FULL Phaedra & Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Britten) Victoria BC 2021

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Phaedra & Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings  
• Composer: Britten Benjamin  
• Libretto: Britten assembled the libretto from parts of a translation of Racine's Phèdre by Robert Lowell, various authors  
• Venue & Opera Company: Farquhar Auditorium, Victoria, British Columbia, Pacific Opera Victoria  
• Recorded: June 2021
• Type: Concert Semi-staged
• Singers: Allyson McHardy, Colin Ainsworth
• Conductor: Timothy Vernon  
• Orchestra: Victoria Symphony  
• Stage Director: Rachel Peake  
• Costume Designer:   
• Lighting Designer: Jeff Harrison  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: VictoriaSymphony  
• Date Published: 2021  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The Serenade has eight movements:

“Prologue” (horn solo)
“Pastoral”, a setting of “The Evening Quatrains” by Charles Cotton (1630–1687)
“Nocturne”, a setting of “Blow, bugle, blow” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Elegy”, a setting of “The Sick Rose” by William Blake (1757–1827)
“Dirge”, a setting the anonymous “Lyke-Wake Dirge” (15th century)
“Hymn”, a setting of “Hymn to Diana” by Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“Sonnet”, a setting of “To Sleep” by John Keats (1795–1821)
“Epilogue” (horn solo; reprise of Prologue, played offstage)