ENO Chorus

ENO Chorus

 

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The ENO Chorus is one of the finest professional operatic ensembles in the UK today. Tracing its roots to the founding of the Sadler’s Wells Opera Company by Lilian Baylis in 1931, the ENO Chorus is committed to bringing opera sung in English to the widest possible audiences in thrilling and theatrically inventive productions.

The ENO Chorus plays a key role in the company ensemble and recent notable successes include major new productions of Aida, Billy Budd, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci, Death in Venice, Doctor Atomic, Jenůfa, Peter Grimes, Satyagraha, and more recently new productions of Turandot and Handel’s Messiah at the London Coliseum. They have also performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, the Barbican and in Barcelona and were invited by Sir Charles Mackerras to sing in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience at the BBC Proms in 2009.

The ENO Chorus has participated in several recordings as part of Chandos’s ‘Opera in English’ series, including The Carmelites and The Makropulos Case, and was actively involved in ENO’s groundbreaking live broadcast of La bohème for SkyArts. Members of the ENO Chorus regularly perform principal roles at ENO and participate in the work of ENO Baylis, the company’s learning and participation team.

 

Sopranos
Penelope Beavan
Hrafnhildur Bjornsdottir
Susan Burgess-James
Fiona Canfield
Lyn Cook
Gloria Crane
Natalie Herman
Ella Kirkpatrick
Claire Mitcher
Claire Pendleton
Susan Rann
Jane Read

 

Altos

Morag Boyle
Deborah Davison
Judith Douglas
Karen Foster
Suzanne Joyce
Amy Kerenza Sedgwick

Lydia Marchione
Sara McGuinness
Jane Powell

Rebecca Stockland
Susanna Tudor-Thomas


Tenors
Allan Adams
Philip Ball
Philip Daggett
Brian Dean
David Dyer
Geraint Hylton
Murray Kimmins
Graeme Lauren
David Newman
Anton Rich
Garry Sutcliffe
 
Basses
Roger Begley
Michael Burke
David Campbell
Gary Coward
Peter Kestner
Paul Napier-Burrows
David Porter-Thomas
Christopher Ross
Michael Selby
Christopher Speight
Andrew Tinkler
Greg Winter

 

Chorus Master
Francine Merry

Acting Chorus Manager
Simone Williams

To audition for the ENO Chorus or other roles and covers, please see information on auditions. (click through to the auditions page)

 

 

 
 
 

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