Proms On The Pond

"Supremely, even sublimely English, however, was the Tales of Hoffmann
'Bar carolle' sung in a rubber dinghy rather than a gondola"
Hugh Vickers, Oxford Times, August 2005 (full review)

Programme will include:

Part 1 ‘By The Lake’

Iolanthe scene (G & S)
Cosi fan tutte scene (Mozart)
Turn of the Screw Scene (Britten)
Mermaid’s song Oberon (Weber)
The Mermaid comic song (Whitworth)
Lakme Duet (Delibes)
Flower duet M Butterfly (Puccini)
Humming Chorus (segue) ( Puccini)

Part 2 ‘Carnival’

Come back to Sorrento (comedy number)
La Traviata  scene (Verdi)
Barcarolle Hoffman (Offenbach)
We’re called Gondolieri (G & S)
La Regata Veneziana (Rossini)
Pearlfishers Duet (Bizet)
The Water is wide Waly waly (arr. Britten)
Champagne/Duee du Fledermaus  (J Strauss)
O Peaceful England (E German)
Who were the Yeomen (E German)