La Cenerentola
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A classic fairy story. The handsome prince rescues the wronged orphan daughter.
Our Festival Friends ensure the success of each festival and are essential to sustaining the high quality of opera at The Grange.
David Parry is acknowledged as an inspirational champion of operatic, concert and symphonic repertoire across a vast range. He is known both for the re-appraisal of important lesser-known compositions and for a consistently fresh approach to established repertoire.
Significant credits include the world premiere of Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio (in separate productions for Opera North and Staatstheater Stuttgart), Der Fliegender Holländer (for Portland Opera), Madama Butterfly (in Anthony Minghella’s production for ENO which earned him an Olivier Award), Così fan tutte and the premiere of Dove’s Flight (both for Glyndebourne Festival Opera) and Maria Stuarda (for Stockholm Royal Opera).
Much in demand from ensembles both in the UK and further afield, David Parry is regularly at the helm of orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, City of Birmingham, Halle, Academy of St Martin in the Fields and English Chamber Orchestra.
He has an extensive discography for Chandos and Opera Rara. His recording of Rossini Ermione won a Gramophone Award for best opera 2011.
Stephen was born and educated in Melbourne, Australia and has staged productions for many of the world’s leading opera companies including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, The Metropolitan Opera, New York, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Glyndebourne Festival and Opéra de Monte Carlo.
His recent work as a Director includes a new production of The Phantom of the Opera Folketeateret (Oslo), Roméo et Juliette Estonian National Opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Grange Festival), Flight Scottish Opera, Così Fan Tutte Central City Opera, Colorado, Madama Butterfly Danish National Opera, Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi Hong Kong, Rigoletto Lyric Opera Chicago & Bucharest National Opera, Tosca Santa Fe Opera, La Rondine Metropolitan Opera, New York and Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse, Carmen Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Les Deux Enfants – a unique coupling of two French operas: Debussy’s L’enfant prodique and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges Brisbane Conservatorium, Australia.
Stephen has had a longstanding relationship with London’s Opera Holland Park where he has staged La bohème, Flight, Tosca, Hänsel und Gretel, Don Giovanni, Don Pasquale, La Fanciulla del West, Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci, and the European premiere of Fantastic Mr Fox. Stephen will be returning to Opera Holland Park for the 2021 season.
Other productions include La Cour de Célimène Wexford Festival, Madama Butterfly Mid-Wales Opera, La bohème British Youth Opera, La Traviata Singapore Lyric Opera, Dovetales Glyndebourne Jerwood Studio, Alfonso und Estrella University College Opera, Die Zauberflöte Royal Academy of Music in London and Trial by Jury Covent Garden Festival.
Stephen is also a regular director at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he has staged Dialogues des Carmélites, L’enfant Prodigue, Francesca di Foix, Le Donne Curiose, La Navarraise, Portrait de Manon, Comedy on the Bridge and most recently Haydn’s La Fedeltà Premiata.
Opera Credits Include: Madame Favart (Opera Comique); Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Grange Festival & Santa Fe Opera 2020); Così fan tutte (Central City Opera); La bohème (Opera Holland Park).
Theatre Credits Include: A Flea in Her Ear (La Comédie-Française); Amélie; Fack Ju Göhte (Werk7, Munich, Stage Entertainment); Hogarth’s Progress (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Tartuffe (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Après La Pluie (Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, Comédie-Française, Paris); Dry Powder; Labyrinth; Donny’s Brain (Hampstead Theatre); The Comedy Of Errors; Pericles; Twelfth Night; The Taming Of The Shrew; The Merchant Of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe on Tour); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe & World Tour); As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Impossible (West End & International Tour); Les Parents Terribles (Donmar Season at Trafalgar Studios); Backbeat (West End, Toronto & Los Angeles); Jesus Christ Superstar (Madrid & European Tour).
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1973) in London and for almost 50 years working in Opera, Ballet, Musicals and Theatre worldwide including the London West End and on Broadway in New York.
Long associations in the UK with Glyndebourne Opera, English National Opera, The Royal Opera Covent Garden, National Theatre, English National Ballet, Chichester Festival, The Donmar Warehouse and The Almeida Theatre.
