Verdi / Puccini / Strauss
Events
PAST APPEARANCES
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2022
Lunchtime Recital with Jan Rautio
St James Picadilly
17th Oct -2022 13.00
Tosca (Cover)
English National Opera
23rd Oct - 04 November 2022
English Chamber Orchestra
Barber Knoxville
Sheffield City Hall
21st October 2022 19:00
NOVEMBER 2022
Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Child of Our Time
Conducted by Ed Gardner. Book Tickets
26th November 2022
Saffron Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Child of Our Time
Conducted by Ed Gardner.
27th November 3pm Book Tickets
DEC 2022
15th December 2022 -
St Paul's Covent Garden - solo recital - 1pm
London City Orchestra - Cadogan Hall.
Strauss - 'Four Last Songs'15th July 2022
Book Tickets (coming soon)
ENO
St Martin-in-the-Fields Book Tickets
Barber - Knoxville
22nd April 2022 13.00 -13.45
BBC Radio 3
In Tune
Wednesday 27th April 2022
17.00 Listen on BBC Sounds
CBSO
Gala of arias and duets
With conductor Matthew Kofi-Waldren
Fri 29th April 2022 19.30. Book Tickets
ENO
St Martin-in-the-Fields Book Tickets
Libby Larson Try Me Good King
30th April 2022 19.30
MAY 2022
The Lyceum Club, Florence
in association with ICAMUS (The International Centre for American Music)
America is a Poem, with Nicole Panizza (More Information)
16th May 2022 16.30.
Devonshire Square
Love Notes For Ukraine
Lunchtime Concert
11th May 2022 13.00 - 14.00
March 2022
Cohen Ensemble (Venue: TBA)
Soprano soloist
Mendelssohn
24th March 2022 19:30 Book Tickets (coming soon)
February 2022
La Boheme
English National Opera
Role: Mimi
12 February 2022 14.30 Matinee. Book Tickets
19 February 2022 14.30 Matinee. Book Tickets
27 February 2022 14.30 Matinee. Book Tickets
CBSO (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
The Ordering of Moses
Soprano Soloist
23rd February 2022 19.30 Book Tickets
Jan 2022
Royal Opera House
Songs and aria by Verdi and Strauss
With pianist &conductor - Gary Matthewman
Nov/Dec 2021
English National Opera
Gerhilde, Die Walkure
October 2021
Oxford Leider Festival
American Song concert
October 2021
Buxton International Festival
Lydgate House
Colour My Song, Nadine Benjamin will sing songs by African-American composers......
August 2021
Glyndebourne Festival
Glyndebourne
Title role - Luisa Miller
September 2021
The Festival of Governance 2021
Thought Leader and Speaker
September 2021
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
TORCH recital with duo partner Nicole Panizza
December 2020
Scottish Opera
Hansel and Gretel
Role: The Mother, The Witch
October 2020
Royal Opera House
A New Dark Age
One of three soloists, appearing as themselves.
July 2020
Opera Holland Park
Delius’ Margot le Rouge
Role: Lili Beguin
June 2020
Aldeburgh Festival, Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
Nadine Benjamin soprano and Nicole Panizza literary scholar/pianist present a dramatised song recital devoted to the work of Emily Dickinson.
June 2020
Winchester Catherdral
Lunchtime recital with Nadine Benjamin
May 2020
ICAMus, Florence, Italy - POSTPONED
American Song Recital with Pianist Nicole Panizza
May 2020 - POSTPONED
American Song Recital with Pianist Nicole Panizza
April 2020
Royal Festival Hall - COVID CANCELLATION
Beyond Beethoven 9 – Soprano soloist – Conductor: Marin Alsop
March/April 2020 - COVID CANCELLATION
English National Opera ,London and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Dvorak’s Rusalka Role: 1st Nymph (Cover: Rusalka)
Feb 2- March 2020
English National Opera
Verdi’s Luisa Miller, English National Opera –
Role: Laura (Cover: Luisa)
December 2019
St Paul’s Church, The Actor's Church
Nadine Benjamin sings a programme of songs and arias in English for her annual lunchtime recital at St Paul's Church, Covent Garden.With special guest soprano Danae Eleni.
Dec 2019
St Paul’s (Actors Church) Covent Garden
Birmingham Conservatoire
Christmas Concert with pianist Paul Leddington
Dec 2019
St James Church, Piccadilly
Verdi Recital with pianist Chris Hopkins – Birmingham Conservatoire
Nov 2019
Soprano Solo – Strauss Four Last Songs with Orchestra of the City, Conductor – Chris Hopkins
Soprano Solo – Rossini Petite Messe Solonelle with Murray Hipkin and the North London Chorus
Oxford University – Emergence Album – Emily Dickinson – Interview
Nov 2019
SOAS Concerts present “Women of the Windrush” with pianist Allyson Devenish
This performance will feature Nadine Benjamin in songs composed by Dr. Shirley Thompson alongside video and stories by women who have taken that journey.
Nov 2019 ENO London
ENO American Song Concert with pianist Michael Pollock
Nadine Benjamin and Michael Pollock present a programme of Barber, Previn, Beach, Price and and Smith-Moore
Oct 2019
Emergence Music on Resonance Radio with DJ Ritu
Tate Britain
Join Emergence Music (Nicole Panizza and Nadine Benjamin) with presenter DJ Ritu to discuss our recent release “Emergence- Emily Dickinson” with Stone Records of Emily Dickinson poetry, epigrams and letters composed by 5 very different composers – Copland, Zaninelli, Hall, Glickman and Jarman-Pinto
August 2019
Guest speaker for BBC Proms Encore – BBC 2, 7pm
Nadine joins Katie Derham with beat box and sound artist Jason Singh and tenor, Allan Clayton
August 2019
Guest speaker at Power, Gender and the Arts at Edinburgh International Festival, Lyceum Theatre
Participants: Lucy Kerbel (chair), Catherine Mayer, Nadine Benjamin, Alicia Adams, Emma Gladstone, Ifeoma Fafunwa. BSL interpreters: Yvonne Strain and Anna Spence Cognitive Scribe: Ursula Cheng
August 2019
BBC Proms with ENO conductor Martyn Brabbins – Soprano Soloist
Nadine joins English National Opera to celebrate Martyn Brabbin's 60th birthday in Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music.
