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WILLKOMMEN, BIENVENUE, WELCOME…: Claire Booth and Jâms Coleman

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  • Date 03 Oct 2024
  • Time 8-9.15pm
  • Category Music and performance

International Concert Series 2024/25

“An actor-singer who can raise the dramatic heat as soon as she enters the stage” (Opera Now), “that most questing, resourceful and intelligent of sopranos” (Daily Telegraph), British soprano Claire Booth has been widely acclaimed for her “radiant, rapturous, wonderfully nuanced performances” and voice of “piercing purity [and] luscious richness” (The Scotsman). We are excited to welcome her to open our 2024/25 season with pianist Jâms Coleman for an evening of cabaret song, old and new. 

To include:

Zoë Martlew (b 1968): Cabaret Songs
Thomas Adès (b 1971): Life Story
George Gershwin (1898-1937): The Man I Love; I Got Rhythm; It never was You; So In Love
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Banalités, FP 107
Arnold Schonberg (1874-1954): Cabaret Songs

Tickets: £12.50, £10 (concession over 60s); £5 for Royal Holloway alumni and non-Royal Holloway students; FREE for Royal Holloway students, Royal Holloway staff and children under the age of 16. Season tickets apply to this event.

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