London Bel Canto Festival

11 July to 6 August 2022

Maestro collaboratore di sala, Italian coach, Cembalista, Maestro al piano, Répétiteur, Vocal coach

Ente Autonomo Teatro Verdi di Trieste

Teatro Massimo di Palermo

Théâtre de l’Opéra de Bordeaux

Radio Suisse

Rossini Opera Festival

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Teatro Piccolo “Giorgio Strehler” di Milano

Festival de Radio France Montpellier.

Britten Pears School, Aldeburgh

Docente e maestro al piano/cembalo “The Actor – Singer” ai masterclass della fondazione Walton a Ischia dal 1988-1999

Docente Solti Peretti Masterclass per maestri collaboratori

Docente Academia D'Arte Lirica di Osimo 1998- present day

American tenor Bruce Ford is acknowledged internationally as one of the finest singers of his generation. His exceptionally demanding repertoire is highlighted by many of the most challenging Mozart and bel canto roles, which have brought him consistent acclaim throughout North America and Europe. Numerous major opera houses have revived unjustly neglected works especially for him.

Ken is bel canto specialist tenor and a doctoral research scholar in Historical Performance Practice at the Royal College of Music London. He has 15 years teaching experience and has students in operas and conservatoires around the world. He regularly presents his academic research at conferences and based on his research he is expected to publish a bel canto singing treatise after his doctorate.

Janus' playing is both masterful and moving. He is at once sensitive and powerful while eliciting the finest sonority from each note.

Janus has an innate musicality that transcends instruments and inspires the finest singing. His attention to details with the vocal line and uncompromising perfectionism ensures that each voice reaches its potential.

David Parry is acknowledged as an inspirational champion of operatic, concert and symphonic repertoire across a vast range. He has been responsible for the re-appraisal of countless lesser-known compositions in a series of multi-award-winning productions and recordings, featuring some of the world’s finest singers.

Mme. Millo has sung over 180 performances of 15 different roles at her artistic home the Metropolitan Opera. Outside of New York, Mme. Millo has triumphed in the theaters of Frankfurt, Barcelona, Parma, Rome, Bologna, Torino, the Arena di Verona, the Baths of Caracalla, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, Paris, Orange, Moscow, Rio de Janero, Sao Paolo, Sanitago, Colon - Buenos Aires and of course La Scala, Milano and many more.

Nelly is one of the most versatile artists of our day. Her repertoire extends from Mozart and bel canto to Verdi, Puccini and verismo, to modern Italian opera such as Respighi and Zandonai, taking in French and Russian composers too. As Rodney Milnes wrote in Opera Magazine "this extraordinary diva can sing anything and sing it well ".

As a German language coach, Gerhard he has worked with singers of the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Bayreuther Festspiele, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Cardiff/Welsh International Academy of Voice, and the National Opera Studio, London.

www.gerhardgall.com

Jack trained at LAMDA and Oxford University, and was the Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse, where he assisted Kwame Kwei-Armah, Josie Rourke, Lyndsey Turner, Blanche McIntyre and Polly Findlay. He was an associate on Killer Joe (Orlando Bloom, West End), directed the revival of the Pulitzer winning How I Learned to Drive at Southwark Playhouse, Four Play for Old Vic New Voices (Richard Madden, Jeremy Irvine), Kander and Ebb and Maury Yeston shows at Mountview, Much Ado About Nothing for the Chiltern Shakespeare, shows for Edinburgh Fringe, Oxford Playhouse, the Arcola, Theatre503 and so on.