Viriditas

THE SOLDIER'S TALE
Stravinsky's music-drama

'A Penny for a Song'
a song cycle by Nicola LeFanu
performed by Marja Kay, soprano and Liz Haddon, piano

PERFORMANCE
June 25, 7.30 PM

Box Office
University of York Concert Series Box Office
01904 432439 or boxoffice@york.ac.uk

Tickets:
£8 Adults/£6 Concessions/£3 Students

Press Release

 
Review: Viriditas Opera in The Soldier’s Tale
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York

11:45am Friday 27th June 2008
By Martin Dreyer, York Evening Press

STRAVINSKY’S little morality tale, once memorably called “an opera with no singers”, is not as simple to stage as the composer liked to think.

But Mary E Larew, who is beginning to make a name for herself as director of Viriditas, is clearly not one to let that worry her. The work is usually heard as a suite, unstaged.

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Personnel - Soldier's Tale
Directed by Mary E. Larew
Conducted by Graham Walker
Produced by Raphael Clarkson and Graham Walker
Narrated by William Brooks
  
Starring Chris Macklin, Jon Hughes and Rosemary Carlton-Willis
  
And musicians from the University of York:
ViolinAlistair Hardie
ClarinetDaniel Arnold (Catherine Jack for Paxton)
TromboneRaphael Clarkson
PercussionMartin Scheuregger
Double BassPatrick Fysh
BassoonRobert Cotterill
CornetGwen Postle
  
LightingAndy Fravigar