Maria Stuarda Programme Book 2022

CALLUM THORPE
BASS
TALBOT
British bass Callum Thorpe initially
obtained a PhD in immunology
before focussing on his vocal
studies at the Royal Academy of
Music. From 2017 to 2021 he was a
member of the solo ensemble at the
Bavarian State Opera, where his roles included Banco
in Verdi’s Macbeth, Pistola in Verdi’s Falstaff, Il re
d’Egitto in Verdi’s Aida, Colline in Puccini’s La bohème,
Zuniga in Bizet’s Carmen, Farfallo in Strauss’s Die
schweigsame Frau,Truffaldino in Strauss’s Ariadne auf
Naxos and Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. This
season’s highlights include Rocco in Beethoven’s
Fidelio (Glyndebourne Tour) and Sparafucile in Verdi’s
Rigoletto (Opera North). This season’s concerts
include Bach’s Mass in B Minor under Giedrė Šlekytė
at Tyrolean Festspiele Erl, Handel’s La resurrezione at
London Handel Festival with Laurence Cummings and
a return visit to the Edinburgh International Festival.
Other roles have included Sarastro in Mozart’s Die
Zauberflöte and Banco in Verdi’s Macbeth (Theater
Basel), Commendatore and Masetto in Mozart’s
Don Giovanni (Royal Opera of Versailles with Marc
Minkowski), Antinoo and Il Tempo in Monteverdi’s
Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Théâtre des Champs
Elysées under Emmanuelle Haïm), Masetto in Don
Giovanni (Glyndebourne on Tour and Garsington
Opera), Lieutenant Radcliffe in Britten’s Billy Budd
(Opera North) and Plutone in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo
(Royal Opera House). He has performed extensively
with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants
at Glyndebourne Festival, Théâtre des Champs
Elysées, Lincoln Center, New York, Concertgebouw,
Amsterdam, and at the BBC Proms in works by
Handel, Blow, Purcell, Rameau, Lully and Charpentier.
IRISH NATIONAL OPERA
ORCHESTRA
The Irish National Opera Orchestra is made up
of leading freelance musicians based in Ireland.
Members of the orchestra have a broad range of
experience playing operatic, symphonic, chamber
and new music repertoire. The orchestra plays
for contemporary opera productions – Thomas
Adès’s Powder her Face and Brian Irvine and Netia
Jones’s Least Like the Other – as well as chamber
reductions of larger scores – Offenbach’s The
Tales of Hoffmann and Humperdinck’s Hansel
and Gretel. The orchestra, which appeared in its
largest live formation to date in Rossini’s Cinderella/
La Cenerentola at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in
Dublin in 2019, numbered even more – 79 players
– for the sessions to produce the soundtrack for
INO’s spectacular, site-specific, outdoor production
of Strauss’s Elektra at Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2021.
The Irish National Opera Orchestra has been heard in
17 venues throughout Ireland.
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