The Monster in the Maze: about the artists
Featuring ENSEMBLE 360, CONSONE QUARTET, BRIDGE ENSEMBLE, SHEFFIELD MUSIC HUB SENIOR STRINGS, SHEFFIELD YOUTH CHOIRS featuring JUNIOR VOICES, YOUTH VOICES & CONCORDIA and SINGERS FROM SHEFFIELD
Theseus: Anthony Flaum
Anthony Flaum is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio, in London. His studies were generously supported by English National Opera and the John Wates Foundation. Anthony began his professional life in banking before progressing to his vocal studies.
Highlights in recent seasons include his main stage debut at English National Opera as Borsa in Jonathan Miller’s production of Rigoletto; Pinkerton Madame Butterfly and Rodolfo La bohème for Iford Arts; Turiddù Cavelleria Rusticana for Portsmouth Choral Society; Paris La belle Hélène for New Sussex Opera; and Gonzalve L’heure espagnole for Mid Wales Opera.
Mother: Camille Maalawy
Camille has achieved notable acclaim for bridging both musical and cultural divides. Born to a Coptic Egyptian father and English mother, her repertoire is as extensive as it is diverse, specialising in singing new music and often working directly with composers to incorporate elements of Arabic music.
Camille made her debut at Glyndebourne last autumn, playing Oma in Glass Human by Samantha Fernando. Recent highlights include ‘Weather Forecaster’ in The Water Diviner’s Tale for Opera North; presenting a group of newly written songs at Hull Jazz Festival as a Kickstart Commission Artist, and the premiere of Egyptian composer, Nahla Mattar’s Songs on Colloquial Arabic at the Royal Opera House Engender Festival. In addition, Camille completed a PRSF Resonance residency with Opera North, where she explored the diversity of her cultural heritage more deeply, co-creating a new song cycle, Mezzaterra (Meeting Point), which has been performed at Opera North and as part of the Tete-a-Tete festival.
Daedalus: Robert Gildon
Robert studied singing at Manhattan School of Music, New York, the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival (performing lead role in John Casken’s Golem) and the Britten Pears School. He was a recipient of the Garsington Opera Prize.
Work includes Orlando Gough’s Weather the Storm (Garsington Opera), Billy Budd in Billy Budd REimagined (ROH), Old Man in The Moon Hares (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenmen), Scott Stroman’s new opera ‘The Weekend’, based on Michael Palin’s play, (Bloomsbury Theatre), Old Man in world premiere of The Old Man and the Sea (First Light Festival/Britten Pears Arts), Don Giovanni (Garsington Opera Lord Mayor/Education Project), Lord Cecil in Philip Cashian’s The Cumnor Affair (Tête à Tête), Compere in The Answer to Everything (Streetwise Opera/BFI), Head Fox in children’s opera Outfoxed at the Royal Festival Hall, Journalist in Jonathan Dove’s TV opera Man on the Moon (Channel 4) and Dave Brubeck’s cantata La fiesta e la posada (London Symphony Orchestra /Barbican).
King Minos: Paul Hawkyard
Paul has worked in an extensive range of acting roles from TV drama, Children’s TV, and West End Musicals and shows. Credits include Ghost Stories, War Horse, Old Jack’s Boat, The Railway Children and Emmerdale.