Bruno won a ‘Green Room Award’ for Rusalka at Sydney Opera House and has lit productions in Barcelona, Bologna, Aarhus, Leipzig, Ancona, Geneva, Granada, Bilbao, Madrid, Antwerp and Athens and Macbeth (Opera Du Rhin); Le Nozze Di Figaro (Den Norske Opera); L’Arbore Di Diana (Barcelona/Madrid); Al Gran Sole Carico D’Amore (Salzburg); I Puritani (De Nederlanse Opera); Peter Grimes (Grand Théâtre de Genève); Eine Florentinische Tragodie and Gianni Schicchi (Greek National Opera); Partenope (Royal Danish Opera); Salome, Una Cosa Rara, La Corte Del Faraon (Valencia); La Clemenza Di Tito (Barcelona / Oper Leipzig); Don Pasquale (Geneva) and Il Trovatore (Gran Canaria, Bologna, Ancona, Porto, Japan, Bilbao). Future opera includes Sunset Boulevard (Götesborgs Operan).

UK opera includes: The Enchanted Pig, Varjak Paw (Opera Group/ Royal Opera House); Aida, The Marriage of Figaro (ENO); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Babette’s Feast, and Orphee (Linbury); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo Et Juliette, Dido and Aeneas / Les Noces, Hansel and Gretel, Don Giovanni, Rusalka and Manon (Opera North) and, for his 12th consecutive season at Garsington, Mirandolina, Fidelio and La Cenerentola.

Theatre includes productions for the RSC, the Royal Court, Barbican and most recently Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, The Enchantment and Aristocrats (National); Breakfast at Tiffany’s (West End); Phaedra (Donmar); All About My Mother (Old Vic) and Romeo and Juliet (RSC).

Peter Hoare studied percussion at the Huddersfield School of Music before commencing his professional singing career in 1992. Operatic roles include Bacchus Ariadne auf Naxos, Captain Wozzeck, Witch in Hänsel und Gretel, Golitsyn Khovanshchina (WNO); Goro  Madama Butterfly (ROH); Tikhon Kat’á Kabanová (Geneva, WNO) and Sellem The Rake’s Progress (Paris). Concert engagements include Berlioz Romeo et Juliette (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Judas Maccabaeus recorded for Anglia Television, La Damnation de Faust and Beethoven Symphony No 9. Recordings include Delius' Song of the High Hills and Britten's Gloriana (Decca) and Leonard Meryll Yeomen of the Guard (Telarc). Engagements in 2009/2010 include Dr Caius Falstaff for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore for the Salzburg Festival, Shapkin From the House of the Dead in his debut at the Met and for Teatro alla Scala Milan, Alviano Die Gezeichneten in Palermo, Mahler 8th Symphony with the Hallé and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (Elder), Basilio Le Nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House, Gregor The Makropulos Case and Raskatov’s A Dog’s Heart for ENO. Subsequent engagements include Monostatos Die Zäuberflöte, Turnage’s Anna Nicole and Bomelius The Tsar’s Bride at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Shapkin From the House of the Dead for Staatsoper Berlin and Rev. Adams Peter Grimes for Teatro alla Scala Milan.

John studied at Christ’s College, Cambridge and was a fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme. He is the Artistic Director of The Opera Group. Previously in Bregenz, The Shops, by Edward Rushton, an Opera Group Production. Current and recent Productions: The Adventures of Mr Broucek (co-production with Scottish Opera and Opera North), Romeo et Juliette, Hansel and Gretel, Saul and next year, House of the Dead (Opera North); Knight Crew by Julian Philips, libretto Nicky Singer (Glyndebourne Education) World Premiere, filmed by BBC Television as part of three, 3 hour documentaries about the involvement of young people in an opera production. For The Opera Group – The Lions Face, by Elena Langer, libretto, Glyn Maxwell, World Premiere, Brighton Festival and tour; Into The Little Hill, by George Benjamin, Recital 1, by Berio, Aldeburgh Festival, Latitude Festival, Linbury Thetre, Barcelona; in 2009 Into the Little Hill was paired with Down by the Greenwood Side in a UK tour; Paradise List by Luke Bedford, 2011 Tour; Julian Philip’s Varjak Paw, Street Scene, Kurt Weill (Young Vic and tour), The Enchanted Pig (Linbury, Royal Opera, New Victory, New York, Young Vic and tour), Blond Eckbert, The Nose. This September TOG present Human Comedy by the same team as Hair, at the Young Vic. Other productions include Snegurochka and  Susannah (Wexford, Irish Times Best Opera Award); Paradise MoscowEine florentinische Tragödie, Gianni Schicchi, Mavra, (Royal Academy of Music); (Greek National Opera); Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Opera Theatre Company); Girl of Sand (Almeida Opera), Tobias and the Angel (Young Vic and English Touring Opera). Das Portrait will be presented in Kaiserslauten in 2011.

