31/01/2025 RNCM Opera Scenes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Magic Flute
Stuart Barker director
Felicity Cliffe conductor
Thomas Schulze german language coach
Sheldon Miller repetiteur
Jay Broadhurst Tamino
Danielle Williams 1st Lady
Gabriela Comeau Gort 2nd Lady
Emmeline Tovey 3rd Lady
Bryan Au Yeung
Colm Traynor-Bucknall
Matthew Vining
Tamino is under attack, when three passing ladies save him. His evident class impresses them, and they know that they should leave to inform their queen.
Benjamin Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Stuart Barker director
Jasper Lecon conductor
Sheldon Miller repetiteur
Lewis Menzies Lysander
Niamh Mckendrick Helena
Hamish Garrity Demetrius
Ellena Hicks Hermia
Hermia and Lysander are in love with one another. Helena loves Demetrius, although her love is unrequited. Both men have been put under a spell to fall in love the first person they see – which for each of them is Helena. Helena thinks they are all playing a cruel trick on her.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Le donne curiose
Stuart Barker director
Stephanie Godwin conductor
Antonia Sotgiu italian language coach
Sheldon Miller repetiteur
Louise Wood Beatrice
Kitty Casey Rosaura
Libby Montgomery Eleonora
Kelsey Thomas Columbina
Harrison Morton-Deaville Arlecchino
The women are consumed by curiosity: what goes on behind the doors of the gentlemen’s club, frequented by their husbands and boyfriends? Its strict ‘no ladies admitted’ policy fuels their frustration – and their imaginations. They have suspected alchemy, witchcraft and a host of other nefarious activities. Instead, as they observe, the men are simply enjoying one another’s company over good food and wine. A famished Arlecchino emerges from the club hoping to eat some of the leftovers.
