NCO Studio

A Domestic Comedy

Leonard Bernstein, Trouble in Tahiti

Conductor: Jamie Andrews
Director: Michael Burden

Ante-chapel, New College
8.30pm
2 & 3 March 2023
£15/£7 concessions from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/

Cast

Sam – Jake Sternberg
Dinah – Melissa Talbot
Trio – Ellie Stamp, Edward Beswick, Ben Gilchrist

Leonard Bernstein’s short opera, Trouble in Tahiti, comes between two bigger works, his 1944 On the Town and Candide of 1956. Described as ‘a candid portrait of the troubled marriage of a young suburban couple’, it tells the story of Sam and Dinah, who are trapped in a suburban, middle-class, consumerist world, desiring love and intimacy, but achieving only marital discord.

The title is from an escapist movie, ‘Trouble in Tahiti’, which Dinah goes to see during the afternoon; in the evening, when they fail to address their marital difficulties, the only solution is to go to cinema – where they see ‘Trouble in Tahiti’. The couple are backed by a static trio, fulfilling the role of a Greek chorus and the score, which draws on songs, jazz rhythms and other popular idioms, is dedicated to Marc Blitzstein.

Two Baroque Masterworks

Pergolesi, Stabat Mater; Vivaldi, Nisi Dominus
Conductor: Luke Mitchell
4 March 2023

Ante-chapel, New College
8.30pm
4 March 2023
£12/£5 concessions from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/

Soloists
Maryam Wocial – soprano
Austin Haynes – countertenor

Pergolei’s Stabat Mater of 1736 is one of the best-known 18th-century sacred works. Written by Pergolesi for the Confraternita dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo and was one of his last works; he is said to have died just after completing the composition. The work gained considerable attention almost immediately and it circulated widely in printed editions. The Nisi Dominus is a setting of the Latin text of Psalm 127, the title coming from the first two words of psalm text. It was written in the early 1700s for the Ospedale della Pietà, suggesting that although it has been much recorded by with both women and men as soloists, a female voice was probably Vivaldi’s original intention. The score has been described as having the ‘greatest poise and delicacy’.

NCO Studio Friday Recital Series, 1.15 pm, New College Ante-chapel – HT2023

Welcome to the New Chamber Opera Studio Recital Series which is held on Fridays at 1.15 pm during term time in New College Ante-Chapel. The recital series has been running since 1994 and offers singers across the University and beyond the opportunity to perform a short programme in a relaxed atmosphere.

Week 1 – 20 January
Dónal Mcann
Week 2 – 27 January
Dan Gilchrist
Week 3 – 3 February
Ellie Stamp
Week 4 – 10 February
Maurice Cole
Week 5 – 17 February
William Jeys
Week 6 – 24 February
Ed Beswick
Week 7 – 3 March
Archie Inns
Week 8 – 10 March
Ellie Stamp

Week 1
Dónal Mcann
20 January

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Week 2
Daniel Gilchrist with Alfred Fardell
27 January

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Week 3
Ellie Stamp
3 February

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Week 4
Maurice Cole with Ed Byrne
10 February

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Week 5
Will Jeys with Jamie Andrews
17 February

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Week 6
Edward Beswick with Alfred Fardell
24 February

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Week 7
Archie Inns with Jake Sternberg
3 March

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Week 8
Ellie Stamp Consort
(cancelled)
10 March

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NCO Studio Friday Recital Series, 1.15 pm, New College Ante-chapel – MT2022

Welcome to the New Chamber Opera Studio Recital Series which is held on Fridays at 1.15 pm during term time in New College Ante-Chapel. The recital series has been running since 1994 and offers singers across the University and beyond the opportunity to perform a short programme in a relaxed atmosphere.

