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The Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus, featuring four international soloists from the Royal Opera's Jette Parker Young Artist Programme, will perform at the Brandenburg Choral Festival this April.
The festival is London's biggest choral celebration and showcases amateur choirs in a number of Central London venues. The Chorus will perform pieces from La traviata, Carmen, and Madama Butterfly, as well as other works by Copeland and Wagner, as part of an evening of 'Opera Choruses and Folksongs'. They will be joined by JPYA soloists Luis Gomes, Anush Hovhannisyan, Rachel Kelly and Yuriy Yurchuk, under the Musical Direction of Jeremy Haneman and assistant Musical Director Michalis Angelakis.
The Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus offers local residents the opportunity to find their voice and is open to anyone aged eight and over living in Thurrock. Though they rehearse and perform regularly in Thurrock, Brandenburg Festival will be a great opportunity for audiences to see them in the capital.
'The Thurrock Community Chorus are so sincere and they love what they do', says soprano Anush Hovhannisyan. 'In a professional choir there can be a sense that it is just a job, but for the Community Chorus you know that they want to absorb everything, that they are always present and always keen to do more. There is so much energy from them and that is the best thing for an artist to feel.'
The Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus will be performing at 7.30pm on Sunday 26 April at St James Sussex Gardens in London. To find out more or to book tickets, visit the Brandenburg website.
The Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus is generously sponsored by Thurrock Borough Council and Royal Opera House Endowment Fund.]]>
'Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is a phenomenal opera, and so different from the opera we are used to here', says Jette Parker Young Artist Anush Hovhannisyan, who is currently in rehearsals for John Fulljames's new Royal Opera production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's operatic satire. 'It is a timeless piece about the present, wherever and whenever you are.'
The opera, which has never before been staged by The Royal Opera, opens on 10 March 2015.
'John Fulljames and conductor Mark Wigglesworth are the ideal team', continues Anush. 'They work together and give freedom to the artists. For them, every rehearsal is an exploration with the singers, and I love it. It's like a masterclass for me! Kurt Streit [singing the role of Jimmy McIntyre] for example, really explores the deepest closed doors in his mind and soul when rehearsing. Watching him gives me goosebumps!'
The opera, which had its world premiere in 1930, traces the founding of a city, its rapid growth and subsequent atrophy in a stinging satire on consumerism.
'I play one of the girls who has been trafficked to become a prostitute. We represent the underworld of a big-city civilization', says Anush. 'For me, there is a clash between the words and the music. There are light tunes and playful patterns, with hints of popular music, musical theatre and cabaret, but, simultaneously, the plot is going to darker places. And as the opera progresses, there are big chords and repetitive patterns that, by the end, become like a pulsating pain in your body. It's genius.'
Anush will be performing alongside Anne Sofie von Otter, Peter Hoare, Willard W. White and Christine Rice, a cast she describes as 'perfect'. The production will be screened live in cinemas around the world on 1 April. Listen to an interview with Mark Wigglesworth and Christine Rice:
'This is the first opera that I'm performing in that will be broadcast, and there is a lot of pressure', she says. 'The atmosphere in the auditorium during a live performance is a very unique thing, and so the goal for our team is to transfer that energy and uniqueness through the broadcast. I think this production is going to work very well onscreen!'
Anush, who was born and raised in Armenia, starting playing the violin as a six-year-old, before going on to study singing at the Yerevan State Conservatory and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Yet even before she started studying, Anush was very much at home on the stage:
'I'm a theatrical bohemian child really. My dad is an opera director, and has also done TV and films', she explains. 'I always had a role so that no-one had to babysit me – I was part of a chorus, or doing mime or little solos. It's always been in my blood and I feel at home on-stage and in the rehearsal room. Whether working or just watching, this is the place for me.'
With an operatic family, Anush is used to feedback from those closest to her.
'My husband is my most important critic – he provides great support and offers the most sincere opinion', she says. 'Though, of course, there are times when you don't want to hear the truth, and he's not the best at knowing when that is!'
Since joining the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in the 2013/14 Season, Anush has performed in productions including El gato con botas, Carmen, Die Frau ohne Schatten and La scala di seta.
'I had a small role in Die Frau ohne Schatten, but the costume really challenged my singing and movement', says Anush. 'I had 2-metre-long wings and a mask – I could hardly see or hear anything, the lights were blinding and the stage rotating. But the team were incredible and really looked after me. [Conductor] Semyon Bychkov is amazing – he was like a magician bringing out the magic from every member of the team and melding it all together. I felt privileged to be part of it.'
As part of the JPYA Programme, singers follow a specially-tailored schedule that includes coaching in languages, stagecraft and vocal technique, as well as preparing cover roles and performing on the main stage and in concert.
'For Young Artists, all the roles we cover are new', says Anush. 'Each role has technical challenges vocally and, in terms of characterization, you really have to take time to explore your part. It's a big challenge to learn the roles and have the stamina to sing them well, but it's an amazing chance for us to build repertory, and pushing your limits really helps you to grow as an artist and find out a bit more about yourself. You never know what you can do in what time-frame unless you push it!'
