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Spring is coming to Snape, with Britten Pears Arts asserting its Spring season, with guests together with Aurora Orchestra and English Touring Opera, Easter celebrations and lunchtime live shows from Britten Pears Younger Artist Programme.
There’s a weekend in Might dedicated to celebrating Aurora Orchestra’s twentieth birthday, with Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals offered with famend physical-theatre-makers Frantic Meeting alongside Richard Ayres’ riotous new work Dr Frompou’s Anatomical Research of an Orchestra, and there’s additionally an immersive presentation of the Saint-Saens aimed toward Early Years, plus Nicholas Collon conducts Aurora Orchestra in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and tenor Andrew Staples. While English Touring Opera can be bringing their new manufacturing of Bellini’s not-inspired-by-Shakespeare The Capulets & The Montagues.
Cantatas, orchestral and choral music by JS Bach is being offered at Blythburgh Church for Eastertide, with Ben Parry conducting the Britten Pears Chamber Choir, soloists who’re alumni of the Britten Pears Younger Artist Programme, and the Suffolk Ensemble. While there’s Easter-themed household enjoyable on the Pink Home and at Snape Maltings.
Each Friday from late January to mid-April, Britten Pears Arts presents twelve Friday Lunchtime Live shows at 12pm. The bulk happen within the historic Aldeburgh Jubilee Corridor, with one every going down at Snape Maltings and Orford Church. The sequence options performances by younger ensembles within the 2024-25 Britten Pears Younger Artist Programme as a part of their residencies in Snape and Aldeburgh.
And there’s extra to discover on the subject of residencies at Snape, as a result of artists collaborating in Britten Pears Arts Residencies supply a glance behind the scenes and expertise of work-in-progress as a part of Open Classes. Artists taking part in these are mother-and-daughter Naomi Burrell (violinist and composer) and Margareta Burrell (composer), a collaboration between Brìghde Chaimbeul and Martin Inexperienced centred on the Scottish smallpipes that merges conventional acoustics with digital programs right into a single sonic entity, Hannah Catherine Jones exploring theremin, waterphone, and voice, and choreographer and composer Dickson Mbi collaborating with singer/songwriter Nicki Wells and cellist Gabriella Swallow.
Aldeburgh Younger Musicians (AYM) which provides inventive and collaborative musical coaching for promising younger musicians aged 10-18, is providing an all-day open home and a taster morning, for these keen on becoming a member of.
On the Pink Home, curated by Paul Edmondson, Religious Britten explores the religious features of his life and music.
Full particulars from the Britten Pears Arts web site.
