City folks alert

Sarah Minns will be singing a recital at St Bride's, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8AU, at 1.15 pm Tuesday 12th (admission free). Sarah starred in Wedmore Opera's Eleanor Vale. (read review here).  Pianist is Timothy End, who won the duo prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition in 2011. Programme as follows:

Quanti mi siete intorno....Padre germani (Ilia), Idomeneo, Mozart;  Eccomi...Oh! quante volte (Giulietta), I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini; Je suis encore (Manon), Manon, Massenet; I stole from them....(Vixen), The Cunning Little Vixen, Janáček; The Tower Scene (Governess), The Turn of the Screw, Britten; Laughing song (Adele), Die Fledermaus, Strauss

For those within reach of Oxford, Sholto Kynoch and Mae Heydorn perform Mahler's Ruckert songs, and songs by Dvorak and Rangström at the Holywell Music Room, on Friday 8th at 730 pm Oxford. 

Also worth going to,  on Thursday 14th, is the Academy Song Circle Valentine Concert at David Josefowitz Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Rd, London NW1, at 730 pm.  "A recital of songs and duets that explore the theme of love". Alice Privett, Rosalind Coad, Rozanna Madylus, Oliver Johnston, Ed Ballard, Finnegan Downie Dear, Horacio Lopez Redondo, Thomas Primrose, Sachika Taniyama and Katharina Thoni.