Vincero! Charitable self-help tenor gala

Last season’s soprano gala created a tradition: we will organise a great, two-part gala concert with piano accompaniment every year for five consecutive years each dedicated to a voice type featuring opera singers, with free attendance and seating in the order of arrival. Calaf’s words in the title make it clear: our tenors are up for going on with this “five-year plan”. They volunteer and discuss their favourite arias, or the programme—performing one song each before and after the interval, or just a single aria, if there are too many of them. They agree before the concert on which of their peers they would like to offer their earnings of the night, as this profession is also full of pitfalls, personal and/or health problems, trauma and loss. Let this day be about the masterful performers of great music, but also about those  who are the sad “Canios” of this profession, the tenors who are in need of some help. 

Featuringthe charitable tenors and accompanists of the OPERA