Vojtěch Semerád
Purcell - The Fairy Queen
Snape Maltings
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Jun 9, 2024
6:00 PM GMT+1
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The first UK performance of Vox Luminis’ bold, entrancing concert staging of Purcell’s Baroque masterpiece.
Purcell:
The Fairy-Queen, Z.629 (160’)
Vox Luminis ensemble
Simon Robson actor & text
Lionel Meunier artistic director
Tuomo Suni first violin
Emilie Lauwers scenography & concept
Benoît De Leersnijder mise-en-espace
Mário Melo Costa video production
David Carney set & lighting
Isaline Claeys dramaturgy & text
Vox Luminis production
Concertgebouw Brugge co-production
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Vojtěch Semerád Biography
Vojtěch Semerád is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory, the Faculty of Pedagogy of Charles University in Prague (choirmastering) and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris (baroque violin with Francois Fernandez). He is a finalist of the Telemann-Wettbewerb International Competition in Magdeburg. He has been trained as a singer since 2010 throughout private lessons (with teachers such as Chantal Santon Jeffery, Peter Kooij, Poppy Holden) and masterclasses.
As a solo singer, Vojtěch Semerád is invited by renowned ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Ensemble Correspondances, Vox Luminis or Huelgas Ensemble, with whom he performs at major international venues and festivals such as Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Park Avenue Armory New York, Logan Center Chicago, Concertgebouw Rotterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Palau de la Música Barcelona, etc. He has taken part in several opera productions, and has recently sung Histoires Sacrés by M.-A. Charpentier for Early Music festival Utrecht in 2021, the role of Acis in G.F. Handel's Acis and Galathea for TAM Regensburg, the role of Atys in the opera of the same name by J.B. Lully and the role of Thélème by J.B. Lully in 2022
Read MoreAs a solo singer, Vojtěch Semerád is invited by renowned ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Ensemble Correspondances, Vox Luminis or Huelgas Ensemble, with whom he performs at major international venues and festivals such as Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Park Avenue Armory New York, Logan Center Chicago, Concertgebouw Rotterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Palau de la Música Barcelona, etc. He has taken part in several opera productions, and has recently sung Histoires Sacrés by M.-A. Charpentier for Early Music festival Utrecht in 2021, the role of Acis in G.F. Handel's Acis and Galathea for TAM Regensburg, the role of Atys in the opera of the same name by J.B. Lully and the role of Thélème by J.B. Lully in 2022
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