O Mistress Mine
Anne Hathaway looks back on Will's life as his first Portfolio is published
O Mistress Mine …..
….. where are you? Shakespeare had his dalliance but left the secret behind him when he sought the comfort of home in Stratford. Anne knew! But welcomed him back when he was done with London. Come and hear the story for yourself as told by Anne Hathaway with words by Shakespeare in settings by English composers from the centuries in between. Shakespeare’s birthday is on 23 April (b1616) so we make an early celebration in words, music and refreshments on
Performers
Elizabeth Charlesworth (soprano), Hugh Finnigan (piano) and Lizzie Jones (actor)
Programme
- Arne: When Daisies pied
- Where the Bee Sucks
- Blow, Blow Thou WInter WInd
- Dowland: Awake Sweet Love
- Haydn: She Never Told Her Love
- Verdi: Ave Maria (Otello)
- Farrar: O MIstress MIne
- Quilter: It Was a Lover and His Lass
- Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
- Take, O Take Those Lips Away
- Moeran: When Icicles Hang by the Wall
- Cole Porter: I Am Ashamed the Women are so Simple (Kiss Me Kate)
