A big choir, a full symphony orchestra, and a world-class soloist will be giving their all at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on Saturday.

Centre stage will be the University Singers, the vibrant student and community choir – a great mix of young and mature voices – performing Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.

Probably the most popular big choral work written in the last 100 years, it brims over with energy, colour and truly memorable music.

The style is highly individual – there’s nothing quite like it, but every bar speaks directly in wonderfully accessible music.

It is particularly exciting to welcome Russian soprano soloist Tatjana Charlagina, who is making her UK debut at the concert.

She has sung with great success across Europe and the USA and for some years has been a principal soprano at the Staatsheatre in Mainz.

It was here she worked with principal baritone, Richard Morrison, who is returning to Aber to reprise the part in which he scores a huge success when he performed Carmina Burana with the choir some years back.

Richard worked with conductor David Russell Hulme when touring with the Carl Rosa company in Australia.

Tenor Stephen Brown also worked with David on the opera circuit and has appeared several times with him at the arts centre.

He is one of today’s leading character tenors, with performances as far flung as Spain, Romania and Jerusalem.

Also in the programme are Borodin’s Overture and Polovtsian Dances from his opera Prince Igor.

Borodin did not produce a huge amount of music – he was rather busy being a professor of chemistry as well – but everything he wrote is touched by magic.

In these famous extracts from Prince Igor we experience the composer at his best, with unforgettable melodies, breath-taking dance rhythms and sheer brilliance all the way – a showcase for the performers and especially for the orchestra, Sinfonia Cambrensis.

Conductor David Russell Hulme, just back from a successful stint as guest conductor in Ukraine, said: “This is wonderful, exhilarating music – full of life and colour – music that just has to be experienced live.

"These days it is so rare to find full-scale performances like ours outside the big centres. Come and support us.

“You’ll be glad you did!”

The performance begins at 8pm.

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