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SwanSongs - Songs for Lovers (expired event)

Events Sunday Sep 13

Christ Church, Claremont, corner Queenslea Drive and Stirling Highway, Claremont, WA 6010
0417012451

Description

SwanSongs - Songs for Lovers. The finest singers, the boldest programming. Be moved. Be inspired. Be delighted.

So often, composers wrote songs spontaneously for lovers, colleagues or friends. The composer was likely a pianist, choosing a text and crafting the vocal line for someone dear to them. Richard Strauss wrote a great many of his songs for his wife Pauline, a formidable singer. Claude Debussy wrote several songs as a young man, head-over-heels in love with the red-haired, green-eyed soprano Blanche Vasnier. And Benjamin Britten produced almost all of his songs and operatic tenor roles for his lifelong partner Peter Pears. We guarantee that you will fall in love with Pia Harris's voice.

 

Pia has performed principal roles for New York Lyric Opera, Opera Holland Park (London) as well as for West Australian Opera, Lost and Found, Freeze Frame Opera and the innovative Vocal Performance Initiative, based in Albany.

Details

Event date: Sunday Sep 13

Ticket Price Information: General admission $30; concessions $25; under 16 free.

Time(s): 3.00pm

Music: Classical

Other: Literature

Location

Christ Church, Claremont, corner Queenslea Drive and Stirling Highway, Claremont, WA 6010

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