With performances, rehearsals, classes and workshops, the schedule for the Young Artists can be intense, but Anush wouldn't have it any other way: 'This Programme has such a history, and has seen so many intakes of singers, that it has perfected the format', she says. 'And if I do find myself tired, or I have a bad day, I just start singing and everything is altered – it brings my energy up. It is my dream to sing. No matter what the role, I just want to be on the operatic stage!'
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny runs from 10 March to 4 April 2014. A limited number of tickets are still available.
The production will be live screened in cinemas across the world on 1 April. Find a cinema near you and sign up to our mailing list.
The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme is supported by Oak Foundation. Find out more about the Programme.
Anush will also be performing in Madama Butterfly, which opens on 20 March, and in the JPYA Summer Performance on 18 July 2015.]]>
Five new singers have been selected to join the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in September 2015.
Russian soprano Vlada Borovko, Irish soprano Jennifer Davis, Australian mezzo-soprano Emily Edmonds, Korean tenor David Junghoon Kim and British bass David Shipley were selected from more than 370 applicants from 59 countries.
The selection process, which began in August 2014, included preliminary auditions in London or Vienna and a one-to-one coaching session with the Programme's Artistic Director David Gowland. A shortlist of just 12 singers made the final stage, auditioning on the Royal Opera House main stage in front a panel that included The Royal Opera's Music Director Antonio Pappano and Director of Opera Kasper Holten.
Richard Gerard Jones has been selected to join the Programme as Stage Director, from a field of more than 40 applicants.
The Jette Parker Young Artists work as salaried members of The Royal Opera for a two-year period, during which time they perform in a variety of main-stage productions, concerts and recitals, as well as covering lead roles. They also receive coaching in all opera disciplines, including role interpretation, language and stagecraft.
There are numerous opportunities to meet the Young Artists throughout the Season, including lunchtime recitals, Meet the Young Artists Week, which includes a fully staged production, and the JPYA Summer Performance.
The new singers will join soprano Lauren Fagan, baritone Samuel Dale Johnson, bass James Platt, tenor Samuel Sakker, bass-baritone Yuriy Yurchuk, conductor/répétiteur Jonathan Santagada and ballet pianist Colin J. Scott, who remain on the Programme for their second year.
Singer auditions for next Season's intake will next be held in November/December 2015 for start in September 2016. Find out more about how to apply for the Programme.
The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme is supported by Oak Foundation. Find out more about the Programme.]]>
'As soon as I could speak I was singing,' says Jette Parker Young Artist Rachel Kelly. Beginning by singing anything and everything she enjoyed, from French folk songs to Disney, it wasn't until she began voice training at 14 that Rachel discovered her raison d'être: 'When I went to my first opera, Tosca, with my mum I was utterly inspired to pursue an operatic career.'
Born in Ireland and completing her degree at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Rachel then moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio before being accepted into The Royal Opera's Jette Parker Young Artists Programme.
Rachel had no hesitation about her desired path, 'No matter where I was living in the world, I would have applied to be a Jette Parker Young Artist because it's such an amazing, prestigious programme. Aside from offering coaching whenever you want it, you also get the opportunity to understudy main roles. I've just finished covering the role of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and I've also had the immense pleasure of singing some supporting roles of my own on the main stage. It's an amazing introduction for a young singer - I once spoke to Janet Baker, and she told me that it's so different now because people leaving educational institutions are expected to be perfect. But you can only really learn through experience.'
Now in her second year of the programme, Rachel has already performed in Parsifal, Carmen, Manon and I due Foscari on the Covent Garden main stage, alongside some of the world's most renowned and respected opera singers.
'One of my favourite roles out of those I've performed was Mercedes in Carmen. It was the most involved thing I'd done here up to that point, and I got to sing alongside Roberto Alagna, which was a dream come true.'
Looking to the future, Rachel has her eyes firmly set on a number of exciting and challenging roles: 'I'd love to sing Angelina from Rossini's La Cenerentola and Rosina from Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia. But my dream role is Mélisande from Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande - the music is absolutely divine and completely entrancing. I'd love to follow in the footsteps of another Irish mezzo - Ann Murray. She is an incredible artist and I feel I am similar to her in that she has that unusual soprano timbre in the upper register of her voice. She's a real inspiration.'
For now though, Rachel is preparing for her upcoming roles in the Royal Opera House, which include Flora in La traviata and Zaida in Il Turco in Italia, as well as understudying Jenny in Mahagonny. More pressingly, she's involved in Michael Boyd's new staging of Monteverdi's Orfeo, in which she will play Pluto's queen, Proserpina:
'It's a really interesting production to be working on. Michael ran the Royal Shakespeare Company, and it's a rare opportunity to collaborate with an esteemed director who comes from a non-operatic background. As well as the principal cast, and also a chorus comprised of Guildhall School of Music and Drama students, the production features young dancers aged between 12 and 17. Their enthusiasm is infectious and it's wonderful to see them creating these amazing tableaux.'
