Nancy Yuen, one of the most outstanding and exciting singers from Asia, made her debut with the Welsh National Opera, singing the title role of Madama Butterfly upon graduation from Royal Academy of Music, to great critical acclaim and has since repeated the role all over the world, notably with the English National Opera, West Australian Opera, Opera Queensland, Opera Northern Ireland, Singapore Lyric Opera, Bangkok Opera, Hong Kong Opera, the New Zealand International Festival of Arts, the Barbados Opera Festival and the Royal Albert Hall for Raymond Gubbay Limited in 1998, 2000 and 2003.
Other starring operatic roles include Romilda (Xerxes), Violetta (La Traviata), Aida, Gilda (Rigoletto), Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Leonora (Il Trovatore), Tosca, Liza (The Queen of Spades), Mimi (La Boheme), Jenny (Mahagony Songspiel), Micaela (Carmen), Pamina (Die Zauberflute), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Liu (Turandot) and Countessa (Le Nozze di Figaro)..
A celebrated recitalist and versatile concert artist, she performs regularly with major orchestras and choral societies. New works including the leading roles of operas, Mae Naak and Ayudhya and cantata Zheng He have been written for her golden, angelic voice. Highlights in 2008 include Violetta and Liu with SLO, more Cio-cio-sans in the U.K., concerts in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Shanghai
John Marshall was born and educated in Edinburgh. He studied at the RSAMD and gained a Bmus studying voice with Jeffery Lawton. He currently studies with Gerald Moore and Philip Doghan. Following his studies John performed with Oper Frankfurt and this led to engagements all over the world in productions including ll Trovatore, La Bohème, Le Roi l’a dit, Der Freischütz, and Turandot with diverse concert repertoire including Berio’s Labarintus, Handel’s Messiah, Burgon’s Revelations and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Operatic roles include Don José at the Festival Theatre - Edinburgh, Tito in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, and Radames. In 2006 he joined Scottish Opera for their productions of Carmen, Don Giovanni and Der Rosenkavalier. John also performed as Piangi in Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s theatre, London. During 2007 John sang the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly during Scottish Operas many Opera Unwrapped performances.
Robert Davies studied at the University of Sheffield and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before embarking on a solo career, both on the opera stage and concert platform.
Awarded the Erich Vietheer Memorial Award at Glyndebourne in 2003, he went on to appear as Marcello (La Bohème), Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Mr Gedge (Albert Herring) and Doctor Falke (Die Fledermaus) on the Festival Tour. Roles elsewhere include Greek Captain (Les Troyens) in Châtelet Theatre, Paris; Verrina in the UK premier of Lalo’s Fiesque; Dancaïre (Carmen) Diva Opera; Pish Tush (The Mikado) D’Oyly Carte; Escamillo (Carmen) and Count Di Luna (Il Trovatore) for English Pocket Opera/CMW and Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) at the Edinburgh Festival. Robert also sang in the European premieres of Ned Rorem’s Hearing and The Robbers.
Robert has sung under the baton of such distinguished conductors as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, Richard Hickox, Harry Christophers, and Edward Gardner. With a wide concert repertoire, performances include the Bach B Minor Mass; Monteverdi Vespers in St Mark’s, Venice; Handel Messiah in St. David’s Hall, Cardiff; Elgar The Kingdom; Brahms Requiem; Bach St Matthew and St John Passions; Mozart Mass in C Minor and Requiem; Orff Carmina Burana; Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle; Britten Cantata Misericordia; Elgar Caractacus and Haydn The Seasons.
In 2007, he was shortlisted for the prestigious Jetter Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Jeanette Ager was awarded an Exhibition to study at the Royal Academy of Music where she won numerous prizes. She is now continuing her studies with Linda Esther Gray.
Jeanette has won the Gold Medal in the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition, the Richard Tauber Prize for Singing and an award from the Tillett Trust Young Artist Platform.
As a soloist, Jeanette's concert and oratorio work has included: recitals and other appearances at the Wigmore Hall; Handel’s Messiah at St David’s Hall, Cardiff; Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius at the Queen Elizabeth Hall; Tippett’s Child of our Time at Salisbury Cathedral; Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the Barbican Concert Hall and the Missa Solemnis at York Minster, Truro and Exeter Cathedral. In addition to performances at many of the leading venues in the United Kingdom, Jeanette's concert work has taken her to Bermuda, the Czech Republic, Spain and China
Her operatic roles have included Cherubino in the Marriage of Figaro, (Mozart); Dido in Dido & Aeneas, (Purcell); The Marquise of Birkenfield in La Fille du Regiment (Donizetti); Rosina in The Barber of Seville (Rossini) both for Swansea City Opera and Thea in The Knot Garden (Tippett). With the Royal Opera House she appeared as one of the Apprentices in Wagner's Meistersinger at Covent Garden.
As a soloist, Jeanette has recorded for Hyperion, Deutsche Grammophon and Philips. Future events include Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the RPO; Mahler,s 2nd Symphony at the Bridgewater hall and Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius in St Georges Chapel, Windsor
Jeanette is part of the Artists in Residence Scheme at Queens University in Belfast where she regularly visits to perform recitals and to work with the students.
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