Rye Arts Festival is providing two performances of this year's opera Don Giovanni. Festival goers will be able to choose between fully staged performances on the opening Saturday 12 Sep and the closing Saturday 26 Sep... or go to both! Conductor/director Alistair Kitchen is back again after his triumphal la Traviata last year. And while the baritone Nicholas Morton, as Don Giovanni, might be new to the Rye audience we will be welcoming back last year's heroine the superb Icelandic soprano Rannveig Karradotir as Donna Anna.
And soprano Gemma Summerfield, who made a big impression in Rye last year, will also back, which is great news since she has just won first prize in the prestigious 2015 Kathleen Ferrier competition, confirming her as singer of the highest ability!Rye Studio School students are playing key roles in the design of costumes and stage sets as well as stage management for the performances, which will provide them with a fantastic opportunity to be part of a production by young professional singers and musicians who are already carving careers for themselves on the world stage!
Make sure you don't miss Don Giovanni this year!
An APB for Sir Maurice D'anceur! Rye Arts Fest wouldn't be the same without him providing a lightness of touch and phenomenol bell control! We love him in the Oxford Yeomanry
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