Dick Bird has worked as a stage and costume designer in opera, theatre and dance throughout the world, including The pearl fishers for the English National Opera, Le Donneur de Bain for Théâtre Marigny, Beatrice et Benedict for the Opéra Comique, La grande Magie for the Comédie Francaise, The Firebird and Carl Davies’ ballet of Aladdin for the New National Theatre Tokyo, Un segreto d’Importanza at the Teatro Communale di Bologna, The Gambler and Il Trittico at Opera Zuid in Maastricht, and El Burlador de Sevilla at Teatro Abadia Madrid. In the UK and Ireland designs include Snegurochaka at Wexford Festival Opera, Complicite’s Light, Jonathan Kent’s production of Lear at The Crucible, Il re pastore for Garsington Opera, The canterville ghost with the English National Ballet, The walls, Owen meany and The night season at the National Theatre, and Harvest at the Royal Court Theatre, which won the 2005 Critics’ Choice Award for Best New Play. He designed Swimming with sharks at the Vaudeville Theatre, The enchanted pig, How much is your iron? and Been so long at the Young Vic and Shakespeare’s Globe’s productions of Othello and As you like it.

After receiving her training in the State School of Ballet in Berlin, Beate Vollack started working professionally at the "Komische Oper" in Berlin where she reached the rank of soloist in 1992. She won the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi in 1994, and was engaged by the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich from 1996 through 2005. While pursuing her dance career, Beate also trained as a professional ballet teacher. From 2003 to 2006, Beate was the resident choreographer for the Bavarian State Opera in which time she oversaw many productions and also worked successfully as a guest choreographer elsewhere. As a dancer and choreographer she has worked in many different theatres, such as the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Bolschoi theater, the Zurich Opera House, the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, at the Salzburg festival, Ruhrtrienale festival, the Bregenz festival, Lincoln festival New York. She has also worked with many renowned directors, such as David Pountney, Christof Loy, Peter Mussbach, Richard Jones, David Alden. 2009 Beate choreographed her first ballet Don Quichotte at the Opera Wroclawska.

David Danholt was born in Funen, Denmark in 1976. He finished his studies with Prof. Kirsten Buhl-Møller at the Opera-Academy in Copenhagen in 2005. He has also participated in master-classes with Dame Margaret Price, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson and Andreas Schmidt and the pianists Rudolf Jansen, Helmut Deutsch, Fiona Macsherry and Martin Isepp.

 In the season 2005/06 Mr. Danholt was engaged to sing Eurimaco in Il ritorno D'Ulisse in patria and Gastone in La Traviata at The Royal Opera Copenhagen. In the 2006/07 season he made his debut at the National Opera, Århus in Denmark as Don Ottavio.

 He established himself in important roles, at the National Opera in the 2007/08, such as the title role in Gounod's Faust, as Steuermann in Der Fliegende Holländer and as Tamino in Mozart's Zauberflöte.

 In 2008/09 he sang Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore, Alfredo in La Traviata and the title role in Idomeneo at Danish National Opera. He will also sing Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Seviglia there in 2011. His international debut on larger scale will be in 2010 singing SS Officer in the worldpremiere of Weinbergs Die Passagierin at Bregenzer Festspiele. He will also cover the leadrole of Walther. Besides he will sing Messaggero in Graham Vick’ s Bregenzer lake production of Aida. In 2011 he is the young Sailor in Tristan & Isolde in Lyon and in 2012 he sings Idomeneo at Grange Park Opera.

 Apart from his many stage performances, Mr. Danholt has extensive concert-appearances throughout Denmark and Scandinavia, performing works such as Mozart's Requiem and Masses, Britten's A midsummernight's dream, Händel's Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus, Haydn's Schöpfung and Mendelsohn's Elias.

Liuba Sokolova won the International Singing Competition in Perm in 1997. Born in Chelyabinsk in the Urals in 1962, she graduated from the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory of St Petersburg in 1993, after which she continued her studies until 1995. In 1993 she joined the Mariinsky Theatre, and toured a great deal in Europe, the USA and Japan with the theatre ensemble. She has performed roles at top opera houses like La Scala Milan, the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera New York and many others. Her discography includes the following recordings: Salome, Ivan the Terrible, The Tsar's Bride (under Valery Gergiev on Philips Classic).

