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| David Butt Philip, Alison Langer, St Paul’s Opera refrain on the David Butt Philip & Buddies gala in 2024 St Paul’s Church (Photograph: Craig Fuller Pictures) |
My native opera firm, St Paul’s Opera might be welcoming tenor David Butt Philip again for the third 12 months working for a fundraising gala, David Butt Philip and Buddies at St Paul’s Church, Rectory Grove, SW4 0DZ on Friday 28 March 2025.
This 12 months’s gala will featured soprano Alison Langer, mezzo-soprano Clare Presland and bass William Thomas alongside David Butt Philip, accompanied by Ed Batting and Nicholas Ansdell-Evans.
This 12 months David Butt Philip’s performances embody Beethoven’s Fidelio on the Met in New York, and Wagner’s Lohengrin in Vienna, however he might be performing within the UK on 5 April for Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius in Huddersfield with Huddersfield Choral Society and the Orchestra of Opera North, conductor Martyn Brabbins [further details]. On 23 Might he joins Mark Elder, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Alice Coote for Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde on the Barbican [further details]. And on 15 June there’s a probability to stand up shut and private as he and pianist James Baillieu are in recital at Wigmore Corridor [further details].
Alison Langer returns as Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata at Opera Holland Park this Summer time have made such a memorable stir within the 2018 Younger Artists Manufacturing [see my review] and she or he can be singing within the Royal Opera’s revival of its current manufacturing of Bizet’s Carmen. Clare Presland was just lately singing within the premiere performances of Mark Antony Turnage’s Festen on the Royal Opera. She too is getting up shut and private, becoming a member of tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen at Wigmore Corridor on 20 June [further details] and in August she might be in Britten’s A Midsummer Night time’s Dream in Japan. William Thomas has been singing Colline in Puccini’s La Boheme on the Bavarian State Opera and might be in Bach’s St John Ardour at Carnegie Corridor, New York subsequent month.
Final 12 months, the gala featured arias and duets from operas by Bizet, Gounod, Mozart, Verdi, Beethoven, Korngold and Puccini, and from music theatre works by Bernstein and Rogers & Hamerstein, [see my article] so we’re going to be for a deal with this 12 months.
St Paul’s Opera’s Summer time efficiency this 12 months might be Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore from 3 to five July 2025
Full element from the St Paul’s Opera web site.
