Sydney-born mezzo-soprano Vivien Conacher trained on ENO OperaWorks and holds a Masters in Performance (with Distinction) from the Royal College of Music. She has performed for Opera Australia, Pop-up Opera, Wexford Festival Opera, Iford Arts Festival, St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Grange Park Opera, and the BBC Proms. Vivien is a Concordia Foundation Artist, a Tait Memorial Trust Awardee, an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and was a finalist in London Song Festival’s 2016 British Song Prize. She also runs a dementia-friendly concert series in central London called Songhaven. 

PROGRAMME

Vincenzo Bellini Vaga luna che inargenti (1838) 

Samuel Barber Sure on this Shining Night

Four Songs Op. 13 no. 3 (1938)

Johannes Brahms Mondnacht WoO.21 (1853) 

Reynaldo Hahn L’heure exquise

Chansons grises, No.5 (1892)

Samuel Barber Nocturne

Four Songs Op. 13 no.4 (1941)

Giuseppe Verdi Perduta ho la pace from Composizioni da Camera (1838)

Franz Schubert Romanze from Rosamunde D.797 no.3b (1823)

Hugo Wolf Agnes

Mörike Lieder, No.14 (1888)

Aaron Copeland Heart we will Forget Him

12 Poems of Emily Dickinson no.5 (1950)

Benjamin Britten Johnny from Cabaret Songs (1937)