energy and way, live activity and we need you to proximity of a rugby scrum). At some provide the noise, laughs and energy of point we said, enough of what’s not a packed auditorium. In years to come possible, and asked ourselves instead: you’ll be able to say, ‘I was there during what can we do? the pandemic, and saw a wonderful The answer is before you today. A semi- performance of The Magic Flute…’ and staged, abbreviated version of The Magic then you’ll regale your friends with the Flute, performed in English. It’s the names of world famous singers who same fantastic cast, led by conductor you first heard here, today. Leo McFall and director Donna Stirrup Thanks for coming to join us, for (who, together, came up with this arriving as arranged, following one- shortened version). Our orchestra is a way systems, sanitising your hands, little smaller than normal, but they are and for sitting separately, muzzled like on stage so you can actually see them, Papageno is after his encounter with and there are no boys because they’ve the Three Ladies. Hopefully soon we missed too much school! will be able to return to our anarchic, There’s no scenery, and the costumes un-masked selves, but for the moment and props are what we could find that it’s only possible to make live opera if we thought helped the story and fitted we all work together. Thank you. the singers. Opera has the reputation of being a lavish art form, and sometimes Stephen Langridge it is, but it is amazing how little one Artistic Director
GLYNDEBOURNE.COM | 2 Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
English version by Jeremy Sams CAST in order of appearance Performed by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Tamino Limited Thomas Atkins
___ First Lady Carrie-Ann Williams Conductor Leo McFall Second Lady Kamilla Dunstan Director Donna Stirrup Third Lady Eirlys Myfanwy Davies Assistant Conductor & Chorus Director Papageno The Magic Flute Aidan Oliver Huw Montague Rendall
Sung in English, with English supertitles Assistant Director Queen of Night Ian Rutherford Nazan Fikret
Vocal Coach Monostatos Steven Maughan David Shaw
Répétiteur & Glockenspiel Pamina Matthew Fletcher Gemma Summerfield
Lighting design Speaker Performances on 1, 7, 10, 15, 17 and 21 November Jonny Venn John Mackenzie-Lavansch start at 4.00pm Costume Coordinator Sarastro Performances on Sarah Umney David Shipley 3, 5, 12 and 19 November start at 7.00pm Glyndebourne Tour Second Priest/ Orchestra First Man in Armour Leader Richard Milone Brenden Gunnell
The Glyndebourne Chorus First Priest/ Second Man in Armour William Thomas The edition of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) used in these Papagena performances is published by Emma Kerr Bärenreiter-Edition, Kassel. Performed by arrangement with Faber Music Ltd, London.
GLYNDEBOURNE.COM | 3 SYNOPSIS The Magic Flute
Alone in a foreign land, Prince Tamino is and Papageno face the first trial: silence. attacked by a giant serpent. He faints, but Papageno fails almost immediately, but when he comes to, realises that he has Tamino holds firm. The Queen of Night been rescued – someone else has killed the still seeks revenge, and orders Pamina to monster. Papageno, the Queen of Night’s kill Sarastro. Monostatos overhears and bird-catcher is quick to claim the credit, but threatens to expose the plot unless Pamina is soon corrected by the queen’s three ladies. surrenders to his desires. But Sarastro They give Tamino a portrait of Pamina, the discovers his scheme, dismisses Monostatos queen’s daughter, who has been abducted and forgives Pamina. Papageno and Tamino by the tyrant Sarastro. Tamino falls instantly are still sworn to silence. Papageno once in love. The queen herself appears, and again fails by talking to an old woman. promises the Prince her daughter’s hand if he Tamino plays his magic flute, which can rescue her. To help him on his quest the summons Pamina to him. She speaks but he ladies give him a magic flute and Papageno a cannot reply, forcing her to believe that he no set of magic bells. Tamino sets off, joined by longer loves her. Sarastro orders Pamina and a reluctant Papageno. Tamino to bid each other a final farewell – they must now prepare for the final trials. Imprisoned in Sarastro’s temple underground, Pamina is at the mercy of Monostatos. But his Papageno expresses his wish for a wife of lecherous plans are interrupted by Papageno, his own, and is rewarded by the return of the who tells Pamina of Tamino’s love and his old lady. The instant he reluctantly agrees to quest to rescue her. Arriving at the temple, marry her she is transformed into his perfect Tamino is greeted by a priest, who tells him Papagena. that he has been deceived by the Queen of Two men in armour help Tamino prepare Night; all is not as she described. for his final trials. Free now to speak, he Papageno and Pamina have escaped, but is reunited with Pamina who resolves are pursued by Monostatos. Papageno uses to undergo the trials of fire and water his magic bells to enchant their pursuers, alongside him. but just as they are once again free they hear The Queen of Night, Monostatos and their Sarastro and his followers approaching. allies make one final attempt to overthrow Pamina confesses all and is forgiven, Sarastro but fail. ‘The banner of sunlight at but Sarastro still refuses to release her. last is unfurled; an end to all evil and light Tamino enters, captured by a triumphant to the world’ proclaims Sarastro. He Monostatos. He and Pamina meet briefly for welcomes Tamino and Pamina into the the first time before Tamino is led away to brotherhood as members of the order prepare for his initiation into Sarastro’s order. celebrate a new era of wisdom. Monostatos is punished. Sarastro has persuaded the brotherhood to accept Tamino as a member if he passes Our synopsis is based on Jeremy Sams’ English the order’s tests of initiation. Tamino translation.
