Bangkok--Jan 14--D&M MUSIC STUDIO
D&M Music Studio in association with the Arnoma Hotel, Bangkok,are pleased to bring you “A Night at the Opera”, performed by two of London’s celebrated opera stars, the dramatic soprano Jenny Miller and tenor David Barrell, Thursday, March 24th at 19:00 hrs, in the Grand Ballroom. A dinner concert where
music and food will alternate. Tickets, 2,500 baht, include the five-course dinner
menu with wine, plus the gala performance, featuring selections from La Traviata, Cavalleria Rusticana, Carmen, Madame Butterfly, Un Ballo in Maschera, Tosca, and Gershwin’s "Bess you is my woman now", and more from the world’s favourite greatest operas.
Jenny Miller, winner of many prestigious awards, including the Peter Stuyvesant, Erna Spoorenburg Opera Prize, Maria Canals International Singing Competition and the Jurarez Cabello International Opera competition, has been applauded for her starring roles in Aida, Carmen, Cosi Fan Tutte, The Marriage of
Figaro and many more
Her most recent starring roles, performed to astounding reviews at London’s Royal Opera House, include the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, Marcellina
in The Marriage of Figaro, Rosmira in Handel’s opera Partenope and Maddelena in Rigoletto.
David Barrell, trained at London University, The Royal Academy of Music and Julliard’s American Opera Centre. After winning first prize in the New York Oratorio Society International Soloist Competition at Carnegie Hall, his career took off with immediate success, performing leading tenor roles in international opera festivals and in concert, with such distinguished conductors as Sir David Wilcox, Sir Charles Mackeras, Carlo Rizzi and Neem Jarvi, to unanimous critical
acclaim; “Sensational ... a voice of unstrained warmth and colour!”
“A Night at the Opera”, with Jenny Miller and David Barrell, in the Arnoma Hotel Grand Ballroom, Thursday, March 24th at 19:00 hrs, includes a five-course dinner with wine, plus performance Tickets are avaible at D&M Music Studio Tel: 02-718-7300 or 02-718-7129 or Asia Books Sukhumvit Tel: 02-252-4373 and Robinson Piano Showroom ( 3rd floor Siam Center) Tel: 02-658-1080-1. For more
information please call 02-718-7300 or 02-718-7129 or Khun Mongkol 01-682-8000
Dress code: Tuxedo or dark suit for men and formal attire for ladies
Biography
Jenny Miller, having won the prestigious Peter Stuyvesant Award. In 1983-84 she understudied and performed the title-role in Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s production of La Cenerentola. This led to her official Festival debut as Pallade in L’Incoronazione Di Poppea the following year, and she sang Cherubino in Glyndebourne Touring Opera’s Le Nozze Di Figaro that autumn. In 1985 she won both the first prize for mezzos and the Erna Spoorenburg Opera Prize at the ‘s-Hertogenbosch International Singing Competition. In 1986 she sang Amneris for the Brighton Festival’s production of Aida, and performed the role of Mercedes and Carmen for Scottish Opera. Numerous roles since have included the title role in Rinaldo and Agrippina by Handel, both for Midsummer Opera, the principal role in Le Roi D’Ys (Bloomsbury Theatre London), the heroine Clarice in Pietra Della Paragone and Jeannie in Robin Orr’s Full Circle. She has sung Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte for the Bermuda Festival and the title role in Carmen again for Regency Opera. She has won two further prizes, the First Prize in the Maria Canals International Singing Competition and the Jurarez Cabello Prize for outstanding interpretation at the Rio Di Janeiro International Opera Competition, and she has created the role of Nell by Alison Bauld, (premiered at the London International Opera Festival at the Donmar Warehouse.
Recent work has included performing as the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, Marcellina in Le Nozze Di Figaro, Rosmira in Handel’s opera Partenope and Maddelena in Rigoletto. She understudied the roles of Venus and ‘second Norn’ in Arianna and Gotterdammerung respectively, for the Royal Opera House, and sang the
title role in Mrs Fraser’s Frenzy, by George Newson, premiered at the Canterbury and Cheltenham International Festivals. She has performed in Hotel, a new ‘jazz opera’ by Orlando Gough, with Second Stride, and sang the role of Mother in Hansel and Gretel at the Festival Hall.
For the past three years Jenny has been studying the dramatic soprano repertoire and has performed Tosca (Visible Music Productions) and Brunnhilde in Die Walkure, Siegfried, and G?tterd?mmerung (Longborough Festival Opera).
DAVID BARRELL trained at London University, The Royal Academy of Music, London, and The American Opera Centre, Juilliard where he won further awards.After
winning first prize in the New York Oratorio Society International Soloist Competition at Carnegie Hall, he began a distinguished career, singing leading roles from Mozart to Tippett in opera houses around the world.
He has appeared with Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Scottish Opera, The Glyndebourne Festival, The Royal Opera House at the New York
Metropolitan, Teatro Regio Turin, Opera de Nice, Maggio Musicale Florence, as well as the opera houses of Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, and at the Wexford,
Spoleto and Edinburgh International Festivals. He has also appeared in concert with among others the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony
Orchestra, Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Nash Ensemble and The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and with such distinguished conductors as Sir David Wilcox, Sir Charles Mackeras, Carlo Rizzi and Neem Jarvi.
In February 2001 he appeared as Don Jos? in Carmen at the Bermuda Festival, to unanimous critical acclaim: "The Don Jos? was tenor David Barrell ... sensational a voice of unstrained warmth and colour a dramatic stage presence and technique which was profoundly moving." Bermuda Times. In July 2001 he made his debut as Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut at the Holland Park International Opera
Festival in London which again received critical acclaim: "another plus was David Barrell's fervently mellifluous Des Grieux." Evening Standard
David has recently appeared in opera galas at the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican, as well as working with Opera North (La Rondine), English National Opera (Il Tabarro, The Trojans, Tosca and Morning to Midnight), Scottish Opera (Madame Butterfly), Welsh National Opera (Tosca) and Glyndebourne Festival Opera
(Euryanthe). In March 2002 David sang his first performances of Herman in Tchaikowsky's Queen of Spades at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, again receiving considerable acclaim both vocally and dramatically. Later the same year he appeared as Boris in Katya Kabanova at The Glyndebourne Festival, Luigi in Il Tabarro at Welsh National Opera, Hagenbach in La Wally at QEH London, and the title role in the World Premiere of Will Todd’s The Blackened Man at the Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House Covent Garden: "…passionate intensity, vividly realised by David Barrell" Musical Opinion "…David Barrell negotiated the role's vertiginous
heights confidently and tirelessly" Sunday Telegraph
His appearance as Cavaradossi in Tosca at The Longborough Opera Festival was also highly praised: "David Barrell merged his considerable acting powers
with singing of gold-seal quality" Oxford Times David recently made his debut as Calaf in Puccini's Turandot in Malaysia.
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