Forthcoming concerts
Feel The Spirit: Spirituals and Opera Choruses
Issigeac 20h 11 May 2024
Eymet 20h 12 May 2024
Longing, loss, hope, vitality, love, loyalty
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Feel the Spirit transports us to a world of spiritual longing for deliverance from oppression and isolation but where intense joy and laughter constantly reaffirm the strength of the human spirit to overcome. These arrangements swing, sway and carry us from moments of joyous celebration to the deepest expressions of personal anguish.
We leap into the theatre of grand opera showcasing celebration, love, loss and betrayal in Choruses including Bizet’s Habanera from Carmen; Mozart’s Placido e il mar from Idomeneo; Brindisi ('The Drinking Song’) from Verdi’s La Traviata his Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore; Puccini’s Humming Chorus from Madama Butterfly and Purcell’s When I am laid in earth from Dido and Aeneas.
An unabashed combination of robust, earthy emotion and heart-rending pathos.