La bohème livestream concert programme

BIOGRAPHIES
DAVID BIZIC
BARITONE
MARCELLO
BEN McATEER
BARITONE
SCHAUNARD
JOHN MOLLOY
BASS
COLLINE
EDDIE WADE
BARITONE
BENOÎT, ALCINDORO
Serbian baritone David Bizic
studied at the opera studio of Israeli
Opera and won second prize at the
prestigious 2007 Plácido Domingo
Operalia Competition. He made his
debut at the Metropolitan Opera
in New York in 2014, singing Albert in Massenet’s
Werther alongside Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch,
and reprised the role the following season. He also
returned to New York as Marcello in Puccini’s La
bohème, to Toulon as Belcore in Donizetti’s L’elisir
d’amore, sang Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen in Dijon
and made his Italian debut in the same role at the
Macareta Festival. He has also sung Sharpless in
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in New York, the title role
in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in Metz and Reims,
Enrico in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in Toulon,
Lescaut in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in Barcelona
and Escamillo in Carmen in Tel-Aviv. Praised for his
interpretation of Mozart, he has sung the title role
in Le nozze di Figaro (Angers, Nantes, Strasbourg,
Toulon, Monte-Carlo, Bordeaux, Geneva, Gent),
Publio in La clemenza di Tito (Avignon, Strasbourg,
Montpellier), Masetto in Don Giovanni (Paris, Aixen-Provence
Festival, Madrid), Leporello in Don
Giovanni (Toulouse, Rennes, Montpellier, Moscow,
Berlin, Valencia, Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago, Vienna),
the title role in Don Giovanni (Maribor, Rouen) and Il
Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro (Saint-Étienne).
Concert appearances include Fauré’s Requiem,
Schubert’s Mass in A-flat, Haydn’s Nelson Mass,
Falla’s La vida breve, Beethoven’s Choral Symphony,
and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem. He makes his
INO debut in La bohème.
Northern Irish baritone Ben
McAteer trained at the National
Opera Studio, London, and on the
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
opera course. Before embarking
on a musical career, he studied
chemistry at the University of St Andrews. Recent
operatic highlights include Eisenstein in Johann
Strauss’s Die Fledermaus and Marullo in Verdi’s
Rigoletto for Northern Ireland Opera, Marcello in
Puccini’s La bohème for Lyric Opera Productions,
Fritz/Pierrot in a concert performance of Korngold’s
Die tote Stadt for the RTÉ NSO, Earl of Mountararat
in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe at English National
Opera, Count Almaviva in Mozart’s The Marriage
of Figaro and Father in Humperdinck’s Hansel
and Gretel for INO, Father in Hansel and Gretel for
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Pangloss & Voltaire
in Bernstein’s Candide for West Green Opera and
the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra, and Grand Inquisitor
in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Gondoliers for Scottish
Opera. For Scottish Opera he also created the role of
James in Stuart MacRae’s The Devil Inside, for which
he won Outstanding Performance in an Opera at the
My Theatre Awards in Toronto. He also sang the title
role in Le nozze di Figaro and toured as Guglielmo
in Mozart’s Cosí fan tutte and Pish-Tush in Gilbert &
Sullivan’s The Mikado. Notable concert performances
include the world première of Mark-Anthony
Turnage’s At Sixes and Sevens with the London
Symphony Orchestra, Orff’s Carmina Burana at the
Barbican, and performances of Vaughan Williams’
Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Copland’s Old
American Songs with the Ulster Orchestra.
John Molloy is one of Ireland’s
leading basses and hails from Birr.
He studied at the DIT Conservatory
of Music and Drama, the Royal
Northern College of Music in
Manchester and the National
Opera Studio in London. He made his Irish National
Opera debut in 2018 as Antonio in Mozart’s The
Marriage of Figaro. Roles he has undertaken for Opera
Theatre Company include Sparafucile in Verdi’s
Rigoletto, Trinity Moses in Weill’s Mahagonny, the
title role in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Zuniga
in Bizet’s Carmen and he also appeared in Stephen
Deazley’s children’s opera BUG OFF!!! Other roles
include Alidoro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Scottish
Opera), Guccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi (Royal
Opera House, London), Masetto in Mozart’s Don
Giovanni (English National Opera), Arthur in Peter
Maxwell Davies’s The Lighthouse and Figaro in
Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro (Nationale Reisopera,
Netherlands), Le Commandeur in Thomas’s La cour
de Célimène (Wexford Festival Opera), Angelotti in
Puccini’s Tosca, Luka in Walton’s The Bear, Banco in
Verdi’s Macbeth and Dulcamara in Donizetti’s L’elisir
d’amore (OTC and NI Opera), Raimondo in Donizetti’s
Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Holland Park), Leporello
in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Sarastro in Mozart’s Die
Zauberflöte, Bonze in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
(Lyric Opera Productions), Snug in Britten’s A
Midsummer Nights Dream (Opera Ireland) and Henry
Kissinger in John Adams’s Nixon in China (Wide Open
Opera). Concert repertoire he has sung internationally
includes Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Verdi’s
Requiem, Mendelssohn’s St Paul, Haydn’s Creation,
Handel’s Messiah and Stravinsky’s Renard.
British baritone Eddie Wade
studied in London at the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama, and
the National Opera Studio. He was
awarded both First Prize and the
Verdi/Wagner Prize at the National
Mozart Competition in 1996, and in the same season
made his Royal OperaHouse debut as the Mandarin in
Puccini’s Turandot. His many varied roles with leading
companies include Peter in Humperdinck’s Hänsel
und Gretel, Baron Douphol in Verdi’s La traviata,
Fouquier-Tinville in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier and
Julio in Thomas Ades’s The Exterminating Angel
(Royal Opera House); Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama
Butterfly (Danish National Opera); Prince Arjuna in
Philip Glass’s Satyagraha, Mereia/Lepidus in Detlev
Glanert’s Caligula (EnglishNational Opera); Peter in
Hänsel und Gretel, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly,
Melot in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Marcello in
Puccini’s La bohème, Baron Douphol in La traviata,
Sprecher in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Conte Almaviva
in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Stárek in Janáček’s
Jenůfa (Welsh National Opera); Sharpless in Madama
Butterfly, the title role in Verdi’s Rigoletto, and the
Executioner in James MacMillan’s Inés de Castro
(Scottish Opera); Duclou in Leoncavallo’s Zazà (Opera
Holland Park); Sonora in Puccini’s La fanciulla del
West and Donald in Britten’s Billy Budd (Opera North);
Baron Douphol in La traviata (Glyndebourne Festival
Opera and Glyndebourne on Tour). Conductors he
has worked with include Charles Mackerras, Mark
Elder, Antonio Pappano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Maurizio
Benini, Carlo Rizzi, Philippe Auguin, Andris Nelsons,
Jakub Hrůša and Mark Wigglesworth. He makes his
INO debut in La bohème.
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