Chronology – Alistair Dawes - Alistair Dawes

Career Resume Highlights: (As Conductor, unless noted otherwise)

Present – includes:

Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, ROH Covent Garden and with various Training Programmes overseas. [Since 2008]
Music Director of the charity InterOpera; Board of Directors includes Sir Thomas Allen and Nicholas Payne (Director Opera Europa.) [Since 2004]

2007 – present

Orchestra Sinfonica della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini in Parma, Fidenza, Lugo, Cremona and Piacenza; Repertoire: piano and violin concertos and symphonic works from Mozart to Stravinsky.
Concerts: Dame Kiri te Kanawa and Dennis O’Neill; Ireland: RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Concert: Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Gardar Cortes; Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Reykjavik
New Zealand Opera: DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE; Peter Hall/Gerald Scarfe/ Los Angeles opera (Debut)
DON GIOVANNI : Young Artists’ Programme, Pretoria (Also: role preparation)
Tokyo: Young Artists Programme: New National Theatre
Concert Series: Mozart Piano and Violin Concertos in Piacenza (Orchestra Sinfonica della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini)
UK Tour RIGOLETTO; InterOpera (Producer: Harry Fehr/Jeffrey Black/Paul Hudson/Richard Coxon/Penelope Randall-Davis )

2005 – 2006

Opera North MANON (Conducting début)
DON GIOVANNI Grand Theatre, Leeds, on tour and in Belfast
Chamber Orchestra and soloists WAR REQUIEM Teatro Regio, Parma premiere (Bartoletti)
PETER GRIMES Lievi: Tierney, Burrell/Vacik, Holland; Teatro Comunale Modena, Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia; Teatro Comunale Ferrara
Orchestra Sinfonica della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini: Mozart Mendelssohn Series; Fidenza, Salsomaggiore – Italia

2002 – 2004

Paris Opéra Bastille; Graham Vick production: PETER GRIMES; Musical consultant
Buxton Festival: World Premiere THE BLACKENED MAN (Todd); also at Gala Theatre, Durham; following workshop production -Linbury Studio, ROH
Opera North: Consultant/Assistant to new MD Richard Farnes (TOSCA); coach for DAMNATION DE FAUST (ON); Grand Theatre , Leeds
Shostakovich Symphony N° 8, Mozart “Jupiter” Symphony, Beethoven Symphony No 1.: Northumberland/Tyne centres

1999 – 2001

Florence – Teatro Goldoni- THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA (D. Abbado); Conducting début
TOSCA (UK), London Opera Players
Finnish National Opera : PETER GRIMES
Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova; assistant conductor/solo pianist; DEATH IN VENICE (Bartoletti/Pizzi/Hadley); début
Teatro Comunale, Firenze; assistant conductor DEATH IN VENICE
Concerts Cork/Dublin; conducting José Cura; RTÉ National Concert Orchestra
TOSCA and HÄNSEL UND GRETEL (UK Tour); London Opera Players

1998 – 1999

Finnish National Opera- conductor PETER GRIMES; début
CAPRICCIO; Glyndebourne Festival Opera – personal coach/prompt Dame Kiri te Kanawa
José Cura; National Symphony Orchestra; Dublin
PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE , Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Assistant to Sir Andrew Davis

1996 – 1998

ROH Covent Garden: COSI FAN TUTTE (Jonathan Miller)
RIGOLETTO -Deutsche Oper am Rhein; German conducting début
German concert tour: José Cura, Virtuosi di Praga
WERTHER (ETO, UK)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Barbican Centre, London; Concert début
Concerts with City of London Sinfonia (Exeter Festival, Osborne House)
Longborough Festival Opera, conductor: DAS RHEINGOLD, DIE WALKÜRE;
Music Director – Opening seasons
London Symphony Orchestra, Assistant conductor to Sir Colin Davis for performances/recordings: CARMEN, SAMSON ET DALILAH (Borodina, Cura)

