2021 brings a new collaboration for Art Sung – our third to date! We’re exploring the life of mezzo soprano Jane Bathori, who dedicated her life and talents to promoting the music of her contemporaries: Debussy, Ravel and Satie as well as being hugely influential in the development of Les Six, a group of Paris based composers in the early …
Art Sung has gone digital! We are embracing the new normal and producing visual online content for you as it seems that it may still be a while before we can meet again in a concert hall. Following the success of Art Sung – Clara Schumann last autumn we have produced a short film of a scene which had to …
The premiere of Art Sung – Clara Schumann in November at the London Song Festival was enjoyed by a record audience and we were very flattered to receive the following warm words from Barry Millington, the critic of the Evening Standard: The Songs and Life of Clara Schumann, devised by Elizabeth Mucha with a skilful audio-visual presentation by Art Sung, …
We are delighted to welcome Belfast-born baritone Malachy Frame. He has come on board with an abundance of energy and enthusiasm and, of course, a gorgeous voice! He was Northern Ireland Opera’s ‘Voice of 2016,’ and that same year was a finalist in the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards at the Wigmore Hall. In 2018, he was a Garsington Opera Alvarez Young Artist …
On October 24th 1878, Clara Schumann stepped onto the stage at the Leipzig Gewandhaus to play a concert to celebrate her debut in that very building 50 years ago at the tender age of 9! She recalled in her diary, “ the entire audience stood up and a rain of flowers began under which I was really buried! It was a long …
We are delighted to welcome back Spanish soprano Lorena Paz Nieto who sang the role of the young Alma in Art Sung – Alma Mahler at the London Song Festival last year. She is fast garnering awards with her beautiful and characterful singing including the Oxford Lieder Young Artist award, the Ludmilla Andrews Russian Song Prize and winner of the ‘Vocalist of …
We are thrilled to welcome actress Gay Soper as the narrator in our new production, Art Sung- Clara Schumann. In an extraordinary career spanning over 50 years, she has appeared in theatre, operetta, pantomime and on TV. You will have seen her most recently as Mrs Alexander in the 7 Olivier Award-winning production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog …
After the resounding success of Art Sung – Alma Mahler at the London Song Festival in 2018, we were invited to return in 2019 with a new production. On Thursday, 28th November 2019, at 7pm, we will proudly premiere Art Sung – Clara Schumann, a celebration of an extraordinary woman, composer and pianist in her bicentenary year. Hailed as the “Queen of the piano”, the …