Lorenzo Cutùli Designer
Peter Davouren Tenor
Helena Dix Soprano
Il Cappello di paglia di Firenze
La Navarraise
Cristina, regina di Svezia
Lorenzo Cutùli was born in Ferrara, Italy, and graduated as a set and costume designer from the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna. He also studied History of Art at the University of Ferrara. He has collaborated in many artistic and theatrical projects with Claudio Abbado, Jonathan Miller, Peter Greenaway, Lindsay Kemp, and others.
Peter was awarded the Dr Ralph Kohn Scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Neil Mackie. During his time at the Academy he was a member of Song Circle, performing at the Oxford Lieder Festival and Wigmore Hall, as well as collaborating with Michael Chance, Roger Vignoles, and Felicity Lott. He was a finalist in the Richard Lewis competition, and had public masterclasses with Angelika Kirchslager and Dennis O’Neill.
Australian-born Helena Dix won the Wagner Society’s Bursary Competition and was selected to sing in the Bayreuth Stipendiatenkonzert, thus establishing herself as one of the UK’s up-and-coming Wagnerian sopranos. Helena’s operatic highlights include Gioconda in La Gioconda, Valladolid, Flowermaiden (Parsifal, English National Opera), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow, Scottish Opera), Elettra (Idomeneo, Lübeck Opera), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Nella (Gianni Schicchi, Opera Project), Li-Li (Greed, Glyndebourne YAP) and covering Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos, Garsington Opera). As a concert artist Helena has performed in a variety of vocal and orchestral works in major venues, including the Royal Albert Hall, the Barbican and Westminster Abbey.
In 2008 he taught Staging and Production Design at the University of Ferrara. As a painter and sculptor he has participated in various exhibitions in Italy and abroad for major artistic events. He made his debut as a theatre designer in 1990 for productions of Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Don Quixote for theatres in Ferrara and Cesena, and went on to develop his career as a set, costume and video designer. Among his many productions are his set designs for Une Éducation manquée and La Cambiale di matrimonio at Wexford in 2009.
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Peter then moved to the Netherlands, to study at the Dutch National Opera Academy and performed as Nemorino (L’Elisir d’amore), Le Journaliste (Les Mamelles des Tirésias) and Florville (Il Signor Bruschino). Past engagements include regular performances with the Monteverdi choir, (including his BBC Proms debut 2010), Jupiter (Semele), Messiah with the Black Dyke Brass Band and his Opera Holland Park debut as Goro (Madama Butterfly) as part of the Christine Collins’ Young Artist Programme.
Forthcoming engagements include Elettra (Idomeneo, Lübeck), Elisabeth (Don Carlos, Valladolid), Strauss Songs (St John’s Smith Square), Britten’s War Requiem and Mahler’s Rückert Lieder with Northampton Symphony.