Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Joseph Middleton piano

The unrivalled Sarah Connolly receives the highest plaudits wherever she sings. A prolific recording artist, she has a matchless international reputation as an interpreter of the iconic mezzo roles of Handel, Strauss and Wagner. Her fierce intellect and thrilling theatrical intensity feed into her work as a recitalist and for Leeds audiences she performs Ravel’s Shéhérazade, the work that first made her want to become a singer, as well as presenting a group of English songs that she has very much made her own.

Robert Schumann
Vier Lieder Op.40:
Märzveilchen
Muttertraum
Der Soldat
Der Spielmann

Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade:
Asie
La flûte enchantée
L’indifférent

Benjamin Britten
A Charm of Lullabies:
A Cradle Song
A Highland Balou
Sephestia’s Lullaby
A Charm
The Nurse’s Song

Songs by Ireland, Gurney and Quilter

Tickets:
£20, £18 Leeds Card and retired over 60, £17 students/under 30
Booking: operanorth.co.uk/howard-assembly-room or on 0844 848 2727 (booking fee £1.50)