where he has also sung Count Figaro and Pastore/spirito Orfeo. For Grange Park Opera at Nevill Holt he sang Figaro Barber, Belcore Elixir of Love. Recent appearances include Ormus Cama in the world première of The Ground Beneath her Feet by Victoria Borisova-Ollas (Hallé), Dandini Cenerentola (WNO), Fauré La Bonne Chanson, Finzi’s Earth and Air and Rain, Jake Heggie’s Thoughts Unspoken and Poulenc’s Le Travail du Peintre in the Crush Room of the Royal Opera House.
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STEPHEN MEDCALF Director Fanciulla works extensively in Italy where he directed Queen of Spades (Teatro alla Scala), Entführung (Ancona and Palermo), Zauberflöte and Manon Lescaut (Parma), and A Village Romeo and Juliet, Zauberflöte, Aida and Carmen (Cagliari). In 2006 he was awarded the prestigious critics’ Premio Abbiati for Best Director. Other notable productions include Figaro (opening of the new Glyndebourne opera house), Flying Dutchman (Opera North), Albert Herring (Salzburger Landestheater), Cosi (Sao Carlos, Chatelet, Teatro Real and ROH), May Night (Wexford Festiva)l, Ezio (Théatre des Champs Elysées) and Roberto Devereux (Buxton Festival). Future engagements include Ariadne auf Naxos (Salzburger Landestheater), Elisir d’amore (Victoria) and his début at Opera de Marseille with Il Pirata. He directed Magic Flute at Grange Park last year. TOBIAS MERZ ensemble New Zealand born he studied at the Royal Conservatorium, The Hague. His stage appearances include Cosi (Opera Australia), Charpentier Messe de Minuit pour Noel (Royal Melbourne Philharmonic), Smetana The Two Widows and Zauberflote (New Opera Academy, Amsterdam), Bastien und Bastienne (Den Haag). This is his second season at Grange Park.
The Three Ladies (Margaret Rapacioli, Flora McIntosh and Rebecca von Lipinski) and Adrian Dwyer (Tamino)
ELEANOR MEYNELL ensemble studied at Chetham’s and RNCM before joining the BBC Singers for four years. Roles include Donna Anna and Hanna Glawari (Pavilion Opera), Masha Queen of Spades (BBC Philharmonic / Kirov Opera), Russian Mother Death in Venice (Chandos recording), Herd Girl Peer Gynt conducted by Neeme Jarvi at the Salzburg Festival and the BBC Proms. HYALMAR MITROTTI Pistola Falstaff / Castro Fanciulla is Colombian and French, took degrees in Filmmaking and Theatre at Sorbonne in Paris before he studied singing. He entered the GSMD where repertoire included Perruchetto Fedeltà Premiata, Guglielmo, Uberto Serva Padrona. He recently won scholarships to sing at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and to study French Art Song with François Le Roux, Jeff Cohen and Noel Lee at the Académie Francis Poulenc in Tours, made his debut at the SaintEtienne Opera House and sang Pietro Simon Boccanegra (Valladolid). GARETH MORRIS Bardolph Falstaff / miner Fanciulla studied at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and Royal Academy. Roles include Roberto Devereux (Valladolid), Tamino, Ferrando, Ottavio, Basilio, Curzio, Prunier, Dr. Blind, Sesto, Paris in von Suppé’s The Ten Belles, Normanno and Arturo Lucia, Ko-Ko Mikado. He has broadcast as a soloist with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4. GEORGE MOSLEY Oscar Bluebeard Supported by Nicholas Baring Since winning First Prize at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg, George has performed with Covent Garden, ENO, Scottish Opera, Opera North and BBC TV. He has appears extensively in Italy
The Magic Flute Grange Park Opera 2007 Director Stephen Medcalf Designer Francis O'Connor Richard Coxon (Monostatos) and Jeremy White (Sarastro)