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Kathleen Ferrier Awards Semi-Final 2024

Date
Wed 24 Apr 2024, 1.30pm
Tickets
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Duration

This competition will be approximately 5 hours in duration, including an interval

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Programme

  • Jake Heggie
    b. 1961
      • Friendly Persuasions: Homage to Poulenc
        :
      • Wanda Landowska
  • Jake Heggie
    b. 1961
      • Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
        :
      • Not in a silver casket cool with pearls
  • Vincenzo Bellini
    1801-1835
      • La sonnambula
        :
      • Il molino...il fonte...il bosco ... Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni
  • Maurice Ravel
    1875-1937
      • Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
        :
      • Chanson romanesque
  • Michael Tippett
    1905-1998
      • A Child of our Time
        :
      • How can I cherish my man in such days?
  • Iain Bell
    b. 1980
      • Daughters of Britannia
        :
      • Boudicca
  • Vincenzo Bellini
    1801-1835
      • I Capuleti e i Montecchi
        :
      • Se Romeo t'uccise un figlio ... La tremenda ultrice spada
  • Giacomo Puccini
    1858-1924
      • Madama Butterfly
        :
      • Piangi! Perchè? ... Un bel dì vedremo
  • Jonathan Dove
    b. 1959
      • Five Am'rous Sighs
        :
      • Between your sheets you soundly sleep
  • George Frideric Handel
    1685-1759
      • Messiah HWV56
        :
      • Behold, a virgin shall conceive ... O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion
  • Jonathan Dove
    b. 1959
      • Cut my Shadow
        :
      • Song of the Dry Orange Tree
  • Michael Tippett
    1905-1998
      • A Child of our Time
        :
      • I have no money for my bread
  • Igor Stravinsky
    1882-1971
      • The Rake's Progress
        :
      • Here I stand ... Since it is not by merit

Overview

The annual auditions for the famous singing competition, founded in memory of one of the UK’s best-loved contraltos, attract capacity houses from both devoted lovers of vocal art and students of singing.

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