No Tenors Allowed v2 "男高音們,請止步!“

Sun Sep 19 2021 at 04:00 pm to 05:30 pm

Victoria Concert Hall | Singapore

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In “No Tenors Allowed”, Singaporean opera singers Soprano Teng Xiang Ting and Baritone Martin Ng partake in a Duel of Duets selected from the grand operatic repertory, staged in an intimate theatrical setting by Tang Xinxin, to express love, kinship, friendship etc, without the need …for a tenor.
We were inspired by the eponymous concert series of opera duets for baritone and bass by opera superstars Thomas Hampson and Samuel Ramey in the 1990s as well as renown Taiwanese dance company "Cloud Gate's founder Hwai Min Li's 2019/2020 staging of "Everyone calls me Mimi", a presentation of soprano/tenor scenes from Puccini 's operas, in an intimate but abstract setting which was labelled as Li Hwaimin’s “one table one chair” theatre.
Hence, we combined the two, and came up with our very own version 2.0 for the baritone and soprano.
Most of the operas feature the tenor and the soprano as protagonists and most of the time as lovers, but the relationship between baritone and soprano in opera can become so multi-dimensional, assuming various forms as lovers, friends, and even as father and daughter. in a series of situations of not just romantic love, but also of conspiracy, revenge, and other situations of heightened drama.
Under direction of Tang Xinxin we hope to explore the theatrical dynamics of how the two soloists of the evening will relate to one another in a kaleidoscope of varying emotions. With Xinxin’s theatrical setting, the audience is afforded a glimpse into the intimacy of the psyche of each operatic character in variety of situations of contrasting emotions.

Together with the singers, we have narrator Shirdar Mani who, with his narrative, will take the audience into the different worlds of the characters on stage.
Programme includes: duets from Verdi’s La Traviata, Rigoletto, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci among others
Tickets available on SISTIC
https://www.sistic.com.sg/events/tenors0921
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Victoria Concert Hall, 11 Empress Pl, Singapore, Singapore 179558

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