The character of Proserpina is complex, offering Rachel a chance to exhibit her acting abilities:
'She was stolen from Earth by Pluto and enslaved by him, made to become his wife, and forced to spend half the of the year in the Underworld - a catalyst for the onset of winter. For obvious reasons the marriage is less than blissful for both parties, a fact that becomes a bargaining chip for Proserpina later in the opera when she pleads on Orfeo's behalf by offering to submit fully to Pluto's will in exchange for the freedom of Eurydice - Orfeo's new wife who has recently died. Proserpina is moved to pity by Orfeo's unfaltering devotion to both his music and his wife.
'From a historical and artistic perspective, since Orfeo is the earliest surviving opera that is still regularly performed, it is exciting and enriching to see and hear opera's early formation and to be involved in recreating that magic for a contemporary audience'.
Orfeo runs 13–24 January 2015 at the Roundhouse. Limited numbers of tickets are available from the Royal Opera House and Roundhouse websites. The production is a new collaboration between the Roundhouse and The Royal Opera.]]>
'I think I was about nine when I saw my first opera. It was a performance of Tosca and I turned to my mum and said "That's what I want to do!"'
With the support of her family, Kiandra Howarth went on to fulfil her ambition of becoming an opera singer. The soprano joined the Opera Queensland and Opera Australia young artist programmes in 2011 and 2012 respectively, before moving to Austria for a one-year intensive study programme at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. It was during this year that she found out about The Royal Opera's Jette Parker Young Artists Programme from a fellow singer. Kiandra successfully auditioned for a place and moved to London in 2013.
'The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme offers so much - we have coaching on basically anything we want, like languages, stagecraft, and movement,' explains Kiandra. 'It's quite different from programmes I have done before in that as well as performing small roles we also get to understudy some of the major roles. This season I am covering Mimi in La bohème which is being sung by Anna Netrebko. It's absolutely amazing to be able to watch people like that and learn from them.'
Now in her second year of the programme, the young soprano has already appeared in Parsifal, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Ariadne auf Naxos, and in this Season's Rigoletto.
'A highlight so far was working alongside Karita Mattila in Ariadne auf Naxos; she was Ariadne and I was Echo. Karita is someone I have admired and looked up to since I was in my teens, so to work with her – and to find out that she is this lovely, down to earth person – was amazing.'
Kiandra Howarth as Echo, Wynne Evans as Scaramuccio, Paul Schweinester as Brighella, Karita Mattila as Ariadne, Jane Archibald as Zerbinetta and Jeremy White as Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos © ROH / Catherine Ashmore 2014
Jette Parker Young Artists Kiandra Howarth, Rachel Kelly, Luis Gomez, Samuel Sakker at the 2014/15 cinema launch © ROH, 2014
Kiandra is currently in rehearsals for Laurent Pelly's acclaimed production of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore which opens at Covent Garden later this month. She will play the young farm girl Giannetta in a cast including Bryn Terfel, Lucy Crowe and Vittorio Grigolo.
'I love this production because it's different to any other show I have been involved in at the Royal Opera House. There are a lot of physical things happening on musical cues, so at first it's quite confusing trying to sing whilst you are also doing all this choreography. Rehearsals are going well though and I am really enjoying working with all the cast.'
Kiandra will also be in the cast for the live relay of L'elisir d'amore, part of the Royal Opera House's Live Cinema Season:
'I recently saw the screening of The Royal Ballet's Manon and I couldn't believe how close up the cameras get. You never know where they are and when they are going to be on you. Your reactions have to be very precise and you have to always remember to keep focus and stay in character.'
The soprano is one of five young Australian artists currently on the programme, including four singers and one stage director. After completing the programme next year, she hopes to continue her career in Europe, the place she considers to be the home of opera: 'There is a good response to opera in Australia but it's not as big and well attended as it is Europe. I would really love to stay here and perhaps come back to Covent Garden in the future and do a larger role.'
Kiandra isn't the first young Australian soprano to arrive at Covent Garden with a talent for singing Donizetti and bel canto. Sixty-two years ago, another young Antipodean singer arrived at the Royal Opera House to take to the stage for the first time – her name was Joan Sutherland. Within a few short years, the singer dubbed 'La Stupenda' took the world by storm. Time will tell how closely Kiandra's career mirrors that of the great Sutherland's but one thing is for sure – with such talent, training and drive behind her, she too has every chance of operatic stardom.
L'elisir d'amore runs from 18 November–13 December 2014. Tickets are still available.
The production will also be screened live in cinemas across the world on 26 November as part of the Royal Opera House's Live Cinema Season.
The production is a co-production with Opéra National de Paris and is given with generous philanthropic support from Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet.]]>
The future stars of opera take to the stage on Sunday 20 July in the annual Jette Parker Young Artist Summer Performance, which this year features the first acts of Donizetti's La Favorite and Mozart's Così fan tutte.
The performance is directed by JPYA Stage Director Greg Eldridge and conducted by JPYA conductors Paul Wingfield and Michele Gamba.
