Jonathan Dove's Tobias and the Angel: Highbury Opera Theatre's official debut

By Billie Hylton, 05 October 2012

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Reviewed at Union Chapel, Islington, London on 3 October 2012

Dove, Tobias and the Angel

Highbury Opera Theatre

Catharine Rogers, Edna

Denver Martin Smith, Tobit

Robert Gildon, Ashmodeus

Kathy Taylor-Jones, Anna

Siobhain Gibson, Sara

Nick Allen, Tobias

Michael Harper, Countertenor

Julian Alexander Smith, Raguel

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Billie Hylton

Billie is a keen music student in London, and a former Bachtrack intern. She started piano lessons and singing at the age of four and is still doing both regularly. She sings in Ralph Allwood’s Rodolfus Choir and has a particular interest in Benjamin Britten.