Performance

VenueSnape Maltings Concert Hall
Other spaces: The Red House
TownAldeburgh
CountySuffolk
From25th October 2020
To25th October 2020
When15:00
What is currently on at Snape Maltings Concert Hall (V75)

English Touring Opera

T917955749
Company English Touring Opera


Archive :: production:T917955749, concert:S6598, venue:V75

Lyric Solitude 5 - Shostakovich's Six Romances on Verse by British Poets/Britten's Songs and Proverbs of William Blake

The visionary poet and painter William Blake inspired many composers, none more effectively than Benjamin Britten. This cycle, drawing a blazing picture of the innocence and injustice Blake saw around him, is staged John Savournin, with Cardiff Singer of the World 2019 finalist, Julien Van Mellaerts, accompanied by Ella O'Neill. Dimitri Shostakovich's brooding, passionate settings of Robert Burns, Shakespeare and Raleigh conceal the composer's deep feelings about life, caught as he was on the anvil of 1942, hammered by clashing totalitarian armies. Edward Hawkins (bass) is the voice of the man who awaits the reasonless midnight call of his killer, in a world in which beauty is crushed as soon as it is found. Accompanied by Sergey Rybin. Written in Armenia for the Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, Britten's careful, astonishing setting of the Russian poet Pushkin are rarely performed. ‘Who hears the poet? Who is listening to my song?' as poet and composer. Directed by James Conway, Jenny Stafford is the soloist in this haunting work, sung in the original Russian, accompanied by Sergey Rybin.

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Company

Music Britten (Songs and Proverbs of William Blake)
Music Shostakovich (Six Romances on Verses by British Poets)
Music Britten (The Poet's Echo)
Performer Julien Van Mellaerts (baritone)
Performer Edward Hawkins (bass)
Performer Jenny Stafford (soprano)
Performer Ella O'Neill (piano)
Performer Sergey Rybin (piano)
Director John Savournin
Director James Conway
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