Free Opera in the Park and at the Racecourse

After the success of its inaugural outdoor opera performance in 2008, Singapore Lyric Opera returns this year with not one, but two performances – Opera in the Park and Opera at the Race Course. Once again spectators will be whisked away by well-loved and well-known arias (songs) that the crowd is sure to ‘lap up’ at the Singapore Botanic Gardens on Saturday, June 13 and at the Singapore Turf Club on Sunday, June 14 respectively.

Admission to both Opera in the Park and Opera at the Race Course is free. The hour- long performance features a programme of popular and favourite opera highlights by composers Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Lehar, Dvorak, Mascagni and Puccini. Audiences will also be treated to Sartori’s Con Te Partiro premiered by Andrea Bocelli.

The Singapore Lyric Opera Orchestra will provide the lush musical setting, conducted by Joshua Tan Kang Ming. Joshua is a young Singapore conductor now based in New York, who is currently making a mark at the Aspen Music Festival. He won 2nd Prize in the Dmitri Mitropoulous Conducting Award in 2008. Joshua was a recipient of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra/MOE and 2007 NAC-Shell Scholarships and graduated with High Distinction from the Eastman School of Music where he also got the Book Prize and Kilbourn Chamber Music Honors Recital.

Joining Joshua in Opera in the Park and Opera at the Race Course will be renowned local opera singer, tenor Lim Shieh Yih and young emerging singers, sopranos Li Yang and Kristin Solverson.

Opera in the Park and Opera at the Race Course is an initiative that encourages Opera appreciation among residents and a public service of Singapore Lyric Opera.

Venue sponsors Singapore Botanic Gardens and Singapore Turf Club provide the perfect setting for romance and gatherings among friends and families too.

Opera in the Park and Opera at the Race Course is presented in collaboration with the National Arts Council, Hong Leong Foundation, Arts Fund and Singapore Turf Club, in partnership with PASSION CARD and its official radio station Symphony 92.4FM.

Opera in the Park
Saturday, June 13 2009, 6pm
Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage, Singapore Botanic Gardens
Admission is FREE

Opera at the Race Course
Sunday, June 14 2009
7pm
Singapore Turf Club
Admission is FREE