Daniel Szeili Tenor
Koji Terada Baritone
Jamie Vartan Designer
Cristina, regina di Svezia La Traviata
Thérèse / La Navarraise
Cristina, regina di Svezia
Born in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Daniel studied singing in Vienna, Berlin and Kansas City, USA. He made his professional debut as Tamino in The Magic Flute at the Heidenheim Festival in 2006 and then his Italian debut at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, also as Tamino.
Koji Terada was born in Japan. He graduated from the opera course at the GSMD where he studied with Prof Rudolf Piernay. He has also studied at the Opera Studio Netherlands. He was awarded third prize in the 7th Elena Obraztsova International Competition, the 2011 Clonter Opera Prize and an audience prize. He won the 2012 Les Azuriales Opera Competition.
Jamie has worked extensively as a designer in opera and theatre in Europe. He represented the UK at the Prague Quadrennials in 1999, 2007 and 2011. Opera designs include A Village Romeo and Juliet (Wexford 2012, awarded Best Set Design, Irish Times Theatre Awards), Ariadne auf Naxos (Salzburg Festspielhaus), The Queen of Spades (La Scala, Milan), Death in Venice (Salzburg Landestheater), The Pirates of Penzance (Scottish Opera), Manon Lescaut (Teatro Regio, Parma), Aida and Carmen (Premio Abbiati Award, Best Production 2006, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari), La Statira (Teatro San Carlo, Naples), Der Zwerg (Teatro Comunale, Florence), La Traviata (Malmö Opera), La Vestale (Wexford), Il Pirata (Opera Marseille), L’isola disabitata (Royal Opera House), Carmen (Teatro Sao Carlos, Lisbon), and Falstaff (Teatro Farnese, Parma).
From 2008–2013 he was a member of the ensemble at Theater Lübeck, where his roles included Jenik (The Bartered Bride), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Fenton (Falstaff ), Italian Singer (Der Rosenkavalier), Belmonte (Abduction from the Seraglio), Macduff (Macbeth) as well as Ferdinand in the German premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Tempest. He has also performed in Bern, Bremen, Leipzig, Münster, Vienna and Krakau. In May 2013 he made his debut with Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini at the Teatro Regio di Parma. Future engagements include the title role in Idomeneo in Lübeck and Lucia di Lammermoor in Neustrelitz.
His opera appearances include Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), understudy of Schaunard (La Bohème), excerpts from Le Nozze di Figaro (Saito Kinen Festival, Fiorello and Ufficiale), Il Barbiere di Siviglia, understudy of Dancaïre (Carmen), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Gil (Il Segreto di Susanna), Marcello (La Bohème, BYO), Le Baron (Chérubin), Mr Gedge (Albert Herring), Arsenio (Spinalba), Le marquis de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites) and Robert (Iolanta, GSMD), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor, Clonter Opera) and Cover-Cast Malatesta (Don Pasquale) at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Recent theatre work includes Misterman at Galway Arts Festival (Best Set Design, Irish Times Theatre Awards 2012), New York (St Anne’s Warehouse) and London (National Theatre).
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