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SALLY BURGESS. Director, Mezzo-soprano, Teacher and Mentor.

“ The lady is superb, whether she turns her artistry to opera, jazz or Sondheim “. A statement that sums up the remarkable talents of Sally Burgess as one of the world's leading operatic actresses and dramatic musical performers. After 30 years as an extraordinary exponent of musical and dramatic performance, she is expanding her career to guide the next generation of artists as a vocal professor, mentor, stage director, and creator of Young Artist Programs worldwide. It is her versatility and diversity of styles and her deep understanding of what creates a moving performance, that enhances the success her work with the young artists of today.

Sally made her directorial debut for Tete a Tete Opera in the summer of 2009 in Mark Glentworth’s new opera Ula followed by a new production of Cosi van Tutte for English Chamber Opera. She directed the world premiere of Sonya’s Story during the summer of 2010 to excellent national reviews, a production that will tour internationally both in it’s current one act form and as the complete opera Uncle Vanya due to premiere in 2013. A production of Poppea for the Guildhall Scool of Music and Drama Undergraduate program was followed in the summer of 2012 by her new production of for Dorset Opera, UK. In July 2013 she directed her new production of Cosi fan Tutte for the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.

Sally is sought after by students at home and abroad having developed a thriving private studio. She gives master classes and workshops throughout the world.

Sally’s career as a singer has always been, and now her teaching is, holistically based, including work on breathing, the physicality and psychology of performance, exploring text, imagination and Alexander technique. She offers day workshops as part of her studio. She works with established singers as well as those at the beginning of their studies.

As a Vocal Professor at the RCM for 10 years, she was awarded her FRCM in 2011. She also teaches stagecraft and directs opera scenes. Sally also teaches The Art of Opera Performance at the GSMD which culminates in performances at the School: Zauberflote 2011, Poppea 2012 and Albert Herring 2013.

Sally works with singers worldwide giving masterclasses, workshops and leading competitions across Europe, Russia, and South Africa. She has lead the Young Singers Programme for Les Azuriales Opera Festival, Nice for four seasons and returns annually to Moscow in collaboration with London Gates Education. In 2013 she lead the inaugural Performing Arts International Festival singing competition, workshops, master classes and gala performance in Durban, South Africa. In the 13/14 season she returns to Moscow for “ Vocalists 2013 “ and will lead the international jury for it’s singing competition.

She works with singers at the on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, at Glyndebourne on the Jerwood Young Artists Programme, for Co-Opera Company, Associated Studios Opera Courses, and with British Youth Opera. Sally has a close relationship with Live Music Now, fronting their vocal master class series in the aLuMNi programme. She adjudicates and examines for all UK conservatoires and is a member of the British Voice Association.

During a long and distinguished singing career she has made some of the most exciting operatic roles her own - the Sunday Times describing her as “ the greatest exponent of I have ever seen” a role she debuted for ’s new production by David Poutney and then went on to perform for the , the Opéra National de Paris, Bastille, the , Munich, the Bregenz Festival and in Zurich, Berlin, New Zealand and Portland. Her Azucena Il Trovatore excited similar reviews - the Guardian considered her performance for Opera North “ great singing by a remarkable artist “ and her Amneris for Opera North was described as ... “ rarely can a performance have been so completely dominated “ ( a role also performed for Scottish Opera and in Strasbourg, Nancy, Lausanne and Wiesbaden ). Other operatic successes include Hanna Glawari The Merry Widow for the Metropolitan Opera; Kabanicha Katya Kabanova for the Bavarian State Opera Munich and Opera North, UK; Herodias for ; Fricka The Ring in Geneva, Marseille and for Scottish Opera; Mistrees Quickly Falstaff for Scottish Opera; Ottavia in David Alden’s new production of L’Incoronazione di Poppea for Welsh National Opera also recorded for BBC TV; Dalila Samson et Dalila for Nantes Opera; Judith Bluebeard’s Castle in Bordeaux , for English National Opera, Opera North in Utah, Seattle, Houston and Portugal; title role in Gluck’s Orfeo for Opera North; Dulcinée Don Quixote for English National Opera where she also enjoyed success as Widow Begbick The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny and Herodias Salome; Mère Marie Dialogues des Carmelites for Welsh National Opera; Pantalis/Martha Mefistofele for De Nederlandse Opera; and the world premiere of On London Fields on stage in London

Sally has enjoyed equal success on the concert platform where she has performed with all the UK’s leading orchestras including the RLPO ( Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius; Handel’s Messiah and Pierrot Lunaire ( also in New York with Jane Glover ); Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne; and the premiere and subsequent performances of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio ); BBC National Orchestra of Wales ( Verdi’s Requiem and Bluebeard’ s Castle and subsequent audio recording with ); City of London Sinfonia with Richard Hickox ( Elgar’s Sea Pictures ). In the US she has sung Judith with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and Seattle Symphony Orchestra; Alexander Nevsky with the San Diego Symphony and North Carolina Symphony; and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem with the Seattle Symphony. In recital she has performed at the Purcell Room, the Wigmore Hall, venues throughout the UK and on tour in New Zealand and Europe..

Sally was nominated for “Best Actress in a Musical” at the Olivier Awards for her performance in the RSC / Opera North co-production of Showboat in London’s West End, a musical she has also recorded for TER alongside West Side Story and The King and I. Her performances of Gershwin songs for the BBC London Proms broadcast live on TV; an evening at Highgrove House in the presence of HRH Prince of Wales; and performances with the BBC Concert Orchestra of On the Town and Cabaret at the Royal Festival Hall, London have further expanded her reputation as an artist of limitless talents who can offer repertoire from the range of classics of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Kern to works by contemporary writers such as Sondheim and Bernstein together with songs written specially for her.

Her recordings of Judith Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and Herodias Salome for Chandos’ Opera in English series released in July 2007 and December 2008 respectively both received excellent critical acclaim. Sally Burgess Sings Jazz recorded for TER,The Other Me recorded for Timbre Records and Happy Talk documenting the music of Richard Rodgers have established her as a cross-over and jazz artist par excellence. She regularly performs with her own Jazz trio lead by her husband Neal Thornton and has performed cabaret jazz evenings for the Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Harrogate, Worcester, Buxton and Newcastle Festivals and at jazz venues such as London’s Pizza on the Park. She has also travelled the world over performing similar evenings for the Spier Festival in Cape Town and in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has presented her own one woman show Sally Burgess’ Women at the Lyric Hammersmith and Sophisticated Ladies at the Purcell Room. She premiered a new Harold Arlen show at the Barbican on London’s South Bank in November 2003 and offered further Richard Evenings in the UK and Barcelona following the very successful UK tour Something Wonderful in 2002.

August 2013