Welcome to the New Chamber Opera Studio Recital Series which is held on Fridays at 1.15 pm during term time in New College Ante-Chapel. The recital series has been running since 1994 and offers singers across the University and beyond the opportunity to perform a short programme in a relaxed atmosphere.
Week 5 – 10 November Raphael Maurin Week 6 – 17 November John Johnston Week 7 – 24 November Ellie Stamp Week 8 – 1 December Patrick Maxwell
Week 5 Raphael Maurin with Marcus McDevitt 10 November
Carissimi: Jepthe; Charpentier: Le reinement de saint pierre.
Conductor: Luke Mitchell
New College Chapel 8.00pm 7 June 2023 £12/£5 concession – Tickets are available from Ticketsource
The concert presents two short oratorios of the 17th century by Carissimi (Jephte) and his student Charpentier. These are framed by two extraordinary works by De Lalande, written for the funerals of Louis XIV’s children. These ‘grands motets’, settings of the De Profundis and Dies Irae as requiems, draw on rich orchestration and choral forces to deliver some of the richest choral music of the baroque, achieving beauty and devastation in majesty, as the oratorio works do in their sparse biblical tragedy.
Welcome to the New Chamber Opera Studio Recital Series which is held on Fridays at 1.15 pm during term time in New College Ante-Chapel. The recital series has been running since 1994 and offers singers across the University and beyond the opportunity to perform a short programme in a relaxed atmosphere.
Week 1 – 28 April Theo Peters Week 2 – 5 May No Recital Week 3 – 12 May Amy Higgins – Cancelled Week 4 – 19 May Raphael Maurin Week 5 – 26 May Will Prior – Cancelled Week 6 – 2 June Tom Burkill Week 7 – 9 June Karol Jozwik Week 8 – 16 June Matt Pope
Ante-chapel, New College 8.30pm 2 & 3 March 2023 £15/£7 concessions from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/
Cast
Sam – Jake Sternberg Dinah – Melissa Talbot Trio – Ellie Stamp, Edward Beswick, Ben Gilchrist
Leonard Bernstein’s short opera, Trouble in Tahiti, comes between two bigger works, his 1944 On the Town and Candide of 1956. Described as ‘a candid portrait of the troubled marriage of a young suburban couple’, it tells the story of Sam and Dinah, who are trapped in a suburban, middle-class, consumerist world, desiring love and intimacy, but achieving only marital discord.
The title is from an escapist movie, ‘Trouble in Tahiti’, which Dinah goes to see during the afternoon; in the evening, when they fail to address their marital difficulties, the only solution is to go to cinema – where they see ‘Trouble in Tahiti’. The couple are backed by a static trio, fulfilling the role of a Greek chorus and the score, which draws on songs, jazz rhythms and other popular idioms, is dedicated to Marc Blitzstein.
Pergolei’s Stabat Mater of 1736 is one of the best-known 18th-century sacred works. Written by Pergolesi for the Confraternita dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo and was one of his last works; he is said to have died just after completing the composition. The work gained considerable attention almost immediately and it circulated widely in printed editions. The Nisi Dominus is a setting of the Latin text of Psalm 127, the title coming from the first two words of psalm text. It was written in the early 1700s for the Ospedale della Pietà, suggesting that although it has been much recorded by with both women and men as soloists, a female voice was probably Vivaldi’s original intention. The score has been described as having the ‘greatest poise and delicacy’.
June 28: (Preview) £35 – Tickets from Ticketsource July 1: New College Development Office – Sold Out. If you would like to request to be added to the waiting list for this night, please email [email protected] July 2: Friends of Welsh National Opera – Tickets from Bernadette Whittington, [email protected]; mobile 07813907466 July 4: £44 – Tickets from Ticketsource July 5: Friends of the Oxford Botanic Gardens – Tickets from FOBG July 7: New College Development Office – Sold Out. If you would like to request to be added to the waiting list for this night, please email [email protected]
Cast
Violante – Emily Brown Gibson daughter of a gardener from Frascati Don Fabrizio – Thomas Humphreys Violante’s tutor Nardone – Henry Ross in love with Violante Cavaliere Giocondo – Magnus Walker betrothed to Donna Stella, also in love with Violante Donna Stella – Lara Marie Müller betrothed to the Cavaliere Lisetta – Kate Semmens a waitress, also in love with the Cavaliere Pagnotta – Thomas Niesser servant of the Cavaliere
Reps Jamie Andrews Luke Mitchell
Paisiello’s opera premiered at the Teatro S Samuele in Venice in the autumn 1774, and soon became one of the most popular operas of the 18th century, performed in Italy, France, Austria, and England. The work was reinvented as an opera comique, L’infante de Zamora, was translated into other languages, and was still being performed in 1808. The plot is set in an inn on the outskirts of Rome. Violante – the girl from Frascati – is daughter of a rich gardener from Frascati and who dreams idealistically about love. She fends off the sleezy advances of her tutor, Don Fabrizio, but falls in love with Nardone, a handsome Roman who returns her affections. Also in love with Violante is Cavaliere Giocondo; both lovers cause maximum confusion and jealously by confessing their feelings to Don Fabrizio. The waitress of the inn, Lisetta, falls in love with the Cavaliere … the plot descends into farce as Giocondo’s jilted lover, Donna Stella, arrives, but all efforts to separate Nardone and Violante fail, and reconciled, the lovers are united.
Welcome to the New Chamber Opera Studio Recital Series which is held on Fridays at 1.15 pm during term time in New College Ante-Chapel. The recital series has been running since 1994 and offers singers across the University and beyond the opportunity to perform a short programme in a relaxed atmosphere.
Week 1 – 20 January Dónal Mcann Week 2 – 27 January Dan Gilchrist Week 3 – 3 February Ellie Stamp Week 4 – 10 February Maurice Cole Week 5 – 17 February William Jeys Week 6 – 24 February Ed Beswick Week 7 – 3 March Archie Inns Week 8 – 10 March Ellie Stamp
Welcome to the New Chamber Opera Studio Recital Series which is held on Fridays at 1.15 pm during term time in New College Ante-Chapel. The recital series has been running since 1994 and offers singers across the University and beyond the opportunity to perform a short programme in a relaxed atmosphere.
Week 1 – 14 October Elizabeth Nurse Week 2 – 21 October Maryam Wocial Week 3 – 28 October Austin Haynes Week 4 – 4 November Karol Jozwik Week 5 – 11 November John Johnston Week 6 – 18 November Lizi Vineall Week 7 – 25 November Joshua Kenney Week 8 – 2 December Francis Brown
Week 1 Elizabeth Nurse with Luke Mitchell 14 October
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