July 04, 2015
Suzanne Shakespeare returns to the Iford Arts Festival singing the role of Eurydice in Opera della Luna’s new production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld. A profanation of holy and glorious antiquity. A desecration of the gods! That’s how one outraged critic greeted the first performance of Orphée aux Enfers…
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Tags: Eurydice, Iford, Orpheus
March 21, 2015
Suzanne performs the role of the Swan in Jonathan Dove’s family opera, Swanhunter. Opera North joins forces with acclaimed theatre company The Wrong Crowd in this new production, creating an inventive fusion of opera, puppetry and live action. Dove and his librettist Alasdair Middleton take their story from the Finnish folktale…
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Tags: Dove, Opera North, Royal Opera House, Swanhunter, Wrong Crowd
July 12, 2014
Suzanne will make her BBC Prom debut on 31st July 2014 in the Strauss Deutsche Motette with the BBC Singers and the Royal London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko.
Tags: BBC Prom, BBC Singers, Petrenko, Royal London Philharmonic Orchestra, Strauss
March 01, 2014
Suzanne Shakespeare will make her debut at the Iford Arts Festival singing the role of Marie in Opera della Luna’s new production of Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment. “The Regiment” – one of California’s most notorious biker gangs. Original libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-Francois Bayard. New…
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Tags: Daughter of the Regiment, Iford
February 01, 2014
Suzanne Shakespeare performs the role of Girl in Café Kafka, a new work by Francisco Coll (music) and Meredith Oakes (words), directed by Annabel Arden and conducted by Richard Baker. A selection of Franz Kafka’s darkly surreal short stories and characters are interwoven in Café Kafka and promises to…
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Tags: Aldeburgh Music, Cafe Kafka, Opera North, Royal Opera House