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Sopranos on the Edge: Demystifying the 'Mad Scene'

  • The Christchurch Centre 46 Reading Rd, Henley-on-Thames RG9 1AG United Kingdom (map)

Bridget Esler, Soprano and Brendan Musk, piano

Throughout the history of the operatic and art song canons, sopranos have been descending into ‘madness’ onstage, all while executing their finest vocal fireworks. Join soprano Bridget Esler in an exploration of the ‘mad scene’ over time, from Handellian rage arias, to blood-soaked bel canto heroines, to modern musical interpretations of women in crisis. 

Neghittosi, or voi che fate, Ariodante, Handel

Gretchen am Spinnrade, Schubert

Drei Lieder der Ophelia, R. Strauss

Qui la voce sua soave, I puritani, Bellini

Anne Boleyn, Try Me, Good King, Libby Larsen

Losing My Mind, Follies, Stephen Sondheim

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