New York-born bass-baritone Damon Nestor Ploumis is known for his work in the bel canto repertoire of Rossini and Donizetti. Over the course of engagements with more than 40 opera companies across Europe, North and South America, he has appeared at leading houses such as the Zurich Opera, San Francisco Opera, Greek National Opera, Swedish Royal Opera, Finnish National Opera, and Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.
Highlights of his career include singing the role of Don Profondo in Il viaggio a Reims in the production staged by Nobel Prize laureate Dario Fo, as well as his trademark role of Dulcamara in the legendary Jonathan Miller production of L’elisir d’amore. Most recent appearances include the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as Taddeo in L’italiana in Algeri under the baton of Antonello Allemandi, as well as Gianni Schicchi, singing the title role and directing the opera, at the Alden Bisen Festival in Belgium.
Building upon his singing experience, Mr. Ploumis has directed productions internationally, including Aida for the National Opera of China in Beijing, Così fan tutte at the Teatro da Paz in Belém, Brazil, as well as in Ireland, Belgium, Chile, South Africa, Canada, and the USA.
In 2008 he founded the summer programme Lyric Opera Studio Weimar, which has trained 1,600 singers from 81 countries. offering an intense month-long study in Weimar aimed as providing singers a bridge into the German theater system. Receiving his voice training at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, the Merola Program of San Francisco Opera, and the Zurich Opera Studio. He previously obtained his undergraduate degree in History at Christ’s College, Cambridge, before going on to study Theology at the University of Athens and completing his postgraduate theological studies at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem.
Damon is a trained falconer and plays the German hunting horn throughout his home province of Thuringia.
Other singers include:
Callie Gaston who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and who has sung in the UK, Holland and elsewhere in Europe.
Isolde Roxby who also trained at Guildhall and has recently been on tour with Regents Opera in the UK and France.
Richard Milnes who has been performing in Germany and the UK.
Helen Miles who has recently appeared at the Royal Opera house, London and at the Opera National de Lyon.
Lusine Yeghoyan, Ben Watkins and George Coates.
They will be performing a selection of music by Mozart, Handel, Bach, Vaughan Williams, Dvorak, and Mascagni with the choir and orchestra of Holy Trinity
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Programme
First half
Choir
Mozart Missa brevis in D k194
Lusine Yeghoyan
“Batti batti o bel Masetto” from Don Giovanni by Mozart
Richard Milnes
“Se povero il ruscello” from Ezio by Handel
Sarah Connolly
“As with rosy steps the morn” – from Theodora by Handel
“Vergnügte Ruh” - Bach Cantata 170
“O rest in the Lord” - Mendelssohn
Second half
George Coates
Five mystical songs, Vaughan Williams
Izzy Roxby
“Song to the moon” from Rusalke by Dvorak
Ben Watkins, Callie Gaston
Duet “Nedda! Silvio!” from I Paglicci by Leoncavallo
Damon Ploumis
“Io Don Profondo” from Il viaggio a Reims by Rossini
“Why can’t the English” from My Fair Lady by Lerner and Loewe
Damon Ploumis, Richard Milnes
Duet “Voglio dire” from L’elisir d’amore by Donizetti
Choir, Helen Miles
Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascangni
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