For Alastair

HGO’s Summer Concert this year at St. Michaels Highgate is a tribute to the legacy of our Chairman Emeritus, Alastair Macgeorge, who inspired and drove the development of HGO from a local opera club to a leading launchpad for opera talent in  the UK.  Our singers at the concert are HGO alumni who have since forged careers in the opera world – helping us in our mission to continue to enable the opera stars of the future…..

The concert will support the HGO Singer’s Fund –  now renamed ‘The Alastair Macgeorge Singers’ Fund’ – which has a key role in providing our singers with allowances during rehearsal and productions.

Tickets at £29 (including £1 booking fee) include a glass of wine or juice at the interval. Under-18 tickets at £12 include a glass of fruit juice. Tickets will also available at the concert doors.

OUR SINGERS

We are delighted and privileged to present four British opera stars of today whose early careers included working with HGO.

Luci Briginshaw (soprano) (HGO ‘Don Giovanni’ 2015)

Eleanor Pennell-Briggs (soprano) (HGO ‘La Traviata’ 2018)

Stephanie Wake-Edwards (mezzo-soprano) (HGO ‘Magic Flute’  2016 – ‘The Enchanted Pig’ and ‘Poppea’ 2017)

Matthew Curtis (tenor) (HGO ‘Eugene Onegin’ 2024)

At the keyboard: Alex Norton

OUR PROGRAMME:  a glorious medley of opera gems…and two songs by Alastair himself (sung by HGO Artistic Director the tenor Philip Sheffield)….

Giacomo Puccini – Recondita armonia (Tosca) (Matthew)

                                   – Doretta’s Dream (La Rondine) (Luci)

Camille Saint-Saëns – Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix – (Samson et Dalilah) (Stephanie)

Giuseppe Verdi – E strano … sempre libera  ( La Traviata) (Eleanor, with Matthew)

Alastair Macgeorge –  Solomon to Sheba (Philip)

Peter Tchaikovsky – Kuda Kuda (Eugene Onegin) (Matthew)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Ach, ich fühl’s (Die Zauberflöte) (Luci)

Richard Wagner–  Weiche Wotan (Das Rheingold) (Stephanie)

Benjamin Britten –  Embroidery aria  (Peter Grimes) (Eleanor)

Leo Delibes – Flower Duet – (Lakme) (Luci and Stephanie)

—Interval—

Giacomo Puccini – E lucevan le stelle (Tosca) (Matthew)

Georges Bizet –  Habenera (Carmen) (Stephanie)

Giuseppe Verdi – È il sol dell’anima (Rigoletto) (Luci and Matthew)

                               -Caro nome (Rigoletto) (Eleanor)

Giacomo Puccini – Addio fiorito asil (Madama Butterfly) (Matthew)

Jacques Offenbach – Barcarolle (Tales of Hoffman) (Luci and Stephanie)

Alastair Macgeorge – Cradle Song (Philip)

Georges Bizet – Seguidilla  (Carmen) (Stephanie)

Giacomo Puccini –  Quando m’en vo  (La boheme) (Luci)

Giuseppe Verdi – Brindisi (La Traviata) (Ensemble)

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