Onboard Enrichment

 
Chefs Circle
    Anne Desjardins
Anne Desjardins is one of Canada’s culinary gems. Her 25-suite hotel and restaurant L’Eau a la Bouche is a Relais Gourmands charmer tucked in the forested folds of Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains. 		 
         
    Rob Feenie
Representing the burgeoning Pacific Northwest food scene is Rob Feenie, whose Relais Gourmands flagship Lumičre in Vancouver is unanimously cited on both sides of the border as one of Canada’s finest restaurants. 		 
         
    Robbin Haas
Robbin Haas, chef/owner of the fun-filled, Latin-spiced Chispa in Coral Gables, Florida. Chef Haas has lent his masterful hand to a number of Miami’s most popular and nationally acclaimed venues, including Bang, Raku and Baleen. 		 
         
    Mary Sue Milliken
Mary Sue Milliken, co-founder of Santa Monica-and-Las Vegas’ delightfully Mexican-inspired Border Grills and Los Angeles’ pan-Latin Ciudad, and one half of the Food Network’s “Too Hot Tamales.” 		 
         
    Paulette Mitchell
Paulette Mitchell, a renowned chef and author of twelve books. Her two most recent books include "A Beautiful Bowl of Soup" and "The Spirited Vegetarian", the first vegetarian cookbook to use wine or spirits in every recipe. 		 
         
Dress Circle
      Just as in performing arts centers worldwide the best seats in the house are designated the Dress Circle, so Seabourn's Dress Circle onboard enrichment program affords you a privileged proximity to outstanding personalities during your cruise. Seabourn invites luminaries from far-flung fields of human endeavor to add their insights to your journey. These congenial, stimulating shipmates entertain and enlighten guests with informal presentations on every Seabourn cruise. Some are celebrities whose faces are instantly recognizable. Others are renowned within more specialized circles. But each one brings a wealth of new and fascinating information, of anecdote or of scholarly acumen-to enhance your Seabourn experience.  
         
      The Reduced Opera Company  
         
      The acclaimed British repertory troupe The Reduced Opera Company will appear as a part of the onboard enrichment program in 2005. A trio of singers: a soprano, a mezzo soprano and a tenor or baritone, will be performing a program of popular selections from classical and light opera. During each cruise, the company will present two full performances of arias and selections entitled ‘Pure Opera.’ One of these will be introduced and complemented by a special “Night at the Opera” formal dinner in The Restaurant.

The cast, which may vary from cruise to cruise, is comprised of some of the most celebrated singers in international opera. Among those scheduled to appear are: Charlotte Page has sung over thirty principal roles in opera for companies such as the Royal Opera, Covent Garden at the Savonlinna Festival, Finland, the Welsh National Opera and Opera Northern Ireland.

She performed the title role in Lucia Di Lammermoor for Haddo House Opera. Internationally, she has appeared with Atelier Lyrique, Orleans and throughout France. She also starred as Christine in Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre London for eighteen months. Anne Williams-King, a Welsh soprano who has mastered a wide variety of roles and appeared with Lyric Opera Ottawa, Holland’s Nationale Reisopera, as well as companies in Austria, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland.

Closer to home, she has performed with the English, Scottish and Welsh National Operas and in concerts at Royal Albert Hall, London Barbican and the Festival Hall London. Tenor Bradley Daley is a regular soloist with the English National Opera in the London Coliseum and has toured around the United Kingdom, in Australia and in America as well as broadcasting on BBC television, radio and Channel 4. Soprano Chloe Wright has worked with the Garden Opera, Pavillion Opera and Opera Holland Park and the Wexford Festival Opera. She spent two years singing the role of Musetta in Baz Luhrmann’s production of La Boheme on Broadway, winning a Tony Honor for Excellence and a Drama League of America Outstanding Artist award.

Welsh brothers Mark and Wynne Evans both attended Guildhall School and went on to study at the National Opera Studio. Mark, a baritone, has performed with the English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Wexford Festival Opera and the Covent Garden Festival. Tenor Wynne has sung with the English and Welsh National Operas, Opera Holland Park and has worked as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. He has sung at the Royal Albert Hall and as a soloist at the opening nights of the BBC Proms.