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Internationally acclaimed opera singer Sarah Connolly CBE, an award-winning concert and recording artist and Rule Britannia soloist at the 2009 Last Night of the BBC Proms, is to perform with Worcester Festival Choral Society at its Worcester Cathedral concert on 14th November.

 

Sarah Connolly, who has appeared at Covent Garden, the Glyndebourne Festival, with the English National Opera and in great classical roles around the world, will be the Society’s guest soloist for one of Elgar’s most popular works, The Music Makers.

 

Sarah’s reputation as an outstanding mezzo-soprano has also seen her featured on TV in BBC Four’s Pappano’s Classical Voices last July, and interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. In her earlier career she was a member of the BBC Singers, and she won the Royal Philharmonic Society singer of the year award in 2013.

 

The Worcester Festival Choral Society concert in November – the first of its 2015-16 season – will be accompanied by the Meridian Sinfonia, and also features three of Irish composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford’s works: Shamus O’Brien Overture, The Revenge and Justorum Animae

 

Ben Cooper, Chairman of Worcester Festival Choral Society, said: “We are absolutely thrilled that Sarah Connolly will be performing with us in this concert. That we are singing an Elgar work makes it a double celebration for Worcester!  It promises to be a musical evening to remember.”

Established in 1861, Worcester Festival Choral Society comprises around 150 auditioned singers from across the County and beyond – many of whom participate in the renowned Three Choirs Festival. The society stages three major concerts in Worcester Cathedral each year, performing some of the world’s ‘great choral works’. 

Tickets for the Saturday 14th November concert, which starts at 7:30pm, are priced between £10 and £25 (some concessions available) and are available online at www.worcesterfestivalchoralsociety.org.uk; from Worcester Live! Box Office at Huntingdon Hall, Worcester, tel: 01905 611427; from the Worcester Cathedral gift shop, or on the door on the night (subject to availability).


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