Samuel Boden in Les Boreades on Radio 3

Samuel Boden sings Abaris in Rameau’s Les Boréades from this summer’s Aix-en-Provence Festival on BBC Radio 3. The broadcast at 14:00 GMT on October 30 (plus 7 days afterwards on Iplayer) features Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble under Marc Minkowski.  “British tenor Samuel Boden … achieves a personal triumph thanks to his clear and bright timbre, stylistic intelligence, admirable clarity of diction and his flawless virtuosity.” Opera Online  – 21 July 2014 (trans.) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mbjjw

 

John Lattimore in new work by Benjamin Tassie

Countertenor John Lattimore creates the role of The Son in Bodycorps’ production of The Anatomy of Melancholy by Benjamin Tassie to a libretto by Finn Beames who directs. performances on October 22, 23, 24 & 24 at Testbed1, London, conducted by Tim Murray. The opera explores the themes of depression, genetics and renaissance medicine.