'The Programme's function is to form a future generation of singers, conductors, répétiteurs and directors,' says David Gowland, Artistic Director of the Programme. 'It immerses them in the workings of an international company of the highest possible standards, to help them form their own artistic identity and give them guidance on their trajectory through the business. The purpose of the Summer Performance is to provide a platform to showcase them and what they've been doing over the past few years.'
At the end of the 2013/14 Season, Jette Parker Principal Jihoon Kim and six Young Artists will leave the scheme to embark on their future careers: soprano Dušica Bijelić, tenor David Butt Philip, baritones Michel de Souza and Ashley Riches and conductor/répétiteurs Paul Wingfield and Michele Gamba. Michele will take up a position next Season as Jette Parker Associate Conductor at the Royal Opera House.
Over the course of the Season, we profiled second-year Young Artists:
Dušica Bijelić
From hosting a children's programme on television when she was just 12, Dušica moved quickly into opera. She made her Covent Garden debut in Laurent Pelly's production of Meyerbeer's Robert le diable, going on to perform in Nabucco, Don Carlo, La rondine, Parsifal, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Le nozze di Figaro. However, it was covering the role of Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites that blew her away. Read Dušica's profile.
David Butt Philip
Whether listening to hip hop juggernauts Jurassic 5 and drum and bass legend Roni Size, or performing in Strauss's mighty Die Frau ohne Schatten, David is passionate about all kind of music. 'The breadth of repertory at The Royal Opera is amazing', he says. 'This year alone, I'm performing Puccini, Wagner, Verdi, Strauss and Poulenc. Last year it was Meyerbeer, Verdi, Mozart, Britten, Strauss and Puccini.' Read David's profile.
Michel de Souza
Michel had his first taste of opera as a nine-year-old boy performing in a production of Carmen, an experience that triggered his love of performance. 'With opera… you are not yourself, but a character, and you can lose yourself in this character.' This Season, Michel has performed in productions including Die Frau ohne Schatten, Dialogues des Carmélites and La traviata, which was the production he saw on his first visit to the Royal Opera House just four or five years ago. Read Michel's profile.
Michele Gamba
Since joining the Programme two years ago, Michele has worked on over fourteen productions. He considers preparation key, and likens learning music to using a good marinade: 'I need time to really get into the music; I have to be able to play it through, listen to it and live with it for a while. It's like using a good olive oil, I need to let it marinate!' Next year, he takes up a position as Jette Parker Associate Conductor, assisting Music Director Antonio Pappano on six productions. 'Tony has an unmistakable quality of sound – "the Pappano sound". It emanates from him in the pit and the rehearsal room', he says. Read Michele's profile.
Jihoon Kim
'When I was in high school, I was a member of an ensemble, but it was always a hobby. I never dreamt I'd sing at an opera house', says Jihoon. However, since his schools days, the Jette Parker Principal has spent three years at the Royal Opera House, performing alongside the likes of Plácido Domingo and John Tomlinson and taking on a huge variety of roles, including that of an Ogre in Xavier Montsalvatge's El gato con botas. Read Jihoon's profile.
Ashley Riches
Ashley, who only joined a choir at 15, began taking singing seriously in the King's College Choir at Cambridge University, a period he describes as 'a real lesson in dedication and collaboration'. His performances on the Programme have included Moralès in Carmen, a soldier who 'really sets the tone for what life is like in a hot, sensuous and sweaty Seville', Mandarin in Turandot, and roles in L'Ormindo, La traviata, Dialogues des Carmélites and Ariadne auf Naxos. Read Ashley's profile.
Paul Wingfield
As a youngster, Paul harboured ambitions to perform on the West End, writing letters to bands requesting to be their pianist. Now, as conductor/répétiteur on the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme, Paul's role includes acting as a pianist and coach in rehearsals, stage duties (conducting off-stage musicians), conducting Young Artist performances and playing keyboard instruments with the orchestra in the pit. 'You have lots of different hats as a répétiteur', he says. '... Without them in rehearsal, nothing would be able to happen at all!' However, he still finds time to learn to tap dance. Read Paul's profile.
Young Artists remaining on the Programme for the second year are sopranos Anush Hovhannisyan and Kiandra Howarth, mezzo-sopranos Nadezhda Karyazina and Rachel Kelly, tenor Luis Gomes and stage director Greg Eldridge. All joined the programme in 2013.
Find out more about the Jette Parker Young Artists starting in September 2014.
In addition to Main Stage performances, Jette Parker Young Artists will perform La scala di seta in the Linbury Studio Theatre in October as part of Meet the Young Artists Week. They also appear in regular lunchtime recitals, which are free to attend and take place in the Crush Room, Linbury Studio Theatre or the Paul Hamlyn Hall.
The JPYA Summer Performance takes place on 20 July at 2pm. Tickets are still available.
The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme is supported by Oak Foundation. Find out more about the programme in our News and Features section.]]>
'I discovered Beethoven's 7th when I was six. I heard it playing in the kitchen, picked up a fork and started conducting,' says Jette Parker Young Artist Michele Gamba. 'From then on, I said I wanted to be a conductor.'
