Ian is celebrating fifty years in show business, and is well know as one of the world’s leading performers in light opera, particularly in the works of Gilbert & Sullivan.

He made his debut aged eight at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth in The Sooty Show, before appearing in variety; later studying at the RAD, the GSMD, and at the RCM, both in the Opera School and as a postgraduate. An all-round entertainer, Ian is in demand to appear on the musical and concert stage, either as a performer or involved in staging and choreographing productions, as well as coaching singers and actors in vocal technique. He has appeared at every major theatre and concert hall in the United Kingdom as well as France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy, New York, Bermuda, the Far East, as well as a number of cruise liners.

The repertoire of opera he has performed is substantial, and he has specialised as a lyric baritone in the bel canto repertoire as well as playing many character roles, as well as all of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas; he has the distinction of playing Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore more times than any artist in history. He has appeared with Welsh National Opera, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, English Festival Opera, New London Opera Players, Kentish Opera, Pimlico Opera, The Covent Garden Festival, and the Northern Sinfonia, as well as west end musicals: Evita, Hello Dolly, My One & Only, Phantom of the Opera, Chess, Cats, and King’s Rhapsody.

For further information see www.ianbelsey.co.uk

Simon Butteriss has sung the G & S patter roles at the Savoy Theatre, the BBC Proms and throughout the UK, USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He wrote the G&S television series A Motley Pair, appeared in Mike Leigh’s Oscar-winning Topsy-Turvy, wrote the television film about George Grossmith A Salaried Wit, wrote, directed and played Grossmith in the BBC series I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General, has recorded Bunthorne in Patience (with D’Oyly Carte), Grossmith’s Cups and Saucers and several solo entertainments by G&S’s forbear, Charles Dibdin, for Retrospect Opera.

He has sung roles at opera houses across the world from La Scala, Milan to ENO (La Boheme, Le Grand Macabre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tales of Hoffmann, Candide, Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow). He returns to ENO in January 2022 for performances of La Boheme.

As an actor, he has played roles for the RSC, Old Vic, in the West End, at Chichester and on film, television and radio. He has also written, translated and directed for stage, screen and opera house.

Rosie has appeared in many West End productions including: Carlotta, the Prima Donna in the original cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of The Opera, Madame Thenardier in Les Miserables, Cunegonde in Candide, Widow Corney in Oliver!, Hortense in The Boyfriend, Forbidden Broadway, Felicia Gabriel in The Witches of Eastwick (for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical), Miss Andrew, the nasty nanny in Mary Poppins, Lottie Grady in When We Are Married & Grandma Mole in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 & ¾.

She has appeared with English National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Sadlers Wells Opera, Opera Northern Ireland & Carl Rosa in many different roles including Musetta in La Boheme, Helene in La Belle Helene, Frasquita in Carmen & Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte to name but a few.

Television & radio appearances include: Doctors, An Audience With Ronnie Corbett, The House of Eliott, Cosi Fan Tutte, The Beggar’s Opera, Friday Night is Music Night, Songs From the Shows & In Tune.

Rosie can be heard on many cast albums including: The Phantom of the Opera, Kismet, The Boyfriend, The Witches of Eastwick, Oliver! The 10th anniversary concert of Les Miserables & Mary Poppins.

For more information visit her website: www.rosemaryashe.com

Victoria graduated form the Royal Northern College of music. Her English National Opera debut took place in 2003 as La Charmeuse in Massenet’s Thaïs and she has since returned to perform the roles of the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Rosina in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and Mabel in the Elijah Moshinsky production of The Pirates of Penzance , which she also performed as part of The Royal Variety Show in the presence of the Queen, and broadcast live to the nation.

As the Queen of the Night she also appeared at the Hamburg State Opera, the Semper State Opera in Dresden, Frankfurt Opera, the Komische Oper Berlin, Grange Park Opera and at the Macerata Festival within a new production by the acclaimed Italian director Pier Luigi Pizzi.

In concert she has performed at the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, Bridgewater Hall and Birmingham Symphony Hall in repertoire ranging from Carmina Burana to An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan, Messiah at the National Concert Hall in Dublin with the RTE concert orchestra, and 2 tours of Britain’s major concert halls as the star of Raymond Gubbay’s Viennese Spectacular. Recent concert highlights include starring in an open-air concert series with the prestigious Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig, conducted by the rising star Alexander Shelley and 2 Proms in the Parks this summer alongside the renowned tenor Wynne Evans a.k.a Gio Compario!

As a huge G & S enthusiast, with many of the soprano roles under her belt, Victoria was delighted to perform in a live broadcast of Gilbert and Sullivan on BBC Radio 2 for Friday Night is Music Night with the BBC Concert orchestra, and make her Opera North concert series debut with a full programme of G & S!

Gareth studied with Eric Roberts and Adrian Thompson at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where he was awarded the Eileen Price prize for lieder singing.

Roles include Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Paris in La belle Hélène, Acis/Damon in Acis and Galatea, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Captain Macheath in The Beggar’s Opera, Dr Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, Pluto in Orpheus in the Underworld, Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance, Lord Tolloler in Iolanthe and Prince Charming in Cendrillon.

Gareth sings in various choral ensembles including The Kings Consort, Mogens Dahl Kammerkor, Armonico Consort and the Farm Street Singers performing throughout Europe and the USA.

