Artistic Director Somtow Sucharitkul

2009 was one of the most artistically successful years for the Bangkok Opera with the Darren Royston directed productions of THAIS and LA BOHEME both starring Nancy Yuen.  In 2010 we finally reach our tenth year of operation and will celebrate with four highly varied productions.

Superstar countertenor Michael Chance appears in a new production of Gluck’s masterwork, conducted by Trisdee na Patalung whose recent interpretation of this work at the Steyr Festival in Austria was very well reviewed in the European press.

Darren Royston directs one of the world’s most popular operas in the climactic closer to the Bangkok Opera’s tenth season.

Trisdee na Patalung, dubbed “a genius” by London’s Opera magazine for his interpretation of Zauberflöte, returns to conduct a glowing Figaro.  Cast includes Nancy Yuen as the Countess, Zion Daoratanahong as Susanna, and, in a daring bit of casting, countertenor Jak Cholvijarn as Cherubino.

The acclaimed Bangkok “Ring Cycle” continues with the saga of Siegfried the Dragonslayer.  Sani Muliaumase’ali plays the role of the all-conquering hero in Somtow’s radical Asian rethinking of Nordic myth.  With Jessica Chen as Brünnhilde, Colin Morris as Alberich.

Bangkok Opera’s first Thai-language production is Bruce Gaston’s children’s opera, originally created for the young HIV children of Baan Gerda in Lopburi, and performed by children with the Siam Philharmonic Orchestra as backup