Oxford Lieder at Rye Creative Centre: Olivia Boen & Sholto Kynoch
14 May 2022, 18:00 - 19:00
We are delighted to return to Rye Creative Centre and welcome soprano Olivia Boen, with pianist Sholto Kynoch, for a programme of songs that owes its origins to Salzburg's famous Café Bazar. The Café Bazar was an extraordinary meeting place for creative intellectuals in the 1920s and was the launchpad for the International Society of Contemporary Music one hundred years ago. Today's programme features music by some of the most important composers in ISCM's early days: Debussy, Strauss, Ethel Smyth, Manuel de Falla and others.
Olivia is an award-winning graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall where she was a finalist in the 2021 Gold Medal competition at the Barbican. She also gave one of the 2021 Oxford Lieder Festival's 'Emerging Artist' slots.
Programme
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Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944)
Nachtreiter (Op. 4 no.4) -
Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)
Die Nachtigall from Sieben frühe Lieder -
Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937)
Der verliebte Ostwind (Op. 24 no.5) from The Love Songs of Hafiz -
Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944)
Possession from Three Songs -
Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
An die Nacht (Op. 68 no.1) from Sechs Lieder -
Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
Le balcon from Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire - Le jet d'eau from Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire
- La mort des amants from Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire
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Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
Les chemins de l'amour (FP 106) Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)
Siete canciones populares Españolas
- 1. El paño moruno
- 2. Seguidilla murciana
- 3. Asturiana
- 4. Jota
- 5. Nana
- 6. Canción
- 7. Polo
Olivia Boen
Olivia Boen
Soprano
Praised for her “full-bodied, sparkling tone” (Cleveland Classical), Chicago-born lyric soprano Olivia Boen is increasingly in demand both on the operatic stage and in the recital hall. In the 2022-23 season, she will make her role debuts as Musetta and Gretel at the Hamburg Staatsoper, where she will be joining the International Opera Studio. This season, Olivia made her debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis in Beethoven’s concert aria “Ah, Perfido!” and performed her f... Read Full Biography
Sholto Kynoch