GLYNDEBOURNE.COM | 4 Glyndebourne FIRST VIOLIN FLUTE Richard Milone LEADER Julian Sperry PRINCIPAL Malu Lin Swayne PRINCIPAL Katey Thomas Tour Orchestra Andrew Roberts Leo Payne 2020 Robert Yeomans OBOE Juliet Lee Alun Darbyshire PRINCIPAL Ilid Jones
SECOND VIOLIN Clare Thompson PRINCIPAL CLARINET Ruth Funnell Fiona Cross PRINCIPAL Chris Windass Sarah Thurlow Rebecca Dinning Jeremy Metcalfe BASSOON Emma Harding PRINCIPAL ORCHESTRA MANAGER VIOLA Stuart Russell Jonathan Tunnell Daisy Spiers PRINCIPAL Catherine Bradshaw Bryony Mycroft HORN PIT MANAGER & Alexia Cammish PRINCIPAL ORCHESTRA ASSISTANT Alexandra Carr Seif O’Reilly CELLO Jonathan Tunnell PRINCIPAL Sarah Butcher TRUMPET Penny Bradshaw Simon Munday PRINCIPAL Simon Gabriel
BASS Chris West PRINCIPAL TIMPANI David Johnson Adrian Bending PRINCIPAL
GLYNDEBOURNE.COM | 5 The Chorus Director Glyndebourne Aidan Oliver Sopranos Chorus Nicola Hughes Madison Nonoa-Horsefield Jacquelyn Parker Rachel Taylor
Mezzo Sopranos Natalia Brzezińska Emma Kerr
Tenors Peter Haydn Ferris Niel Joubert Sean Kerr Anthony Osborne David Shaw
Basses Andrew Davies John Mackenzie-Lavansch Michael Wallace
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Thomas Atkins Eirlys Myfanwy Davies Kamilla Dunstan Tenor Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano TAMINO THIRD LADY SECOND LADY
Previously for Glyndebourne Previously for Glyndebourne Previously for Glyndebourne Second Priest, First Man in Armour/ Countess Ceprano/Rigoletto, (Cover) (Cover) Second Lady/Die Zauberflöte (GF) Die Zauberflöte (GF) Madame de la Haltière/Cendrillon, Chorus/ Recent engagements La traviata: Behind the Curtain, Cendrillon, Recent engagements Saul (Théâtre du Châtelet); (Cover) La traviata (GT); Cio-Cio-San’s Mother/ Rodolfo/La bohème (New Zealand Opera, Eurydice Woman/The Mask of Orpheus Madama Butterfly, (Cover) Annina/La ON, Göteborg Opera); Roderigo/Otello (ENO); Flosshilde/Das Rheingold traviata, Chorus/Madama Butterfly, Der (ROH, Bayerische); Lysander/A Midsummer (Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra); Rosenkavalier, Saul, Vanessa, La traviata, Night’s Dream (Montpellier); Empsaele/Il Fanny Price/Mansfield Park (Opera South); Don Pasquale, La clemenza di Tito, (Cover) paria (Opera Rara) Title role/Ariodante (LHF); Orlofsky/ Third Lady/Die Zauberflöte, Madame de la Die Fledermaus, Dorabella/Così fan tutte Forthcoming engagements Haltière/Cendrillon (GF); Hamlet (GF, GT) (Clonter Opera) Jaquino/Fidelio (Concertgebouw Recent engagements Amsterdam); Vána Kudrjaš/Kát’a Kabanová Forthcoming engagements Cornelia/Giulio Cesare, (Cover) Dorabella/ (GF); Alfredo/La traviata (Israeli Opera) (Cover) Waltraute/The Valkyrie (ENO) Così fan tutte (ETO); (Cover) Portia/ He studied at New Zealand School of The Merchant of Venice (WNO); Dido/ Born in Yorkshire, she emigrated to Music and GSMD, where he was supported Dido and Aeneas, Mistress Ford/Sir John New Zealand before returning to the by the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation and the in Love, Penelope/Il ritorno d’Ulisse in UK. She studied at RCM International New Zealand Arts Foundation Patronage. patria (Alexander Gibson Opera School); Opera School, GSMD and RCS, and was A former Jerwood Young Artist and a Pompea/The Little Green Swallow (BYO); an Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington 2018 graduate of the ROH Jette Parker Elijah (Harlow Chorus); Amenofi/Mosè in Opera. Her concerts include Vaughan Young Artist Programme, he has made Egitto concert performance (Chelsea Opera Williams’s Serenade to Music with CBSO, successful debuts with Bayerische, Opéra Group, Cadogan Hall); Elgar’s The Music also broadcast on BBC Radio 3. She was de Montpellier, ON, Göteborg Opera Makers (Ealing Symphony Orchestra); a finalist at the Maureen Lehane Singing and New Zealand Opera. On the concert Copland’s In the Beginning, Bernstein’s Competition at Wigmore Hall in 2018 platform he joined Marin Alsop and Chichester Psalms, Verdi’s Four Sacred Pieces and is a Wagner Stipendien (Bayreuth the LSO in performances of Candide as (Tonbridge Philharmonic Society) Festspiele) and Samling Artist. well as appearing in the Kiri Te Kanawa She graduated in Vocal Studies from the Foundation Gala at Wigmore Hall and RWCMD, Cardiff and has also studied at making his debut with Opera Rara as the Alexander Gibson Opera School at Empsaele/Il Paria at the Barbican with the RCS, and at RAM, where she was awarded Britten Sinfonia under Sir Mark Elder. the Maida Jones and Alfred Alexander Awards. A National Opera Studio Young Artist graduate and Samling Artist, she won the 2017 London Welsh Young Singer of the Year and was named Voice of the Future at Llangollen International Festival. She is a winner of the 2016 Dunraven Young Welsh Singer of the Year, W Towyn Roberts Memorial Award, Ye Cronies Opera Award, Miriam Licette Award, the prestigious Worshipful Company of Musician’s Silver Medal Award and the Llais Llwyfan Llambed Award. She has performed at RAH, QEH, Cadogan Hall, Brussels Cathedral, St David’s Hall, Wales Millennium Centre and The Vatican.
