Singers
James Allen - Treble
Elizabeth Cameron - Soprano
William Coleman - Baritone
Lynsey Docherty - Soprano
Matthew Duncan - Baritone
Steven Gallop - Bass
Nick Gee - Baritone
Julia Hessey - Soprano
Ilana Jacobs - Soprano
Thomas Kennedy - Baritone
James Lonsdale - Tenor
Russell Matthews - Bass baritone
Toby F Scholz - Tenor
Richard Strivens - Bass-baritone
David Stuart - Baritone
Abbi Temple - Soprano
Hugo Tucker - Tenor
Jeremy Vinogradov - Baritone
Amy Webber - Soprano
Mike Woodward - Tenor
Vanessa Woodward – Contralto
Elizabeth Cameron – Soprano
Elizabeth studied at the University of Wales, Bangor, where she attained a Bachelor of Music degree and Masters in Music specializing in Performance. In September 2002, after 3 years working as a secondary school music teacher, Elizabeth entered Trinity College of Music where she began studying voice under Hazel Wood. She obtained her Post Graduate Diploma in 2003 and having gained the highest mark for her Advanced Diploma recital in July 2005 she was nominated to take part in the Trinity College of Music Gold Medal competition.
Solo performances include Mozart's Mass in G, Haydn's Harmoniemesse and mostrecently Charpentier's Te Deum and Schubert's Mass in A Flat with Buckingham Choral Society.Operatic experience includes Nella and Sister Genevieve in Opera Anywhere's productions of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, the Mother in Menotti's Amahl and The Night Visitors for Opera Anywhere, Musetta in La Bohème for Windsor and Eaton Operatic Societyand the Mother in Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel for Runaway Opera. Further engagements include performing with Scottish Opera in their production of Lucia di Lammermoor which is to be performed in May and June 2007.
Lynsey Docherty - Soprano
Lynsey read music at City University with vocal training at the GSMD, studying privately since with Jane Highfield and Phillip Thomas (ENO). Opera roles include Fiordiligi "Cosi Fan Tutte", Susanna and Cherubino "The Marriage of Figaro", Tatyana "Eugene Onegin", Flora "La Traviata", Donna Anna "Don Giovanni", Pamina and 1st Lady "The Magic Flute", Marenka "The Bartered Bride", Gianetta "The Elixir of Love". Recital performances include St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Chelmsford Cathedral, Cheltenham Town Hall, Barber Institute of Fine Arts (Birmingham), Llantilio Crossenny Festival, Salisbury International Arts Festival and many UK music societies. She will perform in the inaugral 'London Song Festival' in October.
Her many critically acclaimed oratorio performances include Mendelssohn's Elijah, Brahms' Requiem, Mozart's C Minor Mass, Beethoven Mass in C, Mozart Vespers and Faure Requiem in venues including Exeter Cathedral and Norwich Cathedral, and with orchestra, she has recently performed Exsultate Jubilate with Hayes Symphony Orchestra and Mozart Concert Arias with Sarum Orchestra as their 06/07 'Young Artist'.
In contemporary music, Lynsey has premiered works at the Queen Elizabeth Hall for the Park Lane Composers" Forum. She appeared in the world premiere of Howard Fredrics" The Whitechapel Whirlwind at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, and as a lead role for the world premiere of Richard Peat's chamber opera I'm the King of the Castle in 2006 at the Holywell Music Rooms, Oxford.
David Stuart - Baritone
David graduated from New College, Oxford as an Academical Clerk of the choir with a first class honours degree in music. After two further years there as a Lay Clerk, he went on to study for a Masters in Musical Performance at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Since then he has pursued a busy career as a free-lance singer including opera, oratorio, choral and recital work.
As an opera singer he has taken principal roles in operas ranging from Purcell to Puccini for many companies including: New Chamber Opera, Handmade Opera, Opera East Productions, Glyndebourne Opera, Opera Anywhere, ENO Baylis, Candlelight Opera, Starlight Opera and Garsington Opera Chorus. Future engagements include the roles of Smirnov in Walton's The Bear for Opera Anywhere and Ariodates in Handel's Xerxes for New Chamber Opera.
