Role: The Blacksmith
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex
A mysterious knight must save Saffron Walden from a terrible basilisk, but nothing is quite as it seems. Five centuries of local history collide in Saffron Hall and Saffron Walden County’s spectacular new opera production performed with young people from eight schools, alongside professional singers and instrumentalists.
Philip Sunderland musical director
Anna Moorhouse director
Sue Raven choreographer
Role: The Blacksmith
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex
A mysterious knight must save Saffron Walden from a terrible basilisk, but nothing is quite as it seems. Five centuries of local history collide in Saffron Hall and Saffron Walden County’s spectacular new opera production performed with young people from eight schools, alongside professional singers and instrumentalists.
Philip Sunderland musical director
Anna Moorhouse director
Sue Raven choreographer
Role: The Blacksmith
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex
A mysterious knight must save Saffron Walden from a terrible basilisk, but nothing is quite as it seems. Five centuries of local history collide in Saffron Hall and Saffron Walden County’s spectacular new opera production performed with young people from eight schools, alongside professional singers and instrumentalists.
Philip Sunderland musical director
Anna Moorhouse director
Sue Raven choreographer
Role: The Blacksmith
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex
A mysterious knight must save Saffron Walden from a terrible basilisk, but nothing is quite as it seems. Five centuries of local history collide in Saffron Hall and Saffron Walden County’s spectacular new opera production performed with young people from eight schools, alongside professional singers and instrumentalists.
Philip Sunderland musical director
Anna Moorhouse director
Sue Raven choreographer
Baritone soloist (Archangel Raphael and Adam)
St Andrew’s Church, Burgess Hill, Suffolk
A concert performance of Haydn’s master work, the Creation. Kieran will be singing both the solo baritone roles: Archangel Raphael, and Adam (the first man).
Burgess Hill Choral Society
Baritone soloist
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Royal College of Music, London
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Katie Coventry mezzo-soprano
Peter Aisher tenor
Kieran Rayner baritone
RCM Symphony Orchestra
R Strauss Le bourgeois gentilhomme op 60
Stravinsky Pulcinella
2016 Rod Williams Memorial Concert
Principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski returns to the RCM for Stravinsky’s lively ballet music Pulcinella. Featuring the exceptional voices of RCM singers Katie Coventry, Peter Aisher and Kieran Rayner, the RCM Symphony Orchestra brings to life the tale of the eponymous ladies’ man.
Pre-concert talk: Join RCM professor Pande Shahov for an introduction to the evening’s concert at 6.30pm.
This event will be streamed live online at www.rcm.ac.uk/live
Baritone soloist – Bach Cantata 182 Himmelskönig, sei willkommen
Charity Concert in aid of Macmillan: Masterpieces by J. S. Bach
Jesu, meine Freude
Orchestral Suite No.2
Cantata 182 Himmelskönig, sei willkommen
Stephen Jones conductor
Timothy Morgan counter-tenor
Joel Williams tenor
Kieran Rayner baritone
Hertfordshire Baroque Soloists
Diane Terry leader | Siu Peasgood flute
Rogers Covey-Crump continuo
Benjamien Lycke (music) / Mien Bogaert (words): Stream of Consciousness, Sea of Blood
Role: The President
Alex Paxton (music and words): Bel and the Dragon
Role: The King
Kenichi Ikuno Sekiguchi (music and words): 76 Days
Role: Fear
Lionel Friend coductor
Bill Bankes-Jones director
Sarah Booth designer
Following the success of Hogarth’s Stages in 2014, don’t miss this opportunity to hear a series of six brand-new mini operas created by RCM composers and performed by outstanding RCM singers.
Based on the theme of crime and punishment, marking 150 years since the publication of Dostoyevsky’s famous novel, each opera packs a punch in just fifteen minutes.
We are fortunate to welcome both Bill Bankes-Jones, inspirational founder of Tête à Tête, and Lionel Friend, celebrated conductor and Musical Director of British Youth Opera, to help us bring these daring contemporary new interpretations to life on the Britten Theatre stage.
Produced by the Royal College of Music in association with Tête à Tête
Please note that some of the operas contain adult themes
Benjamien Lycke (music) / Mien Bogaert (words): Stream of Consciousness, Sea of Blood
Role: The President
Alex Paxton (music and words): Bel and the Dragon
Role: The King
Kenichi Ikuno Sekiguchi (music and words): 76 Days
Role: Fear
Lionel Friend coductor
Bill Bankes-Jones director
Sarah Booth designer
Following the success of Hogarth’s Stages in 2014, don’t miss this opportunity to hear a series of six brand-new mini operas created by RCM composers and performed by outstanding RCM singers.
Based on the theme of crime and punishment, marking 150 years since the publication of Dostoyevsky’s famous novel, each opera packs a punch in just fifteen minutes.
We are fortunate to welcome both Bill Bankes-Jones, inspirational founder of Tête à Tête, and Lionel Friend, celebrated conductor and Musical Director of British Youth Opera, to help us bring these daring contemporary new interpretations to life on the Britten Theatre stage.
Produced by the Royal College of Music in association with Tête à Tête
Please note that some of the operas contain adult themes