Tosca in One Hour
5 May 2024 | 13:00
A unique and impactful version of the great opera featuring ALL of the festival’s performers on stage.
This is an electrifying, dynamic experience, offering the intensity and emotional depth of a well known masterpiece condensed into powerful, striking moments of melody and drama, all within an hour that promises to captivate and leave you wanting more.
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Luxury Villa Sainte-Maxime, France
5 May 2024
13:00 CET
Natasha Day
Scottish-Polish soprano Natasha Day previously trained at The English National Opera on the ‘Opera Works’ course and the RCM’s International Opera School. Engagements have included Tosca (Opera Brava); Violetta La Traviata (ROH Reimagined, Royal Opera House, Devon Opera); Woglinde Das Rheingold (BPO, Birmingham Symphony Hall); Verdi’s Requiem with the Brandenburg Festival Orchestra at Eton College and De Montfort Hall, Leicester; and Donna Anna Don Giovanni at The Athenaeum, Pall Mall. She is currently recording an album of Robert Mansell’s Songs for Soprano and Tenor. Natasha won First Prize at the Złote Głosy Competition in Warsaw, Second Prize at The Filharmonia Czestochowska Competition also in Poland and The Most Promising Singer Award at the Emmy Destinn Competition in Prague.
Andrew Henley
Hailing from Monmouth, British-Irish tenor Andrew Henley studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and is a graduate of the National Opera Studio, where he was supported by the WNO Sir John Moores Award. He was with winner of the 2019 Dunraven Young Welsh Singer of the Year and is the recipient of the 2023 John Scott Award from Scottish Opera.
Pauls Putnins
Pauls has an international concert career and has sung with orchestras including the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel, Moscow and Bucharest Philharmonics and Russian National Orchestra ranging in a wide repertoire including all Bach Passions, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. His recordings include Ferrondo in Mercadante’s Maria Stuarda regina di Scozia, Ricardo in Meyerbeer’s Margherita D’Anjou (Opera Rara); Everyman in Walford Davies’ Everyman (Duton); as well as DVDs of Jonathan Miller’s production of La bohème at ENO (Warner Classics) and Lehnhoff’s production of Henze’s Boulevard Solitude at the Liceu, Barcelona (Euroarts).
Matthew Wilsher
Matthew Wilsher is a versatile chamber, orchestral and solo clarinettist who studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Bordeaux Conservatoire. Based in London, he has worked with renowned conductors such as Sir Mark Elder and Semyon Bychkov and plays with esteemed orchestras including the London Sinfonietta and Philharmonia. He is also principal clarinet for various opera companies, a champion of new music, and a founding member of 'Hold the Drama,' an Arts Council-funded group exploring mental health through new musical works.
Urška Horvat
Born in Ljubljana (Slovenia), Urška Horvat is a versatile award-winning solo, chamber, and orchestral musician. Her passion for music and more specifically chamber music has brought her to visit many countries around the world and perform in many distinguished venues such as Wigmore Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, Cadogan Hall, King's Place, St. John's Smith Square, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Flagey in Brussels, The Slovenian Philharmonic Hall in Ljubljana, among others.
Pavel Timofeyevsky
Virtuoso pianist, composer for film and the concert stage, arranger and lecturer, Pavel Timofeyevsky has received numerous prizes and accolades, including the BBC/Guardian Young Composer of the Year award. Pavel has appeared at nearly all the major concert venues across the UK. Concert tours, along with television and radio appearances in other parts of the world include the USA, China, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Russia, Latvia, Greece, Cyprus and India.