Rossini Stabat Mater
The concert in Bedford Corn Exchange on Saturday had a lovely atmosphere. The Rossini is one of the best 2nd rate oratorios and I mean that in a really positive way. It’s so dramatic it’s practically a mini opera. I think half the reason there was such a lovely feel to the evening was that father and daughter were the tenor and soprano soloists; Bonaventura Bottone and his daughter Rebecca. He must be 60 now but has the freshness of a voice 20 years younger and a top D flat to boot (for those of you who don’t necessarily know what that sounds like, it is a whole tone above the highest note in Nessun Dorma!). You got the feeling he could have gone higher too. His daughter has clearly inherited his singing talent.
Anyway, it was not the ideal conditions to be singing a concert as I’d been in Lewisham A&E with J on the Thursday and then Kings on the Friday. They kept him in Friday night and threatened to operate on a suspected hernia at about 1 in the morning but luckily the radiographer stepped in and they pumped him full of antibiotics instead. Anyway, by Saturday lunchtime he was stable so I went off to Bedford half asleep leaving a set of wonderful grandparents holding the fort.
Off to Sheffield this weekend to sing Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis but as yet no hospital dramas to contend with. How boring and yet how blissful.
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david
6:37 pm, March 26, 2010
Sounds a fab concert!!…so nice to have a family involved I imagine. Seems that the life of a Domestic Diva is certainly not boring!!!!! all the best to J for a rapid recovery. Hope this weekend is a little more relaxed!