Music on Thursdays at LMC
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2017 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
from Le Nozze di Figaro (1786) Sull’ aria...che soave zefiretto: duet Susanna (Elizabeth) • Contessa (Veronika) Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (1836-1891) from Lakmé (1883) Sous le dôme épais: duet Lakmé (Elizabeth) • Mallika (Veronika) Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (1842-1912) from Hérodiade (1881) Il Est Doux, Il Est Bon: aria Salomé (Elizabeth) Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (1813-1901) from Un ballo in maschera (1859) Saper vorreste: aria Oscar (Veronika) Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) from Tosca (1900) Vissi D'arte: aria Tosca (Elizabeth) Franz Lehár (1870-1948) from Friederike (1928) Warum hast du mich wachgeküsst: Friederike (Veronika) Kurt Julian Weill (1900-1950) from Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) (1928) Barbara Song Polly (Veronika) Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) from Les Contes d’Hoffmann (1880) Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour (Barcarolle): duet Giulietta (Veronika) • Nicklausse (Elizabeth) |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
Elizabeth Pow
Elizabeth Pow is a professional lyric soprano, who has enjoyed numerous lead roles, including Marguerite - Faust, Belinda/Sorceress - Dido and Aeneas, Suzanna - Le Nozze di Figaro, Lucy Lockett - The Beggar’s Opera, Zerlina - Don Giovanni, Eurydice - Orphée Aux Enfers, Priestess - Die Zauberflote, Coridon - Acis and Galatea, Venus - Venus and Adonis, Nicky Pignatelli - Sweet Charity and Lady Macbeth - Macbeth, Alice - Will Todd's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in association with the London College of Music, and Beth Selborne in this year's premier performance of celebrated playwright Gillian Plowman's Spindrift.
During her postgraduate diploma she was inspired to pursue a more hands-on approach to bringing opera to the general public. This led to the formation of Chichester's local opera troupe, City Wall Productions Ltd, in 2011, where she enjoys her role as creative director and prima vocalist, pioneering postmodernist reinterpretations of Dido and Aeneas, Acis and Galatea and Venus and Adonis and, most recently, The Fairy Queen. She is the proud winner of the Clifford Benson Musical award, 2010, and, for co-founding City Wall Productions Ltd, the Entrepreneurial Award from the Dome Enterprise Centre 2011.
Whilst also undertaking extensive performing and teaching commitments, she currently holds a position as Associate Lecturer and Vocal Tutor at Chichester University and Chichester Festival Theatre. Deemed as "the highlight of the New Park Film Festival" 2013 for her appearance as 'Marguerite' in Faust, she maintains a strong interest in innovative and quirky cross-discipline works that draw on her drama and dance background. Recently deemed "Amazing" by Carl Davis OBE, for her work on his oratorio The Last Train to Tomorrow in aid of charity Save the Children, she is also a keen choral conductor, violinist, guitarist, pianist and composer.
During her postgraduate diploma she was inspired to pursue a more hands-on approach to bringing opera to the general public. This led to the formation of Chichester's local opera troupe, City Wall Productions Ltd, in 2011, where she enjoys her role as creative director and prima vocalist, pioneering postmodernist reinterpretations of Dido and Aeneas, Acis and Galatea and Venus and Adonis and, most recently, The Fairy Queen. She is the proud winner of the Clifford Benson Musical award, 2010, and, for co-founding City Wall Productions Ltd, the Entrepreneurial Award from the Dome Enterprise Centre 2011.
Whilst also undertaking extensive performing and teaching commitments, she currently holds a position as Associate Lecturer and Vocal Tutor at Chichester University and Chichester Festival Theatre. Deemed as "the highlight of the New Park Film Festival" 2013 for her appearance as 'Marguerite' in Faust, she maintains a strong interest in innovative and quirky cross-discipline works that draw on her drama and dance background. Recently deemed "Amazing" by Carl Davis OBE, for her work on his oratorio The Last Train to Tomorrow in aid of charity Save the Children, she is also a keen choral conductor, violinist, guitarist, pianist and composer.
Veronika Rettich
Veronika Rettich is currently studying at the London College of Music with Sandra Ford and Anthony Roden, in her second year of the part-time course MMus in performance. She finished the one year Opera School programme at Morley College in July 2017 and sang in the production of Samson and Delilah at Grimborne Festival at the Arcola Theatre in London this summer.
Her repertory spans from Oratorio and Lied, to opera with soubrette roles including Eurydice (Offenbach), Iris (Handel), Frasquita (Bizet), Despina (Mozart), and cross-over such as Kurt Weill (Jessie in Mahagonny) to lyrical roles such as Duchess (Todd), Rosalinde (J Strauss), Alice (Verdi) and Ghita (Zemlinsky).
Previously she absolved the ABRSM performance Diploma and worked extensively at Aims, Oxenfoord International Summer School and Vox Integra with Jaquelyn Fugelle, Janis Kelly, Theresa Goble, Morag McLaren and the pianists Malcolm Martineau and Eugene Asti.
As a professional chorister she has worked with the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, BBC Symphony Chorus, Opera South and Kentish Opera in staged productions, concert performances and recordings such as The Dream of Gerontius (Chandos), Mathis der Maler, La Traviata, Aida, Don Quichotte and at the BBC Proms.
