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Coffee Break Concerts - Episode 9: Shakespeare Re-Shaped
In March 2021 we are launching our third season, Songs of Solace and Spring, combining spoken word performances with opera and song.
Add to my Calendar 17-03-2021 15:30 17-03-2021 17:30 36 Coffee Break Concerts - Episode 9: Shakespeare Re-Shaped Shakespeare’s plays are a favourite source for opera composers, and this concert will feature pianist Kelvin Lim, with soprano Claire Wild singing Juliet’s ‘Je veux vivre’ from Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet; Claire and tenor Joseph Doody performing a lockdown version of Nanetta and Fenton’s duet and baritone Rodney Clarke singing Ford’s troubling ‘jealous’ aria, both from Verdi’s Falstaff (based on The Merry Wives of Windsor). Deaf actor Lara Steward will perform Juliet’s ‘Gallop apace’ monologue, full of passionate anticipation, in British Sign Language, and writer and actor Kat Rose-Martin will perform Isabella’s ‘Could great men thunder’ from Measure for Measure and her own newly written response piece to Shakespeare and Verdi’s Ford. Finally, the cast will sing us into what we hope will be a brighter springtime, with Finzi’s setting of ‘It was a lover and his lass’. For more information and to watch the free concert click here: https://www.operaupclose.com/coffee-break-concert-march-2021 Online event, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
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London
England
Programme
Giuseppe Verdi – Falstaff
Gerald Finzi – It was a lover and his lass, Op.18 no.5
Performers
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Programme Note
Shakespeare’s plays are a favourite source for opera composers, and this concert will feature pianist Kelvin Lim, with soprano Claire Wild singing Juliet’s ‘Je veux vivre’ from Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet; Claire and tenor Joseph Doody performing a lockdown version of Nanetta and Fenton’s duet and baritone Rodney Clarke singing Ford’s troubling ‘jealous’ aria, both from Verdi’s Falstaff (based on The Merry Wives of Windsor).
Deaf actor Lara Steward will perform Juliet’s ‘Gallop apace’ monologue, full of passionate anticipation, in British Sign Language, and writer and actor Kat Rose-Martin will perform Isabella’s ‘Could great men thunder’ from Measure for Measure and her own newly written response piece to Shakespeare and Verdi’s Ford. Finally, the cast will sing us into what we hope will be a brighter springtime, with Finzi’s setting of ‘It was a lover and his lass’.
For more information and to watch the free concert click here: https://www.operaupclose.com/coffee-break-concert-march-2021
