For their upcoming August programme, Marais And The Operatic Muse. the Marais Project turns its attention to Marin Marais’ long-neglected operas which were much acclaimed at the Court of Louis XIV. On the menu will be excerpts from Marais’ best known opera, Sémélé and a cantata by another favourite composer, Michel Pignolet de Montéclair. Regular…
Presented by The Pearl and Dagger Company, The Raven features music and melodrama of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.Romantic, dark and a little bit surreal, this concert will feature Edgar Allen Poe’s cult-status poem The Raven set for narrator and solo piano by English composer, Stanley Harry Hawley in 1899. Singer and actor Owen Elsley will be performing The…
Soprano Josie Ryan and her ensemble The Emeralds who together make up Josie and The Emeralds present Let Me Dwell- Music For Sanctuary Seekers a fund-raising concert for the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre and the Jesuit Refugee Service. The concert features music by Tomkins, Byrd, Ferrabosco, Dowland, Pandolfo and contemporary composer Brooke Green. Net profits from ticket sales will be given to these two…