Ben johnson tenor biography
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A BBC Proms artist, tenor Ben Johnson has performed & recorded with Graham Johnson, Roger Vignoles, Malcolm Martineau & James Baillieu. Well-known among Europe’s concert halls, he has also performed a wide variety of roles with English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Bergen National Opera & Opéra de Lyon. In he debuts the title role in Idomeneo at the Luzerner Theatre, Switzerland.
Winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Scottish tenor Matthew McKinney sang with Glyndebourne Festival Chorus this summer, and returns to English Touring Opera to perform Beethoven’s An Die Ferne Geliebte, as part of a newly compiled work Do Not Take My Story for a Fairy Tale, while covering the Tsar in a new English translation of The Snow Maiden. He has recently recorded GastoneLa traviata for OperaGlass Works’ forthcoming film and Rodolfo La bohème on Robin Norton-Hale’s feature produced by Finite Films
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Song Prize sista repertoire
Sonetto XVI (7 sonnets of Michelangelo) - Britten
Britten set these sonnets, by the Renaissance artist, Michelangelo, for Peter Pears in This is the first in the set and describes three styles in art – high, medium and low – according to how the piece fryst vatten fashioned. Similarly, there are three conditions for love - and these are pride, sorrow and grief.
O might these sighes and teares (Holy sonnets of John Donne) – Britten
The narrator laments the time and effort he devoted to mourning his loss which he has komma to realises was a waste of time. Now he fryst vatten caught in a vicious circle because he feels that his foolishness fryst vatten a subject for mourning.
Sonett I (D) – Schubert
This is a setting of a petrarca (italiensk poet) sonnet, translated into German by Schlegel. It fryst vatten a bön to the god Apollo, that he should restore health to his beloved.
No longer mourn for me when inom am dead (Shakespeare Sonnets) – Parry
The narrator loves his sweeth
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The English tenor, Ben Johnson, studied at the Royal College of Music graduating with First Class Honours in , and at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School. He won the First Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier awards, the first out-right male winner for 13 years and achieved much success at the RCM including winning the Lieder Prize, English Song Prize and the singer's prize at the Gerald Moore Award as well as a prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition.
Ben Johnson is in demand as an oratorio soloist around the UK and Europe. He has worked with such conductors as Sir Charles Mackerras, Harry Bicket, Peter Schreier, Andrew Parrott and Neil Thompson. He works regularly with the London Mozart Players; most recently taking part in the world premiere of Lynn Plowmann’s Cries Like Silence and also gave three performances of Plowmann’s cycle for tenor and strings The Star Gazer with them. He made his debut singing Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with the
