10
October 2024

Handbags at Dawn! Great Operatic Rivalries

The Arts Society Teignbridge
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 10:30
Courtenay Centre
Kingsteignton Road Newton Abbot TQ12 2QA
Online Event

A look at some of opera's greatest rivalries, spats and tiffs, ranging from the throw-away remark to full in-public fighting.

They certainly make for a spicy history. Which individual or voice category might be the worst example? Are they an intrinsic part of opera? Whose fault are they? We will hear and see examples of great singers from the past to the present.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Tim Mirfin

Tim Mirfin is an opera singer. He has performed in all major European countries, Russia, US, Australia and the Middle East. He has given concerts in some of classical music’s most iconic venues, such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Musikverein, the Bolshoi, the Wigmore, Festival and Albert Halls. He also teaches singing, gives masterclasses, lectures on opera and the voice and runs a local community choir. 

He studied postgraduate at the Royal Academy of Music and National Opera Studio, previously reading law at Cambridge. He is passionate both about opera as an art form and also about the sheer act of singing. He is keen to share peaks behind the curtain on both apparently mysterious activities.