19 & 21 April programme PDF - London Symphony Orchestra

Oliver Gooch
Assistant Conductor
16 The Artists
Oliver Gooch studied at Cambridge
University, the Guildhall School
and at the National Opera Studio.
As Artistic Director of Opera East
Productions, Oliver has toured
projects including Britten’s chamber
operas, Mozart’s da Ponte operas
and the critically acclaimed Rake’s
Progress.
Oliver conducts regularly in
concert and has frequently collaborated with the Royal Opera
(assistant conductor on Il Trovatore and La Traviata), Glyndebourne
Festival (assistant to Charles Mackerras on The Magic Flute),
Glyndebourne on Tour (assistant conductor on The Marriage of Figaro
and Albert Herring), Opera North (assistant conductor on I Capuleti
and The Adventures of Mr Broucek), Buxton Festival (Riders to the
Sea, Savitri and The Wandering Scholar), Iford Festival (Rusalka,
Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor, Eugene Onegin and Hansel and
Gretel) and for Stanley Hall Opera. He made his US debut with Dicapo
Opera conducting Susa’s Dangerous Liaisons and returned for the US
premiere of Janáček’s Šárka.
Recent and future engagements include Carmen and Madama
Butterfly (Raymond Gubbay), Heart of Darkness (ROH2/Linbury)
and The Magic Flute on tour in Italy. He makes his debut with
the Hallé in 2013.
Amanda Holden
Narration author / translator
Amanda Holden first wrote for the
opera house when she co-translated
the libretto of Mozart’s Don Giovanni
for Jonathan Miller’s production at
ENO in 1985. Since then she has
translated around 50 more opera
texts as well as concert works,
lieder, music theatre and plays.
Several of her translations have
been commissioned by ENO, most
recently Rameau’s Castor and Pollux (2011) for which she received a
nomination in the 2012 Olivier Awards and Caligula by Detlev Glanert,
which will open at the Coliseum in May. Amanda’s librettos include
Bliss, Brett Dean’s first opera (Opera Australia) and The Silver Tassie
for Mark-Anthony Turnage (ENO), for which she received the Olivier
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera in 2001.
Amanda read music at Oxford University, then went on a scholarship
to the Guildhall School, where she later taught piano while working
as an accompanist. She also worked in music therapy and began
the department at the Charing Cross Hospital. In the mid-1980s she
founded the Viking/Penguin Opera Guides; her most recent edition
is The Concise Penguin Guide to Opera and a complete web edition
is now in preparation.