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Wednesday 27 March 2024
6pm
Milton Court Theatre
Vocal Scenes
Alexander Ingram music director
Guido Martin-Brandis director
Eli Hunt lighting designer
Jan Robotycki stage manager
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Milton Court
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Founded in 1880 by the City of London Corporation
Chairman of the Board of Governors
Graham Packham
Principal
Professor Jonathan Vaughan
Vice-Principal & Director of Music
Armin Zanner
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
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Programme
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Mozart Don Giovanni
Act 1 Scenario
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Zerlina
Chloé Underwood
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Donna Elvira
Cecilia Cole
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Don Giovanni
Jacob Dyksterhouse
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Donna Anna
Lowri Probert
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Don Ottavio
Pablo Boira-Boulding
Don Giovanni, a rich nobleman, interrupts Zerlina’s wedding celebrations, and finds a secluded place to make a proposal of his own. Zerlina’s has just been humiliated very publicly by her betrothed, so despite her qualms about Giovanni, his proposition doesn’t fall on deaf ears. Donna Elvira, one of Don Giovanni’s previous conquests (and now obsessed with winning him back), arrives with fiery indignation, intent on ‘protecting’ this poor young girl from the Don. Donna Anna and Don Ottavio ask Don Giovanni for help finding the murderer of Donna Anna’s father. Giovanni pledge’s his allegiance. Elvira reappears, warning them not to trust Giovanni.
Britten The Rape of Lucretia
Act 2 Aria
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Lucretia
Roza Herwig
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Lucia
Manon Ogwen Parry
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Bianca
Louisa Stuart-Smith
Lucretia’s maids, Bianca and Lucia, welcome a beautiful morning. Their gardener brings them beautiful flowers cut from the garden, and they joyfully set about arranging them. Bianca reveals that their guest, the notorious prince Tarquinius, strangely galloped away in the early hours of the morning. When Lucretia wakes up, she seems utterly changed: talking of shame and death, she constructs her own funeral wreath.
Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel
Act 1 Scene 3
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Mutter
Lowri Probert
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Vater
Redmond Sanders
Times are hard. Having smashed the milk jug and ruined the family’s dinner, Mother has sent Hansel and Gretel into the woods to pick berries for them to eat. Father returns home, drunk and happy and rich: there was a festival in town and he has made a killing selling his brooms. But when he finds out where the children have gone, he fearfully reminds Mother that there is a witch in the forest, who likes nothing more than turning children into gingerbread…
Gounod Roméo et Juliette
Duet
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Juliette
Chloé Underwood
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Frère Laurent
Zheng Tu
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Piano
Jingyi Cao
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Juliet has been told by her father that she must marry Paris. She seeks Friar Laurence’s help as her last resort. He presents her with a special potion which will freeze the blood in her veins, and stop her breath for one whole day: long enough that her family will believe that she has died. A day later, he reassures her, she will wake up, and escape the city with Romeo. Juliet hesitates at this risky plan, but they agree to meet the next day to carry it out.
Donizetti L’elisir d’amore
Duet
Adina
Hannah McKay
Nemorino
Tobias Campos Santinaque
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Piano
Ana Marquitti
Nemorino is ecstatic: after years of pining for Adina, he has finally found a magical elixir that will guarantee she falls in love with him in just one short day. When Adina appears, he confidently brushes her off. At first, Adina cannot understand this sudden change in his behaviour, but soon decides that he must just be feigning disinterest. Armed with his elixir, Nemorino remains confident that her cold heart is about to change….
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Menotti The Consul
Act 1 Duet
Magda
Avery Lafrentz
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Secretary
Gabriella Noble
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Vera Boronel
Aina Miyagi Magnell
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Mr Kofner
Zheng Tu
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Magda lives in an authoritarian police state, and is convinced that she is being followed by the secret police. She seeks help from the Secretary at the consulate so that she can escape the country. She demands an appointment with the Consul himself. But, as the Secretary is keen to point out, she cannot be helped until her papers are in order. Magda becomes increasingly desperate.
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Nicolai Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Act 2 Duet & Quartet
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Anna
Grace O’Malley
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Fenton
Jacob Cole
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Spärlich
Pablo Boira-Boulding
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Dr Cajus
Jacob Dyksterhouse
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Fenton and Anna are in love, but are keen to make the other work a little to prove it. Anna’s parents have forbidden the match, and are much keener on another pair of suitors - either the rather wet young nobleman Spärlich, or the hot headed Frenchman, doctor Cajus. When these two realise that Anna is keener on Fenton, neither is very happy about it…
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier
Act 3 Trio
Marschallin
Zoë Jackson
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Sophie
Manon Ogwen Parry
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Octavian
Aina Miyagi Magnell
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Princess Marie Therese, also known as the Marschallin, has been having an affair with the young aristocrat Octavian, many years her junior. She knows that the relationship cannot last forever, but sooner even than she thought, Octavian has fallen in love with Sophie, a young woman from a wealthy Bourgeois family. As Octavian hesitates between the two women, utterly at a loss for words, the Marschallin takes matters into her own hands, and with understated grace and gentle irony, relinquishes him to the younger woman. The young couple are awed at her magnanimity. She poignantly recalls that she made a vow to herself: to love him in the right way, which includes loving even his love for another woman. She leaves the young lovers alone to discover their new life together.
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