Flora Sandes' aria from Rose Hall and Lila Palmer's opera Dead Equal

Mezzo-soprano: Simone Ibbett-Brown
Piano: Ben Comeau

From 'The Revolution Will (Not) Be Televised'
A programme of revolutionaries and change featuring music by Ana Beard Fernández, Adolphus Hailstork, Rose Hall, Christine Jobson, Elsa Maxwell, Abel Meeropol, Florence B. Price, Sarah Ruff, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi and Kurt Weill
Performed 09 June 2021, Milton Court Concert Hall

We wait, or They die and die - Dead Equal (2021)

Recorded at the sitzprobe of Das Rheingold, produced by Gafa, at St Mary’s Church, Putney, 28 October 2021.

Heia, du Holder - Das Rheingold (2021)

Mezzo-soprano: Simone Ibbett-Brown
Piano: Kamilla Arku

From a recital celebrating African diaspora women composers with the African Concert Series.

Hold fast to dreams - Price

We wait - Dead Equal

An aria from Saint-Saëns' opera 'Samson et Dalila', sung by Dalila during Act 2 to seduce Samson into revealing the true source of his strength.

Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix

Simone Ibbett-Brown: mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Jarvis: piano

PROGRAMME
Songs and Dances of Death (Modest Mussorgsky, Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov)
Phaedra (Benjamin Britten, Robert Lowell after Jean Racine)

DETAILS
11 June 2018
Silk Street Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

DESCRIPTION 
Death the Aunty dances one final folk tune with a drunken peasant caught in a blizzard.

3. Trepak (Russian Dance)

Simone Ibbett-Brown: mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Jarvis: piano

PROGRAMME
Songs and Dances of Death (Modest Mussorgsky, Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov)
Phaedra (Benjamin Britten, Robert Lowell after Jean Racine)

DETAILS
11 June 2018
Silk Street Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

DESCRIPTION 
Death the Gallant stands beneath the window of a sickly young beauty and serenades her into the night.

2. Serenada (Serenade)

Simone Ibbett-Brown: mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Jarvis: piano

PROGRAMME
Songs and Dances of Death (Modest Mussorgsky, Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov)
Phaedra (Benjamin Britten, Robert Lowell after Jean Racine)

DETAILS
11 June 2018
Silk Street Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

DESCRIPTION
A mother pleads with Death to spare her infant daughter from his lullaby.

1. Kalibelnaya (Lullaby) (2018)

Simone Ibbett-Brown: mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Jarvis: piano

PROGRAMME
Songs and Dances of Death (Modest Mussorgsky, Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov)
Phaedra (Benjamin Britten, Robert Lowell after Jean Racine)

DETAILS
11 June 2018
Silk Street Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Simone Ibbett-Brown

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