 Photo. Sasha Balmazi-Owen
February-June 2019 - "Physical Education"
For actor, video and ensemble Composer: Robert Reid Allan Filmographer/Director: Sasha Balmazi-Owen Choreographer: Richard Court First performed at CBSO Centre, Birmingham, 21st June 2019 by BCMG, actor/dancer/singer Richard Court and conductor Tim Anderson. Play EXCERPT  Photo. Richard Court
September 2018- Gestalt Arts
Singer "Liquid History" Director/Librettist: Ruth Mariner Composer: Sarah Dacey Design: Kate Lane Movement: Yuriria Fanjul National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.  Photo. Richard Court
April 2018-ERRATICA
Singer/Actor/Dancer Research and Development in London, UK,divising material and ideas for new work with company director Patrick Eakin Young and composer Alex Groves. |
Photo Fritz Curzon
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January 2018-Hanbury&Groves and ETO "Paradise Planet" Singer/Diviser Research and Development at Hawkwood House, Stroud,UK |
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August-September 2017 Hanbury&Groves Singer and Diviser "A Time Of Listening" (Working Title) Director: Rebecca Hanbury Composer: Alex Groves Music Director: James Halliday Research and Development at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh and performance showings at Oval House, London |
Photo Richard Court.
Britten Theatre, Snape Maltings.
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Gestalt Arts, Photo Christine Bachh Hornsved
June-August 2017 Gestalt Arts
Singer and Movement Director
"The Unsung Heroes of the Planet"
Director/Producer/Librettist:Ruth Mariner
Composer: Cameron Dodds
Design:Christine Bach Hornsved
Green Man Festival, Wales
May 2018, Eden Project, Cornwall
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June-August 2016‘Extraordinary: A Celebration Of The Life And Music Of George Butterworth’ Kings Head Theatre, London Director/Concept: Duncan Macfarland Baritone/Actor: Richard Court Accompanist/Actor: Mark Packwood Production Design: Chris Dudgeon Sound Design: WGP Sandy Strallen&Will Edelsten Projection Design:WGP & Charlie Thorne Many thanks to Michael Barlow,author of the biography "Whom The Gods Love", for his generous help, advice and time. Visit the show page here |
Photo Chris Dudgeon
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Above, George Butterworth dancing at Cecil Sharp House early 1912.
Mechanical Nightingale Costume Sarah Booth
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January-April 2016 Wonderful Beast Danced, Sang and Choreographed role of the Mechanical nightingale in Wonderful Beast's production of "The Nightingale" Composer: John Barber Librettist: Hazel Gould Conductor: Natalie Murray Beale Director: FreyaWynn-Jones Movement Advisor: Richard Court Set and Costume: Sarah Booth Producer: Alys Kihl and Ann Blaber Performed as part of "Storm of Stories Festival" Aldeburgh, at Leiston Abbey, Suffolk. |
16 Singers Photo. Jamie Sproates
16 Singers September-November 2015
Baritone soloist in a newly devised theatre production for an audience of 0-18 month year olds.
Composer: Paul Rissman
Director: Katherine Morley
Choreography: Rosie Heafford
Design: Sophia Clist
Touring to the North East of the UK
Art Work: Mamoru Iriguchi
"Temperaments". English and French Song with Mezzo Soprano Louise Ashcroft and Pianist Mark Packwood.
St George the Martyr, Borough and The Actors Church, Covent Garden. 2013-2014
"Le Trebuchet" Berlioz
"Is my team ploughing" Butterworth.
"Lamento" and "La Fuite" Duparc.
"Prison" and "Pluere d'Or" Faure
"Edinboro Town" Purcell (arranged by Britten)
Click HERE to listen to an extract.
