Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) - Chandos

CHAN 3113 BOOK.qxd 20/9/06 11:24 am Page 28(Peter Grimes) forGlyndebourne FestivalOpera; Don Basilio,Monostatos, Lysander(A Midsummer Night’sDream), Alwa (Lulu)and Herod (Salome)for English NationalOpera; Cassio (Otello)for Welsh NationalOpera; Eisenstein, Schoolmaster (The CunningLittle Vixen) for Scottish Opera; andAschenbach (Death in Venice), Lysander, AlbertHerring and Ferrando (Così fan tutte) forGlyndebourne Touring Opera.Other engagements have included BobBoles (Netherlands Opera); Basilio (LaMonnaie); the title role in Pascal Dusapin’snew opera Perela, l’Homme de fumée at theOpéra de Paris-Bastille and in Montpellier.Other roles at English National Opera, wherehe was a Company Principal, have includedSylvester (The Silver Tassie), Goro (MadamButterfly), Triquet (Eugene Onegin),Monostatos (The Magic Flute), Mime(The Rhinegold ) and Alwa (Lulu).John Graham-Hall has worked with manydistinguished conductors including Haitink,Harnoncourt, Boulez, Andrew Davis, Tate,Rattle, Gardiner and Abbado. His concertcareer has taken him all over Europe, workingwith all the major British orchestras andappearing frequently at the Barbican and theSouth Bank. Recordings for Chandos includeVaughan Williams’s The Poisoned Kiss, PeterGrimes, and, as part of the Opera in Englishseries, The Thieving Magpie and Berg’sWozzeck.Graeme Danby wasborn in CountyDurham and studiedat the Royal Academyof Music in London.His long associationwith English NationalOpera includesappearances asLorenzo in Bellini’sThe Capulets and the Montagues, Pimen (BorisGodunov), Don Basilio (The Barber of Seville),Dulcamara (The Elixir of Love), Somnus(Semele), Quince (A Midsummer Night’sDream), Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia),Arkel (Pelleas and Melisande) and Poo-Bah(The Mikado).His debut at the Royal Opera House,Covent Garden was in La traviata, and hisGlyndebourne debut was as Antonio (Le nozzedi Figaro). Further UK engagements includeBartolo (Le nozze di Figaro) for Opera Northand the Garsington Festival; Collatinus at theBuxton Festival; and Bosun (Billy Budd ) andMasetto (Don Giovanni) for Scottish Opera.Concert appearances include Beethoven’sSymphony No. 9 and Verdi’s Requiem at theRoyal Albert Hall, Mahler’s Eighth Symphonyat the Royal Festival Hall, and Iolanthe atManchester’s Bridgewater Hall.Sarah Tynan wasborn in London andstudied at the RoyalNorthern College ofMusic and the RoyalAcademy of Music(with PenelopeMackay). At theRAM, she wasawarded the Queen’sCommendation for Excellence.Operatic engagements include Pretty Pollyin Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy at the TeatroNacional S. João in Porto, the Governess inBritten’s Turn of the Screw for a British Counciltour of Russia, Elsie Maynard (The Yeomen ofthe Guard ) and Gianetta (The Gondoliers) forPhoenix Opera, and Barbarina for OperaHolland Park. Opera appearances at the RAMinclude the title role in The Cunning LittleVixen (conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras)and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) (conducted by SirColin Davis).Other engagements include her debut withWelsh National Opera as Iphis in Handel’sJephtha; Eleanora in Salieri’s Prima la musicaand Mlle Silberklang in Mozart’s DerSchauspieldirektor with the City of LondonSinfonia/Richard Hickox; and the MozartRequiem conducted by Sir Roger Norringtonat the Spitalfields Festival. Sarah Tynan iscurrently a member of the English NationalOpera Young Singers Programme.Stuart Kale is internationally recognised asone of the most outstanding singing actors inthe operatic world. A consummate musician,his roles cover a huge range of repertoire fromMonteverdi to Messiaen. He began his careerat Welsh National Opera before joiningEnglish National Opera, where he remainedfor eight years, singing roles such as DonOttavio (Don Giovanni), Michael in Martinů’sJulietta, Alfred (Die Fledermaus) and Nanki-Poo in Jonathan Miller’s production of TheMikado. In 1987 he began his flourishing2829