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Alessandro Peiretti – Farinelli at Rosenborg Castle
Alessandro Peiretti – cello: Alessandro Peiretti studied cello with the Giuseppe Verdi Music Academy in Turin. He has performed on several occasions with a number of prominent Italian and foreign music ensembles and has been cellist with the Orchestra Sinfonica La Verdi in Milan since 2002.
Allan Sjølin – Serenade Service, Serenade Concert
Born in 1986, Allan Sjølin began playing guitar at the age of 11. Now in his final year at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, he formed the Copenhagen Guitar Duo with fellow guitarist Martin Buono, which has played together for over a decade. The duo won the Royal Danish Academy of Music's annual chamber music competition in 2010 and has performed works by Danish, Australian and Mexican composers, as well as having toured Mexico with the project Sounds of Mexico. As a soloist, Allan has performed “Concierto de Aranjuez” by Joaquin Rodrigo. Along with the guitar Allan Sjølin also plays mandolin and has played the mandolin part in Mahler's “7th Symphony” and was a soloist with the Tove Flensborg Mandolin Orchestra.
Andrew Lawrence-King – Dido & Aeneas
English-born Andrew Lawrence-King is not only an experienced harp player, he’s also a specialist in early music up to the Baroque period, director of The Harp Consort, and has been musical director of several operas and oratorios all over the world - including the Sydney Opera House, Italy, Berliner Philharmoniker and New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Anna Dirckinck- Holmfeld – Maria de Buenos Aires
Inspired by fusion and fission in scenic and musical expression, Anna Dirckinck-Holmfeld enjoys bringing stories to life with unusual approaches and unusual spaces. Anna won the European Opera Directing Award in 2009, and made her debut as an opera director with La Finta Giardiniera at Stadttheater Bern in 2010. Prior to this, Anna assisted and worked as a dramaturg for various theatres including; The Young Vic, the Royal Court Theatre, Det Danske Teater and at the Opera House in Copenhagen.
Charlotte Andersson – The Magic Flute
Charlotte was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in both saxophone and singing. She plays baritone saxophone in the Copenhagen Saxophone Quartet, which specializes in performing music by living composers and has a special interest in Baroque music. Together with CSQ, Charlotte won a Danish radio prize for a recording made in collaboration with Michala Petri and played a concert at the legendary concert venue Wigmore Hall in London in 2008.
Christine Christiansen – Opera on death’s door
Christoffer Jørgensen – Opera on death’s door
Elizabeth Svarstad – Dido & Aeneas
Elizabeth is a dancer, choreographer and teacher of Baroque dance and historical dance. She studied at the Norwegian Ballet School and has a Nordic master's degree in dance from NTNU. Elizabeth has been involved in dance productions at the The Royal Palace, Akershus Fortress and the Old War School in Norway.
Giordano Bellincampi – James Valenti in Tivoli
Giordano Bellincampi has held the position of Artistic Director at The Danish National Opera in Aarhus since 2005, although he has been connected with the company as conductor since 1997. He has conducted for all the big Danish orchestras as well as numerous European, American and Asian orchestras. Giordano Bellincampi was formerly chief conductor of Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen (1997-2000) and the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra (2000-2005). Bellincampi, who has won several awards and scholarships, is also a regular guest conductor at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.
Gudrun Bojesen – Maria de Buenos Aires
After graduating from the Royal Ballet School in Copenhagen Gudrun Bojesen has been a principal dancer at the Royal Danish Ballet since 2001. She is an internationally acclaimed ballerina particularly known for her Bournonville roles that include Hilda in “A Folk Tale”. She has expanded her own technique with bravura dancing, e.g. the pas de deux from “The Nutcracker”, and overcame major technical challenges as the ballerina in “Etudes”.
Jacob Beck – The Operetta Boat
Jacob Beck trained as a pianist in Odense, Hannover, New York and Århus and in 2002 made his debut as a solist at the Conservatory of Jutland. He has appeared as a soloist, a chamber musician and an accompanist in Denmark and abroad, specializing in accompanying singers in both operatic repertoire and songs. Jacob Beck is also a lecturer, a concert presenter and a theatre director.
