Tosca

Currently Singing Tosca with Opera a la Carte on tour London, Luxembourg and Bermuda

www.operaalacarte.com

Letters of a Love Betrayed

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!

Dido and Aeneas

Singing Aeneas for the first time with The Opera Project with Yvonne Kenny in the title role.  Yikes!

Climb every mountain

Climbed Goatfell on Arran with Karen McIver and Stella Lichfield


2866 feet of sheer hell (or sheer bliss), depending on how you look at it.

Head of Steam

Karen McIver's "Head of Steam" in Greenock.

I get to play the all singing, all dancing, James Watt in this educational extravaganza.  Great fun!

Creation

Creation with Scottish Chamber Orchestra.  Judith Howarth sings the soprano solo.  What a treat!

Skellig

Skellig runs at The Sage, Gateshead with The Northern Sinfonia.

Forthcoming Concerts

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 Weekend

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.

 

Verdi Requiem

preparing to sing Verdi Requiem this weekend July 6th At Cadogan Hall in London (7pm)

Longborough

About to open as The Forester in Janacek's "The Cunning Little Vixen" at Longborough.  For more information follow the link:

www.lfo.org.uk

 

 

 

La Scala

6 weeks to go until I go to La Scala to understudy Lorin Maazels 1984 based on the book by George Orwell

Ronald Stevenson Weekend - St John's Smith Square 11th - 12th April 2008

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.

Five:15

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

 

Coming Up

 

Adjudicating School singing competition at Stowe College, Bucks on 13th October.

Next performance Mozart Requiem with Maidstone Choral nion Sat 10th Nov.

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