Talia Or recently appeared as Adina (Elisir d’ amore) at the Gärtnerplatztheater Munich. In the upcoming season 2010/11 she will sing the role of Despina (Cosi fan tutte) at the Hamburgische Staatsoper. In 2008/09 she made her debut in Henze’s Elegy for young lovers (Bilbao), as Adina (Gärtnerplatztheater) and 1st Flower Maiden under Lorin Maazel (Valencia). She sang under the baton of Zubin Mehta on the occasion of the opening concert of the World’s Fair in Zaragossa (Mahler’s Symphony N°2) and on an Israel-Tour (Bach cantatas). Before that she could be seen in the role of the child in Humperdinck’s Königskinder at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Under the baton of Peter Schreier she made her debut at Teatro dell Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Bach’s Christmas oratorio. At the Gärtnerplatztheater she could be heard as Valencienne (Lustige Weiber von Windsor) and Pamina (Zauberflöte). Before that she sang Amour (Orphée et Eurydice) under Ivor Bolton and the young girl in Moses and Aron under Zagrosek at Bayerische Staatsoper. Born in Jerusalem, Talia Or studied violin and singing in Hamburg, where she won the Mozart-Competition in 2002 and sang Papagena and Dew Fairy (Hansel and Gretel) at the state opera. At La Monnaie Brussles she appeared in Nozze di Figaro, at the International Vocal Arts Institute Tel Aviv she could be heard as Susanna, Despina and Yniold (Pelléas et Mélisande). In 2003/04 she was member of the Young Ensemble of the Bayerische Staatsoper.

Angelica Voje made her British operatic debut earlier this season in English Touring Opera’s production of Flavio as part of the ETO Handelfest. She also makes her debut at the Bregenzer Festspiele in Das Portrait - a new opera by Mieczyslaw Weinberg and her recital debut at the Festspillene Nordiske Impulser I Bergen. Next season sees her debut with Den Norske Opera in a new production of Lulu. Other operatic roles to date include The Fox - The Cunning Little Vixen, Cherubino - Le nozze di Figaro and the title role in Handel’s Teseo. Last season she performed the roles of Waltraute in Wagner’s Die Walküre, and both Waltraute and Wellgunde in Nibelungen for Children at Opernhaus Zurich. She has worked with the conductors Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Philippe Jordan, John Fiore and Peter Szylway; and recent concert performances include Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli with the Bath Philharmonia, Grieg’s Peer Gynt in a ballet version for Opernhaus Zurich, and the Aftenpostens New Year Concert at The Opera House, Oslo. Angelica Voje studied with Neil Mackie and Poul Erik Hansen in Norway, Henning Vilén at Bel Canto Scandinavia in Denmark, and Francisco Araiza at International Opera Studio Zurich. In London she studied with Katheleen Livingstone at the Royal College of Music and at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School. In 2006/07 she was the first recipient of the Opperby-Stokowski Scholarship and at the same time was given the Young Musician of the Year award from the Odd Fellow Slagelse, Denmark. In 2009 Angelica was awarded two special prizes at the Queen Sonja International Music Competition for best Norwegian performer and best interpretation of Edvard Grieg's music.

Baritone Artur Rucinski has been singing in Opera Houses in Eastern Europe for the past 7 years to great acclaim. He made his debut at the National Theatre in Warsaw in the role of Eugene Onegin, repeated the role for his Berlin debut in 2010 at the Staatoper Unter den Linden under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, and made his international debut in King Roger at the Liceu in Barcelona. Mr. Rucinski’s roles in Warsaw as have included Ping in Turandot, Yeletzky in Pique Dame, Janusz in Moniuszko’s Halka, Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Seviglia, and Niklaus/Muse in Harry Kupfer's production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann.  He opened the 2008-2009 season in Warsaw as Valentin in the new Robert Wilson Faust, followed by Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and Yeletsky in Pique Dame at the Krakow Opera, and in Haydn’s Creation and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Warsaw Philharmonic. Mr. Rucinski has been heard as Marcello in La Boheme in Warna, Bulgaria and Krakow, was Ping in Turandot in Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo and the Paphos Aphrodite Festival in Cyprus with Eva Marton, in Carmina Burana in Sofia, Riccardo in I Puritani in Lodz, Silvio in I Pagliacci in Lvov Opera, and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Krakow Opera. Artur Rucinski is a graduate of Warsaw Academy of Music and is an award-winner of the 2003 Belvedere Competition (honorable mention), the Salomea Kruszelnicka Competition in Lvov, and the Concorso Internazionale Toti Dal Monte Competition in Treviso.