Mezzo-soprano
The premier of Marginalia's newly-devised production, fusing Shakespeare's famous words with Bellini's sumptuous melodies. Star-crossed lovers as you've never seen them before. Perfect for opera newcomers as well as life-long fans!
Chloë Allison tells the story of late 12th-century singers at Notre Dame de Paris as part of the Royal School of Church Music Lunch-time Lecture Series. She explores how unnamed but extremely skilled singers worked together orally to develop completely new and hugely ambitious ways of creating music. She asks how we can access this fluid, oral music-making through its 'fossilisation' in surviving manuscripts and introduces her audience to the kinds of 'detective' historical methods needed to explore this music, which captivated her as an undergraduate and inspired her doctoral research.
Green Opera's 'Fillu' has been beautifully filmed and will be streamed online as part of the JAM on the Marsh Virtual Festival. This newly-devised Lieder-opera tells the story of Eugenie Schumann, daughter of Clara and Robert, and her life-long partner, the Austrian soprano, Marie Fillunger. It explores their passion and their struggle to be together in the face of familial pressures.
