Cherry Potts, Writer

Category: music

  • Fast and Furious Figaro

    Fast and Furious Figaro

    Puzzle Piece Opera’s Figaro in 50 minutes, is the latest in a series of 50 minute operas they have performed and my second Figaro in a week, but  it was worth the journey, and what a journey! Figaro transported to the office at top speed. How do you get through the Marriage of Figaro in…

  • Spooky Serenade

    Spent Saturday afternoon at a singing workshop run by Stephen Taberner of the Spooky Men’s Chorale.  There were about eighty of us, a high proportion affiliated to Raise the Roof in its various guises, other people I recognised from Sing for Water, and many complete strangers. We started with a physical warm up and relax…

  • Feverish Figaro

    To the ENO for the Marriage of Figaro last night, with around 20 fellow Onegin  chorus members, which added to the entertainment value.  We went because Kate Valentine, who sang Tatyana in our production of Eugene Onegin, is singing the Countess, and very relieved we were that she was singing the Countess, as she missed…

  • Feasting the senses

    Feasting the senses

    It’s been a bit of an indulgent weekend, feasting our senses, and there’s more to come. We started with the visual and a trip to the Guildhall Art Gallery in the heart of the city for an exhibition of John Atkinson Grimshaw paintings.  Grimshaw started out as a bit of a fellow traveller with the…

  • Songs from the Edge

    Songs from the Edge

    Our local church, St Augustine’s on One Tree Hill, likes music and as a consequence sees more of us than they would otherwise.  Last night there was more reason than usual to go, as our friends Mel, Katrina and Laura were playing. The evening was entitled Songs from the Edge: The edge of what, I…

  • The Passenger

    So the Wendy Dawn Thompson Fan Club (Blackheath Chapter) were out in force last night, Me and A, M and D (separately, we thought they were going a different night and bumped into them in the bar).  I have to admit I would not have gone to The Passenger if WDT (Vlasta) hadn’t been in…

  • Singing for Water

    Singing for Water

    What a great day of singing.  My feet are feeling it, but we’ve had a superb  day out, doing what we love best, and raised some money for charity in the process.  Our sponsorship page will function for another three months, but no need to wait, donate now! Please!! Around 800 people, representing over 50…

  • Sing for Water final preparations

    It’s been a manic couple of days, we drove home from holiday yesterday, had showers and went out again, to North London for a final Raise the Roof rehearsal for Sing for Water.  Mel hosted a tight squeeze in her flat, and everyone brought food and drink.  A boiling hot evening, all the windows open…

  • Eugene Onegin – Gallery – Production team & Dancers

    Eugene Onegin – Gallery – Production team & Dancers

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  • Eugene Onegin – the Chorus – Act III and miscellaneous

    Eugene Onegin – the Chorus – Act III and miscellaneous

    More comments from the Audience: We came specially from Amsterdam (where we often go to the opera), to watch that electric first performance – it was well worth the trip. The professionals were excellent, both in their singing and their acting. The orchestra flung their hearts into the music and the chorus, surging in from…