Work worldwide includes productions in America (Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco, Washington), Australia, Austria, Denmark, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Monte Carlo, New Zealand, Russia (Bolshoi and Mariinsky), Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
Heather studied at the Royal Northern College of Music (under Barbara Robotham and Ann Taylor) and the National Opera Studio (under Susan Waters)‚ supported by Scottish Opera. She was a Finalist in the Maureen Lehane Competition‚ is a Samling Scholar‚ and a trained ballet and ballroom dancer. She is generously supported by Mr and Mrs Goddard‚ The Sybil Tutton award and Mr and Mrs Blumer and is grateful to be the recipient of a Richard Angas Memorial Award.
Recent and future engagements include Angelina La Cenerentola (The Grange Festival and West Green House Opera), Rosina The Barber of Seville (Opera North and Welsh National Opera)‚ Hansel Hansel and Gretel and Phoebe The Yeomen of the Guard (ENO), Fox The Cunning Little Vixen, Cherubino The Marriage of Figaro‚ Sesto Giulio Cesare‚ Hansel‚ The Page Salome and Lel Snowmaiden (Opera North), Dorabella Cosi fan Tutte (Northern Ireland Opera and Dorset Opera)‚ Tisbe La Cenerentola (WNO and Opera Holland Park) and 2nd Nymph Rusalka Garsington.
Further engagements include Mrs Noye Noye’s Fludde (Nevill Holt)‚ Isolier Le Comte Ory (Chelsea Opera Group and Dorset Opera)‚ Apprentice Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Glyndebourne Festival)‚ Orfeo Orfeo ed Euridice‚ Penelope Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (RNCM) and Fidalma The Secret Marriage (British Youth Opera), Hermia A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Sesto‚ 2nd Lady The Magic Flute and Zerlina Don Giovanni (National Opera Studio).
Victoria Simmonds studied at GSMD and in 2000 made her ENO debut as Nancy T’ang Nixon in China. She went on to become a company principal. She has sung numerous roles at all of the major UK opera companies including the highly acclaimed Pinocchio/The Adventures of Pinocchio (Opera North). Engagements abroad include appearances at the Aix en Provence Festival, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Opernhaus Halle and the Netherlands Opera.
Recent and future commitments include Fox The Cunning Little Vixen and Meg Page / Falstaff (Garsington), Luke Bedford’s Through His Teeth (ROH), Boy Way Back Home (ENO), Marcellina / Le nozze di Figaro (Opera Holland Park), Angel 2/Marie Written on Skin (Netherlands Opera, Toulouse, Lisbon, Opéra Comique Paris, Royal Opera House, La Scala Milan, Lincoln Centre New York, Wiener Festwochen, Bavarian State Opera Munich and a European Tour with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra) Angelina Cenerentola (Opera Holland Park and Danish National Opera), Minsk Woman / Flight (Scottish Opera and Opera Holland Park), Hippolyta / A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scottish Opera) as well as concerts with the Nash Ensemble and performances at the Beijing Music Festival.
Born in Chile, Christian Senn has been living in Italy since his youth. After taking a Master’s degree in Biology, he was admitted to the Academy for young singers at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan studying with Leyla Gencer, Luigi Alva and Vincenzo Manno.
He has collaborated with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Antonio Pappano, Maurizio Benini, Maurizio Barbacini, Carlo Rizzi, Giovanni Antonini, Ottavio Dantone, Fabio Biondi, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, David Parry, Ton Koopman… in many of the most renowned opera houses and venues around the word including Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Konzerthaus, Théâtre du Châtelet and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Palau de la Música in Valencia, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Kanagawa Hall in Yokohama, Municipal Theatre of Santiago.
Christian is one of the most sought-after baritones for Bel Canto repertoire in Italy and abroad, performing numerous opera roles by Rossini, such as the title role in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Berlin, Tel Aviv, Milan, Venice, Turin, Florence, Palermo, Verona; Dandini (La Cenerentola) at the Israeli Opera, Florence Opera and Grange Festival; Taddeo (L’Italiana in Algeri) at the Teatro Regio Torino, Versailles Royal Opera and Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; Filiberto (Il Signor Bruschino), Germano (La Scala di seta) and Don Parmenione (L’Occasione fa il ladro) for the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
Famed for his Donizetti interpretations, he sang Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor) in Bergamo, Bari and Santiago de Chile; Belcore (L’Elisir d’amore) in Bologna; Biscroma Strappaviscere (Viva la Mamma) and Malatesta (Don Pasquale) both at La Scala. Christian Senn debuted at the Opéra National de Paris with the role of Malatesta in a production conducted by Michele Mariotti and staged by Damiano Michieletto.
