The Sunday Series with The Orchestra of Scottish Opera
When: 28th February 2016
Location: Theatre Royal
Join Scottish Opera’s new Music Director Stuart Stratford as he takes to the stage for a series of Sunday afternoon concerts with The Orchestra of Scottish Opera and three fabulous guest singers.
Stuart Stratford conducts with singers Barry Banks, Iain Paterson and Kate Royal in a series of wonderful Sunday afternoon concerts in October 2015, February and May 2016 in Glasgow’s Theatre Royal!
This new series is curated, conducted and hosted by Music Director Stuart Stratford. Featuring three exceptional guest singers, and with each afternoon’s repertoire chosen and presented by Stuart himself, they promise drama, emotion, romance and, most importantly, stunning music.
The Italian Masters with Barry Banks
Sun 18 Oct 2015 4pm
From Rossini’s thrilling William Tell overture to stratospheric Donizetti and little-known gems from Mascagni, our October concert showcases the drama and the passion of the Italian operatic masters. Tenor Barry Banks joins the orchestra, performing a programme of some of opera’s greatest showpieces.
Rossini
Overture to Guillaume Tell
‘Asile héréditaire’ from Guillaume Tell
Donizetti
‘Fra poco a me ricovero’ from Lucia di Lammermoor
Overture to Don Pasquale
‘Povero Ernesto’ from Don Pasquale
‘Ah mes amis’ from La fille du regiment
Verdi
Overture to La forza del destino
‘Parmi veder le lagrime’ from Rigoletto
Mascagni
Intermezzo from Guglielmo Ratcliff
Intermezzo from L’amico Fritz
‘O amore, o bella luce del core’ from L’amico Fritz
Wagner with Iain Paterson
Sun 28 Feb 2016 4pm
In February, the orchestra is joined by Scottish bass-baritone Iain Paterson to perform an exhilarating programme of all that is Wagner. The heart-stopping drama of Die Walküre, the jubilant comedy of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; this is full-blooded opera to stir the soul and rouse the senses.
Der fliegende Holländer
Overture
Act I ‘Die Frist ist um’
Die Walküre
Act 3 ‘Leb’ wohl, du kuhnes, herrliches Kind’
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Overture
Act 2 ‘Was duftet doch der Flieder’
Act 3 Prelude
Act 3 ‘Wahn! Wahn! Überall, Wahn!’
Act 3 ‘Verachtet mir die Meister nicht’
Tanz der Lehrbuben. Aufzug der Meistersinger.
Mozart and Richard Strauss with Kate Royal
Sun 15 May 2016 4pm
Lyric soprano Kate Royal joins the orchestra in May for some of Mozart’s most beautiful operatic writing, and Richard Strauss’s most sublime lieder. Exploring the influence Mozart had on Strauss’s work, this last concert ends with his rousingly romantic, sumptuous Der Rosenkavalier Suite.
Mozart
Overture to Le nozze di Figaro
‘Porgi Amor’ from Le nozze di Figaro
‘Padre, germani, addio’ from Idomeneo
Ballet music from Idomeneo
Concert aria: ‘Bella mia fiamma…Resta o cara’
R Strauss
‘Das Rosenband’
‘Allerseelen’
‘Ich wollt ein Sträusslein binden’
‘Ruhe, meine Seele!’
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
