TRAVELLERS AND LANDSCAPES
SRPING SONG RECITALS
THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK
Opera on the Move presents a programme embracing the breadth of American music for the voice, from traditional songs to Broadway showtunes, from Barber and Copland to contemporary settings of Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes.
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The Concert also explores three of the masterpieces that reinvented music for the stage in the 20th century: Menotti's The Telephone, Bernstein's West Side Story and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.
BRUSHSTROKES AND SOUNDWAVES
Impressionism, minimalism, romanticism: these movements spanned art, poetry and music.
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Join us for a concert in fou tableaux inspired by French music and art from the 19th and 20th centuries.
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From Monet to Fauré, Van Gogh to Debussy, Sait-Saëns to Morisot. Spoiler alert: American francophile artists may also be featured.
TRAVELLERS AND LANDSCAPES
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'There - nothing but order and beauty lie,
Abundance, calm, and sensuous delight'
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A voyage through art song in French, Italian and English: the convergence of poets who expressed their yearning to leave the world behind and travel into the unknown, and the composers who immortalised their words in music.