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Choral concerts, opera and singing events this month

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3.30 pm – pre-concert recital
including works by Rakhmaninov, Ravel
and Poulenc’s witty, virtuosic Sextet

tickets on the door

The Lark Ascending
a programme of English serenades and romances

Dickens' Testament
Celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth, Ardingly College presents the first ever performance of Dickens’ Testament. The musical has been specially adapted with music composed by Adam Langston. Based on a letter Dickens wrote to his children; the gospel comes to life in music and dance.

Three Phantoms
An evening celebrating not only Andrew Lloyd Webber’s  musical The Phantom of the Opera, but also beloved musicals such as Sunset Boulevard, Les Misérables, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, We will rock you and Mamma Mia!
The three leading performers have all played the masked role.

All proceeds in aid of Dementia UK and in particular Admiral Nurses for East Sussex who provide one-to-one support for dementia sufferers and their families.

and at The Capitol, North Street, Horsham
tickets:  01403 750220 (box office)
or follow On Screen on the theatre's website to book on-line

Wagner     Götterdämmerung
a live performance of the opera relayed in high-definition direct from one of the world's greatest opera houses.   The Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its cataclysmic climax. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried – the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate.

Come and Sing
a workshop directed by Christopher Dowie drawing on music from English Church Music, folk song arrangements by former Swingle Singer Alexander L’Estrange and Encores for Choirs.

There is sweet music
music by four great British choral composers William Byrd, Edward Elgar, Charles Hubert Parry and Frank Bridge.

Carl Orff     Carmina Burana
The orchestra will also be playing the suite from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet.

Verdi      Nabucco
Verdi's third opera follows the plight of the Jews as they are assaulted, conquered, and subsequently exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nabucco (or Nebuchadnezzar as he is known in English). The historical events are used as background for a romantic and political plot.

and at The Capitol, North Street, Horsham
tickets:  01403 750220 (box office)
or follow On Screen on the theatre's website to book on-line

Verdi     Ernani
a live performance of the opera relayed in high-definition direct from one of the world's greatest opera houses.  Angela Meade leads in Verdi’s early opera.

Lehár      The Merry Widow
a new production of Lehár's classic operetta. In a new English translation by Jeremy Sams, the production sets out to capture the glamour and decadence of turn of the century Paris, always infused with wit. It is the story of Hanna, a farm girl, untutored and with no sophistication, who married an 80-year-old for his money. Then, when he died soon after, she decides to blow it all on a good time in Paris.

Verdi     Nabucco

see Friday 24 February for details

Stainer     The Crucifixion
an oratorio meditating on the Passion of Christ

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