Current and forthcoming appearances include Madame Jouvenot Adriana Lecouvreur (Royal Opera House)‚ Foreign Princess (Grange Park)‚ Mrs Nixon Nixon in China at the Metropolitan Opera‚ New York‚ Nella Gianni Schicchi at the Royal Opera House‚ the title role in Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna in Manchester‚ London and Toronto and Lania in Skin Deep‚ a new Opera North commission from David Sawer‚ directed by Richard Jones.
Janis Kelly studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in her native Glasgow‚ at the Royal College of Music in London and with Elisabeth Grummer in Paris. She is a regular guest with English National Opera where engagements have included Countess Figaro’s Wedding‚ the title role in Offenbach’s La Belle Vivette‚ Rose Street Scene as well as roles in operas by Monteverdi‚ Purcell‚ Humperdink‚ Offenbach‚ Birtwistle and Glass. For Opera North she has performed Countess Marriage of Figaro‚ Musetta La Boheme and Magnolia in the company’s award winning co-production with the RSC of Showboat. Janis Kelly made frequent appearances in David Freeman’s productions for Opera Factory‚ singing Ottavia The Coronation of Poppea‚ Juno La Calisto and Flora in The Knot Garden as well as recording Susanna‚ Zerlina and Despina in their Mozart cycle for Channel 4 TV. She sang Rosalinda in Scottish Opera’s Die Fledermaus‚ Dorabella Cosi fan Tutte at Garsington Opera.‚ Iris Semele with Les Arts Florissants/William Christie at Aix-en-Provence and Amaranta in Haydn’s La Fedelta Premiata at Garsington.
Her recent engagements include Mrs Nixon in Athens‚ Mrs Naidoo Satyagraha‚ Mrs Nixon‚ Iris The Fairy Queen‚ Yum Yum The Mikado‚ Despina Cosi fan Tutte‚ Romilda Xerxes and Alcina at English National Opera‚ Iris with Flanders Opera‚ the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen at Opera North and in Barcelona‚ Violetta La Traviata‚ Magda La Rondine‚ Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier and Electra Idomeneo with Opera North‚ La Finta Semplice at Buxton‚ Rosalinda with Opera Ireland‚ Queen Clémentine Barbebleu‚ Foreign Princess Rusalka‚ Alice Falstaff‚ Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw‚ Kuma The Enchantress and Elisabetta Maria Stuarda at Grange Park‚ and her directorial debut‚ Cosi fan tutte at Grange Park Opera‚ where she has since directed Iolanthe as the inaugural production in their new theatre. She can be seen as Liu Turandot in the recently released Hollywood movie The Life of David Gale.
Janis Kelly has performed Weill with the Matrix Ensemble/Robert Ziegler and Handel with Les Arts Florissants/Christie at the BBC Proms; in the UK she has sung Poulenc with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra‚ Strauss with the London Festival Orchestra‚ Sullivan with the Halle Orchestra‚ Bach with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Schubert with the Nash Ensemble. An experienced recitalist‚ she has sung at the Purcell Room‚ the Grand Theatre‚ Geneva‚ the Aix-en-Provence Festival and for BBC Radio. Recordings include DVDs of The Pirates of Penzance and The Sorcerer (Brent Walker Film Company). Discs include Tchaikovsky’s Incidental Music to Hamlet with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Chandos Records‚ Street Scene‚ A Little Night Music‚ Showboat and Brigadoon for TER Records‚ four award-winning albums for the Inspector Morse television soundtracks on Virgin Records and The Maid of the Mountains on Hyperion. Janis Kelly’s new solo CD The Moment is currently on sale exclusively at Dress Circle. Please link to www.dresscircle.co.uk/product.asp?StockID=33438
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