Event listing: Eight Songs for a Mad King | Ellen Melville Centre | Event is in the past

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Ellen Melville Centre2 Freyberg Place, Auckland CBD,, Auckland, 1000, New Zealand

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Programme

Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell (1934-2016)

Performers

New Zealand Opera
Timothy Carpenter	Conductor
Thomas de Mallet Burgess	Director
Robin Rawstorne	Set Designer
Stroma Ensemble
Robert Tucker	Baritone	King George III

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Simon Holden, 11th March

The vocal part requires a range covering over five octaves, from the lowest bass notes to a high falsetto and Robert Tucker coped amazingly with the score’s lyrical elements and the various shrieking, whispering and clucking noises he was called upon to create.

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