Wednesday 22 May: Concert Programme - London Symphony ...

Lukas Jakobski
Panthee / Narbal (bass)
Claudia Huckle
Anna (contralto)
Duncan Rock
First Soldier (baritone)
Born in Poland, Lukas Jakobski was a
member of the Jette Parker Young Artist
Programme at the Royal Opera House, from
2009–11 where his roles included Pietro
in Simon Boccanegra; Tall Englishman in
Prokofiev’s The Gambler, King in Aida and
Angelotti in Tosca.
Plans this season and beyond include
La Cuisinière in Prokofiev The Love for Three
Oranges for Netherlands Opera; Pietro in
Simon Boccanegra for Opera National de
Lyon; Handel’s The Resurrection; Bach’s
St Matthew Passion (Christus) for the London
Handel Festival at Wigmore Hall, with
conductors Adrian Butterfield and Laurence
Cummings; Britten’s Church Parables with
Mahogany Opera, the Aurora Orchestra
and Roger Vignoles on tour, and Polyphemus
in Acis and Galatea with Christian Curnyn
at Iford Festival.
For Royal Opera, Covent Garden Lukas has
sung Pistola in Falstaff, Greek Captain in
Les Troyens and Don Profundo in Il viaggio
a Reims; and for Glyndebourne on Tour,
Colline in La bohème and Zuniga in Carmen.
Concerts have included Bach’s St Matthew
Passion (Christus) with the Residentie Orchestra
in The Hague; St John Passion (arias) with
Stephen Layton and Polyphony in London
and St Matthew Passion (arias) with the Choir
of King’s College Cambridge and Stephen
Cleobury; Mozart’s Requiem in Trondheim
with Richard Egarr; and Galatea at the
London Handel Festival conducted by
Laurence Cummings.
British contralto Claudia Huckle studied at
the Royal College of Music, New England
Conservatory and the Curtis Institute of Music.
She was the 2004 winner of The Metropolitan
Opera National Council Auditions and is a
graduate of the prestigious Domingo-Cafritz
Young Artist Program with the Washington
National Opera.
Opera plans this season and beyond include
the title role in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia
in a new production by Fiona Shaw for
Glyndebourne on Tour; Marfa in Graham
Vick’s new production of Mussorgsky’s
Khovanshchina for the Birmingham Opera
Company; Smeton in Anna Bolena for
Washington National Opera; Hänsel for
Garsington Opera; and Third Lady in The
Magic Flute for the Festival d’Aix en Provence
and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Recent and future concert highlights include
Handel’s Messiah with the Academy of Ancient
Music; Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarro, Spain
and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra;
Beethoven Symphony No 9 with the RTÉ
National Symphony and Gerhard Markson;
Mahler Rückert Lieder with the Britten
Sinfonia, on tour in Spain; Haydn’s Nelson
Mass with the Northern Sinfonia; Beethoven’s
Missa Solemnis with Sir Roger Norrington at
King’s College, Cambridge and Bruckner’s
Te Deum with the Rheinische Philharmonie
and Jochen Schaaf.
Baritone Duncan Rock studied at the Guildhall
School and subsequently at the National
Opera Studio. A Jerwood Young Artist at the
Glyndebourne Festival, he was the recipient
of the 2010 John Christie Award and he is
the winner of the 2012 Chilcott Award –
the inaugural award from the Susan Chilcott
Scholarship to support a ‘major young artist
with the potential to make an international
impact’. He was named One to Watch in 2013
by Time Out magazine.
Fast establishing himself as an outstanding
young singer and performer, his engagements
in the 2012/13 season include Papageno
in The Magic Flute at the English National
Opera (where he is a Harewood Young Artist),
a return to the Glyndebourne Festival as
Novice’s Friend in Billy Budd and his debut
at the Théâtre du Châtelet as Billy Bigelow
in Carousel.
His engagements next season include
Tarquinius in Fiona Shaw’s new production
of The Rape of Lucretia for Glyndebourne,
Novice’s Friend at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music on tour with Glyndebourne and his
role debut as Marcello in La bohème for
Opera North. Future seasons will see him
return to the Glyndebourne Festival and
make major debuts at the Boston Lyric Opera
and the Frankfurt Opera.
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