Julius DItlevsen – Opera on death’s door
Karin Modigh – Dido & Aeneas
Karin works as a dancer, choreographer and teacher of Baroque and Renaissance dance. In addition to being a member of the company Stockholm Baroque Dancers, she also works under her own name. Karin has been involved in dance productions in France, North America, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Sweden.
Kristian Jørgensen – Opera on death’s door
Kulturcentret ASSISTENS – Opera on death’s door, Serenade Concert
Kulturcentret ASSISTENS is an Educational Knowledge Activity Center that communicates inaccessible knowledge based upon the Assistents Cemetery, the cemetery's history and related topics in the history of arts, culture and identity. Here one can gain insight into cultural and social history, based on living conditions over the past 250 years. The many celebrities, who are buried in the cemetery, make the area a memorial center for the history of Denmark.
Live Berger Brekker – The lost souls of Three Crowns Sea Fortress
Malmö Opera – No Way to Treat a Lady
Malmö Opera is the opera house of Southern Sweden’s with a central location in the Oresund Region. Malmö Opera's goal is to be a center of tomorrow's music with focus on the development of classical music for everyone - both young and adults. Malmö Opera is opera at the highest international level, which is reflected in the repertoire as well as the cast.
Peter Navarro-Alonso – The Magic Flute
Peter Navarro-Alonso graduated from the Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Madrid and the Royal Danish Academy of Music’s soloist class for saxophone and composition. He has performed as soloist with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra in a self-composed saxophone concert. In 2009, he was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize with his trio ALPHA.
Rita Peiretti – Farinelli at Rosenborg Castle
Rita Peiretti – Clavichord, Rita Peiretti was born in Turin. She is a refined and versatile artist who has been invited to play with the most important Italian orchestras at the largest theaters - including Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, e Teatro Regio di Torino Settembre Musica, Arena di Verona, Villa Medici in Rome and Associazione Clavicembalistica in Bologna. She has since 1990 been head of the baroque ensemble "L'Accademia dei Solinghi"
Sarah Vibe Benfield – The Magic Flute
Sarah Vibe Benfield graduated from Jutland’s Royal Academy of Music’s soloist class in 2007 and freelances with her own ensembles. Actively interested in the arrangement of music for children and adolescents, Sarah Vibe was instrumental in the establishment of the musical platform for kids, RABAL.
Signe Beckmann – Maria de Buenos Aires
Signe Beckmann is a versatile artist who works with both theater, opera, dance and film. She has studied fashion design and production at the Danish Design School. She has exhibited her work in Korea and England, and has been nominated for several design awards.
Skånska Operan – Rigoletto
Skånska Operan has since 1993 strived to bring opera to the people with its critically acclaimed and popular summer productions. Skånska Operan aims to convey the opera genre to a larger and broader audience.
Stefan Baur – The Magic Flute
Stefan studied saxophone at both the Amsterdam School of the Arts and the Royal Danish Academy of Music (soloist class). In addition to his teaching work he is a successful musician - both chamber and orchestral. With the ensemble Zoom he has appeared at several festivals, including Copenhagen Jazz Festival and the Roskilde Festival, and the trio has also performed in Russia's largest concert hall. Furthermore, Stefan is a member of the Danish Saxophone Quartet and plays regularly with both Danish and Swedish symphony orchestras.
Steven Player – Dido & Aeneas
Director, Dancer and baroque-guitarist Steven Player studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art and Lute with Jakob Lindberg at the Royal College of Music. For the last 18 years he has combined his artistic and musical talents in the study and performance of renaissance and baroque dance, with appearances in theatres, operas and on TV, as well as teaching at schools, conservatories and universities in Europe and the USA. He has performed with the Royal Shakespeare theatre, the National theatre and many regional and touring theatres. He also appears in historical dramas and educational programmes on BBC and independent TV. He has performed as a dancer in many operas.