Farinelli and the King
a play by Claire van Kampen
SouthWest Shakespeare,
Mesa, Arizona, USA March 2022
FARINELLI Miles Romney, countertenor
KING Beau Heckman
QUEEN Melody Knudson
COSTUME DESIGN Maci Hosler
"Farinelli and the King remains in the elite group of the best performances we have ever staged"
Mary Way, Executive Director Southwest Shakespeare
Photos by Devon C Adams
Il Trovatore
Winslow Hall Opera
2018
"You need Il trovatore to hit you between the eyes, and that's what it did last night"
Yehuda Shapiro (The Stage; Opera Magazine)
"It was superb...not to be missed"
Audience feedback
Photos by Matthew Williams-Ellis
Un ballo in maschera
Winslowe Hall Opera, 2017
"A plucky & enjoyable production of Verdi's Ballo in Maschera" Rupert Christiansen (The Telegraph)
"Carmen Jakobi once again did not disappoint my expectations... Jakobi works using the method of Stanislavski... precision in shaping every episode, even the least essential, which results in the emotional truthfulness of the entire narrative."
Dorota Kozińska, www.atorod.pl
Photos by Matthew Williams-Ellis
Don Giovvani
Winslowe Hall Opera, 2016
"Carmen Jakobi directed, an imaginative and lively interpretation that was skilfully realised…As Giovanni finally descended to hell through the stage, bathed in smoke and red light, the spine was suitably tingled" Opera Magazine
"Brilliant production, do see it if possible"
Audience member
"A beautiful evening, FIRST CLASS OPERA!"
Audience member
Photos by Elizabeth Norden
Full Moon in March
by John Harbison
European premiere, 2013 part of The Fourth London Festival of American Music
CONDUCTOR/MUSICAL DIRECTOR Odaline de la Martinez
MUSICIANS Lontano
STAGE DIRECTOR Carmen Jakobi
SET DESIGN Matt Deely
COSTUMES Matt Deely & Kimie Nakano
LIGHTING DESIGNER Mark Howland
STAGE MANAGER Rebecca Wing
THE QUEEN Caryl Hughes
1st ATTENDANT Charmian Bedford
2nd ATTENDANT Edward Lee
THE SWINEHEAD Jeremy Huw Williams
DANCER Gwen Elfed Jones
Dream Hunter
by Nicola LeFanu
with libretto by John Fuller
World premiere, Taliesin Arts Centre, 2011, and Wilton's Music Hall, 2012
CONDUCTOR/MUSICAL DIRECTOR Odaline de la Martinez
MUSICIANS Lontano
STAGE DIRECTOR Carmen Jakobi
CAST
Charmian Bedford, Caryl Hughes, Brian Smith Walters, Jeremy Huw Williams
A new chamber opera set in Corsica, exploring the ambiguity surrounding the mazzere - women gifted with the prescience of death. If they foresee death, do they also cause it?
