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2009 Celebrity Concert
Andrew Kennedy and Toby Stafford-Allen
The Sage Gateshead Hall 1
23rd May 2009
The Felling has brought the Kings Singers, Sir Thomas Allen and the Angel Proms to Hall One at The Sage Gateshead in the last 18 months. Tonight the choir brings you the very best of new singing talent in Andrew Kennedy, Tenor, and Toby Stafford-Allen, Baritone.
Andrew, a native of Ashington, won the 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Prize and the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artists' Award in 2006. He is already in great demand throughout Europe as one of the best young English tenors of his generation and we are fortunate to have him on home ground for a night.
Toby Stafford-Allen comes highly recommended by none other than local operatic superstar, [and sometime Toon fan], Graeme Danby. Of Toby’s performance as Papageno, [Die Zauberflote, Mozart], at Glyndebourne Martin Kettle of The Guardian said, ‘it was well-acted and generously sung and took the performance honours; another fine British baritone in the making’.
See and hear these fine young singers perform solo, in duet and with the choir before their fame puts them out of reach.
This is a charity celebrity concert by FMVC supporting The Prostate Cancer Charity and Wansbeck Hospital Palliative Care
Tickets £14, £12, £10Ticket Office: 0191 443 4661
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2008 Celebrity Concert
Sir Thomas Allen
The Sage Gateshead Hall 1
25th October 2008
Thomas Allen is an established star of the great opera houses of the world. At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where in 2006 he celebrated the thirty-fifth anniversary of his debut with the company, he has sung over forty roles.
He has been particularly acclaimed for his Billy Budd, Pelléas, Eugene Onegin, Ulisse and Beckmesser, as well as the great Mozart roles of Count Almaviva, Don Alfonso, Papageno, Guglielmo and, of course, Don Giovanni. His recent engagements have included Eisenstein (‘Die Fledermaus’), Don Alfonso, Ulisse and Don Giovanni at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Yeletsky (‘Pique Dame’) Sharpless (‘Madama Butterfly’) and the title role in ‘Sweeney Todd’ at the Royal Opera House, Eisenstein at the Glyndebourne Festival, Don Alfonso at the Salzburg Easter and Summer Festivals, Forester (‘The Cunning Little Vixen’) at the San Francisco Opera and Beckmesser at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Equally renowned on the concert platform, he appears in recital in the United Kingdom, throughout Europe, in Australia and America, and has appeared with the world's great orchestras and conductors. The greatest part of his repertoire has been extensively recorded with such distinguished names as Solti, Levine, Marriner, Haitink, Rattle, Sawallisch and Muti. Thomas Allen's first book, 'Foreign Parts - A Singer's Journal' was published in 1993, and he recently made a triumphant directing debut with ‘Albert Herring’ at the Royal College of Music.
His many honours include the title of Bayerischer Kammersänger awarded by the Bayerische Staatsoper, Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music, Prince Consort Professor of the Royal College of Music, the Hambro Visiting Professorship of Opera Studies at Oxford University, Fellowship of the Royal College of Music, Fellowship of the University of Sunderland, M.A. from Newcastle University and D.Mus. from Durham University and the University of Birmingham. In the New Year's Honours of 1989 he was created a Commander of the British Empire and in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours he was made a Knight Bachelor. His film credits include ‘Mrs Henderson Presents’ and ‘The Real Don Giovanni’.
2007 Celebrity Concert
The King's Singers
The Sage Gateshead Hall 1
19th May 2007
The Felling Male Voice Choir were delighted to announce the King's Singers as their guests for the 2007 Celebrity Concert at The Sage Gateshead
It had been many years since this internationally famous group of six singer performed in the North East but their reputation has not diminished. The Felling was proud to be bringing them to Gateshead; to perform for people who remain their fans and to introduce them to a new audience
As The London Times put it, they are "still unmatched for their musicality and sheer ability to entertain" and everyone at the concert will bear testiment to that.