As well as frequent appearances as an oratorio soloist and recitalist he has also sung with The Sixteen, The Monteverdi Choir, Ex Cathedra, Academy of Ancient Music, CBSO, LPO, Kings Consort, OAE, Hanover Band, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Brabant Ensemble, C18th Concert Orchestra, Armonico Consort, Apollo Voices, EUBO, Musica Humana and he has recently recorded Vaughan William's The Wasps with Mark Elder and the Hallé.
In addition to his career as a performer he directs a number of choirs and vocal ensembles in and around Oxford including The Oxford Clerks, he teaches at The Dragon School, Oxford, and tutoring in undergraduate music for the Oxford Overseas Study Course and Stanford in Oxford programmes. He has also tutored for the Dartington Summer School of Music's choral course.
Mike Woodward - Tenor
With his wife Vanessa, Mike set up Opera Anywhere in 2000 and regularly performs opera and oratorio.
Mike studies singing with Jean Allister and has also benefited from the wisdom and experience of experts in their field such as: Charles Corp; Lena Phillips; Henry Herford; Adrian Thompson; Robin Bowman; Richard Jackson; Prof Sue McCulloch; Catherine Wyn-Rogers and James Gillchrist.
Mike particularly enjoys English Song, especially the music of Finzi, Gurney and Milford, he has recently performed song recitals featuring Finzi's settings of Thomas Hardy poems. His recent Oratorio engagements have included Stainer's Crucifixion, Handel's Messiah, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Haydn's Nelson Mass.
Mike's recent opera roles include 'Kaspar' in 'Amahl and the night visitors' (Menotti); various Gilbert & Sullivan roles; 'Rinuccio' in 'Gianni Schicchi' (Puccini) and 'Camille in 'The Merry Widow' (Lehar) and 'Jupiter' (from Handel's Semele) in Opera Anywhere's recent 'Great Opera Moments'. Although Mike spends most of his time these days promoting Opera and developing Opera Anywhere as a business he is passionate about singing and will take any opportunity to perform.
Mike and Vanessa both appeared in a channel 4 TV documentary recently, with the renowned music presenter Harvey Goldsmith. Harvey has taken an interest in Opera Anywhere as part of a series of 'trouble shooter' type programmes focused on the entertainment business, a snippet can be viewed by clicking here.
Matthew Duncan - Baritone
Having graduated in music from the University of Hull in 2004, Matthew went on to study at the Univerisita per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy. He studies voice with baritone soloist Quentin Hayes and later this year will commence postgraduate vocal and opera studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
He is currently undertaking the Morley Opera Course in London where he has sung the roles of Gugliemo & Don Alfonso (Cosi fan Tutte), Ottone, (Coronation of Poppea) and Figaro (Barber of Seville). Matthew has also just performed Strauss’s The Bat's Revenge with Alternative Opera Company. Other recent solo appearances include Schubert’s Mass in A flat and Mass in G, Kurt Weill’s Lady in the Dark and Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. Matthew also enjoys singing with Drawing Room Opera which give regular opera gala concerts in London.
Julia Hessey - Soprano
Julia began her singing training as a Junior Exhibitioner at Trinity College of Music, London. She graduated in music from the University of Birmingham and later joined 'The Knack', a year-long ENO Baylis programme. She completed postgraduate studies in singing at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
Operatic roles include Despina (Cosi Fan Tutte), Le Petit Yiniold (Pelleas et Melisande), Blanche de la Force (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Giulietta (I Capuleti ed I Montecchi), Papagena (The Magic Flute), Servillia (Il Clemenza di Tito), Barbarina (Marriage of Figaro), Lisa (The Grand Duke), Melissa (Princess Ida), Eliza (The Zoo), and Clara (The Duenna).
