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Glenys
toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and then appeared in several West End shows. She sings in concerts and
music festivals in the UK and abroad and regularly works
with the Ambrosian Singers. A member of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden her
recent roles include Chief Hen (Cunning Little Vixen), Lady-in-waiting (Les
Huguenots), Newspaper Seller (Death in Venice), Modestina
(Il Viaggio a Reims),
Milliner (Der Rosenkavalier), Page (Lohengrin), Bridesmaid (Marriage of Figaro),
Apparition (Macbeth), Olga (The Merry Widow) and Ida (Die
Fledermaus). This latter production included the televised farewell
performance of Dame Joan Sutherland, in the company of Marilyn Horne and
Pavarotti. She is involved with the ROH Education Department in workshop
performances in schools. She has appeared at Chichester and Wexford festivals. For BBC
Radio Glenys has played a solo part in the majority of the broadcast series of
Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.
Other radio programmes have included Songs from
the Shows and Friday Night is Music Night. Glenys has also
appeared as guest soloist in several concerts with the celebrated Black Dyke
Mills Brass Band. Recently, Glenys joined leading trumpet virtuoso James Watson
and Jennifer Partridge, one of Britain's foremost piano accompanists, to
form a new ensemble called ‘Vox Ottone’.
Their first CD, entitled ‘Trumpet and Soprano in Duet’ has been released on the
ASV label. In collaboration with a Royal Opera colleague, mezzo-soprano Andrea Hazell, Glenys and Jennifer have recorded a second CD, of
Victorian ballads and duets, entitled ‘On Wings of Song’.
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Scilla Stewart
(Mezzo Soprano)
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After
completing Bachelor of Music (Auckland University, New Zealand), and LRSM (piano), Scilla
continued studies at the Royal College of Music. In the same year she was a
major prize-winner at the Royal Overseas League Competition and performed at St
James Palace for Princess Alexandra and was a ‘Young Performer’ at the Bath
Festival. A great interest in singing developed and she began studies with
Eduardo Asquez. Recitals and concert tours have taken
her worldwide - to the Lincoln Centre, New York; the Edinburgh Festival; Australia; the Far East and New Zealand. Recent operatic roles include Amneris (Aida), Orfeo,
Charlotte (Werther), Ernestine (Perchance
to Dream), Dorabella (Cosi
Fan Tutte), Marina (Boris Godunov),
Ulrica (Masked Ball), Azucena (Trovatore) and
Carmen. Scilla has also performed the role of Katisha
in Bromley's "Opera in the Park" production of The Mikado and
Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance.
She recently played the role of The Mother in Amahl
and the Night Visitors at the Windmill Theatre, Littlehampton
in a production that she also co-directed. Oratorio performances have
included Verdi's Requiem at Rochester Cathedral and Janacek's
Glagolitic Mass at the Royal Festival Hall. She
has made television appearances on BBC2 and ITV.
Sheffield born Roy trained at The Royal Academy of
Music. His extensive experience includes the post of Musical Director and
pianist for The Royal Ballet For All on their British
tours. His work on operatic recordings includes Verdi's
Attila, Macbeth, Nabucco, and
La Traviata and Bizet's Carmen,
coaching both chorus and soloists including Carreras and Domingo. Roy's
versatility as a musician spans from working on many film soundtracks,
including Star Wars, Evita with Madonna, Yentl with Barbra Streisand, and The Two Ronnies. He has been Musical Director of a number of
hit shows including Chicago, A Chorus
Line, Fiddler on the Roof, Half a Sixpence and Scrooge, as well as Royal Variety Shows. As
a teacher of singing he is much sought after by the casts of West End musicals and singers from the
worlds of pop and opera. As a singer he has performed roles in many venues
around the country, including Tonio in Pagliacci, Marcello in La Bohème, and Frank Maurant
in Street Scene By Kurt Weill. He has also
sung with The Netherlands Opera , at La Fenice,Venice and at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Born
in Winchester, Rodney trained at the Royal
College of Music and then continued his studies with Paolo Silveri
in Rome and Raimund
Herincx in London. He was a finalist in the
Richard Tauber Competition. Making his debut in Rome, he appeared in musical theatre
throughout Italy and in opera throughout the UK. His many performances for the
Royal Opera include roles in Billy Budd, Mathis der
Maler, Les Huguenots, La Boheme, Eugene
Onegin, Un Ballo in Maschera, Simon Boccanegra, La
Traviata and Salome. Recordings include La Traviata
(with Angela Gheorghiu) (CD and video) and he is
featured on the recording of duets with Gheorghiu and
Alagna. He also appears on recordings of Simon
Boccanegra and Salome for the Royal Opera
and the BBC drama The Lakes. Rodney performed the role of
Ping (Turandot) at the Royal Albert Hall with
the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He was the baritone soloist in Mr Worldly Wise for the Royal
Ballet. Recent engagements include a UK tour of Phantom of the Opera.
In addition to his operatic career, he is an experienced oratorio and concert
artist. He has performed most of the major oratorios throughout Britain and abroad.