August 2019
Live concert at the Cubitt Sessions, Kings Cross with ENO Harewood Artists
Producer - Anthony Whitworth-Jones Piano - Chris Hopkins
August 2019
Winchester Catherdral
Nadine Benjamin recital with pianist Warwick Thompson
August 2019
Snape Residency with pianist Nicole Panizza and director Lynn Binstock
Nadine and Nicole have invited director Lynn Binstock to broaden their recital delivery of their up and coming album Emergence - Emily Dickinson on Stone Records.
July 2019
RADA, Chenies Street, London
Memories in Mind: Women of the Windrush – by Shirley Thompson
Nadine Benjamin tells the stories of women coming to England on the Windrush and the experiences that they faced upon their arrival.
July 2019
RADA, Chenies Street, London
“BEAM” A showing of a research and development week
Words by Nadine Benjamin including the following music:
George Gershwin – Summertime – Porgy and Bess
WA Mozart – Ach ich fühl’s – The Magic Flute
Nadine Benjamin & Solar Plexus – I’ll remember that rose
G Verdi – Sempre Libera – La Traviata
Nadine Benjamin & IZIT-U – Champagne Queen
Florence Price – Night
G Verdi – Ecco l’orrido campo… ma dall’arido stelo – Un Ballo in Maschera
G Verdi – Prega… Ave Maria – Otello
June 2019
Opera Holland Park, The Stable Yard
Nadine Benjamin in the role of Amelia in Opera Holland Park's schools' matinee performance of Un ballo in maschera
Nadine will sing the role of Amelia in Opera Holland Park's Young Artists' performance of Un ballo in maschera.
June 2019
Coventry Cathedral Warwickshire
Nadine Benjamin returns to Coventry Cathedral to sing the soprano solo in Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah with Coventry Cathedral Chorus, York Musical Society and Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paul Leddington Wright.
June 2019
Coventry Cathedral Warwickshire
Nadine Benjamin returns to Coventry Cathedral to sing the soprano solo in Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah with Coventry Cathedral Chorus, York Musical Society and Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paul Leddington Wright.
May 2019
The Dome, Brighton, Church Street
The Forum, Bath
The Apex, Bury St Edmunds
A Jazz evening with Chineke! Orchestra
Nadine Benjamin and tenor Peter Brathwaite for an evening of Jazz with Chineke! Orchestra, conducted by Wayne Marshall.
May 2019
Guildhall, Bath, High Street
Johan Strauss – Die Fledermaus
Nadine Benjamin in the role of Rosalinde in Johan Strauss's operetta Die Fledermaus with Iford Arts.
May 2019
The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, London
The Heart’s Assurance: Henry Moore through music
Nadine Benjamin joins pianist Iain Burnside, tenor Nicky Spence and baritone Gareth Brynmor John for a recital at The Wallace Collection in London.
March 2019
Winchester Cathedral
Nadine Benjamin will sing the soprano solo in Mendelssohn's great oratorio Elijah at Winchester Cathedral. Nadine Benjamin, soprano Anna Harvey, mezzo-soprano Thomas Elwin, tenor James Rutherford, bass-baritone
St Barnabas Church, London
Nadine Benjamin soprano solo in Verdi's Requiem, alongside Monika-Evelyn Liiv (mezzo-soprano), Mario Sofroniou (tenor) and Denis Sedov (bass). Philip Hesketh conducts the West London Sinfonia.
Recital of works by American composers – Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Nadine Benjamin (soprano) and Nicole Panizza (piano) join forces to perform a selection of works by American composers. Samuel Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Andre Previn, Honey and Rue Aaron Copland.
British Red Cross Gala Concert - St Paul’s Cathedral
Nadine will join tenor Toby Spence and The Kingdom Choir for a festive concert on behalf of the British Red Cross at St. Paul's Cathedral. Hosted by John Suchet with readings by Joanna Lumley
Lunchtime recital – St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden (The Actors’ Church)
To celebrate being an ENO Harewood Artist, Nadine Benjamin sings a programme of songs and arias in English for her annual lunchtime recital at St Paul's Church, Covent Garden
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Following on from her performances as Clara in Porgy and Bess,
Nadine will also sing the role of Musetta (La bohème) with English National Opera.
Jan 2019
Tosca
St. James’s Church, Piccadilly, in London.
Nadine will sing the title role in Puccini’s Tosca with Everybody Can! Opera on Friday 18 January, 7pm
October 11, 2018 - November 17, 2018
Nadine Benjamin debut with English National Opera as Clara in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
Nadine is thrilled to be an ENO Harewood Artist.
July 2018
Opera Holland Park – Isabeau, Ermyntrude
Debut Performance for Opera Holland Park
July 2018
Lunchtime recital – Winchester Cathedral
Nadine Benjamin sings Berg's Seven Songs and popular operatic arias, accompanied by Nigel Foster
June 2018
Nadine will sing 'Morgen' by Strauss with the Beethoven Orchestra for Humanity for Common & Kind.
June 2018
West End LIVE – Trafalgar Square London
Nadine has been invited to perform at the annual event WEST END LIVE in Trafalgar Square,
celebrating London's cultural offerings.