Julia sings frequently as an oratorio soloist and recitalist. Her appearances have included Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Bach's Magnificat in D and St John Passion, Vaughan Williams' Hodie, Charpentier's Te Deum and Messe de Minuit Pour Noel, Faure's Requiem, Durufle's Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Nelson Mass, Rossini's Petite Messe Sollonelle and Jenkins' The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace.
She has performed as a soloist at venues such as Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the University of Warwick and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.
Steven Gallop - Bass
Steven Gallop began his professional singing career with the Queensland Lyric Opera and was later engaged by the Australian Opera. He took part in the ESSO Young Artist Programme and sang many roles between 1990 and 1994. In 1992 he won the Sydney Operatic Aria Award and used this opportunity to study in Vienna. His European debut in Vienna was as John Claggart ("Billy Budd"). Along with operatic performances he has appeared in concerts at the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus.
With Welsh National Opera he sang Don Fernando ("Fidelio") and Varlaam ("Boris Godunov"), and was involved in the English National Opera's production of "Lulu".
Acclaimed performances of Thomas Ades' "Powder Her Face" have taken him from Vienna to Odense, Tel Aviv National Opera, Zagreb Concert House, Chicago, Nantes, Winterthur, Rome and San Carlo Theatre, Naples. In contemporary opera he gave the Austrian premiere of "Eight Songs for a Mad King" and "The Lighthouse"(Maxwell Davies).
Other performances have been at the Vienna Volksoper and in the Klangbogen Festival as Barbemuche in Leoncavello's "La Boheme". Concert performances include highlights from "Don Carlos" (King Philip, Friar), "Rigoletto" (Sparafucile), "Faust" (Mephistopheles), "The Magic Flute" (Sarastro), Fidelio (Rocco), and Boris (Boris Gudonov), "Der Freischutz" (Kasper).
In 2004 he sang in the Chilean premiere of "Peter Grimes"(Swallow) in Teatro Municipal in Santiago, and Nigel Osborne's "Terrible Mouth" in Vienna and the world premiere of Osborne's "The Piano Tuner" at Covent Garden, London. Recently his performances have included Caronte and Plutone in Orfeo, (Vienna), Greek(Turnage) in Winterthür, made his German debut at Oper Frankfurt and concert performances of highlights from "The Barber of Seville" (Basilio).
Last year performances included Sarastro in "Die Zauberflöte 06" in Vienna and Bratislava and the Mozart Requim. Future appearances include the world stage premiere of Jonathan Dove's opera "When She Died" in Vienna Kammeroper, "Don Giovanni"(Commendatore) UK tour, Tan Dun's opera "Tea", Vienna, Elgar's "The Dream of Gerontius", Sao Paulo, Brazil and Sarastro for Eugene Opera, Oregon.
William Coleman - Baritone
William Coleman has sung with Welsh National Opera, English Touring Opera and Buxton Festival Opera. A member of the Chorus of Scottish Opera 1996 - 2001, he performed a wide range of roles and cover-roles with the company. In demand as a consort singer, William has sung with many leading ensembles including BBC Singers, Ex-Cathedra, Dunedin Consort and Cappella Nova.
William has a great interest in song performances, and has given recent recitals featuring British composers at the Bath Literature Festival, Buxton Festival and the Stratford Festival of English Music with commissions from English composers, John Jeffreys and Edward Rushton. William received an award from the Scottish Arts Council and support of the Saltire Society in his work to perform contemporary Scottish song composers. He recently recorded a disc of lieder by Swiss composers for Guild Records.
William Coleman was brought up in Somerset where he was a Chorister at Wells Cathedral School. He read music at the University of Liverpool, where he was a choral scholar at the Metropolitan Cathedral, and studied singing privately with Robert Alderson and then in Glasgow at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Patricia MacMahon. He attended the Britten-Pears School for advanced Musical Studies on a course with Richard Egarr and Hans Peter Blochwitz, and William now continues his studies with Nicholas Powell and Hans Peter Blochwitz. As an oratorio soloist, William has performed recently with Nottingham Bach Choir, Leicestershire Chorale, English Baroque Choir, Buxton Festival, Edinburgh Bach Choir and the Britten-Pears Chamber Choir at Snape Maltings.
