Dingle Yandell bass baritone, Adrienne Black (piano)

Programme TBC but to include -  Wesendonck Lieder as a central theme with some other music by Wagner, Strauss, Loewe, Schumann and Schubert.

British bass-baritone Dingle Yandell studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio. He was one of the inaugural 'Rising Stars' of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and was a founder member of the award-winning British vocal ensemble Voces8, with whom he toured internationally for ten years. In the 2024/25 season he makes his English National Opera debut as Colline in La bohème and his Japanese debut as Commendatore in Don Giovanni with the prestigious Bach Collegium Japan. A regular guest at Glyndebourne, he returns there next summer in a new production of Parsifal. On the concert platform, he sings Handel’s Messiah with Ulster Consort, Schütz and Praetorius selections with Arcangelo, and Bach’s St John Passion with the Academy of Ancient Music.

Recent operatic engagements include André Thorel Thérèse (Scottish Opera), Theseus A Midsummer Night's Dream (Glyndebourne Opera), Don Pizarro Fidelio (Glyndebourne tour); Colline La bohème (Nevill Holt Opera); Snug A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scottish Opera); Commendatore Don Giovanni (Nevill Holt Opera, Oxford Sinfonia); his role debut as Fafner Das Rheingold (Grimeborn); Angelotti Tosca, Sarastro and Speaker of the Temple Die Zauberflöte, Count Ceprano and cover Sparafucile Rigoletto, and Immigration Officer Flight (Scottish Opera); The Doctor Pelléas et Mélisande, cover Don Geronio Il turco in Italia, and cover La Roche Capriccio (Garsington Opera); Plutone in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (L'Arpeggiata); Seneca L'incoronazione di Poppea (Bach Collegium Japan); and The Cold Genius and Aeolus King Arthur (Gabrieli Consort).  

Box Office and bar open from 6.45pm.

Tickets: 16-24  £18 / 25-59 £26 / 60+ £24 / Under-16s free