Simon Keenlyside, Audrey Luna, Kate Lindsey, & Iestyn Davies Simon Keenlyside, Audrey Luna, Kate Lindsey, & Iestyn Davies

The concerts, timed to coincide with the Met premiere performances of Adès’s opera
The Tempest, will feature an eclectic range of music from Adès and other composers
who wrote works inspired by Shakespeare’s play. The program will feature two new
arrangements Adès created for the evening.
 
Keenlyside and Luna will sing arias they also perform in Adès’s The Tempest—
Prospero’s Act III aria “Our revels are ended” and Ariel’s Act I aria “Five fathoms deep,”
respectively.
 
Lindsey will sing Stravinsky’s “Three Songs from Shakespeare,” which are “Music to
hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?,” a setting of Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 8; “Full
fathom five,” with text from The Tempest; and “Spring,” with text from Love’s Labour’s
Lost. She will also sing Charles Ives’s “A Sea Dirge,” from his “Eleven Songs and Two
Harmonizations,” set to the text of “Full fathom five” from The Tempest.
 
Davies will sing Michael Tippett’s “Songs for Ariel,” which include “Come unto these
yellow sands,” “Full fathom five,” and “Where the bee sucks”; and two songs from
Purcell’s The Tempest, “Come unto these yellow sands,” and “Full fathom five.”
 
The program will also include “Interlude: Dreaming” from Tippett’s Suite: The Tempest,
arranged for violin and harp, and “Intermezzo (King Alonso)” from Sibelius’s The
Tempest, arranged by Adès for harp and piano. Adès will also play three Stravinsky songs
for piano: “Piano-Rag-Music,” “Souvenir d’une Marche Boche,” and “Valse pour les
enfants.”
 
Keenlyside will perform Prospero in the Met premiere of Adès’s The Tempest, joined by
Luna as Ariel and Davies as Trinculo. Lindsey will next appear at the Met as Annio in
Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito.

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