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Nazan Fikret Brenden Gunnell Emma Kerr Soprano Tenor Mezzo-Soprano QUEEN OF NIGHT SECOND PRIEST/ PAPAGENA FIRST MAN IN ARMOUR
Previously for Glyndebourne Previously for Glyndebourne Previously for Glyndebourne Elin/Agreed (Glyndebourne education) Prince/Rusalka, Pedrillo/Die Entführung Flora Bervoix/La traviata, (Cover) Prince aus dem Serail (GF); Mademoiselle Charming/Cendrillon (GT); (Cover) Harry Recent engagements Bouillabaisse/In the Market for Love Coe/In the Market for Love, Siren 2/Rinaldo, Blonde/The Seraglio (ETO); Königin der (Glyndebourne Open House) (Cover) Second Wood Nymph/Rusalka, Nacht/Die Zauberflöte (Opera på Skäret/ Un pâtre/L’enfant et les sortilèges, (Cover) Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Garsington, Recent engagements Mercédès/Carmen (GF); Jerwood Young SO Dementia friendly performances); Siegmund/Die Walküre, Loge/Das Artist 2015 Arasse/Siroe re di Persia, Handel’s Messiah Rheingold (Göteborg Opera); Erik/Der (Nederlandse Reisopera); Euridice/Orfeo ed fliegende Holländer (Bari Opera); Sergei/ Recent engagements Euridice (Longborough Festival Opera) Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (BOC); Jeník/ Shadow Marnie 3/Marnie, (Cover) The Bartered Bride (Garsington); Hüon de Cherubino/Le nozze di Figaro (ENO); Frau She performed extensively in adolescent Bordeaux/Oberon (Bayerische); David/Die Grubach, Washerwoman/The Trial, Second roles including at ENO and Teatro Real, Meistersinger von Nürnberg (National Centre Wood Nymph/Rusalka, Dorabella/Così fan before formally training at GSMD and for Performing Arts, Beijing) tutte, (Cover) Stewardess/Flight, (Cover) continuing her private studies with Marie Ariodante/Ariodante, (Cover) Cherubino/Le McLaughlin and Yvonne Kenny. She is Forthcoming engagements nozze di Figaro, Opera Highlights Tour (SO) an Opera Awards Foundation Bursary Earl of Kent/Lear (Bayerische); Siegmund/ Recipient, Britten-Pears scholar, former Die Walküre (Saarländische Staatstheater); Born in Edinburgh, she was a Scottish Making Music Young Artist and finalist Oedipus Rex (Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Opera Emerging Artist 2015-2017. She was a in the 2017 Das Lied International Song Hamburg); Loge/Das Rheingold (BOC); Title Jerwood Young Artist with Glyndebourne, Competition. role/Lohengrin (Bolshoi) having graduated with distinction from the Guildhall Opera Course in 2015. She One of the most promising young-heroic was a 2016 Samling Artist and in 2017 was tenors of his generation, his repertoire awarded the Audience Prize in the Peter includes the title roles in Peter Grimes, Hulsen Orchestral Song Award. Idomeneo and Parsifal, Siegmund/Die Walküre, Jimmy Mahoney/Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Laça Klemen/ Jenůfa, Eric/Der fliegende Holländer and Loge/Das Rheingold. From 2007 to 2011 he was an ensemble member of the Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck under KS Brigitte Fassbaender, before spending 3 years as an ensemble member of the Norwegian National Opera. A native of Indiana, USA, he received his diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia in 2006.
