In addition to its annual PMF Scholarships and Awards for singers, the Peter Moores Foundation has also supported Festivals, study courses and performing companies that particularly offer opportunities for young artists to broaden their knowledge and experience. Examples of this support are given below.

The Foundation supported six of Glyndebourne’s touring seasons 1997-2002, during which GoT visited Glyndebourne, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Norwich, Oxford, Plymouth, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent and Woking. During the 2002 season, PMF Scholars Christine Rice sang the title role in Carmen and Charlotte Ellett sang Frasquita. In 2003, the Foundation funded Majella Cullagh to study with Renata Scotto, prior to Majella singing her first Violetta in GoT’s production of La traviata.

Carmen - Glyndebourne on Tour reviewed by Brighton & Hove Argus

 
‘Dark-haired, fiery and passionate, Ms Rice inhabits the role of the feisty gipsy cigarette girl ... She is a fine actress and superb interpreter of this role. Her every move and note sizzles and her death scene is shocking.’
 
Opera Magazine
 
'There was excellent work from Charlotte Ellett…a diamond-bright and surprisingly big-voiced Frasquita…'

Christine Rice

Regi

La traviata - Glyndebourne on Tour reviewed by Sunday Herald, Edinburgh
 
'Violetta, the Irish soprano Majella Cullagh, supports stupendous singing with terrific presence and convincing acting. She effortlessly enlists sympathy and ultimately receives roars of approval.’
 
The Guardian
 

'Musically it's brilliant, with not a weak performance anywhere. Cullagh is often breathtaking, vividly alert to every shade of meaning in text and score and wonderfully capable of suggesting, vocally as well as physically, the ravages of the illness that consumes her.'

2004 marked the final year of this annual summer opera festival, founded by Adam Pollock in 1974. Held in a 16th century monastery in Batignano, Italy, the festival has provided many opportunities to explore little known repertory as well as mounting new work. (In 2001 it gave the first performance of Jonathan Dove’s L’altra Euridice, which received its UK premiere at the Almeida Opera Festival 2002.) The PMF has enabled many young singers to take part in the Festival, which it supported regularly from 1976 - 2004.

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Charlotte Ellett

Majella Cullagh & Renata Scotto

 

The Peter Moores Foundation has supported the work of the Accademia Rossiniana since 1994. The annual seminar, led by Alberto Zedda and held in conjunction with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, is open to professional singers, students and researchers studying the vocal and dramatic techniques required in the interpretation of Rossini's operas and appear in the public, end of seminar, concert or new opera production. A significant number of young singers who have received Scholarships from the Foundation to support their studies in England have also been encouraged and enabled to attend the Accademia Rossiniana either as observers or participants.

The Peter Moores Foundation has supported the Rossini in Wildbad Festival since 1999, particularly in view of the opportunities the Festival affords to young artists, both in performance and in masterclasses and workshops with bel canto experts such as William Matteuzzi and Alberto Zedda. The Foundation has also assisted the Festival with singers' auditions and recommendations (the young conductor Brad Cohen, who has received support from the Foundation, conducted Armida in 2000, Tancredi in 2001 and Comte Ory in 2002).

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The Peter Moores Foundation supports projects which come to the attention of its Patron, or Trustees, through their interests and special knowledge. General applications for grants are not encouraged and are unlikely to succThe Peter Moores Foundation supports projects which come to the attention of its Patron, or Trustees, through their interests and special knowledge. General applications for grants are not encouraged and are unlikely to succeed.

13 October 2008