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A Life of Art & Love - Giacomo Puccini
“A LIFE OF ART AND LOVE” – THE LIFE AND WORKS OF GIACOMO PUCCINI
Lecturer: ROGER ASKEW - The 29th November 2024 marks the centenary of the death of Giacomo Puccini. He was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas - his most renowned works being La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly and Turandot.
Puccini is one of the most popular of all operatic composers, though more cherished by the public than the critics. His ability to convey strong emotion through the power of the human voice and his unique handling of the orchestra earned him a place among the most important musical figures of the twentieth century. His own life was as colourful as one of his operatic plots. This lecture, which is illustrated with recordings of some of the greatest opera singers of the 20th and 21st centuries, explores the life and works of this fascinating man.
Roger Askew was a chorister at Wells Cathedral School and a choral scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with an honours degree in English. He combined a teaching career with professional singing in London, and after obtaining a further degree in Music became Director of Music at Daniel Stewart’s and Melville College in Edinburgh. After retiring in 2003 he returned to the south of England. He is President Emeritus of The Stoke Poges Society.
Lecturer: ROGER ASKEW - The 29th November 2024 marks the centenary of the death of Giacomo Puccini. He was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas - his most renowned works being La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly and Turandot.
Puccini is one of the most popular of all operatic composers, though more cherished by the public than the critics. His ability to convey strong emotion through the power of the human voice and his unique handling of the orchestra earned him a place among the most important musical figures of the twentieth century. His own life was as colourful as one of his operatic plots. This lecture, which is illustrated with recordings of some of the greatest opera singers of the 20th and 21st centuries, explores the life and works of this fascinating man.
Roger Askew was a chorister at Wells Cathedral School and a choral scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with an honours degree in English. He combined a teaching career with professional singing in London, and after obtaining a further degree in Music became Director of Music at Daniel Stewart’s and Melville College in Edinburgh. After retiring in 2003 he returned to the south of England. He is President Emeritus of The Stoke Poges Society.
Doors open 1.30 p.m.
Presentation commences at 2.15 p.m.
Refreshments provided.
£8 entrance fee for visitors, reimbursed if joining The Arts Society
Presentation commences at 2.15 p.m.
Refreshments provided.
£8 entrance fee for visitors, reimbursed if joining The Arts Society
Craig y Don Community Centre
Queens Road, Llandudno, Conwy LL30 1TE
Tue 8 October