SHERMAN Su zu ki was born in Australia and studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She has been a soloist for Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s as part of the Young Australia Programme and recorded with Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. This season her roles include Hélène Belle Hélène, Sesto Clemenza di Tito and Cyrus Belshazzar at the RNCM.
KATE VETCH ensemble trained at Birmingham Conservatoire where roles included Cenerentola, Tancredi, Isabella L’Italiana in Algeri, 3rd Lady Flute, Sandman Hansel & Gretel. Recent engagements include work with BYO, Holland Park, Pimlico Opera, and soloist in Mozart Requiem / Coronation Mass, Messiah, Vivaldi Gloria / Magnificat, Haydn’s Nelson & Schöpfungsmesse and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater & Magnificat.
PHILIP SPENDLEY Sciarrone Tosca 2nd Servant Capriccio gave up his job as a bank manager to study music and graduated from GSMD. Roles there included Michele Tabarro, Earl of Dunmow Dinner Engagement, Figaro and Olivier Capriccio. He sang Onegin, Schaunard Boheme (BYO). He has performed title roles with Pavilion Opera in Paris, Madrid, Turin, Amsterdam and Budapest. Supported by John & Jennifer Beechey
HE N RY WA D D I N GT O N Sacristan Tosca / Leandro Oranges studied at RNCM. He sings regularly with Glyndebourne (most recently as Christus Matthew Passion), ROH, La Monnaie, Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, Opera North, WNO, ENO, Garsington and Grange Park. Repertoire includes Falstaff, Banquo Macbeth, Colline, Basilio Barbiere, Tutor Comte Ory, Geronimo Secret Marriage, Publio Clemenza, Plutone Orfeo, Valens Theodora, Bottom / Quince Midsummer Night's Dream, Soljony Three Sisters (Eotvos), Leporello Giovanni, Magnifico, Fernando Fidelio, Alfonso Così, Pallante Agrippina and Frère Laurent Roméo & Juliette. Plans include Zuniga Carmen (ROH), Sacristan (WNO), Ratcliffe Billy Budd (Netherlands) and Kothner Meistersinger (Glyndebourne). Leandro Supported by Ed & Lulu Siskind Sacristan Supported by Peter & Annette Dart
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LISA SWAYNE ensemble trained at RSAMD. Roles include Diana Orpheus in the Underworld (Kentish Opera), Methodist Preacher Pastoral Messiah (Unexpected Opera) and Berginella / Frasquinella Pericole (Opera South). This is Lisa’s second season at Grange Park. ADAM TORRANCE 7th Servant Capriccio /ensemble was born in Scotland and is currently studying at GSMD. Recently, he created the role of Fidencio in a new opera Dante (Grimeborn) and sang Damon Acis & Galatea (Westminster Opera). He sang chorus in Rake's Progress (Aldeburgh Festival and Ponte De Lima). ALEXANDROS TSILOGIANNIS ensemble has roots in Greece but was born in Kenya and grew up travelling around the world. Currently studying at GSMD He has performed Duke Rigoletto, Ferrando Così and Tamino Zauberflöte. Alexandros recently sang for the President of East Timor and will soon make his début recital in Athens.
DEREK WELTON Farfarello Oranges /B o n z e Butterfly studied at GSMD. Roles include Count Figaro, Masetto Don Giovanni, Guglielmo, Papageno, Silvano Calisto, title role Salieri's Falstaff, Vertigo Gluck’s La rencontre imprévue, Prince/King Sallinen’s The King goes forth to France, Podkolyosin Martinu's The Marriage, Mill La Cambiale di matrimonio, Nick Shadow Rake’s Progress (BYO). Plans include debut with Halle Orchestra and UK/ US tour of The Enchanted Pig (Opera Group). Supported by Mr & Mrs Robert Enslow BELINDA WILLIAMS Linetta Oranges / ensemble read English at Warwick, and vocal studies at TCM and RAM. She is a Britten-Pears Young Artist. Roles include Dorabella and L’Enfant L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Orchestra of St Paul’s, Covent Garden), Popova The Bear, ‘Voce
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