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Under the Cover of Night

Part of the Summer Festival 2025: Voices of the North

Add to my Calendar 04-07-2025 19:00 04-07-2025 21:00 36 Under the Cover of Night Elizabeth Hardman is a full-lyric soprano based in Leeds and originally from Manchester. Recent operatic roles include Silvia (Mascagni’s Zanetto), Flora (Dove’s The Enchanted Pig), Rosalinde (J. Strauss’ Die Fledermaus), cover Mrs Page (Vaughan-Williams’ Sir John in Love), and Semele (Handel’s Semele). This season has seen Elizabeth’s Glyndebourne debut, performing in a new production of Wagner’s Parsifal (Robin Ticciati / Jetske Mijnssen). She has also performed as Saffi (J. Strauss’ Der Zigeunerbaron), Paquette/Cunegonde (Bernstein’s Candide), Mrs Grose (Britten’s Turn of the Screw), Melia (Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus), and Dido (Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas). Elizabeth is an alumna of King’s College London (BMus, 1st with hons) and University of Leeds (MMus, Distinction) where she received two awards for music performance. She is also a Europe winner of the International Music Grand Prix. Elizabeth is currently studying with John Evans, and has previously completed workshops and masterclasses with British Youth Opera and as part of the Serena Fenwick Programme out of the National Opera Studio in London. Recent concerts include performances with West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, Leeds Haydn Players, and Leeds Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth is also currently doing a PhD on the gender diversity of composers on the UK concert scene, funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership. Born and raised in Leeds, Beth Moxon (mezzo-soprano) is a recent Young Artist for the Opéra National de Lyon, Les Azuriales Festival and a ENOA/Britten Pears Scholar having completed her studies at the National Opera Studio. Previously, Beth gained an Artist Diploma from the Royal College of Music's International Opera School where she studied with Dinah Harris and a Masters (Distinction) from the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Catherine Wyn Rogers. On stage, Beth has performed the roles of Mercedes (Bizet's Carmen), Mother/Sandman (Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel), Dorabella (Mozart's Cosi fan tutte), L'enfant (Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges), Laura (Tchaikovsky's Iolanta), Penelope (Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria), 2nd Lady (The Magic Flute), Ella (Huw Watkins' In the locked room), Hermia (Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream), Lapak/Woodpecker/Grasshopper (Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen), Sally (Arne's Thomas and Sally), Rosimonda (Handel's Faramondo, London Handel Festival 2017), Maurya (Riders to the Sea), Nancy (Albert Herring), 3rd Boy (Die Zauberflöte) Frau Viehmann, the Witch and Granny in the European premier of Canadian composer Dean Burry’s chamber opera The Brothers Grimm, Juno/Public Opinion (Orpheus in the Underworld), in addition to various cover roles at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, Opera North, and Opera Holland Park. She has recently performed a concert of contemporary song at Wigmore Hall. Born and raised in New Zealand, Jonathan Drummond is an accompanist and repetiteur who has called the UK home for the past ten years. He has been an accompanist at Northern Ballet since 2017 and has played for Opera North on countless education projects across England since 2016. Jonathan was the repetiteur for The Dictator (2022) and Maria de Buenos Aires (2023) for Northern Opera Group, and was Assistant Music Director and Repetiteur for Leeds Youth Opera from 2015-2022. Jonathan has worked as an accompanist at the Leeds Conservatoire and has performed in concerts with singers and instrumentalists across the UK and New Zealand. Under the Cover of Night tells a story from sunset to early morning, exploring the emotions and tribulations that can happen under the cover of darkness, before the day begins anew. Inspired by the common themes and narratives that occur in music for the stage, this programme spins its own tale through excitement, celebration, conflict, and finally death, before the sun rises again.   Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds DD/MM/YYYY

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The School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England

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Elizabeth Hardman is a full-lyric soprano based in Leeds and originally from Manchester. Recent operatic roles include Silvia (Mascagni’s Zanetto), Flora (Dove’s The Enchanted Pig), Rosalinde (J. Strauss’ Die Fledermaus), cover Mrs Page (Vaughan-Williams’ Sir John in Love), and Semele (Handel’s Semele). This season has seen Elizabeth’s Glyndebourne debut, performing in a new production of Wagner’s Parsifal (Robin Ticciati / Jetske Mijnssen). She has also performed as Saffi (J. Strauss’ Der Zigeunerbaron), Paquette/Cunegonde (Bernstein’s Candide), Mrs Grose (Britten’s Turn of the Screw), Melia (Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus), and Dido (Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas).

Elizabeth is an alumna of King’s College London (BMus, 1st with hons) and University of Leeds (MMus, Distinction) where she received two awards for music performance. She is also a Europe winner of the International Music Grand Prix. Elizabeth is currently studying with John Evans, and has previously completed workshops and masterclasses with British Youth Opera and as part of the Serena Fenwick Programme out of the National Opera Studio in London.

Recent concerts include performances with West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, Leeds Haydn Players, and Leeds Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth is also currently doing a PhD on the gender diversity of composers on the UK concert scene, funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership.

Born and raised in Leeds, Beth Moxon (mezzo-soprano) is a recent Young Artist for the Opéra National de Lyon, Les Azuriales Festival and a ENOA/Britten Pears Scholar having completed her studies at the National Opera Studio. Previously, Beth gained an Artist Diploma from the Royal College of Music's International Opera School where she studied with Dinah Harris and a Masters (Distinction) from the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Catherine Wyn Rogers.

On stage, Beth has performed the roles of Mercedes (Bizet's Carmen), Mother/Sandman (Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel), Dorabella (Mozart's Cosi fan tutte), L'enfant (Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges), Laura (Tchaikovsky's Iolanta), Penelope (Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria), 2nd Lady (The Magic Flute), Ella (Huw Watkins' In the locked room), Hermia (Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream), Lapak/Woodpecker/Grasshopper (Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen), Sally (Arne's Thomas and Sally), Rosimonda (Handel's Faramondo, London Handel Festival 2017), Maurya (Riders to the Sea), Nancy (Albert Herring), 3rd Boy (Die Zauberflöte) Frau Viehmann, the Witch and Granny in the European premier of Canadian composer Dean Burry’s chamber opera The Brothers Grimm, Juno/Public Opinion (Orpheus in the Underworld), in addition to various cover roles at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, Opera North, and Opera Holland Park. She has recently performed a concert of contemporary song at Wigmore Hall.

Born and raised in New Zealand, Jonathan Drummond is an accompanist and repetiteur who has called the UK home for the past ten years. He has been an accompanist at Northern Ballet since 2017 and has played for Opera North on countless education projects across England since 2016. Jonathan was the repetiteur for The Dictator (2022) and Maria de Buenos Aires (2023) for Northern Opera Group, and was Assistant Music Director and Repetiteur for Leeds Youth Opera from 2015-2022.

Jonathan has worked as an accompanist at the Leeds Conservatoire and has performed in concerts with singers and instrumentalists across the UK and New Zealand.

Under the Cover of Night tells a story from sunset to early morning, exploring the emotions and tribulations that can happen under the cover of darkness, before the day begins anew. Inspired by the common themes and narratives that occur in music for the stage, this programme spins its own tale through excitement, celebration, conflict, and finally death, before the sun rises again.

 

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