Shakespeare-Duette und -Arien (Programme 2011)

Aria and duet from: ,Hamlet' (Ambroise Thomas), ,Beatrice et Benedict' (Hector Berlioz),

,Fairy Queen' (Henry Purcell), ,A Midsummer Night's Dream' (Benjamin Britten),

,A Village Romeo and Juliet' (Frederick Delius), ,Romeo et Juliette' (Charles Gounod),

,I Capuleti ed i Montecchi' (Vicenzo Bellini), ,Macbeth' (Guiseppe Verdi),

,Falstaff' (Guiseppe Verdi), ,Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor' (Otto Nicolai),

,West Side Story' (Leonard Bernstein), ,Kiss me Kate' (Cole Porter)

With: Elisabeth Watts – Soprano, Stephan Loges – Baritone,

Simon Lepper – piano

Length: 1 hour and 30 minutes including interval

Price category: B

Introduction 45 minutes before the performance

Stephan Loges and Simon Lepper were so delighted by the audience at their last Song
Evening at the Globe Festival in 2010, that soon after during talks a new idea was hatched using
Shakespeare and the opera. The result was this marvellous programme with Soprano Elisabeth Watts as guest, Stephan Loges, as baritone and Simon Lepper, on piano, which covers a vast area from Purcell via German, French, English and Italian romanticism, to Benjamin Britten and some Musical favourites from Leonard Bernstein and Cole Porter.

This was designed and studied for the Globe Neuss - it is a real premiere!