He has performed on Estonian Radio in Tartu and Tallinn, with Opera’r Ddraig at Wales Millennium Centre, toured the east coast of USA and worked with Asking4It Productions (Arts Council Wales) in a contemporary opera double bill Peacekeeping, and The Filmmaker and the Organ Trader composed by Ashley John Long.

Recent ventures include performing Bach’s B Minor Mass in Saarlouis and Saarbrücken with Kantorei Saarlouis, two CD recordings with the Farm Street Singers and St. Michael’s, Cornhill, Così fan tutte at the Drayton Arms Theatre, South Kensington and The Elixir of Love in the inaugural season of the Norfolk Into Opera Festival in Norwich. Gareth also played Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at the King Abdullah University theatre.

Mezzo-soprano Kim Hawthorn is a music graduate of the University of Manchester and postgraduate alumnus of Royal Holloway University of London and continued her vocal studies with pedagogue Dr Jenevora Williams. Kim has performed extensively across the UK and Europe at many notable venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Florence Cathedral and St Mark’s Basilica in Venice. Recent opera engagements have included Dido and Aeneas with Barefoot Opera, Tessa in The Gondoliers with Imperial Productions, Mercedes with Kentish Opera’s Carmen in 2019, the Longborough Festival Opera chorus for their 2019 production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, Opera de Bauge, the inaugural New Generation Festival in Florence and Bury Court Opera.

Kim enjoys giving recitals and also performs as a soloist across London and the South-East UK. Soloist engagements have included Schumann's Requiem, Brahms Liebeslieder, Vaughan-Williams secular cantata In Windsor Forest and Howell's Requiem.

Kim is delighted to be performing with Kentish Opera again as Edith in Pirates, having only recently performed the role with Forbear! Theatre for the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton and Harrogate this summer.

Peter Coleman previously performed with several choral ensembles including the Allegri Singers and New Gloriana Choir, as well as performing regular concerts at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Royal Choral Society, under the baton of Richard Cooke. He currently deps regularly with several choirs, including The Church of Holy Redeemer, Chelsea, and Belsize Square Synagogue.

Whilst studying for his undergraduate in Applied Psychology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, he was a regular member of the University Chamber Choir, Cecilian Choir and University Chorus throughout his studies. He sang the part of Aeneas as part of the Cecilian Choir’s production of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. In his final year of undergraduate, he also depped regularly at Canterbury Cathedral, singing regular evensongs under David Flood.

Peter is currently studying for an MA in Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Whilst there he deps regularly at various chapel choirs including Peterhouse, Trinity Hall and Clare College.

Louisa Alice-Rose is a highly versatile soprano and actress. She has been performing on the professional stage since her West End debut at aged 8 in Les Miserables at The Palace Theatre. At aged 9, Louisa played the role of ‘Tilly’ in the World Première performance of The Bear by Howard Blake at The Barbican Centre and Birmingham Symphony Hall.

Louisa studied with vocal coach Elizabeth Harley from the age of 6. She trained at Sylvia Young Theatre School, Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, Glyndebourne Youth Opera and the Royal Northern College of Music, graduating with First Class Honours in Vocal Studies and Opera.

Louisa’s operatic highlights include Berta (The Barber Of Seville, Rossini) with Surrey Opera, Sara (Tobias and the Angel, Jonathan Dove), Mimi (La Boheme, Puccini) excerpts with London Cantamusica, Emma Jones (Street Scene, Kurt Weill) RNCM, Jou-Jou (The Merry Widow, Lehar) RNCM, Mignon (Mignon, Thomas) RNCM Excerpts, Dorabella (Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart) RNCM Excerpts.

Other career highlights include a nomination for a Classic BRIT Award in 2018, solo recitals at Hampton Court Palace and Windsor Castle and solo performances at 10 Downing Street, the Royal Albert Hall, Cardiff Millennium Centre and Bournemouth International Centre. Louisa was also part of the Ensemble for the Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert at the 02 Arena.

Louisa is owner and principal of LAR Performing Arts, with a number of children working professionally in the West End, on Tour and for Television and Film.

Upcoming roles include Yum Yum (The Mikado) for Opera South East and Cover Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Surrey Opera. Visit www.louisaalice-rose.com for more information.

Peter was born in Hastings and studied theology and philosophy at King’s College, London. He studied voice with Jean Austin Dobson, Derek Hammond-Stroud of the Royal Academy of Music and went on to train with Michael Maurel. His professional debut in a major role was as Mozart’s Figaro for London Opera Players, to which he quickly added Malatesta (Don Pasquale) at Holland Park, Dandini (La Cenerentola), Onegin and a number of other, largely lyric, baritone roles. 25 years later he has performed over eighty operatic roles, trodden the boards with Pavarotti and Zancanaro at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, sung for The Opera Project, Nationale Reisopera, British Youth Opera, Festival dei Due Mondi, Opéra Nationale de Bordeaux, Kentish Opera, Opera à la Carte, the D’Oyly Carte and many others.

He is in constant demand on the concert platform and has an extraordinarily wide and eclectic repertoire ranging from Baroque to Flanders & Swann. He regularly performs the popular oratorio canon and other sacred works

2011 saw the start of an extremely successful, ongoing, association with Saga Holidays. Since then, as a Music Host, Peter has written and presented hundreds of illustrated talks & recitals whilst hosting, for Saga, ten Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra seasons; the Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias, the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival holidays, seven seasons of the Arena di Verona Opera Festival along with many trips to Vienna, Cologne & Budapest.