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Operatic Roles (performed in full):

Maria Bertram - Mansfield Park - Dove (June 2019)

Miss Spink - Coraline - Turnage (March 2021)

Operatic Roles (performed in excerpts):

Cunegonde - Candide - Bernstein (December 2018)

Johanna - Sweeney Todd - Sondheim (December 2019)

Susanna - Le Nozze di Figaro - Mozart (December 2020)

Thérèse/ Tirésias - Les mamelles de Tirésias - Poulenc (June 2021)

Norina - Don Pasquale - Donizetti (February 2023)

Lucia - The Rape of Lucretia - Britten (October 2023)

Garsenda - Francesca da Rimini - Zandonai (February 2024)

Full Song Cycles:

Les Illuminations - Britten

La Bonne Chanson - Fauré

Mädchenblumen - Strauss

Three Browning Songs - Beach

Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire - Debussy

Métamorphoses - Poulenc

Six Elizabethan Songs - Argento

Mother and Child Song Cycle - Ireland

Try me Good King - Larsen

Drei Lieder der Ophelia - Strauss

Religious Works:

Six Bible Songs - Stanford

Les Angélus - Vierne

Requiem - Fauré

Exsultate Jubilate - Mozart

Recital Programme Proposals

Love is a Sickness Full of Woes (55 mins)

Love is a Sickness Full of Woes is a varied recital programme, where we follow the narrator as she falls in love, and subsequently feels the sting when it goes wrong.

Chacun le Sait (from La Fille du Régiment) - Donizetti

Mädchenblumen - Strauss

Three Browning Songs - A. Beach

Love is a Sickness full of Woes - Ireland

Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire - Debussy

Glitter and Be Gay (from Candide) - Bernstein

N.B. This recital would be accompanied by piano

Les Enfants Terribles (45 mins)

This recital (that could also be performed as part of a lecture-recital), explores the works of the French Poets Verlaine and Rimbaud, who were engaged in a heady relationship. This will be through performances of Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson and Britten’s Les Illuminations.

La Bonne Chanson - Fauré

Les Illuminatons - Britten

N.B. This recital can either be accompanied by piano or by string ensembles as appropriate.

The Woman (15 mins)

A recital exploring the representation of women in different guises through English Song.

Business Girls (from Five Betjeman Songs) - Dring

Merry Margaret (from In Greenways) - Howells

Sweet Polly Oliver (from Volume 3 of Folksong Arrangements) - Britten

Cradle Song (Sleep my darling sleep) (from The red Cockatoo and other Songs) - Britten

Song of a Nightclub Proprietress (from Five Betjeman Songs) - Dring

Die Blumen (20 mins)

A recital of German Lieder exploring the concept of love through the language of flowers.

Kornblumen (No.1 from Mädchenblumen) - Strauss

Die Lotosblume - Schumann

Mohnblumen (No.2 from Mädchenblumen) - Strauss

Heidenröslein - Schubert

Epheu (No.3 from Mädchenblumen) - Strauss

Auf eine Christblume (I) - Wolf

Wasserrose (No.4 from Mädchenblumen) - Strauss

Wenn du zu den Blumen gehst (from Spanisches Liederbuch) - Wolf