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British Youth Opera, Peacock Theatre London, September 2007
"Of course BYO is in the enviable position of being able to assemble a cast a cast of understudies through to the smallest role, and the shortened performance given by the cover cast on the morning of 15 September was of a very high standard too.
In this cast I particularly noted Laura Woods making her presence felt as the fussily bossy Florence Pike" Serena Fenwick, Musical Pointers
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RepertoireSome examples from Laura's extensive repertoire: Opera 'Stride la Vampa!' Il Trovatore, Verdi 'O mio Fernando' La Favorita, Donizetti (60 sec clip) Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix' Samson et Dalila, Saint-Saens 'Va! Laisse Couler mes Larmes' Werther, Massenet 'Voce di donna' La Gioconda, Ponchielli 'En Vain, pour éviter' (Card Aria), Carmen, Bizet 'Habanera' Carmen, Bizet 'Che farò senza Euridice?' Orfeo ed Euridice, Gluck 'Va! L'error mio palesa' Mitradate, Re di Ponto, Mozart 'Adio Roma' L'incoronazione di Poppea', Monteverdi 'Flowers Bring To Every Year' Rape of Lucretia, Britten 'Priva son d'ogni conforto' Giulio Cesare, Handel 'Scherza infida in grembo al drudo' Ariodante, Handel
Songs
'Music for a while' Purcell 'From Rosy Bowers' Purcell (60 sec clip) 'Vier ernste gesange' (Four Serious Songs) Brahms (60 sec clip) 'Kindertotenlieder' Mahler 'Befreit' Strauss 'Zueignung' Strauss 'Der Zwerg' Schubert 'L'invitation au Voyage' Duparc 'Extase' Duparc 'Frauen Liebe und Leben' Schumann 'Cloths of Heaven' Dunhill 'Silent Noon' Vaughn-Williams ‘O Divine Redeemer’ – ‘Come see where golden hearted springs’-
'Only Love' The Scarlet Pimpernel, F. Wildhorn 'I could have danced all night' My Fair Lady, F. Loewe 'Somewhere' West Side Story, Bernstein 'Summertime' Porgy & Bess, Gershwin ‘Secret Love’ Calamity Jane, Sammy Fain |
