The Wanderer presented by Melbourne Opera
Richard Wagner. Der fliegende Holländer: “Die Frist ist um”
Ralph Vaughan Williams. Songs of Travel:
The Vagabond
The Roadside Fire
Whither Must I Wander?
Hugo Wolf. Fußreise
Gabriel Faure. Les berceaux
John Ireland. The Bells of San Marie
John Masefield – Sea Fever
Frederick Keel. Salt-Water Ballad No 2 – Trade Winds
Mozart: Don Giovanni: Madamina, II Catalago E Questo
Richard Wagner. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: “Euch macht ihr’s leicht”
Richard Wagner. Das Rheingold: “Abendlich Strahlt Der Sonne Auge”
Darren Jeffery
Darren Jeffery has sung a diverse range of roles in operas by Monteverdi and Handel to Verdi and Wagner, alongside the more contemporary works of Britten, Stravinsky, Weill and Birtwistle. He has performed at the Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence and Garsington Festivals, at the Chicago Lyric Opera as Kothner/Meistersinger and as Raimondo/Lucia di Lammermoor for New Israeli Opera. His varied repertoire has taken him to many European theatres including La Monnaie, Brussels, Teatro Real, Madrid and the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.
From 2001-2003 he was an inaugural member of the Royal Opera Young Artists Programme and has since sung many roles for the company. His roles with English National Opera span Mozart, Wagner and Britten.He was a finalist in the Seattle International Wagner Competition in 2008 and has contributed to a number of Opera and Oratorio recordings, of which Falstaff and Billy Budd with the London Symphony Orchestra have received Grammy awards.
In oratorio and concert Darren has worked with many leading orchestras, including the Hallé, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecil ia in Rome, Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Freiburg Baroque, RTÉ Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Classical Opera Company and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. He has made regular appearances at the BBC Proms.
Refreshments will be served following the performance in the Langley Hall mansion.
Doors open 5.30 pm. Concert 6 pm – 7 pm.
Free parking available in adjacent streets.
