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New Artist – Llio Evans

We are delighted to welcome Welsh  soprano Llio Evans to out roster for worldwis representation. Llio gained a first class honours degree at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama before going on to study with Dennis O’Neill at the Wales International Academy of Voice.

Future engagements include her English National Opera debut as Celia in Iolanthe, Janaček Danube Symphony with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and a revival of her critically acclaimed production of The Golden Dragon with Music Theatre Wales.

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Llio Evans

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Artist's Website

The Grange Festival

Harry Nicoll performs at the inaugural Grange Festival

Harry Nicoll performs in Anfinomo Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria at the inaugural Grange Festival.

The prodcution is directed by Tim Supple, with musical direction by festival artistic director Michael Chance.

Performances take place on 7, 16, 18, 24 June and 2 July.

Later this season Harry returns to Longborough Festival Opera as Monostatos in The Magic Flute, before appearing with The Royal Opera in Die Zauberflöte.

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Harry Nicoll

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The Grange Festival

Opera North

Jeni Bern and Richard Roberts on BBC4

Jeni Bern and Richard Roberts can be seen on BBC4 and BBC iPlayer in Opera North’s epic production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Richard Farnes. The performances were filmed at Leeds Town Hall in 2016.

Das Rheingold will be broadcast on BBC4 on 12 February at 7pm, with Jeni and Richard as Woglinde and Mime respectively.

Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung will all be available exclusively on BBC iPlayer with Jeni as Waldvogel and Woglinde, and Richard as Mime.

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Jeni Bern

Richard Roberts

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Opera North

BBC Arts

Defiant Requiem

Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín

The UK premiere of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín takes place at Durham Cathedral on Saturday 28 January. The concert tells the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezín) during World War II, who performed the Verdi Requiem while experiencing the depths of human degradation.

Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín is a concert-drama that combines the magnificent music of Verdi with video testimony from survivors of the original Terezín chorus and footage from the 1944 Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt.

The concert will feature Gweneth Ann Rand, Alison Kettlewell, Philip Sheffield and Keel Watson, with the Durham Choral Society Orchestra, Durham University Orchestral Society, Durham Choral Society and University Chamber Choir, conducted by Murry Sidlin.

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Alison Kettlewell

Gweneth Ann Rand

Philip Sheffield

Keel Watson

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The Defiant Requiem Foundation

Welsh-National-Opera

Jeni Bern in WNO’s dazzling revival of Kiss Me, Kate

Following acclaimed performances at Opera North last season, Jeni Bern reprises the role of Lilli Vanessi in Welsh National Opera’s revival of Cole Porter’s classic musical Kiss Me, Kate, directed by Jo Davies and conducted by James Holmes.

The production opens in Cardiff on 29 September and tours to venues in England and Wales until 10 December, with twenty nine performances in all.

“Bern’s splendid, disciplined voice”
(The Observer)

“she is a gem in any operatic context“
(Bachtrack)

“…the gorgeously toned coupling of Quirijn de Lang and Jeni Bern”
(The Stage)

“…the soaring voices of Jeni Bern and Quirijn de Lang”
(The Express)

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Jeni Bern

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Welsh National Opera