Brews, Beauties and Brawlers

So on Saturday night at St.Olave’s CE I finally managed to catch a concert in the Apocryphonia series.  It was titled Brews, Beauties and Brawlers and was billed as “classical” meets “punk”.  It was a collection of pieces for piano, solo voice and/or choir and organiser Alexander Capellazzo had recruited four voices of each type with soloists coming from the group.  Narmina Afaniyeva was at the piano.  Everybody (and some of the audience) had dressed for the occasion!

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Cervantes finds a plot

Jacinto Guerrero’s El huésped del Sevillano (The Guest at the Inn) is a zarzuela that premiered in Madrid in 1926.  It’s a light hearted musical romp and the soprano doesn’t die at the end.  I caught the last of three performances given by Toronto Operetta Theatre at the St. Lawrence Centre directed by Guillermo Silva-Marin.

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