|
|
OPERA AND VOCAL
'I
have seldom seen singers and players enjoying themselves quite
as much as in this performance and Julian
Perkins' clear direction must
have
been a delight to follow.'
- Early
Music Review
|
Julian
Perkins is gaining a wealth of operatic experience as a conductor,
continuo player, and repetiteur.
In addition to performances as a continuo player at the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden, Julian has worked for many organizations
including Birmingham Opera Company, Buxton Festival, Classical Opera
Company, Dartington International Music Festival, Early Opera Company,
English Touring Opera, Handel Halle Festival, Independent Opera, London
Handel Festival, Opera Atelier, Opera Restor’d, and Transition Opera.
He has conducted Arne’s Artaxerxes for
New Chamber Opera, a Baroque-inspired play for New Kent Opera, and will
be conducting Purcell’s Dido and
Aeneas for Benslow Baroque Opera in 2010. As director of Sounds
Baroque, Julian has conducted performances of Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux Enfers,
Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Alcina, Aminta e Fillide, and Apollo e Dafne, and the first
modern UK production of A. Scarlatti’s La Giuditta.
Leading conductors and directors with whom Julian has worked in operas
include Harry Christophers, James Conway, Christopher Cowell, Laurence
Cummings, Christian Curnyn, Steven Devine, Christopher Hogwood CBE,
Trevor Pinnock CBE, Daniel Slater, and Graham Vick.
Julian has also performed as a continuo player in staged productions of
Galuppi’s Il mondo alla roversa,
Handel’s Acis and Galatea,
Ariodante, Atalanta, Orlando, Poro, Samson, Semele, and Tolomeo, and in concert versions of
Arianna in Creta,
Belshazzar, Flavio, Judas Maccabaeus, Theodora, La Resurrezione
(and, of course, Messiah),
Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba, and
Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Other productions on which he has assisted include Cavalli’s La Calisto and Erismena, Handel’s Hercules, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del
Disinganno, Tamerlano, and Teseo,
Haydn’s The Apothecary,
Lully’s Armide, Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Book III of madrigals,
and Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona.
He is also an official accompanist for the annual London Handel Singing
Competition.
When time permits, Julian Perkins sings bass-baritone. He has performed
in a number of professional consorts and choirs including the BBC
Singers,
Monteverdi Choir, and Philharmonia Voices, and has also sung solo and
recorded with the Parley of Instruments.
'Julian
Perkins is a firm
favourite with our audiences at Handel House.
He
combines an
unflappable and
personable manner with
an
expert knowledge of the Baroque era, and of
Handel in
particular.'
-
Handel
House Museum, London
|
|
|