Students of the Advanced Opera and Conducting Courses
Tom Randle Peter Quint
Jonathan Lakeland Palmer opera coach
Graeme Jenkins conductor
Dartington Festival Orchestra
Composer – Benjamin Britten
Librettist – Myfanwy Piper
Based on Henry James’s chilling novella, Britten’s intense chamber opera tells the story of a young governess desperate to protect her children, Miles and Flora, from evil. The culmination of the two-week opera and conducting courses, led by the internationally-renowned Graeme Jenkins and staring Tom Randle as the sinister Peter Quint. Semistaged with surtitles
Tom Randle is one of the world’s leading tenors in opera and in recital. Many roles have been written especially for him, at ENO and ROH; his intense portrayal of Judas in the world première of Birtwistle’s Last Supper under Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Berlin (as well as Glyndebourne) won him outstanding critical acclaim. Tom Randle devotes equal time to an active concert career, singing with the world’s greatest orchestras, and with conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Colin Davis, Harry Christophers, Trevor Pinnock, and Ivan Fischer. Tom also appeared in the groundbreaking film version of John Adams’ Death of Klinghoffer for Channel 4, and in Kenneth Branagh’s film of The Magic Flute. As a composer, his works have been performed in the UK, Europe and the US.
The English conductor Graeme Jenkins is renowned for the breadth of his repertoire and experience in the field of opera. Appointed Music Director of Dallas Opera in 1994, he has also held the positions of Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera (1986-1991) and Principal Guest Conductor of Cologne Opera (1997-2002). During his illustrious career Mr Jenkins has conducted 112 different works in 171 opera productions in houses such as Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, English National Opera, Scottish Opera and Opera North in the UK, and abroad with Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Netherlands Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, Australian Opera, Canadian Opera and Glimmerglass. His vast repertoire spans from the early baroque through the core Italian and German masterworks to world premieres.
The British-American musician Jonathan Palmer Lakeland is a piano accompanist, conductor, and producer. Jonathan holds a Répétiteur Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and also holds a position as assistant to the Artistic Director of the Solti Accademia in Italy. He studied at the Georg Solti Accademia in Venice with Maestro Richard Bonynge, and in the summer of 2018 held the Billy Joel Keyboard Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, MA. While a fellow, Jonathan served as assistant conductor of Leonard Bernstein’s opera A Quiet Place, part of Tanglewood’s celebration of his centenary. Jonathan has made his debuts at Wigmore Hall, the Oxford Lieder Festival, and the Leeds Lieder Festival, and has been heard in masterclasses by musicians including Sir Thomas Allen, Susan Bullock, and Bengt Forsberg. Jonathan is a published author, and is currently writing a book on choral accompanying to be published in 2019.
