"With her warm mezzo, she’s tender and vulnerable, yet there’s a core of steel and she spits out the text like bullets." — The Guardian, August 2024
A vivacious performer, audiences are in for a thrill-a-minute with mezzo-soprano Alexandria Moon in Mad About the Boy!
Join Alexandria as she explores the world of trouser roles for the mezzo-soprano, from Octavian to Sesto.
Each bite-sized performance features an up-and-coming young opera star sharing their passion through exquisite arias and personal insights. It’s the perfect way to experience the magic of opera in an intimate setting.
Programme
Wie du warst — Der Rosenkavalier — Richard Strauss
Recitative & Che farò senza Euridice — Orfeo ed Euridice — Christoph Willibald Gluck
Lizbie Brown — English Art Song — Gerald Finzi
Ich grolle nicht — Dichterliebe — Robert Schumann
Vois sous l’archet frémissant — Les Contes d’Hoffmann — Jacques Offenbach
Deh, per questo istante solo — La clemenza di Tito — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Der Neugierige — Die schöne Müllerin — Franz Schubert
Psyché — Mélodie — Émile Paladilhe
Mi lusinga il dolce affetto — Alcina — George Frideric Handel
Being Alive — Company — Stephen Sondheim