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Verdi's Requiem
Starring: LYTHAM ST ANNES CHORAL SOCIETY
Showing Sunday 06 May to Sunday 06 May 2007
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Performance Times: One performance only Sunday 6th May at 8.00pm
Running Time: Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes
call our box office on 01253 290190
Group bookings call 01253 743232
VERDI’S REQUIEM (1874)
For the Centenary of
LYTHAM ST ANNES CHORAL SOCIETY
AMANDA ROOCROFT Soprano
JANE IRWIN Mezzo-soprano
JEFFREY LLOYD ROBERTS Tenor
WYN PENCARREG Baritone
ANDREW BARRATT Conductor
Northern Chamber Orchestra
Lytham St Annes Choral Society has a long and rich musical history. The Grand Theatre is thrilled that the Society will mark its Centenary with a special Spring Concert, when Verdi’s Requiem will star Amanda Roocroft, Jane Irwin, Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts and Wyn Pencarreg. This promises to be one of the best concerts ever heard on the Fylde Coast! Tickets are now on sale.
AMANDA ROOCROFT
Amanda Roocroft has secured an international reputation as one of Britain's most exciting singers, in opera, concert, and in recital. She graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music and studies with Barbara Robotham. In concert she has appeared with leading orchestras throughout Europe and North America with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Mariss Jansons, Ivor Bolton, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, and Bernard Haitink. She has appeared at the BBC Proms, including the 2001 season and the Edinburgh International Festival. She regularly sings at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Bayerische Staatsoper, where her roles have included Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte, Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Desdemona in Otello, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Mimi in La Boheme, Eva in Die Meistersinger, the title roles in Madama Butterfly, Katya Kabanova and Jenufa, Genevre in Ariodante and Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare. A noted recitalist, she has appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Musikverein in Vienna, New York’s Lincoln Center, La Monnaie in Brussels and in Munich, Frankfurt, Paris, Valencia and Lisbon.
JANE IRWIN
Jane Irwin studied at Lancaster University and at the Royal Northern College of Music. She has sung regularly in Britain and Europe, and in 2002 she made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony under Mariss Jansons. She has sung for the BBC Proms, at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Berlin Festival, the Concertgebouw and the Musikverein with many great orchestras and conductors. Concert repertoire includes Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, Mahler Symphony No 2, Elgar Dream of Gerontius, The Kingdom and Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody. She made her debut at the Royal Opera in a new production of Götterdämmerung under Bernard Haitink and has sung in Die Walküre at Bayreuth, Tristan und Isolde for English National Opera and San Francisco Opera. She appears regularly with Scottish Opera, most recently in complete Ring cycles at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre and as Thea in The Knot Garden.
JEFFREY LLOYD ROBERTS
Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts was born in Wales and read music at Lancaster University before studying at the Royal Northern College of Music with Barbara Robotham. His concert repertoire covers most of the major oratorios, ranging from the Bach Passions through Mozart and Verdi’s Requiem to Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and Berlioz’ l’Enfance du Christ and Le Grande Messe des Morts. He has performed in Martinu’s Epic of Gilgamesh with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Arwel Hughes’ Pantycelyn in Brecon Cathedral, and his BBC Proms debut in 1997 of Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and the Mahagonny Songspiel. Most recently he sang Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings in Denmark, a BBC recital, Poetry in Motion, with Iain Burnside, Molqui, The Death of Klinghoffer and Bartok Cantata Profana with BBC Symphony Orchestra, Britten’s War Requiem in Belgrade, Psalmus Hungarias, Berlioz’s Te Deum with The Huddersfield Choral Society, and Dream of Gerontius with the BBC Philharmonic. He has worked regularly with Opera North, English Touring Opera, Garsington Opera, Grange Park Opera and has also sung for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Birmingham Opera Company, and the Chelsea Opera Group. In 2005 he sang Alwa in Lulu for English National Opera and in 2006 the title role in Britten's Peter Grimes for Opera North.
