filipe manu
1 july 2023 / 8pm / omeara, london bridge
100% funded (sold out)
New Zealand-Tongan tenor Filipe Manu performs folk and classical songs for voice, guitar, and piano in OMEARA, London Bridge.
7pm: late set doors open
8pm: filipe manu late set
9pm: funk, soul and disco DJs (included with late set backing)
what are noisenights?
noisenights are our vision for the future of classical music: informal crowdfunded events featuring international soloists in bars, converted warehouses, and nightclubs.
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Most noisenights feature two short classical sets, one early evening, one late. All tickets to the late set include live music and DJs for the rest of the night, including jazz, latin, afrobeat, swing and funk acts.
This noisenight currently only has one set - but we're ready to add another, dependent on demand.
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Please note that due to the venue's license, this noisenight is strictly 18+.
the venue:
Set up by Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons in 2016, OMEARA has quickly become one of London's leading live music venues.
A short walk from London Bridge and Borough Market, in the “Low Line” area of Bankside, OMEARA is nestled under a string of railway arches.
They've hosted the likes of The Pretenders, The Maccabees, and Biffy Clyro, but noisenights were first classical shows to grace their stripped-back stage - we're returning for the first time since a sold-out debut in October 2022.
the music:
New Zealand-Tongan tenor and Royal Opera House young artist Filipe Manu will present a programme of folk songs from Italy, Tonga, Hawaii, New Zealand, and England in London Bridge live music venue OMEARA.
Starting with a song cycle by Paolo Tosti, Filipe's performance will centre around a string of compositions by Queens of Polynesia, including Queen Salote of Tonga and Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, and English folk songs arranged by Benjamin Britten. He'll be accompanied by Kirsty Chaplin on piano as well as classical guitarist Alexandra Whittingham.
filipe manu:
New Zealand-Tongan tenor Filipe Manu is one of the most exciting young talents to graduate from the world-renowned Jette Parker Young Artist programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The recipient of the New Zealand performer of the year award and winner of Australia’s most prestigious singing competition, the IFAC Handa Singing Competition and the Lexus Song Quest, Manu is a member of the newly-founded ensemble at Konzert Theater Bern.
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In the 2022/23 season, Manu returns to his alma mater, The Royal Opera House as Tamino in David McVicar’s vivid production of Die Zauberflöte and makes his debut at the Hamburg State Opera as Ferrando Così fan tutte conducted by Nicolas André. His roles at Konzert TheaterBern include Tamino, Pylade Iphigenie en Tauride and Ruodi Guillaume Tell. In future seasons, Manu makes his debut at Glyndebourne in a leading role and at the Opéra National de Paris.
His roles in Bern in the 2021/22 season included Arbace Idomeneo, Tebaldo I Capuletti e i Montecchi and Froh Das Rheingold. During his time with the Royal Opera House, Filipe was seen as Gastone La Traviata, Erster Gefangener Fidelio and Father/Charlie in The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahogonny Songspiel. Cancellations prevented Filipe’s role debuts in both the Turn of the Screw as Prologue/Peter Quint and Fenton in Falstaff. Concert and recital performances included the Royal Opera House Stars Gala; singing alongside Lisette Oropesa and Gerald Finely, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano, Christmas Gala Concert conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, an intimate recital of song and arias with Sir Antonio Pappano and the Jette Parker Young Artist’s Summer Performance.
Engagements on the concert platform include his debut at the Edinburgh International Festival as the tenor soloist in the opening concert of the festival: Stravinsky’s Pulcinella under the baton of Dalia Stasevska, and as Officer Ariadne auf Naxos, conducted by Lothar Koenigs. He has also appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in Handel’s Messiah and at Wigmore Hall in recital.
His formative training was gained at the University of Waikato through a Bachelors of Music and postgraduate diploma and on the Dame Malvina Major Young Artist programme with New Zealand Opera. He is a former member of the New Zealand Opera school, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Opera School and both inaugural Opera programmes for the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa foundation and the Dame Malvina Major foundation. back this / get tickets >>
Rewards: unallocated standing tickets to the noisenight25 late set in OMEARA, London Bridge at 8pm on Saturday 1 July 2023. First-come-first served for the best views.
In order to qualify for a concession ticket, you must be in receipt of Universal or Pension Credit, in full-time education, or under the age of 21. There are a strictly limited number of concession tickets available for each event. These are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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