Jamie Rock Baritone
Padraic Rowan Baritone
Salvatore Salvaggio Bass-baritone
Thérèse L’Elisir d’amore
Thérèse The Sleeping Queen
Il Cappello di paglia di Firenze
Irish baritone Jamie Rock is equally at home in opera, concert and recital repertoire. His opera roles include Le Nozze di Figaro, Albert Herring, The Magic Flute, La Bohème, Carmen, Hänsel und Gretel, Rape of Lucretia, Riders to the Sea, Madama Butterfly and Maria (WFO, 2011). Recitals include the RSAMD Song Studio, Young Songmakers Almanac and St Martin-in-the-Fields, and he is a member of the vocal ensemble Quartet.
Padraic Rowan has recently completed a Masters degree in Music Performance at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, having previously studied International Relations at Dublin City University. Recent awards include the Dramatic Cup and €4,000 Tony Quigley Award at the 2013 Feis Ceoil in Dublin, and the 2013 €2,000 Irene Sandford Award for Singers at the RIAM. He was a semi-finalist in the 2013 Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition. He is a 2012 alumnus of the Opera Theatre Company Young Associate Artists’ Programme.
Salvatore Salvaggio specialises in repertoire for basso comico and graduated with maximum marks from the Musical Institute V Bellini of Caltanissetta. Whilst continuing his training in Italy he won several international opera competitions. He made his debut aged only twenty in the role of Gaspare in Rita (Donizetti) and won the Award Premio Infantino. He has given numerous concerts and recitals throughout Italy and in Belgium, England, Greece, Canada and Germany.
He studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (Irene Sandford MBE, Kathleen Tynan), then the Royal Academy of Music and the RSAMD (RCS) Alexander Gibson Opera School. He is an alumnus of the OTC Young Artist Programme (Dublin), Wexford Opera Young Artist Programme, Leeds Lieder and Young Artists, and Josephine Baker Trust. Jamie is extremely grateful for the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Bloxham Stockbrokers, Derek Hill Foundation, Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarship and the Arts Council of Ireland.
Padraic was a member of the 2012 Wexford Festival Opera Chorus, performing in all three mainstage productions. Recent operatic engagements include Sailor (Billy Budd), Chorus (Falstaff and Don Pasquale, Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Mr Gedge (Albert Herring), Somnus (Semele, RIAM) and Pastore (Orfeo, Opera Theatre Company). Forthcoming engagements include Glyndebourne in New York next February for Billy Budd at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
He has sung solo roles in Il Viaggio a Reims (Rossini), The Secret Marriage (Cimarosa), Cinderella (Rossini), Tosca (Verdi), L’Elisir d’amore (Donizetti), The Barber of Seville (Rossini) and La Serva padrona (Pergolesi). He performed the role of Nonancourt in Il Cappello di paglia di Firenze (Rota) in Florence in 2011, conducted by Sergio Alapont, and has performed in Japan and Russia. In 2006 he made his debut in Italy as director and producer in La Serva padrona (Pergolesi).
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