SIMON BUTTERISS
Film credits include
Mike Leigh’s TOPSY-TURVY; NIGHT MUSIC; CHASING LIBERTY
Television credits include
Two series of BY THE SWORD DIVIDED; STALKY AND CO; THE SILVER BUCKLE; AFTER THE WAR; TEN GLORIOUS YEARS; LET THEM EAT CAKE; THE LENNY HENRY SHOW; THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS; GOODBYE MR CHIPS; SPITTING IMAGE; LONDON’S BURNING; WHAT MADE MOZART TIC; TWENTIETH CENTURY GREATS.
Theatre credits include
THE WINSLOW BOY (Albery Theatre); THE RELAPSE (Old Vic); THE WHITE GUARD and PETER PAN (RSC); AN ITALIAN STRAW HAT (Shaftesbury Theatre); SWEENEY TODD (Drury Lane); CIDER WITH ROSIE and MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940 (Greenwich); EUGENE ONEGIN and SEVEN SONNETS OF MICHELANGELO (Lyric, Hammersmith); JOURNEY’S END (Drill Hall); HENRY V, GOODBYE MR CHIPS, VALMOUTH, FORTY YEARS ON and DIVORCE ME DARLING (Chichester); HAY FEVER, A WINTER’S TALE, CANDIDE, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (UK tours) and seasons at the Donmar and Arts Theatre.
Radio credits include pieces by Tom Stoppard, Katherine Mansfield, Christopher Logue and the radio 4 series, TAKING IT UP THE OCTAVE.
He has played the patter parts in Gilbert and Sullivan at the Savoy Theatre and throughout the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He has also sung, in London,Vienna, Hamburg, Amsterdam and for BBCTV, German and Austrian television, roles including Ferrando, Ottavio, Basilio, Marcellina, Monostatos, Lensky, Orlofsky, Clorinda, Pangloss, Menelaus.
At Aldeburgh, he has performed PIERROT LUNAIRE, ENOCH ARDEN, FAÇADE, title role ARLECCHINO, Haushofmeister ARIADNE AUF NAXOS and his own narration for THE YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA. He has appeared as a soloist at all the major London concert halls and with WNO, Grange Park Opera, Garsington Opera, Holland Park Opera.
He has written and translated for television and numerous opera companies; his new play for LET’S MAKE AN OPERA, commissioned by the Britten Estate, had its premiere at Aldeburgh in 2004 and his translations of Handel’s SOSARME and Rossini’s LA PIETRA DEL PARAGONE were also both produced last year.
Future plans include the premiere of THE CRICKET RECOVERS for Almeida Opera, KoKo THE MIKADO in Hawaii and a Mozart project for the Wigmore Hall.
