Why should you get excited?
A musical setting of medieval Persian poetry - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám
Music Genre:
Classical
Type of Performance:
Choral Performance
Instruments:
Voice/Vocals
About the Event
Liza Lehmann’s 1896 setting of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám – a superb and rarely-heard song cycle for four voices in which a philosopher-poet contemplates nature, love, existence, wine, and the necessity of seizing the day. Remember, the forgotten -a female composer - once a household name - and a once wildly popular an English translation of medieval Persian poetry.
To be followed by G&S classics selected to reflect these themes.
Light refreshments included.
In A Persian Garden: Life and Love through the Victorian Lens
Saturday 7 October at 2pm
St Stephen’s Anglican Church, 360 Church St, Richmond
Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/CGMXL ($20-35)
Featuring
AMELIA LE PLASTRIER soprano
HELEN HILL contralto
BRETT O’MEARA tenor
IAN WOOLFORD bass
and members of The Concert Party:
Richard Burman, baritone
Laura Caire, soprano
Susan Coul, mezzo-soprano
Robin Halls, baritone
Helen Hill, contralto
Ryan Jacobs, tenor
Renée Mohring, soprano
Amelia Le Plastrier, soprano
Brett O'Meara, tenor
Nick Sharman, baritone
Jenny Wakefield, mezzo-soprano
Ian Woolford, bass-baritone
Devised, Directed, and Accompanied by GEOFFREY URQUHART