JAMES EDWARDS Duke of Mantua Rigoletto studied at RNCM and Royal Academy of Music. He joined the ROH Young Artists Programme and sang there Apprentice Meistersinger, Pong Turandot, Albazar Turco in Italia, Messenger Aïda and Roderigo Otello. Other work includes title role Albert Herring (Salzburg Landestheater), Novice Billy Budd and First Commissioner Carmelites (ENO), Pinkerton Butterfly (Raymond Gubbay, Albert Hall), title role Rake’s Progress, Pirelli Sweeney Todd (Gothenburg), Hoffmann Tales of Hoffmann (Mid Wales), Gustavus Ballo (Cork), 1st brother Seven Deadly Sins (Royal Ballet).
Park (Almeida), The Hypochondriacs, Betrayal (Glasgow Citizens), Elisabeth II (Time Out Award 1993 – Best Director & Designer), The New Menoza, Eve of Retirement (Gate), The Park, Back to Methuselah (RSC). He has designed Damnation de Faust (Dresden), Ring (Tokyo), Xerxes, Simon Boccanegra, Mazeppa, Rienzi, Masked Ball (ENO), Clemenza di Tito (Glyndebourne), Wozzeck, Mahagonny (Scottish Opera), Elektra (WNO), Giulio Cesare (Paris), King Lear, The Tempest (RSC), My Fair Lady starring Edward Fox (UK tour). Plans include design André Chenier (Bregenz).
WYNNE EVANS Cock / Schoolmaster Vixen studied at the GSMD and the National Opera Studio. For WNO roles have included Duca Rigoletto, Rodolfo Bohème, Alfredo Traviata, Le Chevalier Dialogue of the Carmelites, Tamino The Magic Flute, for Opera North, Prunier La Rondine, Fenton Falstaff and for ENO, Alfredo Traviata and Cavaradossi Tosca. He has appeared with Scottish Opera, Chelsea Opera Group, Castleward Opera, Almeida Opera and Opera Northern Ireland. In 2004 Wynne replied on behalf of the Welsh Rugby team to the New Zealand Haka at the Millennium Stadium and is now a regular at Wales Internationals. He returns to Grange Park in 2010 in Capriccio, Love for Three Oranges and to WNO as Cassio and Nemorino . Supported by Mrs Peter Cadbury
SARA FULGONI Adalgisa Norma has sung Carmen at Santa Fe, Toulouse, ENO, WNO, Geneva, Valencia and Beijing Music Festival. Other important roles include title role in Tobias Picker’s Therèse Raquin (Dallas), Hänsel (San Francisco), Judith Bluebeard’s Castle (Canadian Opera, WNO and Barcelona), Béatrice Béatrice et Bénédict (WNO, Netherlands), Waltraute Götterdämmerung (De Vlaamse Opera, ENO). Recent highlights include Orlofsky Fledermaus. Kundry Parsifal (WNO), Baba the Turk Rake’s Progress (Rome, Bologna), Sorceress Dido & Aeneas (La Scala), Margret Wozzeck (La Monnaie). At the Royal Opera House she has appeared as Federica Luisa Miller, Maddalena and Sorceress Supported by Sir David & Lady Plastow
JOAO FERNANDES Nerbulone Eliogabalo is a regular soloist with William Christie / Les Arts Florissants, Marc Minkowski / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Hervé Niquet / Le Concert Spirituel, and Christophe Rousset / Les Talens Lyriques. Opera includes Giove Calisto (ROH), Claudio Agrippina (New York City), Bellone Indes Galantes (Paris Opera), Tiferne Eliogabalo (Monnaie, Innsbruck Festival), Orcan Les Paladins (Châtelet), Huascar Indes Galantes (Zurich), Alfonso Cosi, Seneca Poppea (Lyon), Corésus / Le Ministre de Pan Callirhoé by Destouches and King Arthur (Montpellier). Plans includes Togno Spinalba in Lisbon
FRAN GARCIA Marullo Rigoletto was born in Spain and studied at the Academia Villa-Lobos, Juventudes Musicales and RSAMD. He has appeared as Colas Bastien e Bastienne (Centro de Arte Lirico), Figaro, as a soloist with the Joven Orquesta del Norte de Portugal and Scottish Opera Orchestra, Happy Fanciulla (Grange Park), Masetto (Compañia Lirica Andaluza) Giovanni and Belcore Elisir (ETO).
DAVID FIELDING Director/Designer Eliogabalo studied at Central School. Recent work includes Aegyptische Helena (Metropolitan Opera New York). At Grange Park directing/design credits include Thais, Enchantress, Rinaldo, Turn of the Screw, Gambler. Other directorial credits include Turk in Italy (ENO), Schweigsame Frau, Capriccio, Daphne, Idomeneo, Aegyptische Helena, Liebe der Danae, Intermezzo, Arabella (Garsington), Otello (Düsseldorf), Intelligence
Bluebeard Grange Park Opera 2008 Director Stephen Langridge Designer George Souglides
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CATHAL GARVEY Chorus Master is from Ireland where he studied before attending the Moscow Conservatory. He has acted as Chorus Master on over 40 productions for Opera Ireland, Opera Theatre Company, Anna Livia Opera Festival, Opera South and Lyric Opera Productions. As a conductor, Cathal has appeared with Ireland's major orchestras.