Private Birthday Concert for Terry Brammal,
Singing ensembles with Lesley Garret, Becca Marriot and Ashley Catling
“Soave sia il vento”, Mozart
”Libiamo”, Verdi
“You’ll never walk alone”, Rogers and Hammerstein
Royal Hall Harrogate, 2013
New London Opera Players, 2012
Fidelio Chorus, Beethoven
Dog Kennel Hill Project
“Pieta, rispetto, amore” Verdi, “Oh cesate” Scarlatti, Nottingham Canals,2010
The Place Prize
“Lamento” Duparc, Robin Howard Theatre, London, 2005
As actor and dancer:
Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2004, 2005, 2010
Royal Opera House 2001-2012
English National Opera 2005, 2009
OPERA ROLES PERFORMED
Mozart – “Don Giovanni”, Don Giovanni (cover) Co-Opera, London 2012
Mozart – “La clemenza di Tito”, Publio, Giornata Opera, The Space, London 2012
OPERA SCENES PERFORMED
Britten – “Peter Grimes” Balstrode/Keene/Hobson and Choruses
Britten – “The Rape of Lucretia” Tarquinius
Britten – “Albert Herring” Mr. Gedge the Vicar
Dukas – “Ariane et Barbe Bleu” Third Peasant
Mozart – “Cosi fan Tutti” Guglielmo
Mozart – “Don Giovanni” Don Giovanni
Mozart – “ Die Zauberflote” Act 2 Finale Chorus
Puccini – “Il Tabarro” Talpa
Puccini – “La Rondine” Rambaldo
Puccini – “Tosca” Te Deum Chorus
Purcell – “ Dido And Aneas” Choruses
Strauss – “Ariadne auf Naxos” Music Lehrer
Tchaikovsky – “Pique dame” Act 2 Chorus
Thomas – “Miignon” Lothario
Smetana – “The Bartered Bride” Micha
Albert Herring. "Mr Gedge"
CONCERT
Morley Opera School Concerts:
“Come Master” Nick Shadow – The Rakes Progress, Stravinsky
“Within this frail crucible” Tarquinius – The Rape of Lucretia, Britten
“Hai gia vinta la causa” Count Almaviva – Nozze di Figaro, Mozart
"Mozart and More by Four" The Red Hedgehog, London, 2012:
“Come un’ape” Dandini – Cenerentola, Rossini
“Dunque io son” Figaro – The Barber Of Seville, Rossini
“Soave sia il vento” Don Alfonso – Così fan tutte, Mozart
“Donne mie la fate” Guglielmo – Così fan tutte, Mozart
Bart's Chamber Choir, London
Herbert Howell's Requiem,
Baritone Soloist
St Martins in the Fields
London
TRAINING
Morley Opera School September 2010 – March 2012
Private Tuition 2004 - Present
SINGING TEACHERS
Quentin Hayes (RNCM, Manchester) and Brian Parsons (GSMD, London. CNSMD, Lyon)
MUSIC COACHES
Steven Maughan (GFO)
Richard Black (ROH and Privately)
Mark Packwood (ROH)
Liz Rowe (GSMD,OHP,ROH)
Elisabeth Wingfield (ROH)
James Halliday (Solomon's Knot)
CONDUCTORS/COMPOSERS
Andrew Charity
Alice Farnham
Alex Ingram
Michalis Angelakis
Michael Young
Ivor Setterfield
Charles Peebles
Natalie Murray Beale
Jessica Maryon-Davies
Alex Groves
Cameron Dodds
Steven Maughan (GFO)
Richard Black (ROH and Privately)
Mark Packwood (ROH)
Liz Rowe (GSMD,OHP,ROH)
Elisabeth Wingfield (ROH)
James Halliday (Solomon's Knot)
CONDUCTORS/COMPOSERS
Andrew Charity
Alice Farnham
Alex Ingram
Michalis Angelakis
Michael Young
Ivor Setterfield
Charles Peebles
Natalie Murray Beale
Jessica Maryon-Davies
Alex Groves
Cameron Dodds
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom.
The beauty of disappointment and never - satisfied love.
The cruel beauty of nature and the everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten