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Photo. Sasha Balmazi OwenPhoto. 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




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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.



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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.



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Photo Fritz Curzon




January 2018-Hanbury&Groves and ETO

"Paradise Planet"

Singer/Diviser

Research and Development at Hawkwood House, Stroud,UK 






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

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Photo Richard Court. Britten Theatre, Snape Maltings.

PictureGestalt 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









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





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Photo Chris Dudgeon
Above, George Butterworth dancing at Cecil Sharp House early 1912.

Listen to Richard singing "Is my team ploughing" from A Shropshire Lad and other songs HERE




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Mechanical Nightingale Costume Sarah Booth
                                    


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.





Picture16 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



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"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



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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


Richard Court
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



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

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