Operaat thePalaceFeaturing young artists from the National Opera Studio

Friday 8 October 2021 • 19.30please recycle me

Part one

Offenbach“Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour!” from The Tales of Hoffmann Judith Le Breuilly and Julieth Lozano

“La donna è mobile” from Rigoletto Phillip Clieve

Verdi

“Je veux vivre” from Roméo & JulietteJulieth Lozano

Gounod

“Una voce poco fa” from The Barber of SevilleJudith Le Breuilly

Rossini

“O mio babbino caro” from Gianni Schicchi Julieth Lozano

Puccini

“È amore un ladroncello” from Cosi fan tutteJudith Le Breuilly

Mozart

Lensky’s aria from Eugene Onegin Phillip Clieve

Tchaikovsky

“Nobles seigneurs” from Les HuguenotsJudith Le Breuilly

Meyerbeer

“Deh, vieni non tardar” from Le nozze di FigaroJulieth Lozano

Mozart

“Esulti pur la Barbara” from L’elisir d’amorePhillip Clieve and Julieth Lozano

Donizetti

interval

Part twoLehar “You Are My Heart’s Delight” from

Land of smilesPhillip Clieve

“Son pocchi fiori” from L’amico FritzJulieth Lozano

Mascagni

The Defendant’s Song from Trial By JuryPhillip Clieve

Sullivan

“We’ll go away together” from Street ScenePhillip Clieve and Judith Le Breuilly

Weill

“She moved through the fair” Judith Le Breuilly

Trad. Irish

“Ca’ the yowes”Judith Le Breuilly

Robert Burns

“Danny Boy”Phillip Clieve

Trad. Irish

“Alma mia”Julieth Lozano

Maria Grever

“Bésame mucho”Julieth Lozano

Velazquez

“Lorelei”Judith Le Breuilly

Gershwin

“Evening prayer” from Hansel and GretelJulieth Lozano and Judith Le Breuilly

Humperdinck

Julieth Lozanosoprano

Judith Le Breuillymezzo-sopranoBirmingham born Judith Le Breuilly is an Associate Young Artist at the National Opera Studio. She graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2018 studying with Margaret Izatt, and the Royal College of Music in 2020 studying with Dinah Harris, Caroline Dowdle and Simon Lepper. She was a finalist in the 2020 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, and was awarded first place in the Govenors’ Recital Prize and Jean Highgate scholarship for singers at the RCS. Operatic roles include Zweite Dame - Die Zauberflöte (Hurn Court Opera), Lia - L’Enfant Prodigue, Ernesto - Il Mondo Della Luna (RCMIOS), Various roles, Scoring a Century (British Youth Opera). Judith has been a soloist in Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle and has worked for the Waverley Singers, Buckingham Choral Society, the Royal College of Music, the Glasgow Cathedral Choral Society and The Redditch Orchestra. Judith has been supported by the RCS Trust, the Josephine Baker Trust, the William Gibbs Educational Trust, and was a Helen Marjorie Tonks Scholar at RCM.

Colombian soprano awarded a Master in Vocal Performance and Artist Diploma in Opera at RCM where she studied with Dinah Harris. An Irene Hanson and Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells scholar and 2019/20 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in the UK.2018 recipient of the President’s award given by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. Julieth appeared in the BBC documentary Queen Victoria: My Musical Britain recorded in 2019 at Buckingham and Kensington palaces. In 2016 she participated in Georg Solti’s Academy and Verbier Festival’s Project Opera; where she was awarded the Prix Thierry Mermod. She has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, V&A Museum in the UK among other places around the globe.Some of her performed roles are Vixen in The cunning little Vixen and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, this last one directed by Sir Thomas Allen.

Phillip Clievetenor

Aeron PrestonpianistWelsh pianist, Aeron Preston, started learning piano at the age of five. Whilst still at school, he won prizes for solo piano playing at the Urdd National Eisteddfod and the National Eisteddfod of Wales, picking up the Instrumental Blue Riband twice, and the Accompanying Prize four times. He read Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, and graduated in 2010 with a 2.i. He trained as a secondaryschool music teacher at Bangor University and has taught music at Wells Cathedral School, Builth Wells High School, and Newtown High School. He has also worked extensively as an accompanist, working with choral societies such as Aberystwyth University Choral Union, Ludlow Choral Society, the Montgomery County Music Festival, and Kington Choral Society. He has also accompanied for Mid Wales Opera, including playing organ for their production of Tosca in spring 2019. In the summer of 2018, he gained his Associateship of the Royal College of Organists. Aeron has just completed the PGDip course as a repetiteur at the Wales International Academy of Voice in Cardiff. During this course, he worked in rehearsals for the joint production of The Marriage of Figaro with WIAV and Mid Wales Opera.

Philip Clieve is a British tenor from Lancashire. He gained both his MMus and Bachelor from the Royal Northern College of Music.Operatic roles include Max Der Freischütz, Alfred Die Fledermaus, Prince Philippe A Dinner Engagement, Gherardo Gianni Schicchi, Zorn Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Ralph H.M.S. Pinafore, The Defendant Trial by Jury, Mr Box Cox and Box and Colonel Fairfax Yeoman of the Guard.Philip has also performed many oratorio, including Handel’s Messiah, the Mozart Requiem, Elijah Mendlesohn, Gloria Puccini, Petite messe solennelle Rossini, Magnificat J.S. Bach and The Crucifixion Stainer.Philip enjoys a varied concert portfolio, having sung Strauss, Schubert and Schumann lieder, English song of the 19th and 20th century and Tosti songs.Philip has been a regular chorus member of Grange Park Opera.

The National Opera Studio (NOS) exists to train talented young musicians to become the leading artists of their generation. The studio aims to make a significant contribution to the opera ecology and the wider creative and cultural life of the UK through the provision of top-quality professional training, and by our engagement and position in the sector.

At its core, the National Opera Studio provides intensive and bespoke professional training at the highest level for a small number of singers and repetiteurs each year, and prepares them for life on an international operatic stage. It works in partnership with not one, but six of the leading opera companies in the UK: English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Opera North, the Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera and Welsh National Opera. The Studio’s Young Artists undergo a rigorous nine month training programme that is individually designed around their particular vocal and developmental needs.

To find out more about the Studio and how you can support the future of opera, visit www.nationaloperastudio.org.uk

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