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+ Tosca (16/06/2010 - 16:00:16)
Currently Singing Tosca with Opera a la Carte on tour London, Luxembourg and Bermuda
Eleanor Alberga wrote this new opera for Music Theatre Wales in a joint production with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden. I am playing El Chofer Loco (mad taxi driver). Just up my street, as it were!
Singing Aeneas for the first time with The Opera Project with Yvonne Kenny in the title role. Yikes!
Climbed Goatfell on Arran with Karen McIver and Stella Lichfield
Karen McIver's "Head of Steam" in Greenock.
Creation with Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Judith Howarth sings the soprano solo. What a treat!
Skellig runs at The Sage, Gateshead with The Northern Sinfonia.
Das Rheingold Sun 28th Sept Portobello Town Hall 5.30pm with Edinburgh Opera Players
Skellig (world Premier) at The Sage Gateshead on Nov 24,25,27,28,29
Beethoven Missa Solemnis (Glasgow City Halls) Sun Nov 30th
Messiah (Perth Choral Society) Sun 7th Dec
Haydn Creation (Dundee Choral Society) Sun 14th Dec
Ye Cronies (Private Concert) Glasgow Thurs 18th Dec
Mediterranean Cruise (HMV Arcadia)
Stevenson, Busoni and Grainger
Just returned from The Isle of Cumbrae where I was singing 2 Song Cycles by composer Ronald Stevenson. I sang The Hills of Home and The Gangrel Fiddler.
preparing to sing Verdi Requiem this weekend July 6th At Cadogan Hall in London (7pm)
About to open as The Forester in Janacek's "The Cunning Little Vixen" at Longborough. For more information follow the link:
6 weeks to go until I go to La Scala to understudy Lorin Maazels 1984 based on the book by George Orwell
I will be singing with The Artsong Collective at The Ronald Stevenson Weekend, celebrating the composers life and works. Ronald will be there with his family and wife Marjorie. This wekend will coincide with the release of his Songs on Innocence on CD, on which I have recorded 4 Songs.
Finished Five:15 at Scottish Opera. 3 short operas by Lyell Cresswell (The Perfect Woman), Stephen Deazley (Dream Angus) and Craig Armstrong (Gesualdo).
The Perfect Woman has been a big hit with the critics. Very happy about that! To read the Times review click on this line: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article3471115.ece
Adjudicating School singing competition at Stowe College, Bucks on 13th October.
Next performance Mozart Requiem with Maidstone Choral nion Sat 10th Nov.