Toby F Scholz - Tenor
Toby started singing in the Youth Choir of the Peter-Cornelius-Konservatorium in Mainz, Germany at the age of eleven. Soon, his musical interest began to widen and he took up piano lessons with Hans-Georg Lange at the same institute, aged 14. Courses in harmony, composition and rhythm followed. His talent was discovered quickly, and after mutation, he was invited to join the Landesjugendchor Rheinland-Pfalz and the prestigious Mainzer Figuralchor. Hence the relationship with his teacher Werner Schüßler developed, which thrived into copious work with the ensemble Quint and others in Germany and Austria.
In 2001, he joined the Heinrich-Schütz-Ensemble, Vornbach and ventured into solistic work studying with Kellaug Tesaker in Salzburg (Mozarteum).
One of the highlights of Toby's career was an appearance with the Hilliard Ensemble in Neuwied in 2002. He started an undergraduate course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, where he is attending the fourth year. Toby appears regularly in song-recitals throughout London, the UK and Austria. He has taken part in the 2005 Aldeburgh Young Artists' Programme, will performed shortly Sadler's Wells in Frederick Delius' Koanga and currently holds a choral scholarship of All Saints in Fulham.
James Allen - Treble
James did his first solo at the age of five. He has been a Chorister at Radley College for three years. He started performing Opera in 2005 when he was given the lead role in Menottis 'Amahl and the Night Visitors'. Since then he has performed in Oliver(2006), Amahl(2006), Proms on the Pond (2007) and was the youngest person to take part in Opera Festas 'Opera and Singing Master Class' (2007). He has been a member of Opera Anywhere since Sept. 2006 and enjoys working along side many professional singers and tutors.
As well as Opera, James sings at Concerts, Festivals, Weddings and other special occasions. He has also sung in Welsh, French, German and Latin! This Autumn he will be touring with 'Arias on Ice' and is also looking forward to performing 'Amahl' again at Christmas.
Abbi Temple - Soprano
Abbi read music at Royal Holloway, University of London, and was awarded a distinction for her advanced post-graduate diploma from Trinity College of Music in 2006. Supported by vocal department and choral scholarships, she studied with Hazel Wood, Robert Aldwinckle & Eugene Asti and took part in masterclasses with Michael Chance and Emma Kirkby.
Performances at TCM included playing Euridice in their highly acclaimed 2005 production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and Polly Peachum in the 2006 production of The Beggar's Opera. Other roles studied and performed as excerpts included Ilia (Mozart - Idomineo),Vixen (Janacek -The Cunning Little Vixen), Poppea (Monteverdi-L'Incoronazione di Poppea) and Tina (Jonathan Dove - Flight).
Abbi's other opera credits include Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Giannetta (L'Elisir d'Amore), Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors) and Belinda (Dido and Aeneas). Abbi also enjoys performing regularly as a soloist in Oratorio and sings with various ensembles, including the Gabrieli Consort. Recent performances include Mozart Requiem, Haydn Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn Elijah and Monteverdi Vespers,while plans for the coming months include Handel Judas Maccabaeus, Mozart Coronation Mass and Beethoven Mass in C, as well as concerts in Spain and France with the Gabrieli Consort, under Paul McCreesh, and performances at the Emilia Romagna Festival, Italy, with the Chapel choir of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
Richard Strivens - Bass-baritone
Richard Strivens, bass-baritone, originally from Kent, grew up in Belgium and graduated from Oxford University in Chemistry. He studied singing at the National Opera Studio, the Royal Northern College of Music and EurOperaStudio, Milan.
He has sung Nick Shadow (The Rake"s Progress) for English Touring Opera, the Stage Technician (The Makropulos Case) for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Don Giovanni and Figaro for Ryedale Festival Opera, Colline for Scottish Opera on Tour and Tergisto (Messalina) at the Batignano Festival in Italy.
