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The Flower Duet (Sous le domê pais)
Lakmé (ActI): Léo Delibes (1836-1891)
The Pearl Fishers Duet (Au fond du temple saint)
Les P cheurs de Perles: Georges Bizet (1836-1875)
Mon couer c'ouvre à ta voix
Samson et Dalila (ActII): Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Pa-Pa-Pageno
Die Zauberflöte (ActI): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1797)
Pur ti miro
L'incoronazione di Poppea: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Bella figlia dell'amore
Rigoletto (Act III): Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
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PHILIP BLAKE-JONES is the Artistic Director of Opera Interludes and London Festival Opera and studied singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He made his professional solo début as a baritone at Glyndebourne. He has appeared with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Kent Opera, Pavilion Opera and at the Buxton Opera Festival. Performances have taken him to Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, Barbados, and the USA.
As a soloist he has also appeared with Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Pavilion Opera, Carl Rosa Opera Company, and at the Buxton Opera Festival. Performances have taken him to Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, Barbados and the USA. He appeared as Giuseppe in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers and on two national tours with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company singing Strephon in Iolanthe, a role he also recorded with the company with critical acclaim. He appears on Sony Classical's 'The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan'.
He recently sang the baritone solo in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the bass solos in performances of Handel's Messiah in Florence and at the Pisa Opera House, in addition to Operetta Galas with the soprano Marilyn Hill-Smith. In 2007 he has appeared with the City of London Sinfonia in Hamburg in a concert for the annual British Day for an audience of 5,000 and in a Gala at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.