For Michele, music came early. He started playing the piano aged four, when he came home from school to find his parents had bought a piano, and gave his first solo piano performance at the age of 12 (he played Mozart's Piano Concerto No 14).
He studied at the conservatoire in Milan, the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Tuscany and the Royal Academy of Music in London, and made his conducting debut at the Royal Festival Hall with the Future Firsts London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2009. He then worked as assistant conductor and répétiteur at the Hamburg State Opera, before joining the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in 2012.
Next Season, after two years as a conductor and répétiteur on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, he will take up the post of Jette Parker Associate Conductor, assisting Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano.
'I hugely admire Tony as a conductor. He communicates fantastically with singers and orchestras, and the way he makes music is so natural and so physical,' says Michele. 'I was in the car a few months ago and I heard Brahms' 2nd on the radio. It had this lush, warm quality to it, and I knew instantly it was Tony conducting! He has an unmistakable quality of sound – "the Pappano sound". It emanates from him in the pit and the rehearsal room.'
Michele is currently working as répétiteur for Pappano in rehearsals for Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos.
'Strauss really was a master of orchestration and Ariadne auf Naxos shows his genius. The instrumentation is exquisite. It very light and almost chamber-like, yet Strauss draws out very subtle colours as well as big outbursts of sound.'
In addition to his répétiteur duties, Michele will perform the celeste with the orchestra.
'The celeste stands out clearly in the music; it brings a translucent quality to the orchestration,' he says. 'It is great to be in the pit with the orchestra as you can learn a lot. You understand the communication between the musicians and learn how to breathe with the body of the orchestra as a whole.'
Ariadne aux Naxos, which opens on 25 June, stars Karita Mattila and Thomas Allen.
'Working with Thomas and Karita, it is easy to understand why they have such fame,' says Michele. 'Karita is making a role debut, yet it seems so natural for her and she makes it sound like a piece of cake. They are both true musicians who understand their characters, yet also bring something personal to the role.'
Since joining the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in 2012, Michele has worked on a huge number of productions. His first Season included The Ring Cycle, La bohème, Eugene Onegin, Tosca, Written on Skin, Don Carlo, Simon Boccanegra and La rondine.
'It's a very busy position as we are involved in everything for the Main Stage,' says Michele. 'I have to pace my study and start working on a piece at least four months in advance. I need time to really get into the music; I have to be able to play it through, listen to it and live with it for a while. It's like using a good olive oil, I need to let it marinate! Ironically, the more disciplined you are with your practice, the freer you are with your music.'
This Season, he has worked on Les Vêpres siciliennes, Carmen, La Fille du régiment, La traviata, Tosca and Dialogues des Carmélites.
'Working on Les Vêpres siciliennes, a big new production with a long rehearsal period and a fantastic cast conducted by Antonio Pappano, was a highlight for me,' he says. 'With opera, there is so much traffic to deal with when conducting – you have staging, costumes, movement and chorus scenes – and it is all part of the conductor's job to make these elements organic with the music. Les Vêpres siciliennes epitomized the 'Pappano sound' and it was wonderful for me to contribute to the musical result,' he says.
'To be working with Tony for the six productions he is conducting in the 2014/15 Season is a real honour. It will offer such a different palette of colours, and I can't wait to get started!'
Michele will be conducting Act 1 of Così fan tutte for the JPYA Summer Performance on 20 July. The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme is supported by Oak Foundation. Find out more about the programme in our News and Features section.]]>
'Apparently, I came home from school one day and said I wanted to learn the piano,' says Paul Wingfield, conductor and répétiteur on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme. 'I wanted to play in musicals, The Phantom of the Opera in particular, and at about nine or ten years old I was writing letters to bands saying I would love to have the piano part in their orchestra!'
From his early West End ambitions, Paul had a natural enthusiasm for piano. In sixth form, he saw his first opera, The Royal Opera's Tristan und Isolde, an experience he describes as 'seminal', before becoming an Organ Scholar at Oxford University. Now, as a Young Artist, his role includes accompanying rehearsals, performing in the orchestra pit and conducting. Since joining the Programme in 2012, he has worked as First Répétiteur on Elektra and Don Giovanni.
'You have lots of different hats as a répétiteur,' he says. 'People say you only notice if the répétiteur is getting it wrong, but without them in rehearsal, nothing would be able to happen at all; it is a hugely unsung role.'
A répétiteur acts as a pianist and coach in rehearsals, playing the vocal score for singers, taking notes for the conductor and helping to ensure that everything runs smoothly.
'The répétiteur has to adapt the vocal score to make it sound orchestral, but still play all the notes on a piano. At times, it's a case of not playing what's on the page, but finding ways around it to create the right sound for the singers,' he says. 'We are also a sounding board for advice and opinions - the go-between for the singers and conductor. In a way, it is as much about diplomacy and people management as it is about the music. You have to make quick decisions about what sort of person you are working with and how to get the best out of them.'
