RNCM Flashmob Opera - Manchester Arndale.m4v

Students and staff from the Royal Northern College of Music staged a Flashmob Opera at Manchester Arndale recently, performing "Brindisi" from La Traviata by Verdi. The Flashmob took shoppers by surprise as crowds gathered to watch, even calling for a repeat performance!

It started with just one singer and bit by bit more singers appeared out of the crowds to join in and by the climax over twenty singers were in full voice.

It was performed as part of a project looking into the boundaries of performance and what effect taking opera into a public place would have - with particular interest in the way people react to music when the normal boundaries of a concert hall are stripped away.

The singers were accompanied by a twelve-piece wind ensemble for which the music had been specially arranged by RNCM composition student Aaron Parker and the whole event was masterminded by RNCM postgraduate vocal students Andrea Tweedale and Sarah Ogden, both aspiring opera singers, who also took part.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• RNCM
• Flashmob
• Opera
• Manchester
• Arndale

[antnhec]

like it..well done..maybe we could collaborate some time

[MissMelflute]

Loved participating in this awesome project!!!