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| St Paul's Church, Honiton main venue for Honiton Festival music events (beautiful vertically corrected print by 'Doolallyally' see more incredible local images at www.flickr.com) |
Honiton are all geared up for this year's festival in May.
As always some stray events are taking place already.
Most interesting for opera fans will be a preview of Arias from Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin' (and another of his operas, 'Queen of Spades'). The full performance of Onegin will be at the Exeter Northcott Theatre the following week (Wed 21 March & Sat 24 March).
English Touring Opera will also be performing Gioachino Rossini's 'Barber of Seville' (Tue20 March, Thur 22 March & Fri 23 March.)
Full details below - plus five exciting musical events in the May festival in Honiton.
Don't miss Marie Langrishe and the European Union Chamber Orchestra on the 31st!
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| English Touring Opera will perform extracts from Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin' St Paul's Church Honiton (Full opera - Northcott Theatre Wed 21 & Sun 24 March - see below) |
St Paul's Church Honiton
Friday 16 March 7.30pm
OPERA GALA WITH ENGLISH TOURING OPERA
Tchaikovsky: 'Onegin's Aria'
Tatyana's 'Letter Aria'
and 'Lensky's Aria' ('Kuda Kuda')
('How far away you seem now')
from 'Eugene Onegin'
plus arias from 'Queen of Spades'
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716
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| English Touring Opera Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville' |
English Touring Opera
Exeter Northcott Theatre
(both sung in English translation)
Rossini: Tuesday 20 March
Tchaikovsky: Wednesday 21 March
Rossini: Thursday & Friday 22 & 23 March
Tchaikovsky: Saturday 24 March
All performances start at 7.30pm
Rossini: pre-show talk Thursday 22 March 6.30pm
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| English Touring Opera Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin' Dancers: Roland Wood and Amanda Echalaz |
Tchaikovsky: pre-show talk Saturday 24 March 6.30pm
Tickets: £18 - £31 (student standby £8)
Box Office: 01392 493493
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| The Callino String Quartet (triúr cailíní ó Chorcaigh ac un ferch o'r Rhyl) Héloïse Geoghegan: Violin Sarah McMahon: 'Cello Rebecca Jones: Viola Sarah Sexton: Violin |
Cotleigh Parish Church
Thursday 10 May: Reception, 6.15pm - Concert, 7.30pm
THE CALLINO STRING QUARTET
Joseph Haydn: Quartet Opus 76 No 3 ('Emperor')
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F (1903)
Franz Schubert: Quartet in Dm (Death + Maiden)
Tickets: £17.50 (£12 concert only)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716
('Callino' refers to Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 4 Scene IV
Pistol's 'Franglais' response to a French Soldier:
"Cality! Calen o custure me!"
a parody of the Irish ballad,
'Is Cailín ó Chois tSúire mé'
'I am a girl from the banks of the Suir'
i.e. from Tipperary
Gàidhlig: 'Chailin òig as Stiùramaiche'
So, not at all obscure . . . )
Honiton FestivalSt Paul's Church Honiton
Saturday 12 May 7.30pm
JAZZ WITH JACQUI DANKWORTH
(Daughter of Dame Cleo Lane & Sir John Dankworth)
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716
"One of the classiest acts in British Jazz":
Jacqui Dankworth
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| Piano Recital: Melvyn Tan |
St Paul's Church Honiton
Saturday 19 May 7.30pm
MELVYN TAN - PIANO
W A Mozart: Piano Sonata in B flat K333
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestucke Opus 12
Frederic Chopin: Piano Sonata No 3 in Bm Opus 58
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716
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| 'Cello & Piano Tim Lowe James Baillieu |
St Paul's Church Honiton
Friday 25 May 1pm
'CELLO & PIANO:
TIM LOWE & JAMES BAILLIEU
Felix Mendelssohn: Variations Concertante Opus 17
Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello&Piano Sonata in C 102/1
Antonin Dvořák: Romance
Camille Saint-Saëns: 'Cello Sonata No 1 in C minor
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716
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| Marie Langrishe |
St Paul's Church Honiton
Thursday 31 May 7.30pm
EUROPEAN UNION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Director & Violin: Hans-Peter Hofmann
Violin Soloists: Marie Langrishe & Andrew Harvey
J S Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins in Dm
W A Mozart: Divertimento K138
Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin in Dm
Peter Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716
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