Buddug Verona James

Highlights

• An acclaimed mezzo soprano as well as an actress, Buddug trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and National Opera Studio. Among her operatic roles Buddug has performed Gluck's Orfeo for Opera Atelier (Canada), Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream for Netherlands Opera and Anna in the World Premiere of Jonathan Dove's Tobias and the Angel for Almeida Opera.
  
  She has worked with Almeida Opera, Cleveland Opera (USA), English Pocket Opera, English Touring Opera, Glyndebourne, Lanternhouse International, Netherlands Opera, Opera Atelier (Canada), Opera Circus, Opera North, Opera Northern Ireland, Opera Theatre Company (Dublin), Opera 80, Operavox Cartoons, Mid Wales Opera, Music Theatre Wales, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru and Theatr peña.
  
  She has premiered in operas by Gerald Barry, Jonathan Dove, Deirdre Gribbin, Julian Joseph, Wolfgang Rihm and John Woolrich.Television credits include “Glan Hafren”, “Pris Y Farchnad”, “Halen yn y Gwaed” and “Pobol Y Cwm”. Theatre credits include Lady Capulet in “Romeo a Juliet” for Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru.
  
  In collaboration with Cardigan’s Theatr Mwldan and the Arts Council of Wales, Buddug has commissioned two one-woman shows; Castradiva by Mark Ryan and A Knife at the Opera by Chris Harris – both plays have toured to numerous theatres and festivals in the UK and Ireland including Edinburgh and Buxton.
  
  Since 1999 Buddug has been a vocal tutor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She has directed Pirates of Penzance, Ruddigore, Acis and Galatea, Dido and Aeneas, Orpheus in the Underworld and Hercules for RWCMD. In 2001 Buddug was honoured with the Druidic White Robe of Gorsedd y Beirdd at the National Eisteddfod.
• An acclaimed mezzo soprano as well as an actress, Buddug trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and National Opera Studio. Among her operatic roles Buddug has performed Gluck's Orfeo for Opera Atelier (Canada), Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream for Netherlands Opera and Anna in the World Premiere of Jonathan Dove's Tobias and the Angel for Almeida Opera.
  
  She has worked with Almeida Opera, Cleveland Opera (USA), English Pocket Opera, English Touring Opera, Glyndebourne, Lanternhouse International, Netherlands Opera, Opera Atelier (Canada), Opera Circus, Opera North, Opera Northern Ireland, Opera Theatre Company (Dublin), Opera 80, Operavox Cartoons, Mid Wales Opera, Music Theatre Wales, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru and Theatr peña.
  
  She has premiered in operas by Gerald Barry, Jonathan Dove, Deirdre Gribbin, Julian Joseph, Wolfgang Rihm and John Woolrich.
  
  Buddug is a Welsh Singers Competition Winner.
  Buddug recently premiered Find me a Primitive Man – a revue featuring classics from the Great American Songbook accompanied by jazz musicians Paula Gardiner, Richard Roberts and Paul Smith.
  
  Recordings - Thomas Chilcot songs with Andrew Wilson-Dickson and the Welsh Baroque Orchestra (Meridian), Arias by Handel and Gluck featured in Castradiva (Fflach CD237L), The James Sisters sing Gospel (Fflach CD258H), Caneuon y Werin/Songs of the People - Folk Songs from the British Isles and America arranged by Haydn, Howells, Tate, Wilson-Dickson, Pwyll ap Sion, James MacMillan and Jonathan Dove (Fflach CD295H) The Intelligence Park (Faranesi) by Gerald Barry NMC Records
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