WYN PENCARREG
Wyn Pencarreg was born in West Wales. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music where he gained various prizes and scholarships including awards from the Peter Moores Foundation, the Countess of Munster Trust, and the Wolfson Foundation. He took part in masterclasses with Sir Geraint Evans, Brigit Fassbaender and Sherrill Milnes and performed in many of the College's highly acclaimed productions. Concert performances at this time included the Voice of Neptune Idomeneo with the Hallé Orchestra and Hermann Ortel Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. On leaving Manchester, Wyn Pencarreg was soon in demand both as a concert and opera singer. Since 1993 he has studied in London with David Pollard. He joined the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus in 1993 and has since understudied many roles for the company, including Publio La Clemenza di Tito , the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro, Hobson Peter Grimes, Anubis The Second Mrs Kong, Masetto Don Giovanni, Fenicio Ermione, Valens Theodora and Jesus The Last Supper. In 1995 he was awarded Glyndebourne Festival Opera's Ercih Vietheer Memorial Award and invited to play the role of Masetto for Glyndebourne Touring Opera. Wyn Pencarreg's interest in contemporary music has led to several premières notably Jonathon Dove's opera In Search of Angels, in which he played the Malcontent and, for Mecklenburgh Opera at the Covent Garden Festival 1996, Grant's Jump into my Sack in which he created the character of Francis. Later that year he sang Don Alfonso Così fan Tutte for Goldberg Festival Opera and then Count Almaviva Le Nozze di Figaro with Mid Wales Opera. He has sung Mozart’s Figaro (English Touring Opera and Opera Theatre Company, Dublin), IV Diener Capriccio and Kuligin Katya Kabanova (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), King Die Liebe der Danae and Balthazaar Genoveva (Garsington), Orfeo (English National Opera), Messiah (Ulster Orchestra and Glyndebourne) and Luka The Bear (Monte Carlo). Recent roles have included Masetto, Father Hansel and Gretel and De Bretigny Manon (Opera North), Alidoro La Cenerentola (Grange Park Opera), Lescaut Manon (English Touring Opera), Schaunard La Boheme and Morales Carmen (Royal Albert Hall), roles in Sarka, Osud and Morbio Die Schweigsame Frau (Garsington Opera), Babette's Feast (Royal Opera) and a series of gala concerts in France with Diva Opera. This season’s plans include Figaro The Marriage of Figaro with Opera North.
ANDREW BARRATT Conductor
Andrew Barratt was born in Leeds and, after attending the cathedral school in Peterborough, went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Here he studied piano and 'cello and conducting with the late Maurice Miles. After graduating from the Royal Academy he completed post-graduate training at London University. Andrew and his wife Pippa met while they were both students at the Royal Academy and they have lived on the Fylde coast since 1975. Andrew has been Director of Music at Kirkham Grammar School since 2003, previously holding posts of Head of Music at Queen Mary School, Lytham from 1977-1999 and Director of Music at King Edward and Queen Mary School until December 2002. Andrew has conducted widely in the area, being involved with various choirs and operatic societies. He has conducted the Lytham St Annes Choral Society in over sixty concerts since 1977 and conducted the Society in a number of joint concerts with Preston Cecilian Choral Society during his time as conductor of that society. In 1999 and 2000, Andrew conducted the Northern Chamber Orchestra in the highly acclaimed Last Night of The Proms on Lytham Green. The Choral Society has been very much a 'family affair' for Andrew, as Pippa has been a member of the choir for a number of years, as were his daughters, Helen and Alison, before they moved on to university careers.
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Presented By: LYTHAM ST ANNES CHORAL SOCIETY Chairman, John Edwards
Booking information
Dress Circle £27.50 Concessions £25.50
Front and Centre Stalls £25.50 Concessions £23.50
Rear Stalls £19.50 Concessions £17.50
Upper Circle £21.50 Concessions £19.50
Side Upper Circle £19.50 Concessions £17.50
Gallery £15.50 Concessions £13.50
Friends of Lytham St Annes Choral Society:
£5.00 off Dress Circle and Front and Centre Stalls Only
BOX OFFICE
Open 10am to 8pm Monday to Saturday and from 12noon on performance Sundays. All major credit and debit cards are accepted over the telephone and in person. When booking by credit card, a booking fee of £1.50 per transaction is applicable. Debit cards attract no booking fee.
POSTAL ADDRESS
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CONCESSIONS
Concessions, where offered, apply to: Senior Citizens, Registered Disabled, Under 18s, Full-time students, Registered Unemployed, Equity, BECTU and MU members. Please note you may be asked for relevant identification when requesting concessions. Only one concession per ticket is allowed and may not be used in conjunction with
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PARKING
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