Song of the Day Series
The Sigh (Finzi/Hardy)
Graham Johnson
For SongFest 2020 participant Nolan Kehler.
Duration: 33 minutes
About:
Hosted by Graham Johnson, The Song of the Day series is a daily meditation on the many layers and complexities contained in a single song. Each song is dedicated to one or more performers who would have taken part in SongFest this summer. Dedicatees were chosen in collaboration between our artistic Director Rosemary Ritter and the students.
Resources:
The Towpath (1912), C.R.W. Nevinson. Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford.
This was painted three years after Thomas Hardy’s “The Sigh” was published.
About Our Participants
Nolan Kehler
Canadian tenor Nolan Kehler completed his Masters of Music in vocal performance at the University of Victoria, where he studied with Benjamin Butterfield. His most recent appearances have been with the Little Opera Company of Winnipeg as Larry and Matt in Henry Mollicone's The Face on the Barroom Floor, and with Against the Grain Theatre and University of Toronto Opera performing scenes as Bégearss in Corigliano’s Ghosts of Versailles and the Earl of Essex in Britten’s Gloriana. A versatile performer, Nolan has also been a part of two workshops of Flight of the Hummingbird. Co-produced by Vancouver Opera and Pacific Opera Victoria, this brand-new children's opera is based on the indigenous parable about fighting climate change.