50 years of Lambeth Orchestra
Lambeth Orchestra celebrates 50 years of music-making with an formidable programme at Queen Elizabeth Hall on 18th January 2023.
Lambeth-born Nadine Benjamin joins the celebrations by performing Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs. The remainder of the programme consists of Humperdinck’s Overture, Hansel and Gretel, and Mahler’s Symphony No.1 (together with Blumine)
Lambeth Orchestra (LO) introduced right this moment a efficiency with the famend British soprano Nadine Benjamin for the orchestra’s fiftieth Anniversary Gala Concert on 18th January 2023 at Queen Elizabeth Hall. The charismatic and versatile Nadine Benjamin will carry out Strauss’s Four Last Songs.
Nadine Benjamin is a world-class British lyric soprano who’s in growing demand on each the operatic stage and the live performance platform. Nadine made her debut on the BBC Proms in 2019, her Royal Opera House debut in 2020, and her Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut in August 2021. From 2018 to 2020, Nadine was an ENO Harewood Artist and made her debut with the Company as Clara (Porgy and Bess), adopted by Musetta (La bohème), Laura (Luisa Miller) and Gerhilde (The Valkyrie) for ENO and can sing the position of The Mother within the UK premiere of Blue in April 2023. Nadine just lately made her debut with the LPO below Edward Gardner and has carried out with Chineke! Orchestra.
Nadine Benjamin stated: ‘I’m delighted to be making my debut with Lambeth Orchestra. I bear in mind early in my profession writing to the orchestra to ask if they might hear or collaborate with me – so it’s great a few years later to be met on this capability! The Four Last Songs are very expensive to me – for me, they’re like completely different phases of life that one meets alongside the best way. The poetry actually depicts the increasing and contracting of our Universal life drive and exhibits how we as people are deeply linked to nature.‘
Nina Swann, Chair of the Lambeth Orchestra, added ‘We’re so thrilled to be working with Nadine for this live performance, in addition to three of the 4 conductors from the Orchestra’s final 50 years. It’s a privilege to carry out in Lambeth, with a Lambeth-born expertise equivalent to Nadine, celebrating this excellent group useful resource.‘
The Lambeth Orchestra’s formidable celebratory programme consists of: Humperdinck’s Overture, Hansel and Gretel, carried out by Dr Christopher Fifield (former LO Principal Conductor), Strauss’s Four Last Songs, carried out by Michael Cobb (Principal Guest Conductor) and Mahler’s Symphony No.1 (vers. authentic in 5 actions together with Blumine), carried out by Peter Selwyn (present LO Principal Conductor)
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