For Paul, preparation is key; the répétiteur needs to know the detail of the instrumentation and word for word what is going on in the libretto. 'There is no way you could turn up to a rehearsal here without being completely on top of it. If you are in a position where you are advising people and suggesting things, you have to be on a front foot with it and the person who is the most switched on.'
Away from his répétiteur duties, Paul will soon be playing the celeste and organ in Jonathan Kent's production of Tosca.
'The celeste has a distinctive bell-like sound that cuts across the orchestra. It is often used with Tosca's entrances, which gives her a sort of showbiz sheen. There is something slightly sparkly about her music, creating a sense of the prima donna,' he says. 'Tosca has the most fantastic dramatic sweep and so it is great to also play the organ as this really contributes to the drama on-stage. It is an electronic organ located in the left-hand corner of the stalls circle that feeds through to speakers at the back of the stage. I don't end up hearing very much, but I'm told that backstage, it is deafening!'
Previously, Paul has played the organ in Turandot and harpsichord in Don Giovanni.
'After playing harpsichord in Don Giovanni I thought I had a good impression of it, but I saw it on TV last week and it was a complete surprise to me,' he says. 'It's amazing what happens to the sound when it goes over the orchestra rail into the audience. Everything gets blended together and it sounds completely different. You always have to bear that in mind as a musician.'
Paul's role as répétiteur also includes stage duties – one of which is to conduct off-stage musicians during performances. In Tosca for example, there are off-stage bells played backstage by two orchestral musicians. They are conducted by the répétiteur with a TV monitor to the pit.
'It can be very difficult due to the delay in sound reaching the pit and audience and so there is a bit of trial and error to get a feel for it. My rule of thumb is that if feels wrong or risky, you are probably right. If it feels exactly right, you are behind!'
Since joining the Programme in 2012, Paul has undertaken stage duties for many productions, including Parsifal, Turandot and Die Frau ohne Schatten. However, he still finds time for other pursuits: 'I'm learning to tap dance at the moment. Although it's not part of my répétiteur duties, I love movement direction and you can't underestimate the importance of moving to music. In a way, a conductor is the only person allowed to dance to the music and so it's very important to be aware of the expressive possibilities of the body.'
On the Programme, Paul has conducted Southbank Sinfonia for both productions in Meet the Young Artists Week in the Linbury Studio Theatre, Mozart and Salieri (2012) and El gato con botas (2013), and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in the overture and part of Act I of Die Zauberflöte for the JPYA Summer Performance on the main stage in 2013. To conclude the Programme, he will conduct Act I of La favorite in the JPYA Summer Performance later this Season.
'There have been so many big challenges on the JPYA Programme. When I started, I could never have imagined doing all the things I have done; from playing The Minotaur, which was just a forest of black notes with more rhythmic drive than melody in the traditional sense, to playing the harpsichord for Don Giovanni, a huge responsibility. Everything is its own mountain, but so far, so good!'
Paul will also be acting as First Répétiteur for Manon Lescaut. The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme is supported by Oak Foundation. Find out more about the programme in our News and Features section.
Jette Parker Young Artist Dušica Bijelić has always been one for the limelight. She studied singing and piano from the age of eight, competed in poetry recitals and song competitions, and - at just 12 years old - hosted a children's programme on national TV in her native Serbia.
'It was a news channel specifically for kids, and I did it every weekend for about four years – it made me want to get into acting,' she says. 'But a teacher at school suggested I try opera and so I started having lessons. By the time I was 15, I was crazy about it and I knew it was what I wanted to do. Of course, my parents thought I was mad and that it was just a passing phase.'
However, despite her parent's misgivings, Dušica studied singing at the University of Fine Arts in Belgrade with Ljudmila Gross-Popović, achieving a Masters degree with Honours. She then went on to study in Vienna, Rome and New York, and made her operatic debut in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims at Teatro Real in Madrid. She was recently selected by The Independent as one of the top eight Bright Young things in the arts in 2014 (alongside The Royal Ballet's Francesca Hayward).
Dušica joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in 2012, making her Covent Garden debut in Laurent Pelly's production of Meyerbeer's Robert le diable.
'I realized when I arrived how much I don't know. To be able to deliver a role well you need to have technique, diction and style; you need to know the context of the piece and the background of your character; and to be able to act and move according to the period. To put all this together, requires a huge amount of work,' she says. 'However, we get help in every aspect of this in our classes – whatever we need, the Programme gives us! Perfection doesn't exist, but I love trying to reach it and striving to be a better artist all-round.'
Watch Dušica working with Royal Opera language coach Alexandre Naoumenko on the nuances of performing Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin:
She has since performed on the main stage in Nabucco, Don Carlo, La rondine, Parsifal and Die Frau ohne Schatten.
'It is fantastic to perform work that is so different, and Covent Garden brings the best of everything. In every production, there are a couple of artist whom you aspire to emulate. You are in a really rich environment and so you are learning all the time.'
Dušica is currently performing the role of Barbarina in David McVicar's production of Le nozze di Figaro, which opened on 2 May.