Other Mozart roles include the Count for Pimlico Opera and Simone (La finta semplice) for the Classical Opera Company and Masetto at Cologne Opera. From the Handel bass repertoire, he has sung Tiridate and Melisso; also, Zoroastro (Orlando) and Ariodate (Xerxes) for the Cambridge Handel Opera Group.
More modern roles include Boatman/Lightning in Julian Philip"s children"s opera Dolffin for WNO Max, Vermeer in Birtwistle"s The Second Mrs Kong, Håkon in Maxwell Davies" The Martyrdom of St Magnus for The Opera Group and Britten"s Noah, Collatinus and Hel Helson . Richard created the role of Abbot Samson in Judith Bingham"s The Ivory Tree. Recently he joined with the Birmingham Royal Ballet to sing Pulcinella conducted by Barry Wordsworth.
More information can be found on Richard's website: www.richardstrivens.com
Vanessa Woodward – Contralto
Vanessa studied at Colchester School of Music and Trinity College of Music where she was awarded the 'Wilfred Greenhouse prize for Oratorio and Cantata'. Vanessa studies singing with Prof Susan McCulloch and Jean Allister. Vanessa's early professional career was as a singer / guitarist in rock and folk bands, she has now 'crossed over' and has resumed her classical singing career. Vanessa is an experienced Oratorio soloist and has performed alto solos in most mainstream works and some new works too such as Simon Speare's 'The Angels' performed at the Sheldonian Theatre in 2003. Vanessa also enjoys performing Lieder and 20th Century British Song.
Most recently on the operatic stage Vanessa has performed the roles of the 'Princess' in Puccini's 'Sister Angelica' and 'Popova' in 'The Bear' by Walton which included an appearance on Sean Rafferty's 'In Tune' programme on BBC Radio Three, 'Baba in Menotti's 'The Medium' and 'Miss Baggot' in Britten's 'The Little Sweep'. Vanessa is co-founder and director of Opera Anywhere and was also the Artistic Director of last year's Sunningwell Music & Arts Festival.
Forthcoming performance includes the Première of 'A Passage Of Life' by Anthony Gracie, for contralto and orchestra; Alto soloist in Haydn's Nelson Mass and Paukenmesse and as 'Popova' in Opera Anywhere's revival of their 2005 production of Walton's 'The Bear' (Vanessa, right, with Olly Hunt and David Stuart in The Bear).
Nick Gee - Baritone
Nick was born on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus and, having been educated at Bedford School and the University of Manchester, trained with Robert Alderson at the Royal Northern College of Music and Boris Bakow at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has also received private tuition from Nigel Beaven (St. Paul’s Cathedral) and Jennifer Dakin (Royal Academy of Music).
He has sung a wide variety of operatic roles, including Figaro in both The Marriage
of Figaro and The Barber of Seville, Rambaldo La Rondine, Danilo The Merry Widow,
Papageno The Magic Flute, Leporello Don Giovanni, Escamillo Carmen, The Vicar Albert
Herring, Giuseppe The Gondoliers, Valentin & Wagner Faust, Baron Douphol La Traviata,
Marullo Rigolett o, Melchior Amahl and the Night Visitors, and The Father Hänsel und Gretel.
He has appeared in a range of productions for Opera Anywhere, including their recent
Great Opera Moments and Proms on the Pond events.
Nick was baritone soloist with the Salzburger Domchor under Janos Czifra, and is much in demand as a concert performer. Recent engagements include settings of the Requiem Mass by Mozart, Fauré and Duruflé, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Haydn’s Creation, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Orff ’s Carmina Burana, and Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols. An experienced actor, he has appeared in a range of productions, with his most recent appearance being Amiens in Chiltern Shakespeare Company’s production of As You Like It at Hall Barn in Beaconsfield.
Thomas Kennedy - Baritone
Thomas Kennedy began his singing studies at the Centre for Young Musicians in London before taking up a Choral Scholarship at New College Oxford. He then spent some years teaching maths at Westminster School whilst continuing to sing regularly in recital and with numerous choirs around London. While at university he made his operatic debut with New Chamber Opera in their garden opera production of Dido and Aeneas.