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John Mackenzie- Leo McFall Huw Montague Lavansch Conductor Rendall Baritone Baritone SPEAKER PAPAGENO
Previously for Glyndebourne Previously for Glyndebourne Previously for Glyndebourne Dandini/La Cenerentola, Hunter/Rusalka, Renard, Mavra, The Yellow Sofa, Vanessa (GF); Fiorillo/Il barbiere di Siviglia (GF) Baritone Solo/The Fairy Queen, First Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Rusalka, The Recent engagements Apparition/Macbeth (GF); Imperial Turn of the Screw (GT) Count Almaviva/Le nozze di Figaro (Opéra Commissioner/Madama Butterfly, Recent engagements national de Lorraine); Harlequin/ Belcore/L’elisir d’amore, Malatesta/Don La traviata (ENO); The Turn of the Screw Ariadne auf Naxos (Aix, Champs-Élysées); Pasquale, Papageno/Die Zauberflöte, Hunter/ (ON); BBC Philharmonic Schaunard/La bohème (Zürich); Marcello/ Rusalka, Marchese D’Obigny, Messenger/ La bohème (Komische); Prince of Mantua/ La traviata, Customs Sergeant/La bohème, Forthcoming engagements Fantasio (Garsington) Marcellus, Player 4/Hamlet, Court Usher/ Concerts with Alma Mahler Rigoletto (GT); Duncan, Assassin/Luke Kammerorchester, Orchestre National du Forthcoming engagements Styles’ Macbeth (Glyndebourne/ROH) Capitole de Toulouse, Gävle Symphoniker, Title role/Pelléas et Mélisande (Opéra de Singapore Symphony; recordings with Rouen Normandie); Harlequin/Ariadne auf Recent engagements Bamberger Symphoniker; Verdi’s Macbeth Naxos (Bayerische); Lieder eines fahrenden Dandini/La Cenerentola (Bury Court, Erin (Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden) Gesellen with Filarmonica della Scala (La Arts Centre); Pagano/I Lombardi alla prima Scala); Guglielmo/Così fan tutte (GF) crociata (University College Opera); Primo The London-born conductor has worked Pastore/L’Orfeo, Hymen/The Fairy Queen extensively throughout Germany and The British baritone is an alumnus (Le Concert d’Astrée) Finland and won the 2015 Deutsche of RCM and in 2016, at the age of just Dirigentenpreis. He worked as Bernard 22, he became a Jerwood Young Artist Born in Dumbarton, he graduated Haitink’s assistant in Amsterdam and a recipient of the John Christie from the Opera School at RCS. He is an and Chicago. He is chief conductor Award. He joined the International alumnus of the Steans Institute at the of Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg in Opera Studio in Zürich the same year Ravinia Festival and a Samling Scholar. Bregenz, and will appear with them in as one of the youngest singers ever to Winner of the Mary Garden International Salzburg and at the Bregenzer Festspiele. join the prestigious programme, and Prize, he has also received the Bill in 2017 he took part in the Young Artist McCue Memorial Award and the Wessex Programme in Salzburg. Current and Glyndebourne Association Award. future appearances include leading opera stages such as ROH, Paris, Aix, Chicago, Komische, Bayerische and Glyndebourne.
