Son of Cornwall feature documentary charting the life and work of opera singer John Treleaven

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Son of Cornwall feature documentary charting the life and work of opera singer John Treleaven

Son of Cornwall is a biopic about the life and career of opera star John Treleaven. His son takes him on a personal and emotional journey down memory lane, exploring what drives him as an artist. The film tells of success and sacrifice and the cost of living your dream.

As the son of a fisherman, young Johnny Richards lives in a small village in Cornwall. So far, he has only been able to demonstrate his singing talent in the church choir. But when famous concert pianist Marjory Fogg by chance heard him sing, while he was bathing in the local harbour, she immediately recognized his potential. John’s voice turns out to be a way out of the sleepy town of Porthleven and becomes a springboard for an international career. Johnny Richards turns into the tenor John Treleaven.

But when the curtain falls, the opera star becomes a private man and family man, who despite all his successes has not always been able to cope with the pressure to perform in the industry.

In summer 2018, John and his son Lawrence set off on a concert tour to their home in southern England. They enjoy the time together that the son was often denied in the past. The road trip becomes the basis of a biographical portrait. In conversations and interviews, the two do not always take a pleasant look at the past and the relationship between career and family life. The documentary illuminates what drives and moves John as an artist and as a person.

“Son of Cornwall” is peppered with material from Treleaven’s major appearances and interviews with long-time companions. The film tells of the rise of exceptional talent and the cost of fulfilling your dream.

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John Treleaven
John Treleaven is one of the most sought after Heldentenors at the important international opera houses. He was celebrated as Stolzing at the Bavarian State Opera Festival in Munich, in Toulouse and in Peter Konwitschny’s production Lohengrin Wienat the Hamburg State Opera. As Lohengrin he performed successfully at the Vienna State Opera, the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, the Hamburg State Opera, in Gothenburg, Basle and Amsterdam. As Tannhäuser he fascinated public and press at the Staatsoper of Hamburg and in the new production of the Opera House Graz in 2008.

John Treleaven has achieved particular success internationally as Siegfried in ‘Siegfried’ and ‘Gotterdämmerung’, including Tokyo, Zurich, Helsinki, at the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona (available as a DVD), at the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House London with AnSoundio Pappano and Keith Warner and at the Lyric Opera Chicago.
He sang Siegmund in Karlsruhe, Tokyo and Nice, in Dresden’s Semper Opera, as well as in concerts with the Bamberg Symphony and the Helsinki Radio Orchestra.

John Treleaven studied in London at the College of Music with William Lloyd Webber, among others, and at the London Opera Centre, Covent Garden as well as in Naples under Maestro Campanino. At first he sang primarily in his home country at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Welsh National Opera, the Scottish National Opera and the English National Opera, where he learned numerous roles such as the Prince in Rusalka, which is available on DVD. At the Edinburgh Festival he sang the role of Hans in The Bartered Bride, as well as Radames, Erik, Florestan and was heard in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex. Further guest performances took him to the Adelaide Festival, the Taormina Festival, to Bologna, Amsterdam, Paris, New York …

In 1991 he made his highly acclaimed German debut at the Mannheim National Theatre as Peter Grimes, a role he has since sung at the Hamburg State Opera, in Bremen, Frankfurt and Genoa, at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg (directed by Alfred Kirchner). His repertoire also includes roles such as Bacchus in ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’, Canio in ‘I Pagliacci’, Calaf in ‘Turandot’, Dick Johnson in ‘La Fanciulla del West’ and Hermann in ‘Pique Dame’. At the Berlin State Opera he sang Pollione in ‘Norma’, at the Teatro Real Madrid he performed Menelas in ‘Die Ägyptische Helena’ and inHelsinki he sang the Emperor in ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’.

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