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David Habbin is a tenor from Ringwood, Hampshire, England, who achieved international acclaim as a founding member of the pop opera band, Amici Forever.
Habbin spent several years performing and writing with rock and pop bands, including The Flaming Softies, Wildlife and Prima Shock before he began vocal training with international operatic tenor Jon Andrew and secured funding to study acting and music theatre at Mountview Theatre School in North London.
After completing his studies there, he performed in the roles of Marius and Combeferre in Les Misérables at the Palace Theatre; had a role in a British feature movie, Julie and the Cadillacs ; and starred in the role of Tony in West Side Story , directed by the librettist, playwright and co-creator of West Side Story Arthur Laurents, in London in the original West End revival and in the subsequent tour throughout the United Kingdom for over 600 performances.
Habbin then went on to consolidate his operatic training for two years at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and has since performed with various UK opera companies in several roles, including Alfredo in La Traviata , Lt. Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly , Ernesto in Don Pasquale , Almaviva in The Barber of Seville , Alfred in Die Fledermaus and Fenton in Falstaff .
Habbin also worked with Glyndebourne Festival Opera for their Summer Festival and their touring company, before joining Amici Forever.
Habbin starred in the 2008 performances of White Christmas for Raymond Gubbay with Jacinta Whyte at Royal Albert Hall. Most recently he appeared in Carrie at the Southwark Playhouse and in Brigadoon with John Wilson at the RTE Concert Hall in Dublin.
Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano singer, actress, and dancer.
Amici Forever is a band of four classically trained singers who mix opera with pop music. The band's first album, The Opera Band (2004), reached number one on the Australian classical charts, number two on the United States (US) classical charts and the top 5 in the United Kingdom (UK) classical charts.
Mario Frangoulis is a Greek vocalist and theatre actor, famous for his refined tenor vocals. Born in Rhodesia, Frangoulis after his three decade long career has established himself as a critically and commercially acclaimed recording artist and vocal performer in Greece and neighbouring countries. His initial rise to international prominence came with his hit song "Vincerò, Perderò" and his rendition of the song "Nights in White Satin".
Jo Appleby is an English soprano from Thornton, Lancashire, England. She is a former member of operatic pop group Amici Forever.
Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi is a South African classical soprano. She first came to public notice as a member of the opera band Amici Forever.
Jonathan Mark Ansell is an English singer, best known as the high tenor of the vocal group G4.
Kenneth Sandford was an English singer and actor, best known for his performances in baritone roles of the Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
David Hobson is an Australian opera tenor and composer.
Alfred Giovanni Roncalli Boe is an English tenor and actor, notably performing in musical theatre.
Ben Davies was a Welsh tenor singer, who appeared in opera with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, in operetta and light opera, and on the concert and oratorio platform. He was spoken of as a successor of Edward Lloyd, as a leading British tenor, and retained something of his style and repertoire in concert performance.
Garðar Thór Cortes is an Icelandic tenor of Icelandic and English parentage. A former child actor, Garðar subsequently trained as a singer in Vienna, Copenhagen and London. He has performed various leading tenor roles in operas, as well as a leading part in The Phantom of the Opera in London's West End. While insisting that he is first and foremost a classical opera singer, it was with his classical crossover album Cortes, released in Iceland in 2005, that Garðar came to prominence. His debut album in the UK, also titled Cortes, was released on 16 April 2007 and entered the UK Classical Charts at number 1.
John Coates was a leading English tenor, who sang in opera and oratorio and on the concert platform. His repertoire ranged from Bach and Purcell to contemporary works, and embraced the major heldentenor roles in Richard Wagner's operas. For more than 40 years, with only a four-year interruption for military service during World War I, he overcame the limitations of a voice that was not naturally large by impressing listeners with his intense artistic expression, lively diction, musical versatility and memorable stage presence.
Peter Hofmann was a German tenor who had a successful performance career within the fields of opera, rock, pop, and musical theatre. He first rose to prominence as a heldentenor at the Bayreuth festival's Jahrhundertring in 1976, where he drew critical acclaim for his performance of Siegmund in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre. He was active as one of the world's leading Wagnerian tenors over the next decade, performing roles like Lohengrin, Parsifal, Siegmund and Tristan at major opera houses and festivals internationally.
Cape Town Opera (CTO) is a professional opera company in Cape Town, South Africa. CTO was founded in 1999 by the management and staff of the former South Africa Arts Council Opera and the Cape Performing Arts Board (CAPAB), itself a successor to the Cape Province Performing Arts Council and the previous Opera School at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, which had been founded in the early 1920s under the Italian tenor Giuseppe Paganelli.
Bonaventura Bottone is an operatic tenor who has performed at many of the world's leading opera houses. He trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The Academy awarded him a Fellowship in 1998. He is described by the New Grove Dictionary of Opera as "a superb actor with a strong, lyrical voice" who "excels in comic roles".
Webster Booth was an English tenor, best remembered as the duettist partner of Anne Ziegler. He was also one of the finest tenors of his generation and was a distinguished oratorio soloist.
Michael Fabiano is an American operatic tenor. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, he has performed in leading opera houses throughout the world, including the San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, Sydney Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Canadian Opera Company, The Royal Opera, and Teatro Real de Madrid among many others. Fabiano is the 2014 Richard Tucker Award winner and the 2014 Beverly Sills Artist Award winner, making him the first singer to win both awards in the same year.
Francis Martin "Fra" Fee is an Irish actor and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Courfeyrac in Tom Hooper's film adaptation of Les Misérables. Fee also played the role of Michael Carney in Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre, West End, and Broadway, directed by Sam Mendes. For his performance, he won the 2018 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play. In 2021, he appeared as Kazi in the Disney+ series Hawkeye, which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Geoffrey David Sewell is a tenor from New Zealand. He is a classical crossover singer, a multi platinum selling international recording artist, impresario, entrepreneur, creator and CEO of London-based entertainment company Incognito Artists, and co-creator of the world's first 'pop-opera', classical crossover band Amici Forever.
George Bentham was an English tenor best remembered today for creating the role of Alexis in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Sorcerer in 1877. As Giorgio Bentami he pursued a professional opera and concert career in Europe and Britain from 1868 to 1877. Alexis proved to be his last role.
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