1993 – 1995

Conductor, PETER GRIMES, ROH Covent Garden, London and Teatro Politeamo, Palermo; Moshinsky production – Terfel/Barstow/Tear/Rolfe-Johnson
ROH Covent Garden: CHÉRUBIN; Albery/Graham/Georghiu; Conducting début ROH
San Francisco; CAPRICCIO Dame Kiri te Kanawa (New Production –personal coach/prompt)
Pianist/assistant conductor: TV production of Dame Kiri’s life
CAVALLERIA/ PAGLIACCI; PACT Opera, Pretoria
Conductor/accompanist: numerous opera gala concerts.
Conductor: STIFFELIO in the Olivier Awards

1990 – 1992

1990-1997: Appointed Head of Music Staff the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
San Francisco Opera: Dame Kiri te Kanawa; personal coach/prompter CAPRICCIO (Cox/Versace)
South African premiere DEATH IN VENICE; Preparation:

1986 – 1989

Buxton Festival in recital; harpsichord continuo: ARIODANTE.
Appeared with all major national companies: Welsh National Opera Cardiff, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Appointed Guest Répétiteur, ROH Covent Garden
Role of Pianista che Canta in U.K. première UN RE IN ASCOLTO, ROH Covent Garden
Conducted BAFTA Awards Nomination OUT OF SEASON in ROH second ‘Garden Venture’ season

1984 -1986

PACT Opera, Pretoria & Johannesburg: THE KING AND I, PETER GRIMES, CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and I PAGLIACCI; Conductor
Musical Director Opera Training Programme, Pretoria
- Conductor: DIDO ANDÆNEAS”, BASTIEN UND BASTIENNE, DER SCHAUSPIELDIREKTOR, SEGRETO DI SUSANNA, ARIADNE AUF NAXOS,COSI (also harpsichord continuo), THE BEGGAR’S OPERA, ALBERT HERRING, ERWARTUNG

1982 – 1984

Freelance répétiteur: ROH Covent Garden, English National Opera; Glyndebourne
Coach: National Opera Studio
Pianist: Master Classes -Sir Geraint Evans; accompanist to Sir Geraint on BBC TV’s “Wogan Show”
Assistant Conductor: TV productions LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES and MIDSUMMER MARRIAGE and for Video profile: Robert Lloyd “Six Foot Cinderella”.
Accompanist to Placido Domingo in an inaugural concert of new open-air auditorium, Marbella (Personal request of Mr Domingo)

1981 – 1982

Chorus Master/Conductor PACT Opera: State Theatre, Pretoria & Johannesburg
- Conducted choral/orchestral concerts; notable productions: AIDA, CAVALLERIA/PAGLIACCI, NORMA, TURANDOT, RIGOLETTO, LA TRAVIATA, OTELLO; notable artists : Caballe, Glossop, Cossotto, Renzi, Kraus
Breytenbach Theatre, Pretoria: conducted SUSANNA’S SECRET, ARIADNE AUF NAXOS

1973 – 1981

Full-time Music Staff: ROH Covent Garden, London
- Harpsichord continuo ROH: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, COSI FAN TUTTE, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Böhm)
- Harpsichord THE RAKE’S PROGRESS
- Solo piano ARIADNE AUF NAXOS
- Chief répétiteur highlights:
  - LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST; Mehta
  - THE RAKE’S PROGRESS; Sir Colin Davis
  - LULU; Sir Colin Davis
Assistant Conductor to World’s most renowned artists
Numerous TV and gramophone recordings as Assistant Conductor.
Musical Director for the Royal Opera Auction Gala
Conductor PETER GRIMES and THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA; workshop productions ROH; Jonathan Miller
- Notable productions include: OWEN WINGRAVE (Theatre Premiere-1973) BORIS GODUNOV (1974), BENVENUTO CELLINI (1976), TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (1976), LES TROYENS (1977), LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (1977) – working with Ahronovitch/Christoff/Davis/Gedda/ Foster/Janet Baker/Cassily/Mehta/Domingo/Neblett
- Conductor: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA, I PAGLIACCI, NABUCCO and Holst’s SAVITRI –Various UK companies

1965-1973 Training /early years

Chronology – Alistair Dawes