LSO/Harding, Rotterdam Philharmonic/Bruggen, BBC SO/Haitink, SCO/Mackerras, New York Philharmonic/ Colin Davis and L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Tate. Supported by Victoria & Richard Sharp. DERYCK HAMON 5th Servant Capriccio was born in Guernsey and studied at Rose Bruford College and singing at RNCM. He was a member of D’Oyly Carte, first as a chorister, then as principal bass, singing Lieutenant Cholmondeley and Mikado. Other roles include Torquato Tasso (Buxton), Leonora L’oca del Cairo and Candide (Batignano), Dikoy Kátya Kabanová, Bartolo and Basilio Barbiere, Commendatore Giovanni, Alfonso Così, Sarastro, Count and Bartolo Figaro, Angelotti and Sacristan Tosca, Colline, Alcindoro and Benoit Boheme, Il Talpa Tabarro, Betto and Simone Gianni Schicchi, Escamillo, Don Pasquale, Dulcamara. QUENTIN
HAYES Pantaloon Oranges studied at Dartington and the GSMD. His performances include Papageno, Ford, Life with an Idiot (ENO), Rossini’s Figaro (Glyndebourne, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Garsington), Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor (Anna Livia Festival), Achilles Penthesilea (Montpellier), Dancaïre Carmen (Glyndebourne and BBC TV), House of the Dead (Frankfurt, WNO) and Vixen (CBTO). He made his ROH debut as Agravain Gawain and has since sung Schaunard, Angelotti, Ping, Novice’s Friend Billy Budd, Hermann Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Kuligin Kátya Kabanová, Francis Boulevard Solitude, Marullo, Melot, Larry Landau Sophie’s Choice, Yamadori, Herald Lohengrin, Count Dominik Arabella, Ned Keene and Second Apprentice Wozzeck. Future plans include Dancaïre for Raymond Gubbay. Supported by Sally Phillips TOBY HUNT ensemble was born in Cardiff and read music at Cardiff University. He has sung with Carl Rosa performing in Mikado, Iolanthe and Pirates of Penzance and a tour of the USA playing the Carpenter and understudying the role of Boatswain HMS Pinafore and 4th Yeoman Yeomen of the Guard (Tower Festival). He also appears annually at the International Festival at Buxton, having sung Mikado, HMS Pinafore and Trial by Jury. Toby has also conducted the musical Little Women (Bloomsbury Theatre) and Voice Over, a project with the LSO and the City Youth Choir at the Barbican, in a premiere of Wide World by Howard Goodall.
LEO HUSSAIN Conductor Oranges is Music Director of Landestheater Salzburg and made his début at La Monnaie last season conducting Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. He has conducted for ENO, Glyndebourne on Tour, Opera North and Holland Park. He appears regularly at the Salzburg Festival where he has conducted Pelléas & Mélisande with Berliner Philharmonic as assistant to Sir Simon Rattle; Benvenuto Cellini with Vienna Philharmonic as assistant to Valery Gergiev; Otello and Zauberflöte as assistant to Riccardo Muti. He assisted on Rake’s Progress at Opéra de Paris and Götterdämmerung at Aix-en-Provence. Plans include new productions at Mariinsky Theatre, La Monnaie, ENO and Salzburg, debuts at Oper Frankfurt, Volksoper Wien. Supported by George & Janette Hollingbery RICHARD IMMERGLüCK ensemble studied at GSMD. Last season’s productions at Grange Park included Norma and Eliogabalo and a concert performance of Der fliegende Holländer. Recent work included title roles Barber of Seville (Unexpected Opera) and Nozze di Figaro (Dorset Productions), Sid Albert Herring (Co-Opera-Co) and a recital at Somerset House. STEPHEN JEFFREY ensemble is from Liverpool where he was a choirboy with the Metropolitan Cathedral Choir. He studied at Birmingham Conservatoire and RCM, where roles included Ottone L'Incoronazione di Poppea and Haraschta Vixen and won several awards, including the English Song Prize and the Opera Prize. Since finishing his studies roles include Fabrizio La Pietra del Paragone (Stanley Hall), Morales Carmen, Schaunard Boheme (Blackheath Halls), Garibaldo Rodelinda and Masetto Don Giovanni (Opera de Baugé). Stephen also appeared in the chorus of Kenneth Branagh’s film of The Magic Flute. SALLY JOHNSON Italian Singer
Capriccio studied at RNCM and in Italy. Roles include Clotilde Norma (Grange Park), Musetta Boheme (cover/Scottish Opera), Donna Elvira Giovanni, Lisa Queen of Spades (RNCM) Tatiana Onegin (Lakeland Opera), Minerva Il Ritorno d’Ulisse (Creakes Baroque Sinfonia), Ariel/Storm Bringer National Theatre.
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