'Le nozze di Figaro is fantastic – a real masterpiece,' she says. 'My character Barbarina is often represented as a free spirit and easygoing, but in this production, she is just a simple girl who has fallen in love. She wants to marry Cherubino and experience the life of a woman, but is very young and innocent. As with all small roles, getting to know her character is hard. I use my imagination a lot, inventing a story about my character to fill in what is missing from the libretto.'
As well as performing small roles on the main stage, the Young Artists perform in recitals and cover larger roles, studying them with the Programme coaches. At the moment, Dušica is covering the role of Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites.
'I had never heard Dialogues des Carmélites before; it's an unusual and tricky piece, but Poulenc's music is so exciting. I've been completely blown away by it,' she says.
'When I was younger, I always dreamed of performing Violetta in La traviata. Now, I'm not so sure. Because the repertory is so wide, I've realised you can go in so many different directions. I have no idea where the road will take me!'
Dušica Bijelić performs Berio's Folk Songs, Meet the Young Artists Week, The Royal Opera ©Catherine Ashmore, 2013
David Butt Philip as Prunier, Dušica Bijelić as Lisette, Susana Gaspar as Magda and Pablo Bemsch as Ruggero in the JPYA Summer Performance © ROH / Clive Barda 2013
Ashley Riches as Onegin and Dušica Bijelić as Tatyana in the JPYA Summer Performance © ROH / Clive Barda 2013
David Butt Philip as Prunier, Dušica Bijelić as Lisette, Susana Gaspar as Magda and Pablo Bemsch as Ruggero in the JPYA Summer Performance © ROH / Clive Barda 2013
Royal Opera Live: Michele Gamba and Dušica Bijelić rehearsing Eugene Onegin with vocal coach Alexandre Naoumenko. © ROH / Sim Canetty-Clarke 2013
Hanna Hipp as Olga, Ashley Riches as Onegin and Dušica Bijelić as Tatyana in the JPYA Summer Performance © ROH / Clive Barda 2013
Dušica is currently performing in Le nozze di Figaro. She will then perform in the JPYA Summer Performance on 20 July. The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme is supported by Oak Foundation. Find out more about the Programme.]]>
'Opera didn't become a pleasure until I was in my early twenties really,' says Jette Parker Young Artist David Butt Philip, a baritone-turned-tenor from Somerset.
'I always sang; I was in the church choir from the age of seven and a chorister at Peterborough Cathedral until I was 14, which really instilled a love of choral music and the intense routine of performance, but at school I was in rock bands, obsessed with Pearl Jam and Nirvana, dreaming about becoming a rock star myself.'
David, who joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in 2012, has notably diverse music tastes. 'When music is the passion of your life, you want to hear everything. On my iPod on the way to work it'll be Jurassic 5 or Roni Size or something like that. In the mid-90s I was obsessed with guitar music; while after Glastonbury 1997, I became obsessed with electro and drum and bass.'
A career in classical music didn't cross David's mind until he started university, studying Philosophy and Politics at the University of Liverpool. 'I must have been about 19 when I rediscovered my love of choral music and re-integrated myself into the classical mainstream. I joined the University choir and found I was spending all my time on music rather than studying my degree. I dropped out and went to music college.'
David Butt Philip as Prunier, Dušica Bijelić as Lisette, Susana Gaspar as Magda and Pablo Bemsch as Ruggero in the JPYA Summer Performance © ROH / Clive Barda 2013
David Butt Philip as Prunier and Dušica Bijelic as Lisette in the JPYA Summer Performance © ROH / Clive Barda 2013
Jeremy Budd, Simon Gfeller, David Butt Philip and Pablo Bemsch as Servants in Capriccio © ROH/Catherine Ashmore, 2013
David Butt Philip as Prunier, Dušica Bijelić as Lisette, Susana Gaspar as Magda and Pablo Bemsch as Ruggero in the JPYA Summer Performance © ROH / Clive Barda 2013
Advised to go professional, he joined the Royal Northern College of Music: 'I didn't have my first singing lesson until I was 22. The advantage now is that it feels like a novelty to me. I have this child-like excitement about every piece and I'm never bored.'
David will soon be performing on the main stage in Richard Eyre's production of La traviata. '[It] has possibly the highest number of memorable tunes of any opera,' says David. 'And the production is a real classic – telling the story in a simple but beautiful way. It was a massive hit on its premiere and has been going strong for 20 years.'
David will be singing the role of Gastone de Letorières, performing alongside Simon Keenlyside as Giorgio Germont, Ailyn Peréz as Violetta, and Stephen Costello as Alfredo - the role he will cover in the production.
'The cast is great,' he says. 'Simon Keenlyside was my hero at college – the singer I most admired and wanted to emulate when I was a baritone; while Stephen Costello and Ailyn Peréz are at the top of the tree in terms of young international artists. It is an amazing opportunity for me to cover a core role. To learn one of the most iconic lead roles, and see world-class artists up close in rehearsals for a production like this, is invaluable. It is the greatest opportunity a young artist could ask for!'
A week before starting rehearsals for La traviata, David was performing in Strauss's mighty Die Frau ohne Schatten, having been asked at the last minute to sing the Apparition of a Youth.
