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Performances

Friday 2nd May

Time:   12:00  -  12:10

Shakespeare In Music Opening Ceremony

Brief messages from the three Patrons of Shakespeare in Music

 

to open the first SIM Festival    

Dame Jane Glover
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Roderick Williams

Time:   12:00  -  13:20

Venus & Adonis
with music by Felix Mendelssohn 

Actor Christopher Kent and pianist Gamal Khamis present a dramatic re-imagining of Shakespeare’s early narrative poem, Venus and Adonis. Edited and adapted by Christopher Kent and directed by Georgia Brown, the poem is interspersed with selections from Felix Mendelssohn’s hauntingly beautiful Songs Without Words. The interplay of Shakespeare’s verse with Mendelssohn’s music infuses human passions into this mythological tale. 

Programme Notes

Chris Kent and Gamal Khamis

Time:   15:30  -  16:30

How Shakespeare became global
 

Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute - part of the University of Birmingham located in Stratford - provides an authoritative overview of the forces that helped make Shakespeare into the international icon that he has become. 

 

This talk will be introduced by Paul Higgins, Trustee of SIM.  

Programme Notes

Professor Michael Dobson

Time:   14:00  -  15:00

"Come, some music, come the recorders"
 

After their success at the King’s Gallery in London, the Renaissance Recorder Consort of the Royal College of Music presents an eloquent selection of pieces by Shakespeare’s musical contemporaries from England and abroad. Played on original instruments, composers include Dowland, Harding, Coprario and Ferrabosco. ​

Programme Notes​​

Royal College of Music Recorder Consort

Time:   19:30  -  21:30

Shakespeare's Legacy in English Opera
 

Jon French with soloists from The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Ella Blair (soprano), India Harding (mezzo), Joe Yates (tenor) and Oliver Barker (bass), provide an enchanting evening of extracts from operas inspired by Shakespeare’s work. Singers accompanied by Jon French on the piano.

The evening will be introduced by Robert Lloyd, Patron of SIM.  

Programme Notes

Jon French

Friday 2nd May

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