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Aidan Oliver David Shaw David Shipley Chorus Director Tenor Bass MONOSTATOS SARASTRO
Aidan was appointed Chorus Director at Previously for Glyndebourne Previously for Glyndebourne Glyndebourne in 2019. He is one of the Herald/Rinaldo, Giuseppe/La traviata, Chorus/Billy Budd (GF) UK’s leading choral directors, with wide Officer/Ariadne auf Naxos, Footman to Recent engagements experience across the whole spectrum the Marschallin, Major Domo to the Sparafucile/Rigoletto (Houston); Monk/ of symphonic, liturgical, operatic and Marschallin/Der Rosenkavalier, (Cover) Don Carlo (GPO); Truffaldino/Ariadne auf contemporary music. Alongside his Eisslinger/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Naxos (Champs-Élysées); Sparafucile/ work at Glyndebourne, he directs the (Cover) Basilio/Le nozze di Figaro, (Cover) Rigoletto (SO); Truffaldino/Ariadne auf Edinburgh Festival Chorus, which Gastone/La traviata, (Cover) Lucano/ Naxos (Aix); Ratcliffe/Billy Budd (Rome); performs in several high-profile concerts L’incoronazione di Poppea, (Cover) Parpignol/ Zuniga/Carmen (ROH) each year at the EIF; he is also the La bohème (GF); Sergeant, First murderer/ founding director of Philharmonia Voices, Macbeth (Linbury Theatre); The Fox/Renard Forthcoming engagements the professional choir that collaborates (Jerwood Chorus Development Scheme); Prince Gremin/Eugene Onegin (Zürich) with the Philharmonia Orchestra on many (Cover) Novice/Billy Budd (GT, BAM) of its most ambitious choral-orchestral The British bass is a graduate of the Jette Recent engagements projects, particularly under its Principal Parker Young Artists Programme at ROH Jonathan/Saul (Châtelet); Ferrando/Così Conductor, Esa-Pekka Salonen. He has and the opera course at GSMD. He studied fan tutte (Bury Court Opera); Sergeant, worked regularly on the music staff of at RAM, where he was awarded first-class First murderer/Macbeth (Linbury Theatre) ROH and ENO, and his former positions BMus (Hons) and MA degrees, as well as a DipRAM. He has performed as a soloist include Director of Music at St Margaret’s Forthcoming engagements with LSO, the Monteverdi Choir and Westminster and Associate Conductor Monostatos/The Magic Flute (GT) of the St Endellion Summer Festival in Classical Opera and has sung under Sir Cornwall. Born in Manchester, he studied at RNCM. Antonio Pappano, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, In addition to his operatic commitments, Sir Andrew Davis and Sir Mark Elder, he is a keen cricket player and represented and at venues including Salle Pleyel, his county of Lancashire. L’Auditori, Kölner Philharmonie, Kings Place, Cadogan Hall, the Barbican, Christ Church Spitalfields, and RAH. In 2008 he won the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary for Young Singers.
