Composer
Michaela Betts
Composer
James Atherton
Classical Music Director
Carl Penlington-Williams
Sound Designer
Adam P McCready
Librettist
& Script Writer
Sarah Nelson
Set Designer
Matt Chell
Lighting & Graphic Designer
Drew Baumohl
Media
Illustrator
Hannah Lewis
Patron
Emma Cunniffe
Carl Penlington-Williams - Classical Music Director
Carl studied at the Royal Northern College of Music (Orchestral Conducting, Accompaniment & Vocal studies)
His coaching includes:
*Private teaching practise of professional singers working with the national and international opera companies.
*Academy of Performing Arts Geneva.
*Birmingham Conservatoire of Music.
*International Academy Dubai.
*Welsh international Opera School.
*Seville international Opera programme.
*Welsh International Academy of Voice.
*Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Accompanist/Repetiteur for: Dame Janet Baker-Masterclass
Dame Ann Evans-Masterclass
Rosalind Plowright –Coaching
Patricia O’Neill - Recitals and coaching sessions
Preston Opera – “Aida”
Royal Northern College of Music-master classes, recitals, concert work, student auditions and competitions. ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ (excerpts), ‘Pollecino’, ‘Die Zauberflote’
European Opera-Il Trovatore, La Boheme, Don Pasquale.
South Wales Opera – ‘La Boheme’
Television and radio work
Aberdeen Festival- "Cosi fan Tutte
Wilmslow Opera – “La Traviata”, “Eugene Onegin”, “Nabucco”
Regular coaching and recitals throughout Europe
John Fisher, WNO/Metropolitan Opera New York-Masterclass
Dennis O’Neill International Tenor-Masterclass
Conductor and Chorus Master:
*Bangkok Opera-“La Boheme”
*Tokyo Opera Japan-“Cosi fan tutte” ‘Lucia Di Lammermoor’
*Opera Holland Park-“Don Pasquale” (Assistant Conductor to Maestro Richard Bonynge)
*Opera Holland Park- “La Wally”
*Conductor/Coach for the South Wales Opera School
*Assistant Conductor to Maestro Richard Bonynge for 80th Birthday Gala in London
*Bergamo-‘Il Turco in Italia’, ‘Cenerentola’ and Madama Butterfly
*Opera Holland Park – “Roberto Devereux”, Conducted by Maestro Richard Bonynge
*European Chamber Opera – “Cosi Fan Tutte”
*European Chamber Opera (Dubai) – “La Boheme”
*Birmingham Conservatoire of Music – Opera Scenes
*Anghiari Opera Festival Italy – “La Boheme"
*Pisa-‘Norma’, ‘Roberto Devereux’
*Borbegoines Opera Festival France – “La Boheme”
*Streissberg Opera Germany- Don Giovanni
*BYO -"Cosi fan Tutte”
*BYO (assist) – "The Cunning Little Vixen" (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
*Buxton Festival Opera (Chorus Master)) – “Un Giorno di Regno”.
*City of Manchester Opera – “Rigoletto”, “Aida", “Turandot"
*Liverpool Metropolitan Opera – “Tosca”
*North West Opera and Opera 74 – “La Traviata”
*North West Opera and Wilmslow Opera – “Aida"
*Opera 74 – “Eugene Onegin”, “Carmen”, “Orfeo ed Euridice”, "Die Zauberflote"
*Preston Opera – “Il Trovatore”
*Wilmslow Opera – “Il Trovatore”, “Lucia di Lammermoor”, “Un Ballo in Maschera”
*Una Voce Liverpool – “Emilia di Liverpool”
Languages: Working Knowledge
Italian
German
French
Oratorio:
Handel - "Messiah" "Samson"
Mozart - "Requiem", "Coronation Mass", “Mass in C Minor"
Haydn - "Little Organ Mass" “Seasons,” “Missa Sancta Nicola”
Verdi- “Requiem”
Tippet- “Child of our Time”
Musical Theatre:
Musical Director- Lloyd Webber’s “Joseph” for Diamond Jubilee (BBC)
Musical Director-Musical Theatre Scenes Academy of Performing Arts Geneva
Music Director-Dinner Theatre Production London, Keyboard and arranger of music (2010-2017)
Medieval Banquet-Audition Pianist
Thursford-Audition Pianist
Piano Vocal Duo-Lounge Entertainment
National Youth Music Theatre of Wales-Vocal Coach “Sweet Charity”
RADA-Musical Director on the GEMS project in Dubai