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Benjamin Bayl
- conductor
Benjamin Bayl’s skill and flair in conducting period instrument ensembles as
well as modern orchestras has led to collaborations with and support from many
notable figures, not least Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Iván Fischer, Ivor Bolton,
Harry Bicket, Paul McCreesh and Richard Hickox, to name a few. Following the
success of his recent performances with Symfoniorkester Norrlandsoperan (Bach’s Christmas
Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah), Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de
Asturias (Handel’s Agrippina and Haydn’s Die Schöpfung), Aalborg
Symfoniorkester and The Hanover Band, all have invited him to return for
appearances in the next seasons. Other past season highlights include his debut
with Opéra National de Lorraine in concert, and invitations to the Malaysian
Philharmonic Orchestra, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Sønderjyllands
Symfoniorkester, Gävle Symfoniorkester and RTV Slovenian Symphony Orchestra. Mr.
Bayl recently conducted La Clemenza di Tito with the Taipei Symphony
Orchestra in Taipei; Dido & Aeneas in at the Wilderness Festival in
Oxfordshire; Cavalli’s Gli Amori di Apollo e Dafne at the Copenhagen
Music Theater and Don Giovanni at the Royal Danish Opera with Concerto
Copenaghen; The Fairy Queen at the Staatsoper in Berlin (new
production); St. Matthew Passion in Sweden; Carmen and a symphony
concert in Sassari, which marked his Italian debut, followed by his debut with
the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento; L’Orfeo in Munich; Così fan
tutte in Aarhus; Semele in Koln; Messiah with the Aalborg
Symphony Orchestra; Le Nozze di Figaro in Baden Baden; a series of
concerts in Wroclaw with the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra in Arundal with the
Hanover Band (Bach’s B minor Mass), in Gent with the Collegium Vocale
Gent and concerts in Australia with seventeen88, his newly founded period
instrument orchestra.
Future plans include:
Johanna Dederer’s Fatima, oder von den mutigen Kindern at the Wiener
Staatsoper; Il matrimonio segreto in Amsterdam; Idomeneo at the
Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp; The Fairy Queen in Budapest.
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Felipe Bou - Bartolo
After studying with Antonio Blancas and Alfredo Kraus, Spanish bass Felipe Bou
made his operatic debut at the Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao, with Marina in
1994, beginning a bright career. Amongst the successes of the past seasons it is
worth mentioning: Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor and Ramfis in Aida at
the Düsseldorf Opera; Colline in La Bohème at the Bregenz Festival and at
the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Frère Laurent in Roméo et Juliette in
Tokyo; Conte Rodolfo in La Sonnambula in a new production at the Leipzig
Opera; Don Pasquale at the Teatro Real de Madrid; Sparafucile in Rigoletto,
besides Leo Nucci on a tour in Mexico, Beijing and Muscat with the Teatro Regio
in Parma, where he performed Ferrando in Il Trovatore for the Verdi
Festival; Four villains in Les Contes D'Hoffmann, directed by Lindsay
Kemp, in a co-production of Peralada, San Sebastián and Santander festivals and
theatres; Creonte in Medea at Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Oroveso in Norma at
Palma, Majorca; Massimiliano in I Masnadieri at the Zvolen Castle
Festival (Slovakia); Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Wiener
Staatsoper; Balthazar in La Favorite directed by Hugo de Ana at Santiago
de Chile; Otello in Sao Paulo; Marke in Tristan und Isolde,
Filippo II in Don Carlo and Fasolt in Das Rheingold in Oviedo;
Wurm in Luisa Miller at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Anna Bolena in
Tenerife; Colline in La Bohème in Valencia.
Plans
include: Le duc
d’Albe in Oviedo; Don Carlo in Sao Paulo; Verdi’s Requiem in
Belo Horizonte.
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Opera-Teatro Campoamor
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