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Buddug Verona James is a Welsh mezzo-soprano opera singer who studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the National Opera Studio and in Rome. She was born in Cardigan, Wales. ==Career== Among her operatic roles Buddug has performed Gluck's ''Orfeo'' in America and Canada, Dardano in Handel’s ''Amadigi'' in New York and Europe, and Cherubino in Mozart's ''The Marriage of Figaro'' in Tokyo and Toronto. She has worked with Netherlands Opera, Cleveland Opera (USA), Glyndebourne, Almeida Opera, Opera Theatre Company, Opera Northern Ireland, Opera North, Opera Atelier, Opera Circus, English Pocket Opera, Opera 80, Cambridge Handel Opera Group, Operavox Cartoons, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, Music Theatre Wales and Mid Wales Opera. On her website, she describes herself as “Opera Singer, Actress and Butcher”, because before pursuing her studies she worked in one of her father's butcher shops in Cardigan and won an award for her artistry in the Royal Welsh Show in 1978. She has premiered in operas by Gerald Barry, Jonathan Dove, Deirdre Gribbin, Wolfgang Rihm and John Woolrich. She has filmed numerous straight acting roles for BBC, HTV and S4C and recently performed Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet for the National Theatre of Wales. Buddug is on the professorial staff in the department of Vocal and Opera Studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD). She has also directed ''The Pirates of Penzance'', ''Ruddigore'', ''Acis and Galatea'', ''Dido and Aeneas'', ''Orpheus in the Underworld'' and ''Hercules'' for RWCMD. In 2001 Buddug and her siblings performed in the Millennium Stadium as pre match entertainment before a Wales/Ireland rugby union match. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Buddug Verona James」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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