Wight Proms Wednesdays: Jack Roberts (Voice)

Join island tenor Jack Roberts for an intimate concert in the stunning setting of Northwood House's Ballroom. You can join us for lunch directly after the concert, served in the Drawing Room. Select from our three options when buying tickets.

PROGRAMME

A Wandering Minstrel (The Mikado, Gilbert & Sullivan)
O Colombina (Pagliacci, Leoncavallo)
Let me enjoy the earth (from cycle Till Earth Outwears, Finzi)
Finzi: In Years Defaced (Till Earth Outwears, Finzi)
Sole e amore (Puccini)
Avanti Urania (Puccini)
Piano piece: Sonetto del Petrarca 104 (Liszt)
Pastorello d’un povero armento (Rodelinda, Handel)
Ecco ridente in cielo (The Barber of Seville, Rossini)
The Plough Boy (Britten)
Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (Das Lane des Lächelns, Lehar)

If you would like to join us for lunch afterwards, please pre-order by the end of the Monday, two days before the concert.

Welcome to Wight Proms Wednesdays! We would like to bring you a bit of the Wight Proms throughout the year and not just in August, and so we launched this lunchtime concert series. Taking place at 12:30 on Wednesdays and each lasting 40 minutes, they are the ideal addition to your lunch break.

Possessing a tenor voice described as 'crystal clear' and 'exceptional', Jack Roberts is a young tenor, fresh out of The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and rapidly building a portfolio of performing experience in professional opera and operetta. At college he won the Joyce Budd Second Prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary for Young Singers and went on to graduate with a 1st Class Honours in classical voice.