Kings, Witches, Lovers, and Souls

Originally from Cumbria, Anna is currently covering Zweite Dame in Glyndebourne’s production of Die Zauberflöte (Mozart). Last summer she made her Glyndebourne solo debut as Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten) as well as performing Soeur Alice in Barrie Kosky’s production of Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc). Anna recently toured a new contemporary opera based on the Oscar Wilde Play The Duchess of Padua with The Music Troupe by Edward Lambert. Previously to this she performed Olga in Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) at Opera Holland Park and premiered the role of Suzanna in Joseph Howard’s Behind God’s Back at the Tête-à-Tête Festival. Other operatic roles include Concepcion L’heure Espagnole (Ravel), Lisetta il mondo della luna (Haydn), Dinah Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein) and Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart) directed by Sir Thomas Allen. On the concert platform Anna has performed as a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra & Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hallè Orchestra.

Originally from the Lake District, Soprano Kirsty McLean graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Masters course with Distinction in 2020 where she studied with Sarah Pring. Recent engagements include Kirsty’s return to working at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden where she covered the role of Markéta in Kaija Sariaaho’s award winning opera Innocence directed by Simon Stone, a particular highlight was getting to ‘jump in’ for the stage and orchestra rehearsals and performing on the Royal Opera House stage with their orchestra, she has also sung with the chorus of the Royal Opera House in their production of Lucia di Lammermoor. She has also sung at Glyndebourne in their production of Les Dialogues des Carmélites, West Green House opera in Sweeney Todd and for Mahogany Opera Group at the Royal Festival Hall. Kirsty also enjoys an active career as a crossover artist singing worldwide as a soloist and also on luxury cruise liners with classical crossover supergroup ‘Ida’. 

A long-time collaborator with Cumbria Opera Group, Alistair is a repetiteur, accompanist and conductor, hailing from Kendal and now based in London. In 2023 he completed his Master’s studies as a repetiteur at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and this year was a Junior Fellow (Assistant Conductor) of the opera department. Alistair’s operatic credits have included: repetiteur for GIANT (Royal Opera House); pianist/conductor for Il barbiere di Siviglia (Cardiff Opera); assistant conductor for GSMD’s Respighi double bill, repetiteur for Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert (GSMD); Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Bach’s St. John Passion (COG). As an undergraduate at Clare College, Cambridge, Alistair was active as a song accompanist, being coached by Joseph Middleton as part of the Pembroke College Lieder Scheme, and as a recitalist, performing in Clare College Chapel and West Road Concert Hall.