REMEMBER ME
Rising star
Australian mezzo-soprano Fiona Campbell along-with other leading singers are
heading to Chatswood, Penrith and Angel Place in late April
Sat. 27th April, 2pm, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts
Centre, Penrith
Sun. 28th April, 5pm, City Recital Hall Angel Place
Rising
star Australian mezzo-soprano Fiona Campbell will perform her first complete
Dido alongside some of Australia’s best
young and experienced singers, Anna Fraser, Penelope Mills, Richard Butler,
Tobias Cole, Alexander Knight with
Sydney Philharmonia’s Chamber Singers and period instrumental ensemble,
conducted by Brett Weymark.
Australian born mezzo soprano Fiona Campbell is an
accomplished international performer, recitalist and recording artist. Vocal winner of the ABC Young Performer of
the Year Award and the Opera Awards, in the prestigious Australian Singing
Competition, Fiona has consistently received wide critical acclaim for her
powerful performances and exquisite musicianship.
"We have so many truly great singers in Australia
but when we were discussing Dido for our 2014 season only one artist came to
mind, fiona campbell" said music director Brett Weymark. " I cannot
wait to start rehearsing this tragic work With her. A great queen undone by
love. Fiona will not only bring a total commitment to the role but a fresh
insight as it will be the first time she has performed the role in context -
her first complete Dido in fact. I am thrilled to be sharing this experience
with her."
Sydney Philharmonia will perform its first-ever concert
at the Concourse in Chatswood in
addition to a performance at City Recital Hall Angel Place and we will continue
its inaugural Western Sydney season with
a performance at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in Penrith.
The program includes Henry Purcell's sole opera Dido and
Aeneas which is considered as the greatest operatic achievement of 17th century
England and the first great English opera.
Music inspired by flowers will also be performed including
Britten’s Five Flower
Songs, Ross Edwards’ lively Flower
Songs and Paul Mealor’s Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal. Mealor’s music was heard by an international audience at the Royal Wedding of Prince William.
