St Barnabas Summer Proms 2009 (8)
Friday July 31st at 7.30 pm
Opera Gala !
Adele O'Neill (soprano)
Claire Stoneman-Foye (mezzo-soprano)
Darren Abrahams (tenor)
Byron Jackson (baritone)
with
Charles Economou (piano)
Famous arias and ensembles from
popular operas
Bellini : ‘Casta Diva' from Norma
Bizet : ‘Habanera' from Carmen
Bizet : ‘Toreador' from Carmen
Mozart : ‘Dies Bildnis' from The Magic Flute
Gounod : ‘Je veux vivre' from Romeo and Juliet
Purcell : ‘Dido's Lament' from Dido and Aeneas
Verdi : ‘La donna e mobile' from Rigoletto
Mozart : ‘La ci darem' from Don Giovanni
Interval.
Offenbach : ‘Barcarolle' from the Tales of Hoffmann
Wagner : ‘O du mein holder Abenstern' from Tannhauser
Puccini : ‘ Quando m'en vo' from La boheme
Donizetti : ‘Una Furtiva Lagrima' from the Elixir of Love
Mozart : ‘Non so piu' from the Marriage of Figaro
Gershwin : ‘I got plenty o' nuttin' from Porgy and Bess
Bizet : ‘Au fond du temple saint' duet from the Pearl Fishers
Admission £10. No tickets needed beforehand.
Adele O'Neill (soprano) was born in South Wales . She studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London . She has won awards in several competitions, including the International Gold Medal Singing Competition at The Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod last year, and was a finalist in the 2005 MOCSA Young Welsh Singer of the Year Prize. She has sung many operatic roles, including Micaela (Carmen), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Mimi (La Boheme), Leonora (Fidelio) and the Countess (Marriage of Figaro) etc. She also has extensive experience in Musicals, and in Oratorios. She has performed as a soloist for many ensembles throughout the U.K. International engagements have included concerts in Paris , Spain , Siena , Prague , Krakow & Budapest. Adele has recently returned from concert tour of Vancouver , Toronto and Los Angeles as the principal soloist with Llanelli Male Choir.
Claire Stoneman-Foye (mezzo) was born in Birmingham . She has extensive stage experience and has performed a wide range of mezzo roles. Claire trained with English National Opera on the Opera Works course, and sang the roles of Mrs Grose (The Turn of the Screw), Nero (The Coronation of Poppea) and Hansel (Hansel and Gretel) in ENO workshops at the National Opera Studio and at Sadlers Wells. She then worked for ENO singing the roles of Hansel and the Witch (Hansel and Gretel) in a series of performances in London . She has sung in many prestigious venues in the UK including Sadler's Wells, the Purcell Room, The Three Choirs Festival, Birmingham 's Symphony Hall and the National Opera Studio. She is also an accomplished singer of oratorio, singing across the UK and abroad. She continues her studies in Ealing with the distinguished Australian tenor, Anthony Roden.
Darren Abrahams (tenor) was born in Brighton on the south coast of England . He was always fascinated by theatre of all kinds, and worked initially as an actor. He then studied singing at the Royal Academy of Music, and the National Opera Studio, graduating in 2000. Since then he has appeared in opera all over the UK and on the continent, in a wide range of roles, including work for English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera and the Wexford Festival. He has a busy concert diary and regularly sings oratorio and recitals. International concert appearances have included performances with the LPO, the St Petersburg Symphony and The King's Consort. He regularly sings with the Derby Singers with whom he has a long and happy association, and is part of a duo with award winning pianist Lindy Tennent-Brown.
Byron Jackson (baritone) is from Birmingham and studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire, where he won various prizes, including the St. Clare Barfield Memorial Bowl for Operatic Distinction, and graduated in 2005. Since then he has sung in many different prestigious venues, including Sadler's Wells, the Royal Opera House, the Royal Albert Hall, and Opera de Lyon in France , in a wide range of operatic roles. In the choral repertoire, he appeared as a soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana, Handel's Messiah, Verdi and Mozart's Requiems, Bach's St John Passion and Haydn's Nelson Mass, and performed in a staged production of Bernstein's Mass. In 2007, he participated in a special concert at the Commune di Siena in Tuscany , Italy , organised by the Concordia Foundation. Later this year, he will make a return to Birmingham Opera Company in a new production of Verdi's Otello.
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