Opera classics get cabaret treatment at the Fringe

Published: 6 July 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Opera d’Amici

London-based Opera d’Amici will perform Opera Cabaret at this year’s Buxton Fringe.

Three of Opera d’Amici’s singers who will be at the Fringe have performed in Buxton at the Opera House.

Founder Hannah Kirk had her love of singing awakened when she was at school in Derby. She performed Menotti’s The Telephone at the Buxton Fringe in 1980.

She performs opera classics at many venues throughout the UK and Europe and will this year be singing Michaela in Carmen in Guildford’s Electric Theatre, touring a concert of Verdi opera excerpts with Trevor Alexander and Peter Crockford and singing with the Arcadia String Quartet in the Crush bar at the Royal Opera House.

She will be also be taking Opera d’Amici to a selection of Carluccios restaurants from Leeds to Wimbledon and many private events such as the annual NARPO conference at York racecourse, recitals at Hartfield House and singing at weddings in Tuscany.

Opera Cabaret, which features Viennese songs, duets and trios along with a smattering from the popular operatic repertoire will be staged at St Mary the Virgin Church, Buxton on Friday (12 July) at 7PM.

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