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Donna Stirrup Gemma Summerfield William Thomas Director Soprano Bass PAMINA FIRST PRIEST/ SECOND MAN IN ARMOUR
Previously for Glyndebourne Previously for Glyndebourne Previously for Glyndebourne Saul (Associate Director and Assistant (Cover) Michal/Saul (GF); 2018 Nicholas/Vanessa (GF); Jerwood Young Director, GF, Revival Director, GT); Glyndebourne Opera Cup finalist (2018) Artist Die Zauberflöte (Assistant Director, GF, Recent engagements Recent engagements Director, Prom); Hamlet, The Cunning Marzelline/Fidelio (The Hallé); Pamina/ Colline/La bohème (ENO); Shepherd/ Little Vixen, Billy Budd, Rusalka (Assistant Die Zauberflöte (SO); Paula Jordan/Dinner Pelléas et Mélisande (Garsington); Snug/A Director, GF); Rusalka (Assistant Director, at Eight (Wexford Festival Opera); (Cover) Midsummer Night’s Dream (Vienna) GT, Staff Director, GF);La traviata, Eugene Title role/Rodelinda (ENO); Fiordiligi/ Onegin (Assistant Director, GT); St. Forthcoming engagements Così fan tutte (Bury Court Opera); Matthew Passion, The Miserly Knight/ Masetto/Don Giovanni (Seattle Opera); Barmherzigkeit/Die schuldigkeit des ersten Gianni Schicchi (Staff Director, GF) First Priest, Second Man in Armour/Die Gebots, Hyacinthus/Apollo et Hyacinthus Zauberflöte (GF); Poacher/The Cunning Little Recent engagements (Classical Opera) Vixen (ENO) Saul (Revival Director, Châtelet, Houston, Forthcoming engagements Adelaide Festival); Rodelinda (Revival A recent graduate of the Opera Course Governess/The Turn of the Screw (Opéra Director, ENO; Bolshoi); Katya Kabanova at GSMD, he is the winner of the 2019 national de Lorraine) (Associate Director, Liceu); The Turn of the Veronica Dunne International Singing Screw (Director, Barnes Festival); St Mark A graduate of the RCM International Competition and of the 2018 Kathleen Passion, The Damnation of Faust (Director, Opera School, The Georg Solti Accademia Ferrier Award and 2018 John Christie St. Endellion Festivals); Rusalka (Revival and The Verbier Festival Academy, she Award. Director, Houston); Peter Grimes (Director, won First Prize in the 2019 Concorso ENO Prom) Lirico Internazionale de Portofino and the Duo Prize at the 2017 Wigmore Hall Forthcoming engagements International Song Competition alongside Die Zauberflöte (Revival Director, GF); Tosca regular accompanist Sebastian Wybrew. (Revival Director, ENO) She was awarded First Prize and the She has worked extensively at ENO as a Loveday Song Prize at the 2015 Kathleen Staff Director, and as an Assistant Director Ferrier Awards, and was a finalist in the at both Glyndebourne and ROH. She inaugural Glyndebourne Opera Cup and has directed each revival of Saul since its the 2018 Concours musical international Glyndebourne premiere in 2015, including de Montréal. Working under the tutelage the award-winning 2015 Tour and Adelaide of Rosa Mannion, she is a Yeoman of Festival 2017 productions and the recent the Worshipful Company of Musicians, revivals in Houston and Paris. having been awarded The Silver Medal, and is an RPS Chilcott Award holder and a Carne Scholar.
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Carrie-Ann Williams Soprano FIRST LADY
Previously for Glyndebourne Gianetta/L’elisir d’amore, (Cover) Armida/ Rinaldo (GT); (Cover) First Lady/Die Zauberflöte (GF) Recent engagements (Cover) Merab/Saul (Châtelet); The Fox/ The Cunning Little Vixen, Anna Maurrant/ Street Scene (Birmingham Conservatoire); Sãvitri/Sãvitri, Miss Wingrave/Owen Wingrave (BYO); Alcina/Alcina, Lucy/Die Dreigroschenoper, Donna Anna/Don Giovanni (Royal Academy Opera); Maria Bertram/ Mansfield Park (Opera South) Forthcoming engagements Marzelline/Fidelio (GT) She graduated in summer 2018 from Royal Academy Opera under the tutelage of Elizabeth Ritchie and Ingrid Surgenor. Her competition success includes the Mario Lanza Operatic Prize, the John Ireland Prize, the Ashleyan Opera Prize, the Stuart Cameron Smith American Song Prize and the St Clare Barfield Operatic Distinction Rose Bowl Award.
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