Trainees 2008/09

Soprano
Verity Parker
Sarah Power
Valda Wilson
Ida Falk Winland

Mezzo
Susan Boyd
Alexandra Cassidy

Tenor
Ben Johnson
Carthaigh Quill

Baritone
Nicholas Lester
Benedict Nelson

Bass-baritone
Wade Kernot

Repetiteur
Sam Hogarth
Alison Luz
Geoffrey Paterson

Jonathan Stoughton tenor

Jonathan Stoughton read French at UCL and was a lay-clerk at both Magdalen College and New College, Oxford. He studied with David Maxwell-Anderson in the Benjamin Britten International Opera School as a scholar supported by a Jennifer and Robert Diamond award and has worked as a principal for companies including British Youth Opera, Longborough Festival Opera, First Act Opera, The Opera Project, Pavilion Opera and Opera South. Recent roles include Tamino Die Zauberflöte, Don José Carmen and Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress. For BBIOS Jonathan appeared as Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress and, in opera scenes, as Idomeneo. As an oratorio and concert soloist Jonathan has performed in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Sadler's Wells, St. John’s Smith Square, the CBSO Centre and both the Athens and Tokyo Festivals, with recent engagements including Beethoven 9, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater and Handel’s Messiah. Forthcoming engagements include Pizzaro in Paer’s Leonora for Bampton Classical Opera.

Jonathan joins the National Opera Studio in September 2008.