A song recital exploring magic and the supernatural in Elizabethan poetry, with readings from Shakespeare and W. H. Auden, including arias from Thomas Ades' opera The Tempest, Benjamin Britten's opera A Midsummer-Night's Dream, and songs by Jonathan Dove, Charles Ives, Dominick Argento, and Michael Head.
Soprano Laure Meloy has performed in opera, concert and recital throughout the UK and internationally. She recently covered Ariel in The Tempest at the Metropolitan Opera, New York for the opera's debut in that house, composer Thomas Adès conducting. She also covered this role for the Royal Opera House, and will be doing the same for the Vienna Staatsoper in their upcoming production of this opera. Ms. Meloy made her Royal Opera House Covent Garden debut as Queen of Night in Die Zauberflöte, a role she has sung with English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, and Opera North. A strong advocate of contemporary classical music, Ms. Meloy has been closely involved with premieres of many new works, and was featured on the soundtrack of the BBC/Sony film Rocketmen. Her CD 'Sorcery & Seduction' was released in 2012.
Pianist Sarah Wilkinson has performed recitals and concerts with opera, classical, and jazz singers, as well as repetiteur, coaching and conducting work. She studied music at King's College London, accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and repetiteur work on the ENO short course. She is also a qualified music therapist and worked in this field for several years. The leader of Highbury Young Singers, the children's community chorus for Highbury Opera Theatre, Sarah has worked with children and young people throughout her career, teaching music and singing in schools to classes and larger groups and running holiday music and drama courses. She continues to perform and play, coaches opera singers, accompanies Islington Music Centre, Deansfield and Apollo Chamber Choirs and is assistant director of Eclectic Voices.