Janet Haney Répétiteur
Conor Hanratty Assistant Director
Samantha Hay Soprano
Thérèse / La Navarraise
Cristina, regina di Svezia Director Losers
Il Cappello di paglia di Firenze L’Elisir d’amore
Janet Haney graduated from the Birmingham Conservatoire and continued her postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has performed at many of Britain’s festivals and concert halls and has given recitals in Spain, Russia, Qatar, New York and Reykjavik. She is the accompanist on the album Silent Noon (2012) with the Opera Babes.
Conor Hanratty is from Dublin. He has an MFA in directing Theatre and Opera from UCLA. He trained in Dublin at the Samuel Beckett Centre and as part of SEEDS programme (Rough Magic), and also studied in London and Tokyo.
Samantha Hay studied at the Royal College of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire.
She has worked as a répétiteur/ coach at Wexford Festival Opera, Welsh National Opera, English Touring Opera, Harvey Goldsmith Productions, European Chamber Opera, Travelling Opera, Opera Project, Longborough Festival Opera and Opera Holland Park. She has regularly coached at Dennis O’Neill’s Cardiff International Academy of Voice and for the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation. She has worked on opera productions in South Africa, Iceland, Japan and the Philippines as répétiteur and vocal coach. Janet is also a visiting Music Director at the Birmingham Conservatoire where she plans, casts, coaches and plays for their opera scenes.
Opera productions include Maria de Buenos Aires (Cork Opera House), Opera Briefs – Short Works by Monteverdi, Menotti and Barber (The Lir and RIAM), and Flatpack (Ulysses Opera Theatre – nominated for Best Opera Production, Irish Times Theatre Awards). Assisting work includes Dialogues des Carmélites and Flight in Los Angeles. Theatre work includes Postscript (New Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Second Age), The Fever (98.6 Productions), Pains of Youth, Much Ado About Nothing and The Persians, all at UCLA, and Caligula, (Rough Magic SEEDS3 – nominated for Best Production, Best Costume Design, Irish Times Theatre Awards.)
Roles performed include Queen of the Night for Heritage Opera, Merry Opera and cover for Welsh National Opera; Pit Soprano in the UK staging premiere of Wagner Dream for WNO; Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and has covered Musetta (La Bohème), Angel (Jephtha), Alice Ford (Falstaff ), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Karolka (Jenůfa) and High Priestess (Aida), all for WNO. Other roles include Lucia (Rape of Lucretia) for Opera Europe, First Lady (The Magic Flute) for Kentish Opera, and Elsie Maynard, YumYum and Josephine for D’Oyly Carte. In spring 2013 she covered Manon (Boulevard Solitude), for WNO. Samantha is very pleased to be appearing in her first season with Wexford Festival Opera.
Conor is a participant in Six in the Attic, a resource-sharing initiative at the Irish Theatre Institute.
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