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