About MantissaOpera Here are some of the singers who sing for or have sung for MantissaOpera: Simon Tatnall (Director) Simon performs with many Choral Societies and Opera Companies in the South East. Having launched his singing career with title roles in Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro Simon went on to obtain a degree in Composition at Trinity College of Music. While there he won the Adam Collins Prize and the Chappells Composition Prize. He is also the Musical Director of the Great Lines Choir. Other roles include: The Barber of Seville (Figaro); The Gypsy Baron (title role) and La Cenerentola (Dandini). View Simon's personal repertoire. Claire Williamson Claire Williamson graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire with a 1st class degree in singing. Since then she has performed a wide range of roles including Valenciennes in 'The Merry Widow', Mrs Fiorentino in 'Street Scene' and Adele in Die Fledermaus. She recently performed as soloist in the promenade concerts at Leeds Castle and Tonbridge Castle. Oratorio repertoire includes Rutter's 'Magnificat', Handel's 'Messiah' and Haydn's 'Paukenmesse'. She has regular concert and recital work, teaches singing for Kent Music School and is the Musical Director of the Swale Junior Choir. Tania Williams Tania is largely known for her recital work across Germany and Canada. Having completed her opera training at the Royal College of Music, she won a scholarship to study in Germany. It was here that her professional life began with an engagement at the Hessischen Staatstheater - Wiesbaden. While in Germany she recorded her first CD Where Corals Lie. Jonathan Nott is the accompanist on this collection of British and American classical song. Since returning to England she has performed in Oratorios across the country, and sung with various touring opera companies. In 1998 she got through to the semi-finals of the International Opera Singer’s Competition which is held in New York. Justine Davies Justine was born in Kent and studied singing with Brenda Stanley at the Blackheath conservatoire of Music. There she won a scholarship from the then ILEA in order to increase her studies. She then studied with Rudolf Piernay at the Guild Hall School of Music and Drama and gained invaluable experience singing with City Opera and Beaufort Opera during that time. She made her Opera debut, singing Kate Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly for the London Opera Players; She has sung Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Micaela (Carmen), Despina (Cosi fan Tutte), Gretel (Hansel & Gretel) and will be singing Zerlina (Don Giovanni) in June and July in their production of Don Giovanni. Justine will also be touring France with LOP in their production of Cosi Fan Tutte. She also sings regularly for Opera Del Mar, Cameo Opera, Mantissa Opera and Commedia Productions and has sung several times at the Barbican, Hackney Empire and Shaw theatre London. Her roles include: Giannetta (L'elisir d'Amore), Frasquita ( Carmen), Violetta (La Traviata), Susanna (Marriage of Figaro), Mustta (La Boheme), Cio Cio San (Madam Butterfly), Magda (La Rondine), Sister Genevieve (Sour Angelica), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), Cathleen (Riders to the Sea), Helene (La Belle Helene), Papagena (Magic Flute) and Plaintiff (trial by Jury). Future performances include Clorinda and Frasquita for Mantissa Opera in their forthcoming productions of La Cenorentola and Carmen. Stephen Brown Stephen studied at Trinity College of Music in the opera school of the Royal College of Music. Recent roles have included Mozart's 'Tamino', 'Don Ottavio', 'Ferrando' and 'Basilio'. The French premieres of Cox & Box and Trial by Jury in Paris; The Gondoliers in the Buxton Festival; Le nozze di figaro with Sir Colin Davies and The Donkey's Shadow by Richard Strauss for English National Opera. Stephen has also been playing and covering major roles with Garsington Festival, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Kent Opera, and Almeida Opera. A prize winning interpreter of English song and German Lieder, Recent concert performances include Verdi's Requiem at the Barbican Centre in London. International engagements include a televised Messiah in Romania, a broadcast of Rossini's Stabat Mater in Norway, Stradella's San Giovanni Battista in Jerusalem, a tour of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Spain and concerts in India and Austria. He regularly sings the Evangelist in Bach’s passions and recently sang the arias in the Mattheus Passion in Iceland and in London with Peter Schreier. Daniel Meades Born in Hertfordshire, Daniel began his musical training in 1990 at the RSAMD gaining him a teaching diploma. A further year at the RCM led to a certificate in post-graduate studies. Daniel has performed many operatic tenor roles, which include, Don Jose in Carmen, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore, Alfredo in La Traviata and the title roles in Don Carlos and the Tales of Hoffmann. Oratorio repertoire includes Verdi and Mozart requiems, Rossini's Petite messe solennelle, Puccini's Messa di Gloria, Elgar's Dream of Gerontius in Wells Cathedral, and Mahler’s Das Lied Von der Erde at the West Road Concert Halls in Cambridge. Companies worked with include English Touring Opera, Scottish Opera-go-round, Diva Opera, Garden Opera, Opera and Concert Management Worldwide, Pavilion Opera, London Opera Players and Kentish Opera. Daniel has recorded two double albums of library music under the KPM/EMI label and is played daily on Classic FM and frequently throughout the world on both television and radio. He tours the world extensively and last year destinations included Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, America, Caribbean, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Oman and UAE. He is currently on a tour of the country singing Don Jose in Carmen for Opera Box and Alfredo for 1st Act Opera, and other future engagements include another educational project introducing opera to children with Opera Brava.