15th November (2 – 5.30pm)

Reid Concert Hall

£5 (£3 concessions)

Tickets available from October 1st from secretary@edinburghstudioopera.com or 07551 932767.

Programme

Colleen Nicoll, with Fraser Wright

• Un moto di gioia (Le Nozze di Figaro) – Mozart
• Endless Pleasure – Handel

Anna Churchill, with Fraser Wright

• Nina- Pergolesi
• Un moto di gioia (Le Nozze di Figaro) – Mozart

Laura Reading, with Chris Charles

• S’altro che lacrime (La Clemenza di Tito) – Mozart
• It was a lover – Dring

Julie Moote, with Chris Charles

• L’ultima canzone- Tosti
• Nell – Fauré

INTERVAL

Naomi Baker, with Chris Charles

• Nuits d’étoiles – Debussy
• All mein’ Gedanken – Strauss

Catriona Morison, with Nick Fletcher

• Parto, parto (La Clemenza di Tito) – Mozart
• Chacun a son gout (Die Fledermaus) – J. Strauss II

Suzanne McGrath, with Nick Fletcher

• Donde lieta (La Boheme) – Puccini
• L’amerò, sarò constante (Il re pastore) – Mozart

Louise Alder, with Nick Fletcher

• Durch Zärtlichkeit (Die Entfürhung aus dem Serail)- Mozart
• Depuis le jour (Louise) – Charpentier

Arlene Rolph

Arlene Rolph studied at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, received a distinction in the Postgraduate Opera course at the Royal College of Music and attended the National Opera Studio in the 1999/2000 season. She is a Kathleen Ferrier Award prize winner.

For Scottish Opera she created the role of Jane Claremont in the world première of Monster by Sally Beamish where she has also sung Dorabella/Cosi fan tutti, Irene in Tamerlano, and Hansel/Hansel and Gretel for Scottish Opera Go Round. For Glyndebourne Festival she has sung Cherubino/Figaro, and for the tour Annio/La Clemenza di Tito. From 2003 to 2005 Arlene Rolph was Associate Artist at Welsh National Opera where she sang Rosina /Il barbiere di Siviglia,Cherubino/Le nozze di Figaro and Varvara Katya Kabanova. For English Touring Opera she sangComposer/Ariadne auf Naxos and for Classical Opera Company extracts of Idamante/Idomeneo and Giacinta/La finta semplice and Annio in a concert performance of Gluck’sLa Clemenza di Tito at the 2005 Lufthansa Festival. In 2007 she sang the title role in a new production of Philipe Boesmans’ chamber opera Julie for Music Theatre Wales at the Lindbury Theatre, ROH and on tour. For Oper Frankfurt she has sung Speranza and Messagiera/Orfeo and Annio. At the Staatsoper Berlin she sang Speranza/Orfeo with Rene Jacobs, also in concert in Vienna.

Arlene Rolph’s concert repertoire includes Bach St Matthew Passion and Mass in B Minor, Mozart Requiem and Mass in C Minor, Monteverdi Vespers, Handel Messiah and Judas Maccabeus, Vivaldi Magnificat, Duruflé Requiem, Mendelssohn Elijah, Sibelius Christmas Songs, Elgar The Dream of Gerontius and Tippett Child of our Time. She has worked for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St John’s Smith Square and at the Leith Hill Music Festival as well as many choral societies. Other engagements include a recital at St David’s Hall, Cardiff and in December 2006 she took part in ROH2 OperaGenesis workshops on a new opera by James Barrett at Covent Garden.

In 2008 Arlene Rolph will return to Frankfurt to sing Bianca/The Rape of Lucretia, and will sing Kitchen Boy in Rusalka for Grange Park Opera.