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Opera Ovation in the O’
The College holds an annual event to thank Douglas Price Society and Talbot Society members and to keep them up to date with Keble news and plans for the future. This year, for the
tfirst time guests were treated to a special pre-dinner concert.
he Jette Parker Young Artists from Don Carlo by Verdi. The Jette Parker
the Royal Opera House brought Programme Artistic Director, David
to the College by Honorary Fellow Gowland accompanied the singers on the
Pictured (l-r) middle row: David Gowland, Pamela Chesters, Amanda Phillips; bottom row, left image: David Gowland, Michel de Sousa, Jennifer Davis, Louis Gomes, Susana Gaspar, Robert Lloyd; bottom row, right image: Louis Gomes, Susana Gaspar
Robert Lloyd CBE (1959), enchanted guests at the annual Douglas Price Society and Talbot Society event in late September. Singing a series of operatic arias, the O’Reilly Theatre resonated with the dulcet tones of sopranos; Susana Gaspar who sang an aria from Verdi’s Il Corsaro, and Jennifer Davis who sang Tatyana’s heartrending letter scene from Tchaikovsky’s Eugine Onegin; tenor Louis Gomes who gave a masterly rendition
of Una furtiva lagrima from Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, while Michel de Souza in a rich baritone sang a piece from
piano. Andrew Pengelly (1961), President of the Douglas Price Society, introduced the evening. The encore, Libiamo ne’
lieti calici from Verdi’s La Traviata, which Robert Lloyd, bass opera singer at the ROH, joined in finished the concert on a high note. Rarely has an O’Reilly Theatre audience been so spellbound.
Following the concert nearly a hundred Old Members and friends of the College, and their guests enjoyed a splendid dinner in Hall, to the inimitable standard that only Keble Hall can offer.
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