We are delighted that Samuel Pantcheff will join the Internationales Opernstudio Gerard Mortier at the Salzburger Landestheater for the 2019/20 season.
He will perform and cover numerous roles in Weber’s Oberon, Lohengrin, the Austrian premiere of Stuart Macae’s Anthropocene, Viva La Diva (Donizetti’s Le convenienze e le inconvenienze teatrali) and Haydn’s Creation.
Congratulations Samuel!
With rehearsals for Welsh National Opera’s season only a few weeks away we are delighted to have several artists working on these productions.
Robyn Lyn Evans and Wyn Pencarreg appear in the third opera in David Pountney’s Verdi trilogy, Les vêpres siciliennes, Robyn performs Daniéli and Mainfroid, whilst covering Henri, and Wyn performs Le Sire de Béthune.
Richard Roberts will make his WNO debut as Don Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro.
Additionally, covers include Robyn as Il Duca and Claire Wild as Gilda in Rigoletto, with Wyn covering Escamillo in Carmen and Harašta in The Cunning Little Vixen.
Ailish Tynan joins the Royal Ballet for the world premiere of Medusa, a new ballet from choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Cherkaoui is the Artistic Director of Royal Ballet of Flanders and of his own company, Eastman, and is Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells. Medusa is set to a mix of electronic music and songs by Purcell, sung by Ailish and countertenor Tim Mead, with the orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
Medusa is part of a triple bill featuring works also featuring Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour and Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern.
Performances from 8 May, with a live cinema broadcast on 16 May.
We are delighted to announce that baritone Samuel Pantcheff has joined our roster. Samuel is a graduate of the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Glenville Hargreaves and Audrey Hyland, and won the Blythe-Buesst Opera Prize. He is also a Britten-Pears Young Artist and currently studies with Gary Coward.
In the current season Samuel makes his debut with Diva Opera as Prince Yamadori Madama Butterfly and Haly L’italiana in Algeri and returns to Scottish Opera as Pulcino BambinO on tour to Oman. Concerts include Handel’s Solomon at St John’s Smith Square and a programme of Scarlatti and Purcell on tour to South America with Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Trevor Eliot Bowes makes his debut at Scottish Opera in their 2019/20 season as Theseus in a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Dominic Hill and conducted by Stuart Stratford. Performances take place in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Keel Watson and Njabulo Madlala return to English National Opera for their 2019/20 season. Keel will perform Mars in Emma Rice’s new production of Orpheus in the Underworld, Zuniga in Calixto Bieito’s production of Carmen, and The Bonze in Anthony Minghella’s acclaimed Madam Butterfly, where he is joined by Njabulo Madlala as Prince Yamadori.
Njabulo is currently preparing the role of Aeneas for ENO’s production of Dido, a co-production with the Unicorn Theatre, with performances in May and June.
Robyn Lyn Evans, Wyn Pencarreg and Philip Smith perform in Welsh National Opera’s production of Roberto Devereux, directed by Alessandro Talevi and conducted by Carlo Rizzi and James Southall.
Robyn performs Lord Cecil, while understudying the title role, Wyn performs Sir Gualtiero Raleigh, and Philip makes his WNO debut as Nottingham’s Confidant, while understudying Raleigh.
Performances take place from 28 February at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, before touring until 10 May.
Ailish Tynan makes her debut with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra as Una poenitentium in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
The performances on 23 and 24 February are a highlight of the orchestras 2018/19 season, and are conducted by their Chief Conductor, Marc Albrecht.
Keel Watson returns to English National Opera next week as Aye in the first revival of Phelim McDermott’s acclaimed production of Akhnaten, conducted by Karen Kamensek.
Performances take place from 11 February until 7 March 2019.
Ailish Tynan returns to Wigmore Hall for a programme of January red letter days – the birthdays of ten composers, five poets, and two great songs, and the deaths of two composers and nine poets. In this programme, devised by Graham Johnson, Ailish performs works by Britten, Wolf and Delibes and others.
Ailish is joined by mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley, baritone Benjamin Appl, bass William Thomas, pianist Graham Johnson, and actor Shalisha James-Davis.
The recital takes place on 24 January.
Jeni Bern makes a long awaited return to Scottish Opera, as Professor Prentice in the world premiere of Anthropocene by Stuart MacRae. The production is directed by Matthew Richardson and conducted by Stuart Stratford.
Performances take place from 24 January in Glasgow, with further performances in Edinburgh and London, at the Hackney Empire.
Jeni returns to Scottish Opera later this season as First Lady in Sir Thomas Allen’s production of The Magic Flute.
Harry Nicoll returns to the Royal Opera in their winter season as the Major-Domo in Stefan Herheim’s stunning new production of The Queen of Spades, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano.
Later this season Harry returns to The Royal Opera as Missail in the first revival of Richard Jones’ production of Boris Godunov.
Gweneth Ann Rand revives her pivotal role in the US premiere of Philip Venables award winning opera 4.48 Psychosis. The acclaimed Royal Opera production, directed by Ted Huffman, first seen at the Lyric Hammersmith in 2016 is conducted by William Cole.
Performances take place from 5 to 12 January at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York.
Nazan Fikret sings Fiordiligi on a newly released recording of Così fan tutte released by Rubicon Classics. The recording from a production by the European Opera Centre, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, is conducted by Laurent Pillot.
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Label: Rubicon
Code: RCD1026
Release date: 23 November 2018
The recording recieved 4 stars in a recent review in The Guardian.
Philip Sheffield makes his debut with the Oper Köln as Rev. Horace Adams in a new production of Peter Grimes, directed by Frederic Wake-Walker, and conducted by Nicholas Collon.
The premiere takes place on 25 November, with futher performances on 28, 30 November, 2, 6, 8 December.
This is Philip’s third house debut and second new production of Peter Grimes this year!
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