'I've never done anything like that before – I had to learn the role in just 24 hours,' he says. 'It is very complex musically, and vocally it's incredibly taxing, but it's so rewarding when it comes off. The audience goes completely berserk; I've never seen anything like it in Covent Garden!'
Earlier this Season, David performed in Puccini's Turandot and Wagner's Parsifal; at the start of his time with the JPYA Programme, he made his main stage debut in Laurent Pelly's production of Meyerbeer's Robert le diable.
'Robert le diable was a real learning experience; it was great to be involved in an unusual piece, of mammoth proportions, that was also a new production,' he says. 'It is different to a revival as you have the luxury of a long rehearsal period – you are creating as you go, contributing to the creative process; I was working with an amazing director and the singing was spectacular – Bryan Hymel really is an extraordinary performer.'
'The breadth of repertory at The Royal Opera is amazing,' he adds. 'This year alone, I'm performing Puccini, Wagner, Verdi, Strauss and Poulenc. Last year it was Meyerbeer, Verdi, Mozart, Britten, Strauss and Puccini.'
David will be performing in La traviata, followed by Dialogues des Carmélites and Ariadne auf Naxos. The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme is supported by Oak Foundation. Find out more about the programme.]]>


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Nine plead guilty to revealing identity of Ched Evans rape victim online
The defendants were ordered to pay the victim compensation
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Kevin Rawlinson is a reporter at The Independent, writing about technology, and social media and protests/riots.
Monday 05 November 2012
Nine friends and family of a footballer convicted of rape have been ordered to pay compensation to his victim after naming her on social networks.
They launched abuse at the victim, calling her names like "money grabbing whore" and "poor little victim", Prestatyn Magistrates' Court heard today. In one of the first cases of its kind, they were each ordered to pay £624.
Noting that rape was one of the only crimes punishable by a maximum sentence of life, District Judge Andrew Shaw said: "It's a crime against women which subjects them to the most intimate personal violation. He said the defendants named the woman and abused her, adding: "You did so without proper knowledge of the facts and without any heed of the feelings of the victim."
He said their comments were posted online with "deliberate malice" and added: "Your actions have re-victimised this woman again." Victims of rape are given lifetime anonymity. The group said they were not aware of that fact and all nine pleaded guilty.
Dominic Green, 23, Benjamin Davies, 27, and Gemma Thomas, 18, all from Rhyl in North Wales, as well as Michael Ashton, 21, from Llanddulas, and Craig MacDonald, 26 and Holly Price, 25, from nearby Prestatyn were all found guilty of publishing material likely to lead members of the public to identify the complainant in a rape case, contrary to the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act, 1992. Paul Devine, 26, and Daniel Cardwell, 25, and Shaun Littler, 22, all Sheffield, also pleaded guilty to the same offence.
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4. What is the first big stop for the team after Spitz is killed?
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This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plot. Why might Jack London have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?
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Sacrifice was a theme that was very prevalent in this book. Who are the characters most affected by this theme, and how do they allow sacrifice to change their lives?
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Get the latest news, pictures and videos of French superstar DJ, songwriter and producer David Guetta, behind hits like 'Titanium', 'She-Wolf' and 'Lovers On The Sun'.
Real Name: Pierre David Guetta
Born: 7 November 1967
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Oilers held a players-only meeting before Sunday's Blackhawks game
Mar 10, 2013, 7:28 PM EDT
After getting dismantled by Nashville on Friday, the Edmonton Oilers face a tough challenge in the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday night. With that in mind, it makes sense that captain Shawn Horcoff decided to hold a players-only meeting before today's game, according to the Edmonton Journal.
"We addressed a couple of issues," said Horcoff. "We seem to be a little bit fragile right now.
"We came on this trip knowing it was going to be pivotal but we still have an opportunity here to salvage a decent trip and still give us a chance going forward. There's still half a season left. It's not over for us yet.
"There's still belief here we can put a run together."
Beating the Blackhawks (they're currently up 3-0 early on) would give some reason to believe.
Unfortunately for Edmonton, the Oilers are in a familiar position at the moment: last overall in the West. They've lost five games in row.
Even so, they're just six points out of the final playoff spot and will see Ales Hemsky, Horcoff and defenseman Teemu Hartikainen return to the mix.
In other words, there are plenty of reasons why that players-only meeting might work (or not).
- yanks33 - Mar 10, 2013 at 7:34 PM
3-0 in the 1st period…i'd say something said def helped
- comeonnowguys - Mar 11, 2013 at 9:10 AM
- valoisvipers - Mar 10, 2013 at 7:54 PM
I hope somebody recorded what was said because they need to hear it 24 more times.
- mp1131211 - Mar 10, 2013 at 7:57 PM
Seems to have worked so far….
- goobazooka - Mar 11, 2013 at 10:42 AM
"will see Ales Hemsky, Horcoff and defenseman Teemu Hartikainen return to the mix."
Teemu is a d-man now, eh? Someone should let him know I guess, cause the guy is out of position all game long.
Come on boys…
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