Concert Details
| Title: | PUCCINI - MESSA DI GLORIA : ELGAR - CELLO CONCERTO |
| Performed by: | Mayfield Festival Choir |
| Promoted by: | Mayfield Festival |
| Time: | Sunday, 12 May 2024, at 7:30pm |
| Place: | St Dunstan’s Church, Mayfield |
| Description: | Mayfield Festival Choir Schola Cantorum of Mayfield School Ripieno Orchestra Ross Fettes – Bass Baritone Francis Melville – Tenor Edvard Pogossian – Cello Jeremy Summerly - Conductor We are delighted to welcome back to Mayfield Cellist Edvard Pogossian who was the overall winner of the 2022 Tunbridge Wells International Music Competition. Puccini’s Messa di Gloria was a graduation exercise, although you’d never know it. Even in his early 20s, Puccini was crafting tunes and creating drama as he later would as a mature opera composer. Elgar, by contrast, never wrote an opera: he didn’t need to. He spent 20 years thinking about his cello concerto, which was his dramatic masterpiece. This concert is dedicated to the memory of Antonia Beary, whose focused and fervent belief in the potential of her staff and pupils was visceral and visible to all. Antonia would have been enormously and justifiably proud of the part that her girls will play in this concert. |
| Tickets: | £35, £17.50, £10 (Free - age 25 and under) |
| Contact: | Steve Swanton |
