Buddug Verona James
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Born | Buddug Verona James |
Alma mater | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
Occupation(s) | Singer, actress |
Buddug Verona James is a Welsh mezzo-soprano opera singer who studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the National Opera Studio and in Rome. She was born in Cardigan, Wales.
Career
Among her operatic roles James has performed Gluck's Orfeo in America and Canada, Dardano in Handel’s Amadigi in New York and Europe, and Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in Tokyo and Toronto.[citation needed]
She has worked with Netherlands Opera, Cleveland Opera (USA), Glyndebourne, Almeida Opera, Opera Theatre Company, Opera Northern Ireland, Opera North, Opera Atelier, Opera Circus, English Pocket Opera, Opera 80, Cambridge Handel Opera Group, Operavox Cartoons, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, Music Theatre Wales and Mid Wales Opera.[citation needed]
On her website, James describes herself as "Opera Singer, Actress and Butcher", because before pursuing her studies she worked in one of her father's butcher shops in Cardigan and won an award for her artistry in the Royal Welsh Show in 1978.[citation needed]
She has premiered in operas by Gerald Barry, Jonathan Dove, Deirdre Gribbin, Wolfgang Rihm and John Woolrich.[citation needed]
James has filmed numerous straight acting roles for BBC, HTV and S4C and performed Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet for the National Theatre of Wales.[citation needed]
In 2001 James and her siblings performed in the Millennium Stadium as pre-match entertainment before a Wales/Ireland rugby union match.[citation needed]
She is[when?] on the professorial staff in the department of Vocal and Opera Studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD). She has also directed The Pirates of Penzance, Ruddigore, Acis and Galatea, Dido and Aeneas, Orpheus in the Underworld and Hercules for RWCMD.[citation needed]
Discography
She also appears on:
Awards
- Welsh Singers Competition 1986
- In 2001 James was honoured with the Druidic White Robe of Gorsedd y Beirdd at the National Eisteddfod.
Notes
- ^ "Castradïva". Archived from the original on 15 December 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2007.
- ^ "Songs of the People". Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2007.
- ^ Songs and Concertos[permanent dead link]
- ^ "The James Sisters Sing Gospel". Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2007.
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