Classical and Jazz: Preview - Soprano Claire Booth at King's Place and The Barbican
Published: 18 November, 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Hampstead soprano Claire Booth will be demonstrating her extraordinary vocal dexterity in succeeding concerts late next week.
First, on Thursday at the Kings Place arts venue, she’s taking part in concert performances with integrated film put on by Transitions Projects run by Camden Town director Netia Jones.
She’ll be giving two portraits of women on the edge.
One is La voix humaine, Poulenc’s astonishing setting of Jean Cocteau’s monologue by a lone female on the telephone, an appropriate subject for today’s mobile phone society. The other is Luciano Berio’s Sequenze 111, which pushes the female voice to extreme feats of virtuosity.
Second, next Friday at the Barbican, she’ll be singing Aaron Copland’s Eight poems of Emily Dickinson with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen.
Barbican concert: www.barbican.org.uk