Hamlet

Hailed for his ‘hearty, luxurious baritone’ (Musical America), Gregory Feldmann appears on international opera and recital stages alike. This season he returned to Opernhaus Zürich to make his guest debut as Elviro in Handel’s Serse, as well as his role debut as Mercutio in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. He was a member of Opernhaus Zürich’s Internationales Opernstudio from 2022- 24. A passionate recitalist, Gregory enjoys a ‘luminous’ collaboration with pianist Nathaniel LaNasa (Oberon’s Grove). The prize-winning duo have performed in leading recital venues worldwide, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, and Paris’ Musée d’Orsay

Yewon Han won the Tenor Viñas International Singing Competition 2023 in Barcelona (first prize overall) and the Third Prize at the Neue Stimmen Competition 2022. As a member of the International Opera Studio at Opernhaus Zürich (2022–2024), she sung roles including Titania A Midsummer Night`s Dream and Romilda Serse; she covered the title role of Lakmè and Norina Don Pasquale, and sang Naiade Ariadne auf Naxos. Yewon Han studied in South Korea, where she graduated from the College of Music of Seoul National University and in 2021-22 she was a member of the Young Artist Program of Korea National Opera. In 2022 Yewon Han performed the role of Adele Die Fledermaus (Tiroler Festspiele Erl.)

Described by The Guardian as ‘The finest British bass of his generation’, Alastair Miles appears regularly at London’s Royal Opera House and in the UK has also sung for English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Grange Park Opera, Scottish Opera and Welsh National Opera. International engagements have taken him to the Metropolitan Opera, New York; the Salzburg Easter and Summer Festivals; the Theater an der Wien; the Wiener Staatsoper; the Flanders Opera; the Opéra Royal de Wallonie; the Opéra de Lille; the Opéra national de Paris; the Bavarian State Opera; the Deutsche Oper, Berlin; Oper Köln; La Scala, Milan; Teatro Regio Torino; the Dutch National Opera; and the Teatro Real, Madrid. He also appears widely in concert and has made over ninety recordings, including a recital disc of Brahms and Wolf for Signum Classics, as well as a huge variety of operatic repertoire.

Richard studied Performance Arts at Middlesex University and singing at the Guildhall School of Music. He has sung in many productions with English National Opera and Opera North. Other companies include Carl Rosa Opera, Crystal Clear Opera, London Opera Players, Heritage Opera, Opera della Luna, Opera South East, Arcadian Opera and Pavilion Opera, where his roles have included Leporello Don Giovanni, Figaro and Dr Bartolo The Marriage of Figaro, Dulcamara L’Elisir d’Amore, King Philip Don Carlos, Lord Capulet Romeo and Juliet, Harvey in Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, and most of the bass-baritone roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy Operas.

A true Soprano Falcon, Allison Cook is one of today’s leading interpreters of 20th century and contemporary repertoire. She created roles such as the Marquise in Francesconi’s Quartett (Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Festwochen, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires) and Lea in Benêt Casablanca’s L’enigma de Lea (the Liceu, Barcelona). Other highlights include Ades’ Powder her face (New York, La Monnaie in Brussels and Warsaw) and Brunhelda in Ramanati’s Amerika (Zurich). Future projects include a return to ENO and La Monnaie.

London-born Tenor Joshua Baxter is a graduate of the University of Aberdeen and the Royal Academy of Music, where he earned a Professional Diploma and MA in Performance. Joshua has performed roles such as Luigi Il Tabarro, Don José Carmen, and Faust Faust across the UK and Europe, including with Glyndebourne and Buxton International Festival. An accomplished oratorio soloist, he has performed works including Verdi’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah. Recent highlights include soloist appearances at York Proms and with the Bolton Symphony Orchestra.

South African born Tamsanqa Tylor Lamani has performed in South Africa and abroad, including Tamino The Magic Flute (UCT), Tabaldo I Capuletti e I Montecchi (and cover for ETO), Don Basilio/Curzo The Marriage of Figaro and Nemorino L’elisir d’Amore, Cavaradossi Tosca (Cape Town Opera), Verdi’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah (Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra), Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi (Operatunity), Alfredo La Traviata (Barefoot Opera). He was a second prize winner in University of Cape Town’s Shock Opera competition.

Anglo-Irish baritone Dan D’Souza made his debut at English National Opera as Belcore The Elixir of Love (Autumn 2024) and is now a Harewood Artist, supported by the inaugural Nicholas Folwell Scholarship. During the 2025/2026 season, he will sing Sid Albert Herring. Previous engagements include Cirillo Fedora and Ibn-Hakia Iolanta (If Opera), Trinculo La Tempesta (Wexford Festival Opera), Apollo Apollo e Dafne (London Handel Festival), Angelotti Tosca (The Grange Festival) and Flemish Deputy Don Carlo (Royal Ballet and Opera). Winner of both the Dame Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition and the Royal College of Music Lieder Competition, Dan D’Souza was a laureate for the 2023 Académie Orsay-Royaumont and a prize winner at the 2025 Tenor Viñas Competition.

Danish bass Per Bach Nissen’s latest engagements include King René Iolanta (Volksoper Vienna and Salzburg State Theatre), Wirt Der Schatzgräber (Opera National du Rhin), Hans Foltz Meistersinger, Dr. Bartolo Il barbiere di Siviglia, Sagrestano Tosca, Jeronimus Maskarade and Jens Grand King and Marschall (The Royal Danish Opera). Wagner roles include Fafner Das Rheingold and Siegfried (Frankfurt Opera), Fasolt Das Rheingold (Mupa, Budapest) and Pogner Die Meistersinger (Hannover State Opera). Per’s debut at Bregenzer Festspiele was as Kardinal Camillo Beatrice Cenci. In the USA his roles have included Rocco Fidelio (Detroit Opera) and Osmin Abduction from the Seraglio (Opera Philadelphia). At Komische Oper Berlin he sang Gremin Eugene Onegin and at English National Opera Police Chief Lady Macbeth of Mzensk.

Recent operatic roles include Capellio (cover) I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Theo The Vanishing Forrest (ETO), Papageno The Magic Flute (Wild Arts), Maximilian Candide (WNO), Guglielmo Così fan Tutte (Opera Cymru) and the lead baritone in The Butterfly House (Clonter). Later this year, leuan will join Mid Wales Opera in their production of Trouble in Tahiti.

James is a British-Chinese tenor who studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Recent engagements include Calaf Turandot (Opera Makers) and Don Jose La tragédie de Carmen (Buxton International Festival). James is a frequent performer with the English National Opera chorus and was a BAME Fellow during the 19/20 and 20/21 seasons.