Soprano Claire Booth and The Nash Ensemble will perform at Snape Maltings on Saturday, 5 June. Claire will give the first performance, in front of live audience, of Colin Matthews’ new song cycle, Seascapes, a Britten Pears Arts/Nash Ensemble co-commission. The work sets texts by English poet Sidney Keyes, who died at age 20 in World War II. The programme will also include Debussy’s cool and timeless Sonata for flute, viola and harp and Ravel’s bright and vibrant Introduction and Allegro.
“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). She is renowned for her breadth of repertoire, and for the vitality and musicianship that she brings to the operatic stage and concert platform, with a versatility that encompasses repertoire spanning from Monteverdi and Handel, through Rossini, Berg and Britten, to a fearless commitment to the music of the present day.
Recent highlights provided a perfect showcase for her multifaceted vocal skills and interests, including the title role in Handel’s Berenice for the Royal Opera House’s first production of the opera since it’s 1737 Covent Garden premiere, and Nitocris in Handel’s Belshazzar for the Grange Festival, critically acclaimed recordings of songs by Grieg and Percy Grainger, performances of Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with the City of Birmingham Symphony at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, George Benjamin’s A Mind of Winter with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the world premiere of Alex Woolf’s A Feast in the Time of Plague for Grange Park Opera.
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Photo (l:r): Claire Booth, photo credit – Gerard Collett; Jessica Cottis, photo credit: Kaupo Kikkas
Includes programme text from Snape Maltings’ programme note.
