Details
Online event
London
England
Programme
Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah: 'As God The Lord'
Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah: 'Lord God of Abraham'
Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah: 'It is Enough'
Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah: 'For the Mountains Shall Depart'
George Frideric Handel – Messiah: 'The Trumpet Shall Sound'
Georges Bizet – Carmen: Toreador Song 'Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Le Nozze di Figaro: 'Se Vuol Ballare'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Le Nozze di Figaro: 'Non piu andrai'
Gilbert and Sullivan – The Mikado: 'Titwillow'
~ Interval ~
Franz Schubert – An Sylvia, D.891
Franz Schubert – Ave Maria, D.839
Robert Schumann – Widmung, Op.25 no.1
Gabriel Fauré – Le papillon et la fleur, Op.1 no.1
Gabriel Fauré – Apres un Rêve, Op.7 no.1
Marie Ropartz – Ceux qui parmi les Morts d'Amour
Camille Saint-Saens – Danse Macabre, song (1872)
Aaron Copland – Old American Songs: 'The Boatman Dance'
Aaron Copland – Old American Songs: 'The Dodger'
Aaron Copland – Old American Songs: 'Long Time Ago'
Aaron Copland – Old American Songs: 'I bought me a cat'
Performers
Ashley Riches – bass-baritone
Richard Gowers – piano
Concerts of the Earth
Programme Note
Ashley Riches will perform live, accompanied by Richard Gowers on the piano, followed by a 30-minute interactive Q&A with the online audience.
When you purchase your ticket, you will receive an email with further details of the performance and how to put a question to Ashley.
About Ashley
Ashley Riches is a Bass/Baritone and studied English at King’s College, Cambridge where he sang in the Chapel Choir under Stephen Cleobury. From 2012-14 he was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, where he made his debut in a duet with Robert Alagna and represented the house at a gala celebrating Young Artist Programmes at the Bolshoi Theatre. He is currently a BBC New Generation Artist.
Highlights of this season include Creon in Stravinsky Oedipus Rex with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Berlin Philharmonic, Purcell The Fairy Queen with Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music, a European tour of Bach Christmas Oratorio with Masaki Suzuki and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ferryman in Britten Curlew River with the Britten Sinfonia at the new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Pirate King in Mike Leigh’s production of The Pirates of Penzance at English National Opera and the title role in Mozart Don Giovanni for Opera Holland Park, along with song recitals and recordings with Simon Lepper, Sholto Kynoch, Anna Tilbrook and Joseph Middleton.
Ashley sang the title role in The Self-Isolation Choir (now Choir of the Earth)’s World Tour performance of Mendelssohn's epic Elijah.