TEA WITH... SONGS FROM THE SHOWS

Bethan Terry – Soprano

Bethan Terry is a lyric-coloratura soprano, praised for her honest and captivating performances. She was a prize-winner in the Leach Award and won the Dean & Chadlington Competition. She was a finalist or semi-finalist in the ROSL Singers Prize, Hurn Court Singer of the Year, LSF Schubert Prize and Somerset Song Prize. Bethan performed in Wigmore Hall and Paris’ Salle Cortot with the Wigmore French Song Exchange. She was a Leeds Lieder Young Artist and sang on Radio 3 in a concert of George Walker’s music. Her operatic highlights include Adina in L’elisir d’amore (Wild Arts), Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus (Merry Opera), Belinda in Dido & Aeneas (Somerset Opera) and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte (NWOS), as well as regular appearances with Clonter Opera. In concert, Bethan’s repertoire includes Haydn’s Nelson Mass and The Creation, Mozart’s Requiem, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem and Bach’s Magnificat. She is a Josephine Baker Trust Artist. Bethan was a Junior Fellow at Guildhall School, where she completed her master’s with Janice Chapman and Marie Vassiliou. She took her undergraduate at Trinity Laban, with Sophie Grimmer.

Jack Roberts – Tenor

Jack’s early musical life began with playing guitar and singing in bands as a child in his home town on the Isle of Wight, playing the pits of local musicals and then finally embarking upon what would become a more serious career singing in local musicals and operettas. After a whirlwind year of musical theatre shows, concerts and competitions, Jack found his classical voice under his first teacher, Samantha Howard. No more than 6 months after he had learnt his first operatic aria, he was successful in gaining a place on the undergraduate vocal studies programme at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Following a successful first year at the Guildhall under the tutorage of David Pollard, Jack won the Joyce Budd Second Prize of the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary for young singers to whom he is very grateful for having supported him through his degree. Having finished his undergraduate degree in 2018 with a First Class Honours, Jack has spent the last four years developing further as a freelance singer. Recently performed roles include Lenksy (Eugene Onegin) for Opera Holland Park, for which he was described by Opera Magazine as “the epitome of an emerging talent”, Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) for Ulster Touring Opera, Mr Upfold (Albert Herring) for Clonter Opera, Rodolphe (La Nonne Sanglante, Gounod) for Gothic Opera, his performance earning him a place in the finals of the Off West End Award for best Opera Production, Nanki-Poo (The Mikado) for Charles Court Opera, Tolloller (Iolanthe) for Charles Court Opera’s King’s Head Theatre production and cast recording, Aubrey (Der Vampyr, Marschner) for Gothic Opera, Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) for Barefoot Opera,  Marco (The Gondoliers) for the Gilbert and Sullivan National Tour, Lensky (Eugine Onegin) and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) for Opera Loki, Senegabet (Kaj Nazar) for London Armenian Opera, El Remendado (Carmen) and 1st armed man/priest (The Magic Flute) for Oxford Opera, Fe-ni-han (Ba-ta-clan) for West Green House Opera, Nanki-Poo (The Mikado) and Tamino (The Mini Magic Flute) for Charles Court Opera, Monostatos (The Magic Flute) for GSMD & Opera Anywhere, Edmondo (Manon Lescaut), Basilio/Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Richard Dauntless (Ruddigore) for the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival. On the Oratorio platform Jack has performed, most notably, as the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Seasons (Haydn), Creation (Haydn), Maria Theresa Mass (Haydn), Nelson Mass (Haydn), Ode for St Cecelia’s Day (Handel), Ode to St Cecilia (Purcell), Dvorak’s Mass in D and Christus (Mendelssohn). In addition to his solo work, Jack has performed in the chorus of Royal Opera, Garsington Opera Grange Park Opera, Longborough Festival Opera and The London Symphony Orchestra.