Opera Scenes 2010
New Zealand School of Music presents
Opera Scenes 2010
Passionate choices – love and duty
From Purcell to Britten via Mozart and Richard Strauss… with a dash of Offenbach
Following on from the sell out success of last year’s ‘Semele’, NZSM presents an evening of staged opera scenes featuring many of the same talented students. The programme will include excerpts from ‘Dido & Aeneas’, ‘Così fan tutte,’ Britten’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’, Offenbach’s ‘La Vie Parisienne’ and features the final trio and duet from Strauss’s ‘Der Rosenkavalier’.
This ravishing ‘presentation of the rose’ scene from ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ will be sung by Alliance Francaise French Song Competition winners Bryony Williams and Bianca Andrew, and winner of NZSM’s Kapiti Chorale Award for study excellence, Imogen Thirlwall.
All the graduating BMus Classical Voice students will take part in this special opera event, which is the end of year performance for the Vocal Ensemble and Stagecraft course. Musical preparation will be lead by Bruce Greenfield and Mark Dorrell, who will both accompany the scenes on the night. Staging will be by stagecraft and acting tutor Rachel Lenart, a promising young director whose reviews highlight her inventive and astute direction, intelligence and ‘insightful humour’ and who has already accrued a number of Chapman Tripp theatre award nominations including ‘Most Promising New Director’ in 2007.
Please join us for an evening of engaging Opera Scenes performed by these talented young NZSM singers.
Adam Concert Room,
New Zealand School of Music
Kelburn Campus (Victoria University of Wellington)
Gate 7, Fairlie Terrace, Kelburn
Tickets available on the door from 6.30pm
Cash only (ATM nearby on Kelburn Parade)
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