Other work with NCO includes Figaro in Giles Swayne’s Le
Nozze di Cherubino and the Cold Genius in Purcell’s King Arthur. After numerous roles in
workshop productions and scenes with Hand Made Opera and Morley Opera he has more
recently taken the villain roles in The Tales of Hoffman with Arcola Opera and is currently
appearing in the title role in Hampstead Garden Opera’s Eugene Onegin.
With the Choir of New College he has extensive concert experience in the field of baroque oratorio performing with, among others, the King’s Consort and the Academy of Ancient Music. He is increasingly busy as a soloist on the concert platform; works have included the B-minor mass and assorted cantatas with the Oxford Bach Ensemble, the St John Passion with the St Peter’s Singers, numerous Messiahs, Ich habe genug with the Clemens non papa consort, and Faure’s Requiem with the Chigwell Choral Society. He has also performed in semi-staged and concert performances as Aeneas (St Cecilia Singers, Cantandum, Valentine Singers) Alfio in Cavelleria Rusticana (Valentine Singers) and Historicus in Carissimi’s Jephte (Cantandum).
Having left full-time teaching earlier this year, Thomas is currently studying with Raymond Connell at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, but continues to coach maths as well as holding the post of choral director at the Church of St Magnus the Martyr in the City of London.
James Lonsdale - Tenor
Having sung with choirs, choral societies and in pantomimes,
Jamie has been fortunate to receive years of coaching and inspiration
from the late Betty Bleakley. He has been enormously helped
recently by Ingrid Attrot and Arwel Treharne-Morgan. Jamie's
debut opera performance was as 'Gherardo' in Opera Anywhere's
'Gianni Schicchi' production (Puccini) in 2004 and has since regularly
performed with the prestigious Grange Park Opera, performing
in all their summer productions including Massenet’s "Thais",
Donizetti’s "The Elixir of Love" , Verdi's "Falstaff" and has performed all three roles in Puccini’s
"Tosca" -Spoletta, Sciaronne and the Jailer for O4 Opera, also the role of 'Gastonne'
from Verdi’s "La Traviata" for Oxford Touring Opera. Jamie also performed the role of
Frederic from Gilbert & Sullivan’s "Pirates of Penzance" with the Letcombe Singers. Jamie
is very much looking forward to returning to Opera Anywhere to perform both the roles of
'Kaspar' and 'The Page' at varying venues throughout their Christmas season.
Russell Matthews - Bass baritone
Russell read Physics and Music at Cardiff University subsequently
winning a Morag Noble scholarship to study singing at
Trinity College of Music. He left Trinity in June 2001 and performed
for more than a year with the Carl Rosa opera company on
tour in Australia, New Zealand and the British Isles. He has since
sung regularly at Covent Garden as a member of the extra chorus.
His operatic roles include Sarastro (Opera Oxford, Opera Loki), Colline La Bohème (First Act Opera), Prince Gremin Eugene Onegin (Oxford Touring Opera) and a number of Gilbert and Sullivan bass roles. With London Voices he has appeared on the soundtrack of The Return of the King and The Passion of the Christ and at the BBC Proms in Luciano Berio’s last work, Stanze. As a member of European Voices he recently sang in Peter Grimes for the Salzburg Easter Festival under Rattle. He has worked with many coaches including Julius Drake (song), Ludmilla Andrew (opera), Emanuelle Lippi (bel canto), Michael Hampton and Geoffrey Pratley. Russell Matthews is currently a student of Nicholas Powell and Robert Lloyd.
Hugo Tucker - Tenor
Anglo-Veneti an, Hugo Tucker was a tenor Choral Scholar at
St John’s College, Cambridge, training his solo voice in London
with David Mason, and with Rebecca Mosley-Morgan in Oxford.
