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The Majendie Hall, Speen, NewburyWednesday 5 April 2017 at 7:30

Come and hear us again!We’re presenting Mozart’s Last Year again in:

N MAY: Letcombe Regis village hall (near Wantage)

Sunday 21 May, afternoon

N JULY: St Lawrence’s Church, Hungerford – for HADCAF

Saturday 15 July, evening

N AUGUST: Stockcross village hall (near Newbury) –

for STOCKFEST 17, Thursday 17 August, evening.

We’re presenting The Marriage of Figaro, our main 2017 production, at:

N ARLINGTON ARTS, near Newbury, 2–4 November

Full stage production, with orchestra, in English

Or even better,

Come and SING WITH US!Our Musical Director Max Fane says:

I’ve been in love with opera and singing since I was 14. I believe that singing is for everyone. I believe that you do not have to read music to

enjoy and achieve good singing. In fact it’s best not even to think about it!

We have lots of really exciting and rewarding projects on offer at Kennet Opera. I encourage you all to come along and give it a go. You have nothing to lose and so much to gain!

Kennet Opera chorus

Sopranos Lydia Finch, Lucy Fitt, Natalie Forrester, Tamsin Slatter

Altos Cathy Black, Christine Crerar, Joanna Jones

Tenors Mark Bishop, Ant Goff art, Jim Needham, Duncan Powell

Basses David Bunney, James Mitchell, Adrian Slatter, Alf Wheeler

MOZART died in Vienna in 1791 at the age of thirty-fi ve. His output in that last year was extraordinary, containing some of his

best-loved vocal works – � e Magic Flute, La Clemenza di Tito, the Ave Verum and, of course, the Requiem. In tonight’s concert, selections from these works are sung by the company, and the story behind them, and the life and death of their author, is described by his close friend Emanuel Schikaneder.

SCHIKANEDER was an enormous fi gure in his own right, actor, singer, playwright, theatre manager, producer and impresario,

who dominated theatre life under the Habsburgs for decades. He commissioned � e Magic Flute from Mozart, wrote the libretto and was the original Papageno. � e musical of his own life, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, is currently a box-offi ce smash in Vienna.

SCHIKANEDER, now playing at the Raimund Theater, Vienna. Music

and lyrics Stephen Schwartz, director

Trevor Nunn.

ACT 1

Requiem: Rex Aeternam, Kyrie, Dies Irae

Ave Verum

From � e Magic Flute: Priests’ Chorus, Spirits trio, Sarastro ‘O Isis and Osiris’

From Don Giovanni:Finale Act 1

INTERVAL

ACT II

From La Clemenza di Tito:Finale Act II

Requiem:Tuba Mirum, Rex Tremendae, Recordare

ConfutatisLacrimosa

From � e Magic Flute:Finale Act II

Q Musical director Max Fane

Accompanist Jo Shepherd

Emanuel Schikaneder Don Crerar

Q

Vienna, : Mozart’s last year