BACKSTAGE WITH THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL
SEASON 2023
HANSEL AND GRETEL | E. Humperdinck
Opera Holland Park 2023
Deep in the forest, a gingerbread house conceals a terrible secret...
CREATIVE TEAM
Kǎrin Hendrickson - Conductor | John Wilkie - Director | Neil Irish - Designer | Robert Price - Lighting Designer | Michael Spenceley - Movement Director | Dominic Ellis-Pekham - Chorus Master
CAST
Charlotte Badham - Hansel | Laura Lolita Perešivana - Gretel | Eleanor Dennis - The Gingerbread Witch | Paul Carey Jones - Peter | Meeta Raval - Gertrud | April Koyejo-Audiger - The Sandman | Charlotte Bowden - The Dew Fairy
Kǎrin Hendrickson - Conductor | John Wilkie - Director | Neil Irish - Designer | Robert Price - Lighting Designer | Michael Spenceley - Movement Director | Dominic Ellis-Pekham - Chorus Master
CAST
Charlotte Badham - Hansel | Laura Lolita Perešivana - Gretel | Eleanor Dennis - The Gingerbread Witch | Paul Carey Jones - Peter | Meeta Raval - Gertrud | April Koyejo-Audiger - The Sandman | Charlotte Bowden - The Dew Fairy
ITCH | J. DOVE
Opera Holland Park 2023
CREATIVE TEAM
Jonathan Dove - Composer | Alasdair Middleton - Librettist | Jessica Cottis - Conductor | Matt Scott Rogers - Associate Conductor (Conducting 4 August) | Stephen Barlow - Director | Frankie Bradshaw - Designer | Jake Wiltshire - Lighting Designer | Jack Henry James Fox - Projection Designer
Jonathan Dove - Composer | Alasdair Middleton - Librettist | Jessica Cottis - Conductor | Matt Scott Rogers - Associate Conductor (Conducting 4 August) | Stephen Barlow - Director | Frankie Bradshaw - Designer | Jake Wiltshire - Lighting Designer | Jack Henry James Fox - Projection Designer
CAST
Adam Temple-Smith - Itchingham Lofte | Natasha Agarwal - Jack Lofte | Rebecca Bottone - Jude Lofte / Roshanna Wing | Eric Greene - Nicholas Lofte | Rob Burt - Bob Evert / Kinch | James Laing - Cake / Berghahn | Victoria Simmonds - Watkins | Nicholas Garrett - Nathaniel Flowerdew
Adam Temple-Smith - Itchingham Lofte | Natasha Agarwal - Jack Lofte | Rebecca Bottone - Jude Lofte / Roshanna Wing | Eric Greene - Nicholas Lofte | Rob Burt - Bob Evert / Kinch | James Laing - Cake / Berghahn | Victoria Simmonds - Watkins | Nicholas Garrett - Nathaniel Flowerdew
LA BOHÈME | G. PUCCINI
Opera Holland Park 2023
Passion and precarity in Puccini’s evergreen portrait of love and friendship in the Quartier Latin
CREATIVE TEAM
George Jackson - Conductor | Natascha Metherell - Director | Madeleine Boyd - Designer | Charlie Morgan Jones - Lighting Designer | Richard Harker | Chorus Master
CAST
Adam Gilbert - Rodolfo | Katie Bird - Mimí | Ross Ramgobin - Marcello | Elizabeth Karani - Musetta | Harry Thatcher - Schaunard | Barnaby Rea - Colline | Henry Grant Kerswell - Alcindoro / Benoît | Alistair Sutherland - A Customs Sergeant | Phillip Costovski - Parpignol
LA TRAVIATA | G. Verdi
Opera Holland Park, 2018
CREATIVE TEAM
Director - Rodula Gaitanou | Conductor - Matthew Kofi Waldren | Designer - Cordelia Chisholm | Lighting Designer - Simon Corder | Choreographer - Steve Elias
CAST
Lauren Fagan - Violetta | Matteo Desole - Alfredo | Stephen Gadd - Giorgio Germont | Laura Woods - Flora | Ellie Edmonds - Annina | Mike Bradley - Gastone | Nicholas Garrett - Barone Douphol |David Stephenson - Marchese d’Obigny | Henry Grant Kerswell - Dottore Grenvil | Robert Jenkins - Giuseppe | Ian Massa-Harris - Flora's Servant | Alistair Sutherland - Commissioner
CAST
Lauren Fagan - Violetta | Matteo Desole - Alfredo | Stephen Gadd - Giorgio Germont | Laura Woods - Flora | Ellie Edmonds - Annina | Mike Bradley - Gastone | Nicholas Garrett - Barone Douphol |David Stephenson - Marchese d’Obigny | Henry Grant Kerswell - Dottore Grenvil | Robert Jenkins - Giuseppe | Ian Massa-Harris - Flora's Servant | Alistair Sutherland - Commissioner
CARMEN | G. BIZET
Opera Holland Park, 2022
CREATIVE TEAM
Conductor - Lee Reynolds | Associate Conductor - Sonia Ben-Santamaria | Director - Cecilia Stinton | Designer - takis | Lighting Designer - Johanne Jensen | Isabel Baquero - Choreographer | Richard Harker - Chorus Master |
CAST
Kezia Bienek - Carmen | Oliver Johnston - Don José | Thomas Mole - Escamillo | Alison Langer - Micaëla | Natasha Agarwal - Frasquita | Ellie Edmonds - Mercédès | Jacob Phillips - Zuniga | Jevan McAuley - Moralès | Themba Mvula - Le Dancaïre | Mike Bradley - Le Remendado | Naho Koizumi - A Seller | Harry Fradley - A Bohemian
