Premiers of Broken Heart of Autumn Beardsley (Spring Festival of New Music, York), Morgenstern Lieder/Il Gran Rifiuto Song Cycles Weeks (Aluna Contemporary Ensemble). DVD Die Fledermaus (Glyndebourne, BBC). Supported by Timothy & Christina Benn EMMA JOHNSTON ensemble is from Preston. She recently graduated from RNCM. Roles include Sandman and Dew Fairy cover (Opera North), Frasquita Carmen (Clonter), Vixen (Woodhouse Opera and Radio 3's In Tune), Yum Yum Mikado (Phoenix / Opera della Luna), Adele Fledermaus (Phoenix), Esmerelda Bartered Bride (Preston Opera) and Susanna Figaro (West Riding Opera). STUART KALE Spoletta Tosca Taupe Capriccio covers a huge range of repertoire, from Monteverdi to Messiaen. He began his career at WNO before joining ENO, where he remained for eight years. Since then he has performed at all the major companies such as ROH, Strasbourg, Drottningholm, Châtelet, Canadian Opera, Parma, Nancy, Turin, San Francisco, Köln, Munich, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Geneva, Toulouse, Marseille, La Scala Milan. His most notable roles include Hauptmann Wozzeck, Herod Salome, Podesta Finta Giardiniera, Shuisky Boris Godunov, Truffaldino Love for Three Oranges, Schoolmaster/Mosquito Vixen, Bob Boles Peter Grimes, Captain Vere Billy Budd, Quint Turn of the Screw, Idomeneo, Zinoviev Lady Macbeth, Aegisthe Elektra, Gregor Makropoulos Case, Pirelli Sweeney Todd, Valzacchi Rosenkavalier and Dr Cauis Falstaff. Taupe Supported by Anthony Boswood Spoletta Supported by Martyn & Amanda Hedley ANDREW KENNEDY Flamand
Capriccio studied at King's College, Cambridge and RCM. He was a member of the Young Artists Programme at the ROH and in 2005 he won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Prize. He is a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award winner and won the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artists' Award in 2006. He was also a member of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme. He recently made his debut at La Scala, Milan as Tom Rakewell Rake’s Progress. Plans include Tristan & Isolde (Philharmonia), Turn of the Screw (Houston) and Entführung (WNO). Supported by Mr & Mrs Richard Morse
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THOMAS KENNEDY ensemble had a brief career as a maths teacher before studying as a postgraduate at GSMD where he won the English Song Prize and graduated with distinction last summer. He has since appeared in the title role of Il Signor Bruschino for BYO. Other appearances include Onegin, Count Almaviva and Belcore, Messiah in Nicosia, The Lads in their Hundreds directed by Iain Burnside at Kings Place and Ives' General William Booth enters the Kingdom of Heaven with Sir Andrew Davis /BBCSO at the Barbican. MATTHEW
KIMBLE servant Capriccio & ensemble was born in Bedford and trained at GSMD. Roles include Albert Herring, Tamino Zauberflöte, José Carmen, Orpheus Orpheus in the Underworld, Beppe Pagliacci and Gastone Traviata. He has worked with Holland Park, Aldeburgh, Bregenz, Carl Rosa and Hampstead Garden Opera. AINO KONKKA ensemble trained as a singer at Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland, graduating in 2009. Recent roles include 3rd Lady Magic Flute for Morley Opera, title role in Dido and Aeneas at her university and Valletto in L’Incoronazione di Poppea at Longborough Opera. ADAM KOWALCZYK ensemble studied at GSMD. His operatic experience includes scenes from Albert Herring, Così, Zauberflöte, Rigoletto, Cavalleria Rusticana and Boheme. He has played Beppe Rita (GSMD) and Bernado Erwin und Elmire (GSMD & Weimar). He recently sang Bruschino Figlio Il Signor Bruschino(BYO). Adam sang with the Britten Festival Chorus for Death in Venice, Tosca and Playing Away at the Aldeburgh and Bregenz Festivals. QUIRIJN
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