by April Fredrick | Nov 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
by April Fredrick | Nov 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
There is nothing quite like oratorio, the amazing corporate feeling of a full orchestra and choir with soloists singing one composer’s personal interpretation of the age-old texts. Each time I sing with a choral society, I am amazed afresh at the richness of...
by April Fredrick | Nov 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
There’s always a first time for an entrance with smoke! Here at Woodhouse Copse, with Michael Butchard as Tamino.
by April Fredrick | Nov 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
http://www.aprilfredrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Queenie-9-cropped.jpg Here in rehearsal at Woodhouse, looking intense and ambivalent…as always with this lovely lady!
by April Fredrick | Nov 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
A programme develops around a theme, a composer, a place, a feeling, and then the adventure begins, finding just the right music, words, movement, light and art to make manifest the journey we imagine.
by April Fredrick | Nov 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
We go to operas for the same reason the ancient Greeks went to the theatre: to be moved and delighted, to see ourselves, our own hopes and fears, played out in other peoples’ stories.