Premiere announced for Laura’s new song

You Are Water, a new song commissioned by baritone Julien Van Mellaerts with poetry by Laura, will receive its world premiere this summer as part of a triptych entitled Songs of the Sea by composer Oded Zehavi.

The song will feature as part of Opera Holland Park’s popular Opera In Song series, curated by Julien and pianist Dylan Perez. Concert details are below, and more information about the Opera In Song programme, which includes a Gala Concert to celebrate the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s 80th birthday, can be found online here.

Ballads and Legends, 7pm, 18 July

Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Dylan Perez explore the human relationship with the sea in songs and duets by Charles Stanford, Rebecca Clarke, Carl Loewe, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Paolo Tosti, and Haydn’s dramatic scena Arianna a Naxos. The programme includes the world premiere of Oded Zehavi’s Songs of the Sea, a sequence of songs commissioned by Julien Van Mellaerts, with lyrics by the New Zealand poet Bill Manhire, the British poet Laura Attridge, and the French poet Claire Simon.