{"id":4002,"date":"2017-12-20T10:29:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T10:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2017-12-23T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T10:24:00","slug":"new-years-eve-viennese-gala-concert-at-brighton-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4002","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Eve Viennese Gala concert at Brighton Dome"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Year\u2019s Eve Viennese Gala concert at Brighton Dome<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Soprano Rebecca Bottone<\/strong> is one of the most versatile performers on the operatic stage today. It has been said that she gets her charisma from her father, the tenor Bonaventura Bottone, but her chameleon ability is entirely her own. Her character roles have been highly acclaimed in performances at the Royal Opera House and with the Welsh National Opera.\u00a0On New Year\u2019s Eve she appears as herself when she joins the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra at Brighton Dome for the second year running, to add glamour and sparkle to a very Viennese celebration.\u00a0Her contributions will include \u201cBy Strauss<\/em>\u201d from An American in Paris,<\/em> \u201cThe Waltz Song\u201d <\/em>from Tom Jones<\/em> and the bewitching \u201cVilja<\/em>\u201d from The Merry Widow<\/em>. When she sang here last New Year\u2019s Eve The Argus<\/em> reviewer wrote: \u201cthe charming Rebecca Bottone, a soprano who loves to show off in the nicest possible sense, seduced and dazzled with a display that showed not just vocal agility but a fine control of tone and soaring power. Her supreme talents were best shown in the melodious Vilja<\/em> by Lehar, enhanced by shimmering strings.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The orchestra will welcome in 2018 with a feast of popular orchestral favourites from that golden age of Viennese light music just before the First World War \u2013 a programme of lively and nostalgic music from the repertoire of the Strauss family and its contemporaries. Johann Strauss II captured the light-hearted approach to life favoured by the Viennese of his day more than anyone else.\u00a0With gems such as the Emperor Waltz<\/em> he established himself as \u201cThe Waltz King\u201d and surely no such celebration of Viennese music is complete without that perennial favourite The Blue Danube Waltz.<\/em><\/p>\n

Alongside the traditional foot-tapping Strauss waltzes, polkas and marches, conductor Barry Wordsworth <\/strong>has included favourite light music scores from some of our finest English composers: Ralph Vaughan Williams\u2019 fabulous English folk tune Fantasia on<\/em> Greensleeves<\/em>, Malcolm Arnold\u2019s gorgeous folk tune influenced English Country Dance No.8<\/em> and Richard Rodney Bennett\u2019s \u201cWaltz\u201d <\/em>from Murder on the Orient Express <\/em>\u2013 a brilliant musical depiction of a train moving away from the station platform.<\/p>\n

With such a varied and entertaining programme on offer, why not join the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra on Sunday afternoon to welcome in the New Year with style and panache.<\/p>\n

This concert, firmly established as part of the city\u2019s festivities\u00a0and generously sponsored by the John Carewe Brighton Orchestra Trust, nearly sold out last year, so do book early to avoid disappointment.<\/p>\n

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