{"id":5403,"date":"2013-10-25T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T11:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2013-10-25T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T11:49:13","slug":"world-class-singer-to-come-to-the-colyer-fergusson-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2013\/10\/25\/world-class-singer-to-come-to-the-colyer-fergusson-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"World-class singer to come to the Colyer-Fergusson Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re very excited to say that internationally-renowned singer, Dame Anne Evans<\/strong>, will be coming to the Colyer-Fergusson Hall in two weeks’ time.<\/p>\n

\"Meistersinger...\"<\/a>
Meistersinger…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dame Anne will be giving a\u00a0masterclass and appear\u00a0\u2018In Conversation\u2019 at the Colyer-Fergusson Hall on Friday 8th<\/sup> November<\/strong>. As one of Britain\u2019s most internationally successful singers, she sang a\u00a0number of roles ranging from J.C. Bach and Mozart to Wagner, and performed\u00a0 the role of Br\u00fcnnhilde at the Bayreuth Festival\u00a0under the baton of\u00a0Daniel Barenboim from 1989 to 1992.<\/p>\n

At\u00a06pm she will be In Conversation with University Director of Music, Susan Wanless, about her career in opera and her experience of performing and recording Wagner in this his bicentenary year, with film excerpts of her roles and some rare recordings.\u00a0Earlier in the day, at 3pm, Dame Anne will give a masterclass with some of the student Music Scholars, who’ll be singing pieces by Mozart, Handel and Cole Porter (accompanied by your Loyal Correspondent), in which she will no doubt pass on some of her wisdom and professional experience.<\/p>\n

Entry is free by ticket, available from the Gulbenkian Booking Office; see online details here<\/a>. And, to whet your appetite, here she is in the Immolation Scene from G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung<\/em>.<\/p>\n