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This month
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August 13th - Vivaldi Salve Regina and Pergolesi Stabat Mater with Florilegium
in the Quimper Festival, Brittany. For programme details see the Florilegium website
Dates for the diary next month
September 3rd*,4th and 5th: 'Despina' Cosi fan Tutte W.A.Mozart, Woodhouse Opera. Fiordiligi: Susan Parkes,
Dorabella: Martha Jones with David Webb, Ed Grint. Musical Director- Joseph Ramadan. *public dress
Please visit the Woodhouse Opera website for all details http://woodhousesounds.com
Further ahead - Glyndebourne on Tour 'L'incoronazione di poppea' Monteverdi (Amore). See the Glyndebourne website for details of dates, venues and cast.
For reviews and photographs from the Ryedale Festival ('Goodbye to all That') please visit the Ryedale festival website and John Illingworth Photography
Competition Success! Winner of the 2010 Patricia Routledge AESS Competition
(Association of English Singers and Speakers). Final held at the Royal College of Music on May 12th. Helen-Jane was awarded first prize after her programme entitled 'Country Lives'* and was accompanied by Anna Tetsuya
Judges: Patricia Williams, David Clegg, Judy Hildesley, Simon Roberts and Liza Hobbs. Visit the AESS website for further details of other prizes awarded and of the society.
*(see 'Engagements' for programme details)
Judges: Patricia Williams, David Clegg, Judy Hildesley, Simon Roberts and Liza Hobbs. Visit the AESS website for further details of other prizes awarded and of the society.
*(see 'Engagements' for programme details)
A break from the norm . . .
For Paris fashion week Hermes launch their new collection in fairytale style. Jonathan Kent and Paul Brown will design and direct a fantastical evening with a theme of 'fairy tales' and I will be performing as a siren-singing hair-brushing mermaid! (to see a clip visit http://www.somethinggraphic.net/?page_id=139 . For more pictures visit http://blogs.lexpress.fr/tendance/2010/03/les-beaux-contes-font-les-beau.php?xtor=RSS-201 Music by Thierry Planelle, installation by Nina Dunn
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All 'beach' photographs on this site were kindly taken by Rich Lacey, Spring Media Design www.springmediadesign.co.uk and all other headshots were taken by Paul Foster-Williams
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All 'beach' photographs on this site were kindly taken by Rich Lacey, Spring Media Design www.springmediadesign.co.uk and all other headshots were taken by Paul Foster-Williams
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December 2009- I am now represented by Caroline Phillips Management
Purcell's The Fairy Queen a co-production with Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Les Arts Florissants 2009-2010
Performances at Glyndebourne Opera House 2009 and in the Opera Comique, Paris Theatre de Caen and Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York in 2010 . Conductor- William Christie*, Director -Jonathan Kent and Designer- Paul Brown. Helen-Jane will be playing 'Eve', cover fairies and chorus.(For reviews and photographs of the show in Glyndebourne, Paris and New York google 'The Fairy Queen' in Le Monde, The New York Times and Guardian, Telegraph and Times and see below)
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“. . . and Helen-Jane Howells sang appealingly in a comic piece about Adam and Eve.” The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/arts/music/25fairy.html
For the Guardian review see http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/28/classical-review-the-fairy-queen
" . . . and naughty Eve (wonderful Helen-Jane Howells) . . ."
For the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/glyndebourne/5610770/The-Fairy-Queen-at-Glyndebourne---review.html
" a riot of energy, colour . . . "
Telegraph http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/
stage/opera/article6549914.ece
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