Operatic roles include Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan tutte (2005,
2006), Clem / Alfred in Britten’s The Little Sweep (2006), and Nero
in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea (2004). Recent solo
roles include the tenor arias of Bach's St John Passion, Monteverdi's Vespers, Bach's Christmas
Oratorio (Evangelist), Britt en’s Gloriana masque, Mendelssohn's Ave Maria, Puccini's
Messa di Gloria, Bach's Magnificat, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem, Haydn's Nelson
Mass, and Beethoven's Mass in C. Most recently he performed as lyric tenor in Opera Anywhere's
Proms on the Pond (July 2007). His next major role will be Don Ramiro in Rossini's
La Cenerentola (Castel di Fiori Festival, Umbria, August 2008).
Jeremy Vinogradov - Baritone
Jeremy Vinogradov studied in Australia, and on scholarship at
the Vienna Konservatorium. In the UK he has worked with British
Youth Opera, Birmingham, D’Oyly Carte and Carl Rosa Opera
Companies, Grange Park Opera, Kentish and Surrey Opera. Roles
include Albert Werther Belcore, Falke, Giuseppe The Gondoliers,
Mr Gedge Albert Herring, Papageno and Silvio. He has also been
bass soloist in Messiah with the London Mozart Players.
Jeremy has sung in Storace’s Equivoci at the Batignano Festival in Italy, Pallante Agrippina for The Early Opera Company, Guglielmo for Pimlico Opera, Morales for Columbia Artists’ US tour of Carmen and Baron Douphol La traviata and Don Giovanni for English Touring Opera. He sang Yamadori at the Longborough Festival, Mozart’s Count and Don Giovanni at the Opera! Festival in the Netherlands, and most recently Aeneas and the Learned Judge Trial by Jury for Opera South East, productions which also toured to Germany.
Ilana Jacobs - Soprano
Ilana Jacobs (soprano) trained at the Royal Northern College of Music, winning an Entry Scholarship, the Contemporary Music Performance Prize for her final recital and gaining a Bmus Honours degree. Her operatic roles have included Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Santuzza (Cavaliera Rusticana), Amelia (Ballo in Maschera) and Lady Billows (Albert Herring) and solo performances have included ‘Nuits d’Eté’(Berlioz) with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Paquette (‘Candide’, Bernstein) alongside Kim Criswell and Nicholas Payne.
In the realm of contemporary classical music, Ilana took title role in Mary O’Neill by Nicola Lefanu in the UK stage premiere and live on BBC Radio 3, as well as performing in many recitals and premiering a number of new works both here and abroad (including solos with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera North Orchestra, PSAPPHA, solo self-directed performance at Purcell Room, South Bank, solo music-theatre performance at New Music Festival, Odessa, and a number of radio broadcasts).
Ilana is committed to the principal of performing opera in unexpected places, having previously sung the various Female Lead characters in Barry Russell's acclaimed 'Pub Operas' - comical and touching pieces specifically written for performing 'down the local' – often to the surprise of the regulars! Recently Ilana has worked with Opera East, Opera della Luna, Iford Opera, Stanley Hall Opera, given recitals in London and Zurich, performed jazz gigs in London, recorded sessions for sound tracks and voice-overs. She will soon be heard on television as the featured voice for the latest Tia Maria advertising campaign and will sing with Opera Box and Opera Anywhere in the coming months.
Amy Webber - Soprano
When she was thirteen, Amy started having singing lessons with Rebecca Moseley-Morgan and soon developed a passion for classical singing.
The next year she won first prize singing Dream O’ Day Jill in the Light Opera category of the Oxford Music Festival. Amy performed her first aria as the Dew Fairy in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretal with Opera Festa. Since then she has sung regularly with Opera Anywhere in a variety of productions, including Proms on the Pond, Arias on Ice and 'La Dolce Vita' opera cruise. Amy joined Oxford Girls’ Choir in 2004, and last year she played Dido in their production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Amy has achieved distinctions in all her singing exams (Grades I-VIII) and has a scholarship place to study Voice at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester from September.
“My dream is to become a famous opera singer, travel round the world and perform in the grandest opera houses...and somewhere along the line become a sexy pop star.”