Claire Booth (soprano) with Jâms Coleman (piano) – Cabaret!

The Champs Hill gardens will be open for picnics from 5.00 – 7.15pm

Wine included in the ticket price and served from 6.45pm

Soprano Claire Booth has become internationally renowned both for her breadth of repertoire and the vitality and musicianship she brings both to the operatic stage and concert platform. Her repertoire spans from Monteverdi and Handel, through Rossini, Berg and Britten to the alluring cabaret music of Poulenc, Gershwin and Kurt Weill.

Claire’s recent engagements have included the title role in Handel’s  Berenice for the Royal Opera House; Nitocris in Handel’s  Belshazzar for the Grange Festival; Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and a critically acclaimed recordings of songs by Mussorgsky, Grieg and Percy Grainger.

She shares the stage with pianist Jâms Coleman who so raised the temperature at the 2023 festival when accompanying cellist Laura van der Heijden.

“An actor-singer who can raise the dramatic heat as soon as she enters the stage” Opera Now

Programme
Ives Memories, a.
Zoe Martlev Cabaret Songs
Gershwin The Man I Love / I Got Rhythm
Gershwin (arr. Poster) It Never Was You / So in Love
Grovlez Guitares et Mandolines
Poulenc Banalités (FP 107)
John Woolrich Stendhal’s Observation
Schoenberg Cabaret Songs
Gershwin (arr. Finnissy) They Can’t Take That Away From Me / A Foggy Day in London Town
Thomas Ades Lifestory
Weill My Ship / I’m a Stranger Here Myself
Poulenc La Dame de Montecarlo 

This concert is generously sponsored by The Bowerman Charitable Trust