1 July, 2020
Pop-up Workshop: How can I create more resonance?
Wednesday 1st July, from 6 – 8 pm
Barefoot Opera team leaders Penelope Randall Davis, Jenny Miller, Alexandra Baybutt, and Evelyn Miller will take it in turns to explore this question using detailed exercises with movement and breath.
By responding to each other’s work, they will create a more seamless and varied experience for our participants.
We are keeping the cost very low, £10, to enable access. This will also be a little taster for our late summer on-line course – info here!
Praise for our last workshop:
“So generous! Was such a powerful experience please ask jenny to do another session”
“Thank you so much for a fascinating session last Wednesday! I very much enjoyed your teaching and your philosophy. ”
“I really enjoyed the session”
For this workshop it would be great to familiarise yourself with the first two pages of O Del Mio Dolce Ardor – by Gluck – found in 24 songs and arias of the 17 and 18th centuries (Schirmer) or easily found on-line.
It is NOT necessary to memorise – and if you are not comfortable with Italian just become familiar with the melody.
(O del mio dolce ardor)
Download link: http://artsongcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/1ais103.pdf
13 March, 2020 - 15 March, 2020
‘Dido and Aeneas’ in a weekend
Barefoot Opera went to Ushaw
March 2020
Barefoot Opera went north to create Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ from scratch to performance in a single weekend.
Barefoot’s creative team; Jenny Miller, Lesley-Anne Sammons and Penelope Randall-Davis created a special weekend which offered opportunities for 10 soloists and 24 choristers.
22 February, 2020
Coloratura Brainstorm
Saturday 22nd February, 2020
10.30 am – 5 pm
Penny Randall-Davis, Tutor
A fun and informative day designed to help all types of singers develop their coloratura skills. Stimulating group-work will be followed by solo ‘masterclass’ slots in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere. There will also be time for questions and exploration as we tackle thorny issues!
18 January, 2020
Breath as Choreography
The visible and invisible shaping of vocal music
Stop press!
Advanced one day workshop.
Sunday, 19th January 2020
Barefoot Studio (93 Endwell Road London SE42NF)
10:30-5:30
Join us for a day of in-depth movement, breath and voice work with Alexandra Baybutt, Jenny Miller and guest artist Aleksandra Ristic. With each singer using audition arias or other significant pieces of solo music, we will explore in detail how to allow full-body participation in phrasing, colour change and physical response.
Monthly Workshops
Monthly workshops, 6pm – 9:30pm at Barefoot Studio in Brockley London.
I offer one MONDAY evening a month to open singing workshops. It is a huge benefit to get up and sing for others, enabling singers to confirm and strengthen and clarify technical and performance goals – and it is great to share the process!
Young Artists Tour
Dates to be confirmed in relation to government policy with regard to Covid-19.
Rossini’s La Cenerentola
Coming Summer 2020
Barefoot Opera Young Artists Tour is an advanced training programme well-known for its strong production values and demanding educational rehearsal structure. In the Summer of 2020, we will be touring a new production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola.