An exquisite Mozart interpreter, Christian sang the title role in Don Giovanni in Florence and Santiago de Chile. He appeared as Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro) in Milan, Naples and Potsdam; Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) in Montpellier, Turin, Verona and Florence; Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) in Milan, Verona, Bergamo, Santiago de Chile.
Recognized for his work in the Baroque repertoire, he sings Vivaldi and Handel with equal success.
His Vivaldi roles include La Senna in La Senna festeggiante with Paul Goodwin, Astolfo in Orlando furioso with Jean-Christophe Spinosi at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the title role in Bajazet which he has performed in major European capitals and in Japan with Europa Galante conducted by Fabio Biondi.
Encounters with Handel embrace Alexander’s Feast with Diego Fasolis at the Swiss Radio, Messiah with Rinaldo Alessandrini in Bari and Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid. He was seen on stage as Zoroastro (Orlando) in Valencia and as Pallante (Agrippina) led by René Jacobs at the Berlin Staatsoper. For La Scala he sang Leone (Tamerlano) alongside Placido Domingo and Achilla (Giulio Cesare) in a Giovanni Antonini/Robert Carsen production. Christian also performed the title role in Porpora’s Polifemo at the Teater an der Wien.
For Naïve, Christian Senn has recorded a DVD with Rossini’s Pietra del paragone filmed at the Paris Théâtre du Châtelet, as well as two Vivaldi CDs, Tito Manlio and Dorilla in Tempe. His solo album “Bach – The Solo Cantatas for Bass” he recorded with La Barocca and Ruben Jais for the Glossa label, achieved great critical acclaim.
Among his recent and forthcoming engagements are Haydn’s Isola disabitata (Enrico) in Ravenna, Vivaldi’s Olimpiade (Clistene) under Jean-Christophe Spinosi in Lyon, Rossini’s Cenerentola (Dandini) and Gounod’s Faust (Valentin) both at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari. Christian sings Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Utrecht, Groeningen and Amsterdam with Giulio Prandi/Coro Ghislieri followed by Beethoven’s 9th Symphony alongside Sakari Oramo/Wiener Symphoniker for the Vienna Konzerthaus.
Italian bass-baritone Simone Alberghini, the 1994 Operalia Grand Prize winner, has appeared in opera houses at the highest level world-wide since the beginning of his career. A Rossini-Mozart specialist, he regularly collaborates with internationally renowned conductors such as Vladimir Jurowsky, Zubin Mehta, Andrew Davis, Gianandrea Noseda, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Osawa, Alberto Zedda, Maurizio Benini, Michele Mariotti, Renato Palumbo, Emmanuel Villaume, Nicola Luisotti, Eduardo Muller and Michael Tilson Thomas.
Carolina Lippo studied at the "Rodolfo Celletti" Belcanto Academy in Martina Franca in collaboration with the Itria Valley Festival under Lella Cuberli, Vittorio Terranova, Sonia Prina, Stefania Bonfadelli. She had previously graduated in Piano from the "G. Paisiello” in Taranto and in Singing and Scenic Art at the “G.B. Martini” of Bologna with flying colours and honours.
From 2016 to 2018, Carolina was a member of the resident company of Opera Artists at the Theater an der Wien, where she took part in international opera productions such as Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Händel’s Oreste, Salieri’s La scuola de’ gelosi, Porpora’s Ariadne in Nasso, Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Gottfried von Einem’s Der Besuch der Alten Dame, and Händel’s Saul. She was the winner of the Stella Maris International Vocal Competition 2018 (tenor Michael Schade as president of the jury), after which she made her debut at the Semperoper Dresden.
