about this event
Join us for an evening full of wonderful performances by members of the English National Opera. Price includes a free glass of wine.
Tanya Hurst Soprano
Karen Foster Mezzo-Soprano
James Liu Tenor
Paul Sheehan Baritone
Simon Haynes Piano
Programme
It's A Grand Night for Singing - Rodgers and Hammerstein
Oh Colombina - Leoncavallo
Cruel Misfortune - Rossini
Vissi d'Arte - Puccini
Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix - Saint- Saëns
La ci darem la mano - Mozart
Vainement, ma bien aimée - Lalo
Barcarolle (Belle nuit...) - Offenbach
O soave fancuilla - Puccini
Toreador's Song - Bizet
Brindisi - Verdi
Interval
Soave il vento - Mozart
Maddamina from Don Giovanni - Mozart
Solo e amore - Puccini
Vilja - Lehár
Where are the simple joys of maidenhood? - Lerner and Loewe
Where is the life that late I led? - Cole Porter
I remember it well - Lerner and Loewe
Regular Royal Queen - Gilbert and Sullivan
Love Unspoken - Lehár
Dance a Chachuca - Gilbert and Sullivan
Early 2022 sees Tanya covering the title role for Welsh National Opera's Jenůfa and English National Opera's production of Handmaid's Tale cover Moira. Over the Summer Tanya will sing Tosca throughout France and England with Opera Loki and in the Autumn she will cover Venus for Saffron Opera Group's concert performance of Tannhäuser.
Karen Foster has performed with ENO for more than 30 years.
Paul Sheehan, baritone, is a go-to acting opera singer with a well-known Toreador in Carmen.
They are joined this year by James Liu, tenor, from Opera North. Simon Haynes, piano, is a singer as well as pianist and has performed with Glyndebourne Festival Opera and London Sinfonietta voices.
If you watched the marvellous ENO production on BBC 2 at Christmas 2020 of the Mozart “Requiem” you will have seen three of our singers in that performance at the London Coliseum.
This is a fundraising event in support of Cranleigh Arts (Registered charity no. 284186) Benefiting from the event also is the Heritage 1170 Community local charity which is raising funds to maintain the St Nicolas Cranleigh church building for our heritage.