Opera Scotland

New to the website in April

Posted 4 May 2013

We've recently added a biography of Courtice Pounds.

Read the notes on the following operas and first performances:-  Claude Duval (Solomon), Geisha (Jones), Grand Duke (Sullivan), Haddon Hall (Sullivan), Lakmé (Delibes), Nautch Girl (Solomon), Rose of Persia (Sullivan).

We've started to add mini-biographies of current performers and started with the cast of Siege of Calais.  Look at Eddie Wade, Helen Sherman (and our interview with her here), Niel Joubert, Matthew Sprange, Jeremy Silver, Paula Sides, Andrew Glover, Brendan Collins, Cozmin Sime, Adam Tunnicliffe and Piotr Lempa.  See some images from the production here.

Read about James Conway. general director of English Touring Opera.  See some images from the ETO production of Simon Boccanegra, and read about the cast - Grant Doyle, Piotr Lempa, Craig Smith, Keel Watson, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Charne Rochford.   The conductor is Michael Rosewell.

See images of  the Cosi fan tutte production here and learn about the singers - Anthony Gregory, Toby Girling, Paula Sides, Richard Mosley-Evans, Laura Mitchell and Kitty Whately.  The performance is conducted by James Burton.