Grange Park Opera 2010 Programme

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MATTEO DALLE FRATTE ensemble studied at the University of Padova and Guildhall. Matteo has been performing in England and in Italy and also working as Italian Coach at the National Opera Studio. SARA

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Capriccio 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 Geoffrey de Jager CATHAL GARVEY Chorus Master is from Ireland where he studied before attending the Moscow Conservatory. He acted as Chorus Master on more than 40 productions for Opera Ireland, Opera Theatre Company, Anna Livia Festival, Opera South and Lyric Opera productions. As a conductor, Cathal has appeared with Ireland’s major orchestras. This is his second season with Grange Park.

JAMES GILBERT ensemble studied at Huddersfield University. Roles include Pirate King (cover) for Carl Rosa, Papageno Magic Flute (Kenya), Ben The Telephone (Chepstow Festival), Splendiano Djamileh (Opera Minima), Angelotti Tosca (St John’s Smith Square). James has worked for Opera Holland, Chisinau National Opera and Buxton G&S Festival and is Music Director for Education workshops with Opera Minima. WOLFGANG GöBBEL Lighting Designer Oranges has worked throughout the world in theatre, dance and opera with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. He has worked on opera productions with major companies of Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, San Francisco, Houston, New York City, Dallas, London, Genève, Barcelona, Moscau, Athens, Rome, Milano, Torino, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Hamburg. Plans include Die Soldaten (New York), Ring (Hamburg), Lucia di Lammermoor (Brussels), Karl V (Bregenz), Tote Stadt (San Francisco and London), Rusalka (Brussels and Graz).

Oranges trained at the Laban

CRESSIDA VAN GORDON ensemble was originally a cellist and studied singing at the RNCM where roles included Mrs Peachum Threepenny Opera, Fox Cunning Little Vixen, Countess Figaro and Lady Billows (understudy) Albert Herring (BYO). Since graduating work has included Hen Cunning Little Vixen (Grange Park Opera), Mother (understudy) Hansel & Gretel (Opera North) and Mother (understudy) in the world premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Swanhunter (Opera North).

Centre. His opera credits include Salome (ROH); Handmaid’s Tale, Walküre and Turn of the Screw (ENO); Giulio Cesare (also Lille and Chicago) and Carmen (Glyndebourne); Rosenkavalier (Scottish Opera and Opera North); Der fliegende Holländer, Daphne (NYCO); Don Giovanni (Met); Trovatore (LA); L’incoronazione di Poppea (Champs-Elysées, Strasbourg, Staatsoper Berlin, La Monnaie and Copenhagen); Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Salzburg); Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci (Essen and Amsterdam); L’elisir (Amsterdam), La Belle Hélène (Aix-en-Provence); Griselda (Deutsche Oper Berlin); Tannhäuser (La Scala); Agrippina and Orphée aux Enfers (La Monnaie); Ring Cycle (Strasbourg); and I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Grange Park).

SUSAN GRITTON Cou ntess Madeleine Capriccio Winner of the 1994 Ferrier Award, operatic appearances include Liù, Micäela, Marenka (ROH); Konstanze, Fiordiligi, Vitellia, Cleopatra, Rodelinda, Blanche (Bayerische Staatsoper); Theodora (Glyndebourne); Tytania (Fenice); Ellen Orford (Opera Australia) and Countess Almaviva, Pamina, Fiordiligi and Vixen (ENO). Future engagements include Blanche (Bayerische Staatsoper) and Ellen Orford (La Scala). She has appeared in recital in London and New York and concert appearances include Berlin Philharmonic/ Rattle, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Pappano,

ANDREW GEORGE Choreographer

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