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Holy Trinity Church
Sloane Street
Sloane Square
London
SW1X 9BZ
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Missa brevis in D major, K.194/186h
Gioachino Rossini – Il viaggio a Reims: 'Io Don Profondo'
Pietro Mascagni – Cavalleria Rusticana: Easter Hymn
Ralph Vaughan Williams – 5 Mystical Songs
Performers
Damon Nestor Ploumis – bass-baritone
Dame Sarah Connolly – mezzo-soprano
George Coates – baritone
Holy Trinity Choir
Holy Trinity Orchestra
Programme Note
Programme.
The Choir will sing Mozart Missa brevis in D K.194. Lusine Yeghoyan sings “Batti batti o bel Masetto” from Don Giovanni by Mozart. Richard Milnes “Se povero il ruscello” from Ezio by Handel. Sarah Connolly sings three pieces: “As with rosy steps the morn” – from Theodora by Handel, “Vergnügte Ruh” - Bach Cantata, and “O rest in the Lord” - Mendelssohn
Interval
George Coates sings Five mystical songs, Vaughan Williams. Izzy Roxby sings “Song to the moon” from Rusalke by Dvorak. Ben Watkins and Callie Gaston sing the duet “Nedda! Silvio!” from I Paglicci by Leoncavallo.
Damon Ploumis sings “Io Don Profondo” from Il viaggio a Reims by Rossini, “Why can’t the English” from My Fair Lady by Lerner and Loewe. The is followed by a duet in which Damon Ploumis and Richard Milnes sing "Voglio dire” from L’elisir d’amore by Donizetti.
Choir, Helen Miles perform Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascangni.
Dame Sarah Connolly was made a DBE in the 2017 Birthday Honours, having previously been awarded a CBE in the 2010 New Year's Honours. In 2020 she was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in recognition of her outstanding services to music.
In 2023 she was awarded The King’s Medal for Music, an award given annually to an outstanding individual or group of musicians who have had a major influence on the musical life of the nation.
She has sung at the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Salzburg and Tanglewood festivals and the BBC Proms where, in 2009, she was a soloist at the Last Night. Opera engagements have taken her around the world from The Metropolitan Opera to the Royal Opera House, the Paris Opera, La Scala Milan, the Vienna and Munich State Operas and the Bayreuth, Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence Festivals.
New York-born bass-baritone Damon Nestor Ploumis is known for his work in the bel canto repertoire of Rossini and Donizetti. Over the course of engagements with more than 40 opera companies across Europe, North and South America, he has appeared at leading houses such as the Zurich Opera, San Francisco Opera, Greek National Opera, Swedish Royal Opera, Finnish National Opera, and Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.
Highlights of his career include singing the role of Don Profondo in Il viaggio a Reims in the production staged by Nobel Prize laureate Dario Fo, as well as his trademark role of Dulcamara in the legendary Jonathan Miller production of L’elisir d’amore. Most recent appearances include the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as Taddeo in L’italiana in Algeri under the baton of Antonello Allemandi, as well as Gianni Schicchi, singing the title role and directing the opera, at the Alden Bisen Festival in Belgium.
Damon is a trained falconer and plays the German hunting horn throughout his home province of Thuringia.
Other singers include:
Callie Gaston who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and who has sung in the UK, Holland and elsewhere in Europe.
Isolde Roxby who also trained at Guildhall and has recently been on tour with Regents Opera in the UK and France.
Richard Milnes who has been performing in Germany and the UK.
Helen Miles who has recently appeared at the Royal Opera house, London and at the Opera National de Lyon
Lusine Yeghoyan, Ben Watkins and George Coates
They will be performing a selection of music by Mozart, Handel, Bach, Vaughan Williams, Dvorak, and Mascagni with the choir and orchestra of Holy Trinity