Week 1 – 14 October
Elizabeth Nurse
Week 2 – 21 October
Maryam Wocial
Week 3 – 28 October
Austin Haynes
Week 4 – 4 November
Karol Jozwik
Week 5 – 11 November
John Johnston
Week 6 – 18 November
Lizi Vineall
Week 7 – 25 November
Joshua Kenney
Week 8 – 2 December
Francis Brown

Week 1
Elizabeth Nurse with Luke Mitchell
14 October

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Week 2
Maryam Wocial with Will Fox
21 October

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Week 3
Austin Haynes – Cancelled
28 October

Week 4
Karol Jozwik – Cancelled
4 November

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Week 5
John Johnston with Alfred Fardell
11 November

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Week 6
Lizi Vineall with Jessie Edgar
18 November

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Week 7
Joshua Kenney with Alfred Fardell
25 November

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Week 8
Francis Brown with Alexander Pott
2 December

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Love & Death

Johann Pepusch
The Death of Dido
27 & 28 January 2023

Conductor: Luke Mitchell
Director: Michael Burden

27 & 28 January 2023
8.30 pm
Ante-Chapel, New College

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Cast
Dido – Maryam Wocial
Aeneas – Austin Haynes
Cupid – Ischia Gooda
Mercury – Matthew Pope


Aeneas loves Dido but abandons her to fate …
The Death of Dido is one of a group of masques written in and around 1715; it has music by Johann Pepusch, a German composer who had arrived in England in 1704. Booth’s libretto uses the same part of Virgil’s story used by Tate for Purcell’s more famous opera, Dido and Aeneas; Aeneas, searching for a new Rome, called at Carthage and the gods intervene to drive him off, and Dido thrown into despair, dies.




NCO Studio Friday Recital Series, 1.15 pm, New College Ante-chapel – TT2022

Welcome to the New Chamber Opera Studio Recital Series which is held on Fridays at 1.15 pm during term time in New College Ante-Chapel. The recital series has been running since 1994 and offers singers across the University and beyond the opportunity to perform a short programme in a relaxed atmosphere.

Week 1 – 29 April
Ben Watkins
Week 2 – 6 May
Amy Higgins
Week 3 – 13 May
Jessie Edgar
Week 4 – 20 May
Theo Nisbett
Week 5 – 27 May
Dónal McCann – Cancelled
Week 6 – 3 June
Lois Heslop
Week 7 – 10 June
Clara Wittmann
Week 8 – 17 June
Anna Townsend

Week 1
29 April
Ben Watkins with Dónal McCann
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Week 2
6 May
Amy Higgins with Tom Burkill
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Week 3
13 May
Jessie Edgar with Luke Mitchell & Dan Gilchrist
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Week 5
27 May
Dónal McCann with Robert Quinney – Cancelled
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Week 6
3 June
Lois Heslop with John Johnston & Jamie Andrews
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Week 7
10 June
Clara Wittmann with Clara Graham & Jack Edis
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Week 8
17June
Anna Townsend with Harry Baigent
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NCO Studio Friday Recital Series, 1.15 pm, New College Ante-chapel – HT2022

Welcome to the New Chamber Opera Studio Recital Series which is held on Fridays at 1.15 pm during term time in New College Ante-Chapel. The recital series has been running since 1994 and offers singers across the University and beyond the opportunity to perform a short programme in a relaxed atmosphere.

We are pleased to announce that New College is once again open, and that the recital series is back in person.

Week 1            21 January
Dan Gilchrist
Week 2            28 January
Austin Haynes
Week 3            4 February
Maryam Wocial (rescheduled to Week 4)
Week 4            11 February
Maryam Wocial
Week 5            18 February
Seb Hill
Week 6            25 February
Dom Grimshaw (cancelled)
Week 7            4 March
Saskia Jamieson Bibb
Week 8            11 March
Melissa Talbot

Week 1
21 January
Dan Gilchrist with Dónal McCann
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Week 2
28 January
Austin Haynes with Luke Mitchell
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Week 3
4 February
Maryam Wocial
Rescheduled to
11 February

Week 5
18 February
Seb Hill with William Harmer
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Unfortunately and with apologies, the livestream is not available for this recital.

