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Lise Davidsen & Freddie De Tommaso with James Baillieu

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Lise Davidsen is sitting with her arm resting on a table on the left hand side of the image, Freddie De Tommaso stands in front of a fountain in coat and scarf on the right

Lise Davidsen is the definition of box office in the opera world right now. And we’ve got the perfect vocal partner for her in Freddie De Tommaso, ‘a young tenor of limitless promise (The Times).

This exciting soprano-tenor duo will play off one another in a first-half selection of great opera arias, before turning on the romance in a lighter, sentimental second half including the simple, beautiful melodies of Tosti’s Neapolitan songs and crowd-pleasing numbers from My Fair Lady and The Merry Widow.

Following her 2019 Barbican recital, The Daily Telegraph described Davidsen’s voice as shining ‘like silver in sunlight’ – and the darling of Europe’s major opera houses is only getting better, having since been named Female Singer of the Year in the International Opera Awards. But with a voice of comparable weight and firepower, we’re convinced Tommaso, who 'set the house alight' (inews) in his unexpected Royal Opera House debut last year, will offer the perfect foil to Davidsen’s ‘God-given instrument’ (Daily Telegraph).

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This performance will finish at approximately 9.30pm, including a 20-minute interval

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Programme*

  • Richard Wagner   'Dich teure Halle' from Tannhäuser
  • Giuseppe Verdi   'La mia letizia infondere' from I Lombardi
  •   'Teco io sto' and 'Morrò, ma prima in grazia' from Un Ballo in Maschera
  •   'Cielo pietoso rendila' from Simon Boccanegra
  •   'Ave Maria' from Otello
  • Umberto Giordano   'Amor ti vieta' from Fedora
  • Giacomo Puccini   'Vissi d'arte' from Tosca
  • Francesco Cilea   'Lamento di Federico' from L'arlesiana
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky   'Uzh polnoch' blizitsya' and 'Akh! istomilas ya gorem' from Queen of Spades
  • Ernest Charles   When I have sung my song to you
  • Landon Ronald   O Lovely Night
  • Paolo Tosti   L´alba separa dalla luce l´ombra
  •   Non t'amo piu
  •   Ideale
  • Salvatore Cardillo   Core'ngrato
  • Frederick Loewe   I could have danced all night
  • Franz Lehár   'Lippen Schweigen' from The Merry Widow

*Please note the programme has slightly changed as from when it was first advertised. Thu 26 May

Performers

  • Lise Davidsen   soprano
  • Freddie De Tommaso   tenor
  • James Baillieu   piano

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