ABOUT - Opera East Lothian
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Who We Are
Opera East Lothian is a small music society with a wonderful amateur chorus at its heart. The company perform music of all styles from Bach to the Beatles, Coldplay to Korngold, with our concert performances of operas such as "Nabucco" "L'elisir D'amore" "Don Giovanni" and "Dido and Aeneas" being special highlights.
Fiona Cox rscm
John Marshall Alcm llcm
Music Director
Repititeur
Fiona Cox Studied piano at the Royal College of Music in London where she specialised in chamber music. As a repected piano teacher Fiona is in much demand and recent years she has been made to accompany singers whom she hates with a vengance.
John Marshall was born and educated in Edinburgh. He started singing at school, joining many choral societies and choirs where he was soon chosen as a soloist. He continued to sing semi professionally until 1992, when he joined Napier University to study singing at a higher level. Studying voice with Andrew Doig at Napier, John won the Harold Grey singing competition two years in succession. He then entered the RSAMD on the B.Mus. course studying voice with Jeffery Lawton, Britain’s leading Wagnerian tenor. It was then his voice changed from baritone to tenor. Shortly after, he was engaged by Frankfurt oper - this led to engagements all over the world Singing concert repertoire as diverse as Berios Labarintus to Handel’s Messiah, Burgons Revelations to Beethoven’s 9th symphony. And in opera to he was engaged in operas such as Il Trovatore, La Boheme, Li Roi la dit, Der Frieschutz, Turandot. In 1999 he joined the West End production of “Phantom of the Opera” a show he was to have a warm association with. Then came London City Opera and Columbia Artist Managements American tour of Carmen, 83 performances all over the United States. In the same year John sang in Kuala Lumpur, Manus in Brazil, Tenerife, France and Spain, before being invited back to “Phantom”. John sang his first professional operatic role in his native Edinburgh - Carmen at the festival theatre, followed by Tito in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, and Radames in Aida. In 2006 he joined Scottish Opera for their productions of Carmen, Don Giovanni, and Der Rosenkavalier, he also sang Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly during Scottish Operas many “unwrap” opera performances and for Opera Box during there summer tour around Wales and the south of England 2008, He was also engaged By English National Opera for their production of Cavallaria Rusticana recent engagements include Last night of the Spring proms for Raymond Gubbay productions, and singing the role of Pinkerton in English National opera’s award wining production of Anthony Mingella’s Madam Butterfly. Recent engagements have been Hogmany gala with the RSNO at the Glasgow concert hall and john will rejoin Scottish Opera in 2011 to sing the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto for their Unwrapped performances.
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