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An impressive look,
pzazz and theatricality makes for a highly entertaining experience, one
that the average audience seldom has an opportunity to see live. They
have wide appeal featuring popular opera together with West End and
Broadway hits.
Formed in 1995,
following the worldwide popularity of the international Three Tenors,
the Three British Tenors have been, and will remain the original and the
best alternative to Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras .
Barry Clark, Tomos Ellis and Jeffrey
Cresswell - The Three British Tenors
The combination
of three great British tenor voices - Jeffrey Cresswell, Tomos Ellis and
Barry Clark (with guest principals Philip Creasy and David Fieldsend)
offers far more than a mere tribute show, but still includes the great
arias of Grand Opera that have become so strongly associated with this
particular musical combination. The show has been described as 'a
rollercoaster of magnificent musicality' in which many of the best known
songs from West End Musicals are combined with Neapolitan songs,
Viennese operetta, Gilbert and Sullivan arias and the greatest examples
of the major traditions in Grand Opera
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This broad
selection of music is presented with a style and panache that is sure to
impress and humour that is guaranteed to engage; indeed The Stage found
the principals to be 'original, talented and surprisingly, fun!' The
result is an evening's entertainment that has been reviewed as 'the best
show around for a long time' (The Mail)
The Three British
Tenors show is equally suited to concert halls, theatres, outdoor
events, cruise ships and corporate entertainments, and the repertoire
and performance duration can be tailored to suit particular requirements.
Recent
engagements have taken the tenors to Prague Castle, Gleneagles Hotel,
and to many of the London hotels for corporate entertainments, to
several of the Warner's Holidays Country House Hotels, aboard Silverseas
Cruise Liners and to theatres and concert halls across Britain.
The Principals
are accompanied by a variety of musical ensembles according to the
available budget, and can perform accompanied by backing tracks, if
required. The available musical accompaniment ranges from solo piano,
through duo and 10 member ensemble to the British Philharmonic Concert
Orchestra.
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Jeffrey Cresswell
began his career with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company where he
understudied and played most of the great Gilbert and Sullivan tenor
roles. Jeffrey progressed to Grand Opera with the English National Opera
company and subsequently appeared at Covent Garden. He has sung opera in
Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa where he spent a year as Principal
Tenor with the CAPAB Opera Company in Cape Town. He has toured
extensively in Concert, Operetta and Oratorio, has many radio and
television appearances to his credit and has also appeared as the Tenor,
Piangi, in the West End production of The Phantom of The Opera.
He has been a regular guest artist with Operetta For All, The London
Concert Artists and The English Heritage Singers, who regularly perform
at Grims Dyke, Harrow, once the home of W.S. Gilbert.
Barry Clark began
his career with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and went on to sing with
Scottish Opera, Opera Go Round, Dublin Grand Opera and New Sadlers
Wells, where he played Lionel [Martha].
Throughout the
80's Barry worked for touring companies such as Opera East, London Opera
Players and Regency Opera in such roles as Don José [Carmen],
Monostatos [Magic Flute] and Don Basilio [Marriage of Figaro].
Barry's career also encompasses operetta, West End musicals, even
pantomime, for which he has a special affection.
In 1985-86 he
joined a national tour of Novello's Perchance to Dream, starring
Simon Ward, in which Barry played Lord Failsham. He sang Camille [The
Merry Widow] opposite Sally Ann Howes, and Fenton [Falstaff]
in a production starring Giuseppe Taddei at Theatre Royal, Brighton.
Barry was an
original cast member of The Phantom of the Opera at her
Majesty's, London, playing the Auctioneer [he can be heard on the
recording] and later appearing in the tenor role of Piangi. He then
joined the Bristol Old Vic to sing Pirelli in their production of
Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, later moving to Sir Peter Hall's Company
for the musical Bjorn Again at Chichester.
Tomos Ellis has
appeared in operas and concerts throughout Europe, America, the West
Indies and the Far East. He has appeared as soloist in Royal Opera House
productions at Covent Garden. As well as working with the English
National Opera, he has sung in over 1000 performances with Travelling
Opera. In 1999 and 2000 he toured extensively in the United States.
With his father,
the renowned harpist Osian Ellis, Tom has given recitals in Copenhagen,
Salzburg, in Munich's Residentz Hall, and at the Schonbrunn Palace,
Vienna. In England they performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, at London's
Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.
In his spare
moments Tomos likes to retreat to the remote Lleyn Peninsula, at the
western tip of North Wales, where he can relax and savour the
tranquillity of a life that is a world apart from the complexities of
the operatic stage.
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