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Conductor

Olivia Fuchs

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Arlene Belli

National Opera Studio

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Approved

The Young Artists of the National Opera Studio perform 'Illuminating Darkness', devised and directed by Olivia Fuchs.

Following their week-long residency with Opera North in Leeds, the National Opera Studio’s Young Artists present their opera scenes production in a free, livestreamed performanced from the Studio's Blackburn Hall. 

Woven together by acclaimed opera director Olivia Fuchs, the Illuminating Darkness will feature scenes from such celebrated operas as Don Giovanni (Mozart), L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti), The Barber of Seville (Rossini), Giulio Cesare (Handel), Billy Budd (Britten) and Le Villi (Puccini).

Programme:
Donizetti  L’elisir d’amore
Una parola… esulti pur la Barbara

Monica McGhee (Adina)
Philip Clieve (Nemorino)
Jolyon Loy (Belcore)

Marlowe Fitzpatrick Repetiteur

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Rossini Barber of Seville 
Una voce poco fa

Judith Le Breuilly
Maria Tataru Repetiteur

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Mozart Così fan tutte
Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo

Jevan McAuley
Maria Tataru Repetiteur

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Mozart Così fan tutte
Il cor vi dono 

Judith Le Breuilly (Dorabella)
Jolyon Loy (Guglielmo)

Maria Tataru Repetiteur

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Handel Giulio Cesare 
Priva son d’ogni conforto

Arlene Belli

Marlowe Fitzpatrick Repetiteur

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Donizetti Lucia di Lamermoor
Dalle stanze, ove Lucia

Thomas D Hopkinson

Aeron Preston Repetiteur

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Britten The Rape of Lucretia
Act 2 Scene ll from ‘Hush, here she comes'

Monica McGhee (Lucia)
Judith Le Breuilly (Bianca)
Arlene Belli (Lucretia)
Jevan McAuley (Junius)
Thomas D Hopkinson (Collatinus)

Nadia Kisseleva Repetiteur

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Mozart Idomeneo
Il padre adorato

Elizabeth Lynch

Aeron Preston Repetiteur

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Weber Der Freischütz
Nein! länger trag’ ich nicht…Durch die Wälder

Philip Clieve

Nadia Kisseleva Repetiteur

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Rossini The Barber of Seville
Dunque io son

Judith Le Breuilly (Rosina)
Jevan McAuley (Figaro)

Maria Tataru Repetiteur

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Puccini Le Villi
Si come voi piccina

Monica McGhee

Aeron Preston Repetiteur

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Britten Billy Budd
Look! Through the port

Jolyon Loy

Nadia Kisseleva Repetiteur

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Mozart Don Giovanni 
Sextet Act II

Thomas D Hopkinson (Leporello)
Judith Le Breuilly (Donna Elvira)
Monica McGhee (Donna Anna)
Philip Clieve (Don Ottavio)
Lorena Paz (Zerlina)
Jevan McAuley (Masetto)

Aeron Preston Repetiteur

Illuminating Darkness: Opera Scenes from NOS's Opera North residency - 2021

Concert by Various, From (2021/2021), Conductor Olivia Fuchs

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