Carolina has worked in renowned Italian and international theaters and festivals, including the Teatro Regio di Torino, Festival della Valle d'Itria, Oper Köln, Glyndebourne Festival, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro La Fenice, Händel-Festspiele in Halle, Nevill Holt Opera, Grange Festival, Theater an der Wien, collaborating with some of the most prestigious conductors such as Fabio Luisi, Christophe Rousset, Omer Meir Wellber, Laurence Cummings, Jukka- Pekka Saraste, David Parry, Michael Boder, and with leading directors such as Pier Luigi Pizzi, Calixto Bieito, Johannes Erath, Claus Guth, Mariame Clément, Barrie Kosky, Arturo Cirillo, Vittorio Sgarbi, Keith Warner, Peter Konwitschny. Notable roles include Carolina Il matrimonio segreto and Adina L'elisir d'amore in Turin, Norina Don Pasquale in Vienna, Susanna The Marriage of Figaro in Dresden and Vicenza (the latter published on DVD by Velut Luna), Despina Così fan tutte on tour in the UK and in Vienna, Zerlina Don Giovanni in Fano, Italy, Merab Saul in Vienna and at Glyndebourne, Lisetta Le metamorfosi di Pasquale (released on CD with Dynamic), Susanna Nina, o sia La pazza per amore by Paisiello in Savona, Gnese Il campiello in Venice and Rovigo, Fiorina Don Checco in Martina Franca (published on CD with Dynamic), Seraph in Mendelssohn's Elias oratorio in Vienna, Adelaide in Pietro Generali's Adelaide di Burgundy in Rovigo, Cintia in Leonardo Leo's L'ambizione delusa in Martina Franca, Ifigenia in Handel's Oreste in Halle and Vienna, Sandrina in Mozart's La finta giardiniera in Hannover, Giulia La scala di seta by Rossini in Sassari, Semiramide in La Semiramide in villa by Paisiello (first performance in modern times, published on CD by Bongiovanni), Ernestina in Salieri's La scuola de’ gelosi in Cologne and Vienna, and Crobyle in Thaïs by Massenet in Vienna (forthcoming DVD release with Unitel).
Russian mezzo-soprano Maria Ostroukhova began her international career after winning the Michael Oliver Prize at the London Handel Competition in 2015. Recent engagements include Arsace Ormisda with the London Handel Festival, Bradamante Alcina for the Lammermuir Festival and Ryedale Festival Opera, Albino in Johann Hasse’s I pellegrini al Sepolchro di Nostro Signore, in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Philharmonic Hall, Ottavia L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Longborough Festival, Dardano Amadigi at the London Handel Festival, Alcina Orlando Furioso with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli and Les Noces with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko.
Concert performances encompass Messiean Harawi, Verdi’s Requiem, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Janacek’s The Diary of the One Who Disappeared and Mahler’s Symphony #2.
Born into a family of Muscovite musicians, Maria’s formal education include degrees from the Moscow Gnessins’ College of Music as a pianist and accompanist with Anna Arzamanova and Marianna Shalitaeva, graduated magna cum laude, the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire as a pianist, harpsichordist, historical piano and basso continuo with Yuri Martynov and Alexandra Koreneva and recently graduated from the Royal College of Music, London, with a Master of Vocal Performance and a Graduate Diploma in Vocal Performance, both with distinction.
Roberto Lorenzi is a graduate of the “Luigi Boccherini” Institute of Musical Studies in Lucca, Italy. He won the First Prize in the AsLiCo’s Competition and took part at Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival and the Opernhaus Zürich International Opera Studio graduating in 2015. In these years he performed: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (F. Luisi conducting; DVD for Accentus), Médée by Charpentier (W. Christie conducting), Otello, Orlando Paladino, Il matrimonio segreto, La Straniera, La Cenerentola, Il Viaggio a Reims, Le Comte Ory, Carmen and La Clemenza di Tito (O. Dantone conducting).
Lorenzi made his La Scala debut in Franco Zeffirelli’s production of La Bohème, under the baton of Daniele Rustioni. Elsewhere he appeared in Tosca, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni (title role) in Lucca; Alidoro in La Cenerentola in Tuscany and Lille; Ferrando in Il Trovatore for AsLiCo circuit; Der fliegende Holländer in Rome, Bologna, Turin; Don Giovanni in Tel Aviv; Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Pesaro; La Straniera in Amsterdam; I Puritani in Palermo; La Cenerentola (Alidoro) in Martigny, Lecce and on tour; Il Viaggio a Reims at the Musikverein in Vienna; Carmen in Rome; Don Giovanni in Bologna; Il Trovatore in Fermo and Jesi; Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Grange Festival in London; Verdi’s Requiem in Pisa; Mozart’s Requiem in Lucca and Händel’s Messiah in Madrid, Gdansk and Sevilla with Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante; Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Verdi Orchestra in Milan. Future plans: Guglielmo in Così fan tutte in Nice and Antibes; Leporello at the Guangzhou Opera House; Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Norske Opera in Oslo.
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