Classics for tenor and baritone

Globe Sunday Matinee Concerts 2022

Iain Tetley - tenor
Lindsay Yeo - baritone
Guy Donaldson - piano

The Globe Sunday Matinee series resumes on Sunday February 27 with a concert featuring two leading singers from the area.

Iain Tetley developed his passion for singing in England from an early age. He studied with opera singer John York Skinner, and gained his music degree at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Since coming to New Zealand in 1997, Iain has performed many times as a soloist with Auckland’s leading choirs, and he was a member of the specialist chamber choir Musica Sacra from its formation in 1998 until the choir ceased operating in 2013.

Iain’s career includes singing roles as the first tenor in an octet for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II during her last visit to New Zealand; singing with the late John Scott, former organist and choirmaster of St Paul’s Cathedral, London; performing the baritone solo in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with Auckland Choral; singing the tenor solo part of Zadok the priest in excerpts of Handel’s Solomon alongside world-renowned countertenor Andreas Scholl at the Auckland Town Hall, and performing the Evangelist roles in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with City Choir Dunedin, and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Bach Musica in Auckland. He has made many other solo appearances with Bach Musica and the Handel Consort and Quire of Auckland, and with the Scholars Baroque Aotearoa in Tauranga. He made a significant impression last year in singing the tenor solos in the Palmerson North Chorals Society’s Highlights from Messiah.

Lindsay Yeo has been involved in classical singing for over ten years. During this time he has competed successfully at various vocal competitions, and was awarded the Musica Viva Vocal Scholarship in 2014. He has performed as a soloist with a variety of choirs in the Whanganui-Manawatū region, including debut performances of new works, most notably portraying Adam in the world premiere of Samuel Arnolds’ 200-year-old oratorio The Hymn of Adam and Eve. He also participated in several recitals, performing a wide repertoire of German, Latin and Russian arias, German Lieder, French Mélodie, and English Art Song, along with lighter English songs. Lindsay lives in Palmerston North with his wife Michaela and three daughters, and works as an educational psychologist for the Ministry of Education.

In the first part of the concert the singers will present opera arias by Handel, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Wagner, Bizet and Puccini. These will include the beautiful Where’er you walk, the evocative Song to the Moon, the stirring Toreador’s Song, and perhaps the most loved aria of them all – Nessun Dorma. In the second part of the concert the singers move to music theatre with well - known numbers from Showboat, West Side Story, and Les Miserables. In addition to the solo numbers the two singers will sing a number of duets, including You Raise Me Up. And indeed the programme ends with one of the greatest opera duets of all time – Bizet’s In the Depths of the Temple. This is truly a concert not to be missed.

The singers will be accompanied at the Steinway piano by pianist Guy Donaldson. Guy is active in the Manawatu as a teacher, adjudicator, piano soloist, accompanist, chamber music player and music coach, and was for 30 years music director of the Renaissance Singers.

The Globe Theatre Trust Board has approved the theatre becoming a vaccination mandated venue. This means that anyone (aged 12 years and 3 months and older) wishing to enter the Globe Theatre for whatever reason, must be fully vaccinated and have their My Vaccine Pass either on their phone (official app) or in printed form.

Admission to the concert is by donation recommended from $5.