Concert - The Final Fling- Wynne Whizzes It Up

From the Grange Park Opera website: "A delectable night of music and dance"

Please note -  there was no printed programme for this concert.  The details below are a result of the 'collective memory' of several audience members.

Programme

Introduction and Fund Raising Speech - Wasfi Kani

Introduction - Wynne Evans

'Food, Glorious Food' from 'Oliver!' - Grange Park Primary Robins from Ongar Primary School

Aria - Prologue from Pagliacci by Leoncavallo - Simon Keenlyside

Food and opera anecdotes - Wynne Evans

Ballet - 'The Dying Swan' - Bethany Bartlett

Ballet -  'After the Rain', choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon - Scarlett Harvey and Luc Foskett

Food and opera anecdotes - Wynne Evans

Percussion - various pieces - O Duo

Food and opera anecdotes - Wynne Evans

Arias - Posa's death scene from Verdi's Don Carlo - "Io morrò, ma lieto in core" - Simon Keenlyside

            Valentin's aria from Gounod's Faust - "Avant de quitter ces lieux" - Simon Keenlyside

INTERVAL

Ballet Sequence - Bethany Bartlett, Scarlett Harvey, Luc Foskett, Emile Gooding

Gershwin 'I Got Rhythm' - Simon Keenlyside

Rodgers & Hammerstein 'Soliloquy' from 'Carousel' - Simon Keenlyside

Mitch Leigh  'The Impossible Dream' from 'Man of La Mancha' - Wynne Evans

Percussion - various pieces - O Duo

Lionel Bart - 'Reviewing the Situation' from 'Oliver!' - Simon Keenlyside

Traditional song arr. Percy Grainger - 'The Sprig of Thyme' - Simon Keenlyside

Some videos of Simon singing at this concert have been posted by Grange Park Opera. Click on links below to open the videos in YouTube:

Posa's Aria from Verdi's 'Don Carlos'

'Reviewing the Situation' from 'Oliver!'

'The Sprig of Thyme'