Saturday April 23rd 2022

Chudleigh Parish Church at 7.30pm

A return for Red Earth Opera - A Spring concert, only two years late!

Soloists Grace Lovelass and Alex Poulton

Please email for more details jane.andersonbrown@gmail.com

Red Earth Opera

Spring 2022

Soloists:     Grace Loveless (Mezzo-soprano)

Alex Poulton (Baritone)

Dear Singer,

Red Earth Opera are looking for chorus to join us for our concert on 23^rd April at Chudleigh Church.  No experience is required as we shall rehearse the concert items over a number of weeks on Sunday afternoons at Chudleigh Town Hall beginning on February 20^th.  

We perform with an orchestra, and with professional soloists – some of you will remember Alex as Dr Dulcamara in our last opera (The Love Potion), and Grace as Tisbe in Cinderalla, the year before.  The programme includes items we had hoped to perform in April 2020, as well as items in tribute to Chris Edworthy.  

There is a £25 participation fee for this concert, to include all music.  If you are not already a member of South Devon Singers, you will also need to pay a membership fee of £7.  

If you are interested in joining us, please get in touch:

Redearthopera@gmail.com or 07949 490120.

Proposed Programme – Chorus items in Green

Verdi                         Overture to the Force of Destiny

Tchaikowsky             Eugene Onegin - Opening Chorus

Tchaikowsky             Eugene Onegin - Onegin’s Aria – Were I the sort (Alex)

Tchaikowsky             Eugene Onegin - Girl’s chorus 

Mozart                      Cosi fan Tutti - E amore un Ladrocello (Grace)

Mozart                      Cosi fan Tutti - Il core vi dono – Cosi (Grace and Alex)

Puccini                      Edgar - Questo Amor - (Alex) and chorus

Puccini                      Edgar - Chorus – Requiem Aeternam 

INTERVAL

Verdi                         La Traviata (Act 3 Prelude)

Trad                          Chorus – Russian Kontakion for the Dead

Schubert                   Der Lindenbaum (Alex)

Saint Saens              Samson – Softly awakes my heart

Rossini                      The Barber of Seville - Dunque Io Son (Grace and Alex)

Bizet                          Carmen - Act 3 Entracte

Bizet                          Carmen - Habanera (Chorus and Grace)

Bizet                          Carmen - Toreador Song Chorus and Alex (with Grace)

Jane like all creative people can't stop creating! Here are a handful of YouTube songs she's penning to keep her brain and creativity on the go. Thanks Jane.

Red Earth Opera was formed in 2013, to perform at the Teignmouth Classical Music Festival in March 2014.

The idea came from a meeting of performers looking for opportunities to sing and play opera in Devon and to involve local musicians.  

We started from a base of nothing - no funds, just enthusiasm and determination.  The performance of Dido and Aeneas was a great success and we were immediately invited back for 2015.  We gave two performances of Mozart's Idomeneo in March 2015, and we continue to develop.  Our third opera was Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris at the 2016 Teignmouth Classical Music Festival in Teignmouth and in Chudleigh. We also gave a very successful supper concert at St Michaels Church, Teignmouth on 17th October 2015.  Since then, we have presented two more concerts - this time with orchestral accompaniment, a "come and perform" weekend of Cavalleria Rusticana, and two more opera performances - Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito, and Rossini's Cinderella (both in English translations by Amanda Holden).

Our singers and players are drawn from Devon, Somerset and Cornwall (and beyond) and range in age from under 18 up to past retirement.  We also offer places in the orchestra and chorus to talented young musicians from Torbay - supported by a donation from the Torbay Music Hub.

Our aim is to present affordable opera which is complementary to that offered by the large touring companies or the corporate opera pops, and which is approachable and enjoyable for those who are not already keen on opera.  We also want to give performers opportunities at all levels.  It is our policy to present our full length operas in English.

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The Ozone Song aka Fighting-Fit Phytoplankton.
David was commissioned to compose the song by Carbon Visuals as part of their digital campaign for the Ozone Secretariat
The song and the accompanying animation can be seen here
http://ozone.unep.org/en/precious-ozone

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