Jonathan
Fisher (Baritone)
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He studied at the GSMD with Bernard
Dickerson and then at the Cologne Musikhochschule
with Franz Müller-Hauser. For The Royal Opera he has performed roles in
Macbeth, Chérubin, Death in Venice,
The Midsummer Marriage, Simon Boccanegra,
The Pilgrim’s Progress, Paul Bunyan, La battaglia
di Legnano, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Jenůfa,
La rondine, Roberto Devereux, Madama
Butterfly, Sweeney Todd, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,
The Greek Passion and Eugene Onegin as well as the
baritone solo in The Royal Ballet’s Mr Worldly Wise. He sang Henry
Higgins (My Fair Lady) with the Royal Opera Chorus for the Covent Garden
Festival.
Luke Price was a chorister at
Westminster Cathedral and later studied singing at Trinity College of Music.
Roles at college included Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Shepherd (L’Enfant et Les Sortileges) and the title role in Tuchapsky’s
The Undertaker with Patrick Libby and
Victor Morris. Other roles include Monostatos (Magic
Flute), Camille (The Merry Widow)
and Arturo (Lucia di
Lammermoor).
Luke has worked for a number of opera companies both in Britain and abroad, including
Opera de Lyon, Paris Chatalet, Salzburg Festival
Opera, Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Opera and Denederlandse
Opera. Luke played the Apprentice in Die Meistersingers both with the Denederlandse and The Royal Opera. Luke is now a full time chorister at the
Royal Opera House and made his debut as a Jannisary
in Die Entfuhrung
aus dem Serail
and recently played the role of Third Squire in Parsifal under Sir Simon Rattle and the Drunken Young Man in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. He has performed many times on the concert
platform, both in recitals and oratorios, including Bach’s Mass in B Minor and Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem,
Rossini’s Messe Sollenelle
and Ramirez’s Navidad.
Philip began his musical
career as a chorister at Winchester Cathedral, later studying as a scholar and
prize winner at the Guildhall School and the Royal College
of Music. He is well established as a concert singer across Europe and further afield, having sung most major oratorios, with conductors
such as John Eliot Gardiner, as soloist in New York, Sydney, Taipei and in
France, Germany and in England’s finest cathedrals. Particular works he
performs include Britten (Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings; St. Nicholas); Verdi (Requiem);
Mendelssohn (Elijah); Dvorak and
Rossini (Stabat
Mater); Handel (Messiah; Samson;
Israel in Egypt; Saul); Bach (St John
and St Matthew Passion) as
Evangelist; and Elgar (The Dream of Gerontius). Whilst a member
of The Royal Opera, Philip performed several supporting roles, understudying
Don Basilio/Don Curzio, Marriage of Figaro; Gaston, La Traviata; as well as singing Alfredo,
La Traviata, in concert in Wales.
Other operatic roles for touring companies include Rodolfo, La Boheme and Cavaradossi,
Tosca, for London Touring Opera and
currently as Don Jose, Carmen, for
Garden Opera. He is also known for his comic portrayals of Sellem,
Rakes Progress, a role he sang under Jac Stien with the Winterthur Collegium Orkester, and Don Basilio for
some five productions to date, including the Edinburgh Festival. Philip
recently created the role of Thomas Becket
for the recording of David Reeves’ Becket:
The Kiss of Peace on English Gramophone, with
Martin Neary, premiered for the Canterbury Cathedral
Festival. Most recent concerts include Dvorak Stabat Mater; Bach and both Mozart masses in C; Evangelist St John Passion; Verdi Requiem, Handel Messiah and Haydn Paukenmesse in Florence and Rome with Stephen Hope. Philip
maintains his choral background with regular visits to sing with St Paul’s Cathedral Choir for
services, recordings and broadcasts. Since moving from London he has combined his
performing with singing teaching at Wellingborough School.
Stephen
was born and educated in Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
He made his South Bank debut with a performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion at
the Royal Festival Hall conducted by Sir David Willcocks.
His West
End
credits include Sweeney Todd at Drury Lane, Jeeves
Takes Charge at the Fortune Theatre and Cats at the New London
Theatre, where Stephen was the Production Vocal Director for 12 years. He
has also appeared at many Festivals both at home and abroad, including Edinburgh, where he sang the role of the
Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier.
Stephen has appeared as soloist for many BBC Radio 2 programmes,
including Songs from the Shows and Friday Night is Music
Night. For many years Stephen directed his vocal group, The Stephen Hill
Singers, who made frequent recordings for radio, television and films.
They also appeared on The Royal Variety and Children's Royal Variety Shows, and
were the backbone for the BBC Radio 2 series of musicals in which Stephen
appeared in all 24 editions, either as Vocal Director or in one of the lead
roles. His most notable credits include The Caliph (Kismet), Mr Erlanson (A Little Night
Music), Ceruti (The Dancing Years), Carshott (Half a Sixpence), Harry (My Fair Lady),
Peter (Jesus Christ Superstar), Uncle Jeff (Mame),
Ralph (Kiss Me Kate), Larry (A Chorus Line) and Roscoe in Stephen
Sondheim's Follies which was recorded live at Drury Lane in the presence
of the composer. Very much in demand as a vocal coach, director and arranger,
Stephen is Choral Director of the Music Theatre Degree Course at the Royal
Academy of Music.
(October
2009)