JETTE PARKER SUMMER PERFORMANCE 2026
Scenes from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, Stravkinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Leoncavallo’s La Bohème, Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bizet’s Djamileh and Lehar’s Die Lustige Witwe.
CAST & CREATIVES
Sopranos: Marianna Hovanisyan, Hannah Edmunds
Mezzos: Jingwen Cai, Ellen Pearson
Tenors: Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono, Giorgi Guliashvili and Emyr Lloyd Jones
Baritones: Ossian Huskinson, Siphe Kwani, Sam Hird
Puppeteer/Dancer: Spike King
Director: Talia Stern
Conductor: Richard Farnes, Peggy Wu, Giovanni Fanizza
Movement director: Rachael Nanyonjo
Lighting Design: Ben Gordon
Assistant Director: Isabelle Carlean Jones
Producer: Catherine Chibnall
Orchestra: Welsh National Opera
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“The Royal Opera’s annual Jette Parker Artists Summer Performance has become one of the best opportunities to take the pulse of opera’s future […] and this imaginatively conceived showcase confirmed that they are well on the way to establishing significant careers.”
“Rather than presenting a straightforward gala of operatic excerpts, director Talia Stern linked six contrasting scenes through an inventive dream narrative […] the concept gave the afternoon an engaging dramatic thread without ever overshadowing the music.”