Her repertory spans from Oratorio and Lied, to opera with soubrette roles including Eurydice (Offenbach), Iris (Handel), Frasquita (Bizet), Despina (Mozart), and cross-over such as Kurt Weill (Jessie in Mahagonny) to lyrical roles such as Duchess (Todd), Rosalinde (J Strauss), Alice (Verdi) and Ghita (Zemlinsky).
Previously she absolved the ABRSM performance Diploma and worked extensively at Aims, Oxenfoord International Summer School and Vox Integra with Jaquelyn Fugelle, Janis Kelly, Theresa Goble, Morag McLaren and the pianists Malcolm Martineau and Eugene Asti.
As a professional chorister she has worked with the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, BBC Symphony Chorus, Opera South and Kentish Opera in staged productions, concert performances and recordings such as The Dream of Gerontius (Chandos), Mathis der Maler, La Traviata, Aida, Don Quichotte and at the BBC Proms.
Emanuele Mollica
Emanuele Mollica is an Italian pianist, with a great deal of experience as a soloist, repetiteur, vocal coach and accompanist. He achieved a degree in piano in Livorno, with the result of 10/10 and a special mention of honour. Since graduating he has forged a busy career, developing a particular passion for working in the field of opera.
In Italy he has worked as both repetiteur and Maestro Concertante for many productions in Florence (Rami Musicale), and also had the honour of being selected as a repetiteur and Maestro Concertante in Milan (Accademia Teatro Alla Scala). Recent opera productions in Italy include; La Serva Padrona, La Boheme, La Traviata, Rigoletto and La Scala di Sieta.
Since moving to London, Emanuele has developed a busy private coaching and teaching practice and works as repetiteur for Emanuele Moris (an esteemed vocal coach from the Royal Opera Covent Garden). Recent operas on which he has worked include; La Traviata and Tosca. Other engagements this year include performances of the opera A Hand of Bridge (Barber) for London Chamber Voices, and vocal coaching and accompanying for William Robert Allenby's summer masterclasses at the CAA in central London. Emanuele is also in demand as a vocal coach and repetiteur at the London College of Music (University of West London).
In Italy he has worked as both repetiteur and Maestro Concertante for many productions in Florence (Rami Musicale), and also had the honour of being selected as a repetiteur and Maestro Concertante in Milan (Accademia Teatro Alla Scala). Recent opera productions in Italy include; La Serva Padrona, La Boheme, La Traviata, Rigoletto and La Scala di Sieta.
Since moving to London, Emanuele has developed a busy private coaching and teaching practice and works as repetiteur for Emanuele Moris (an esteemed vocal coach from the Royal Opera Covent Garden). Recent operas on which he has worked include; La Traviata and Tosca. Other engagements this year include performances of the opera A Hand of Bridge (Barber) for London Chamber Voices, and vocal coaching and accompanying for William Robert Allenby's summer masterclasses at the CAA in central London. Emanuele is also in demand as a vocal coach and repetiteur at the London College of Music (University of West London).
Concert at Home
If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the buttons below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the buttons below:
Our LCM Live concert opens with the duet from Le Nozze di Figaro, Sull'aria.
In this recording from the New York Metropolitan Opera the singers are
Cecilia Bartoli and Renee Fleming:
In this recording from the New York Metropolitan Opera the singers are
Cecilia Bartoli and Renee Fleming:
The familiar duet from Lakmé, Sous le dome epais, is sung here, on the Welsh talent show Noson Lawen, by two young ladies we know simply as Meinir and Gwenllian.
They met while studying at the Royal Northern School of Music, Manchester:
They met while studying at the Royal Northern School of Music, Manchester:
Alexia Cousin is the soprano in our next recording. Il est doux, Il est bon ! comes from Masseneet's Hérodiade.
There's a little treat for some, on the right. The recording is of Scottish operatic soprano Mary Garden, in 1911. Born in 1874, she almost made it to her 93rd birthday in 1967 !
There's a little treat for some, on the right. The recording is of Scottish operatic soprano Mary Garden, in 1911. Born in 1874, she almost made it to her 93rd birthday in 1967 !
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Saper vorreste, from Verdi's Un Ballo in maschera is sung here, to great acclaim, by the Belgian sopranist (male soprano) Lionel Stoffel, with the Brussels Philharmonia Orchestra, in the Palais des Beaux-Arts:
The images may be poor, but no-one can doubt the emotion in this performance of Vissi d'Arte, from Puccini's Tosca. The singer is Leontyne Price:
Hungarian mezzo-soprano Dorottya Láng sings Warum hast du mich wachgeküsst, from Friderieke by Franz Lehár.
The recording was made in 2015 in the Wigmore Hall, London, and the pianist is Helmut Deutsch:
The recording was made in 2015 in the Wigmore Hall, London, and the pianist is Helmut Deutsch:
It is time for another choice, left or right, or perhaps you will listen to both recordings of Kurt Weill's Barbara's Song, from The Threepenny Opera. On the left, how can you resist Lotte Lenya, in the original German?
While on the right we have youtube's top-ranking performance, with Megan Mullally:
While on the right we have youtube's top-ranking performance, with Megan Mullally:
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Our closing duet comes from Act 4 of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann.
It is the barcarolle or gondolier's song Belle nuit, O nuit d'amour.
The singers here are Katherine Ciesinski & Jessye Norman,
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Seiji Ozawa.
It is the barcarolle or gondolier's song Belle nuit, O nuit d'amour.
The singers here are Katherine Ciesinski & Jessye Norman,
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Seiji Ozawa.
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