Week 6
25 February
Dom Grimshaw
Cancelled due to illness.

Week 7
4 March
Saskia Jamieson Bibb with Harry Baigent
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Week 8
11 March
Melissa Talbot
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Unfortunately and with apologies, the livestream is not available for this recital.

NCO Studio Friday Recital Series, 1.15 pm, New College Ante-chapel – MT2021

Welcome to the New Chamber Opera Studio Recital Series which is held on Fridays at 1.15 pm during term time in New College Ante-Chapel. The recital series has been running since 1994 and offers singers across the University and beyond the opportunity to perform a short programme in a relaxed atmosphere.

We are pleased to announce that New College is once again open, and that the recital series is back in person.


Week 2            22 October
Theo Nesbitt
Week 3            29 October
Colin Danskin
Week 4            5 November
Maryam Wocial
Week 5            12 November
Austin Haynes
Week 6            19 November
Sternberg Consort
Week 7            26 November
Melissa Talbot
Week 8            3 December
Matt Pope

Week 2
22 October
Theo Nisbett, with Dónal McCann
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Week 3
29 October
Colin Danskin, with Dónal McCann
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Week 4
5 November
Maryam Wocial, with Dónal McCann
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Week 5
12 November
Austin Haynes with Luke Mitchell
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Week 7
26 November
Jessica Edgar with Luke Mitchell
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Week 8
3 December
Matt Pope, with Dónal McCann
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NCO Studio Friday Recital Series, 1.15 pm, New College Ante-chapel – TT2021

Welcome to the New Chamber Opera Studio Recital Series which is held on Fridays at 1.15 pm during term time in New College Ante-Chapel. The recital series has been running since 1994 and offers singers across the University and beyond the opportunity to perform a short programme in a relaxed atmosphere.

Sadly, the College is currently closed to all visitors. To join the weekly recitals by livestream, please click on the links provided below. The recordings will be available until 30 June 2021.

Week 1            30 April
Theo Nesbitt with Dónal McCann
Week 2            7 May
Maryam Wocial with Toby Stanford
Week 3            14 May
John Johnston with Dónal McCann
Week 4            21 May
Karol Jozwik with Jamie Andrews
Week 5            28 May
Emily Mustoe with Matthew Foster
Week 6            4 June
Filippo Turkheimer with Helen Chua
Week 7            11 June (Performance Postponed)
Will Prior with Will Harmer
Week 8            18 June
Elizabeth Vineall with Toby Stanford

Week 1 – 30 April
Theo Nisbett, with Dónal McCann
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Week 2 – 7 May
Maryam Wocial, with Toby Stanford
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Week 3 – 14 May
John Johnston, with Dónal McCann
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Week 4 –21 May
Karol Jozwik, with
Jamie Andrews
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Week 5 – 28 May
Emily Mustoe, with
Matthew Foster
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Week 6 – 4 June
Filippo Turkheimer, with Helen Chua
Performance Postponed
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Week 8– 18 June
Elizabeth Vineall, with Toby Stanford
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NCO Studio Friday Recital Series, 1.15 pm, New College Ante-chapel – MT2020

Welcome to the New Chamber Opera Studio Friday Recital Series. The recital series has been running since 1994 and offers singers across the University and beyond the opportunity to perform a short programme in a relaxed atmosphere.

Sadly, the College is currently closed to all visitors, and non-New College members are not able to attend the recitals.

* Please print off your ticket and bring it with you. Please do the same with the programme and biography; these will not be available at the venue.

Week 1 – 16 October
Filippo Turkheimer, with Donal McCannÂ
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Week 2 – 23 October
Maryam Wocial, with Toby Stanford
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Unchanged:

Week 3 – 30 October
No recital

Cancelled
Week 4 – 6 November
Chris Murphy, with Toby Stanford
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Week 5 – 13 November
Theo Nisbett, with Dónal McCann
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Week 7– 27 November
Tom McGowan with Ben Collyer
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Week 8– 4 December
Richard Douglas, with Toby Stanford
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