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Art Songs, Opera and Popular Music Extracts performed by Sandeep Gurrapadi

Classical Music

Bob Cratchit's Aria - Christmas Carol (Opera by Thea Musgrave) Tenor: Sandeep Gurrapadi Conductor: John Pryce-Jones Orchestra - TL Symphony London - 2019

BBC - One Show Performance - Sandeep Gurrapadi was invited to perform as part of a segment looking the science of ‘goosebumps’. February 2021

Oh, Fair To See - Op.13b, No. 1

Composer - G. Finzi, Poet - Thomas Hardy

Christmas Carol (Opera) ; Composer: Thea Musgrave

Role: Bob Cratchit ; Tenor: Sandeep Gurrapadi

Conductor: John Pryce-Jones

Director: Jennifer Hamilton ; Orchestra: TL Symphony Orchestra

Tenor: Sandeep Gurrapadi ; Soprano: Juliette Koch Mozart - Idomeneo (Act 3), Conductor: Robert Bottriell, Blackheath Halls, 2018

Seal Man - Rebecca Clarke, Poet- John Masefield

Tenor:Sandeep, Piano: Chiara Naldi, Artwork: Martha-Maria Mitu (https://www.facebook.com/mitu.martha.maria)

Ride of Tarquinius - Interlude - The Rape of Lucretia (Benjamin Britten) TL Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Jonathan Mann

A overview of Opera and Chamber Music!

I've always been invested in the idea of being a part of a climate where we have a musically curious audience all throughout India and avenues through which we can listen to all kinds of music as more engaged listeners. So if you've ever asked someone what exactly opera is or you have no clue how to listen to art song/opera or if you already know what this is but can't explain it to your friend who thinks it's just annoying noises - or even if you're just curious to see what this long haired Indian guy is saying- I hope you find this useful!

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal - Roger Quilter Poet - Alfred Tennyson Chiara Naldi - Piano
Prologue to Rape of Lucretia - Male Chorus The Rape of Lucretia - Benjamin Britten TL Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Jonathan Mann
Oh, Fair To See - Op.13b, No. 2 1929 Composer - G. Finzi Poet - Christina Rossetti Piano - Chiara Naldi - https://chiaranaldi.com/
Ich Stand In Dunklen Träumen Op.13 - Clara Schumann Poet - Heinrich Heine Translation: Richard Stokes (Oxford Lieder) Chiara Naldi (Pianist) Venue: Old Royal Naval College - 2018

Eclectic Instagram Feed

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View fullsize It's been such a wonderful experience to be a part of @englishtouringopera 's autumn season starting off with the epic Monteverdi's 'Coronation of Poppea' to a packed house @hackneyempire :D We had our first show on Saturday night and another 5 week
View fullsize Was an absolutely beautiful week in Suffolk at @brittenpearsarts working on an incredibly sensitive and inspiring piece by @actinternationalresidencies @anna_helenamclean . We ran through the fields, had loads of creative challenges and breakthroug
View fullsize Had a beautiful time up in Hull this Sunday, performing alongside all these incredible people for the @freedomfesthull! The Everyman Project had 150 participants, 3 opera singers, 2 choreographers, an entire circus company, designer/makers, produce
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View fullsize Had the most beautiful experience of working with/performing alongside the extraordinary artists Roderick Williams and Dame Ann Murray as part of the Song Trail concerts for the Aldeburgh Festival with @brittenpearsarts The past few days have been f
View fullsize @chiaranaldipiano and I are performing in the absolutely gorgeous Room 34 @nationalgallery in London tomorrow afternoon at 1pm for @vob_opera Come along if you're in town! With some wonderful work by the incredible American composer Kamala Sankara
View fullsize Spent the last couple of weeks working on the incredible ancient greek tragedy of Medea through a lens of the Caribbean. I'm playing two characters - Aegeus and Creon on this wonderful project and working with some beautiful people :) It's been a cr
View fullsize That's a wrap to our beautiful recital tour across India over the last 3 weeks. We finished on a high with an incredible evening performing to packed audiences @mumbaiopera where we had the opportunity to work alongside the wonderful sculptor @shaha
View fullsize Super excited to be back in Mumbai to collaborate with the wonderful international sculptor @shahaniraj for an evening of play between visual art, theatre and music. Come along if you're in town!! We'll be part of the @mumbaigalleryweekend and hos
View fullsize Had the most incredible time in Bangalore! We did two back to back shows @bicblr to completely packed audiences who also turned out to be the most wonderful singers when they joined us in the encore :D Then we had the amazing opportunity to work wi
View fullsize Going to to India for the first performances of the year! Super excited to be back performing @bicblr and working with students from Christ University next week! Bangalore International Centre is a wonderful concert hall, and we're singing some ab
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View fullsize Performing 6 shows at the @southbankcentre this week of the wonderful musical theatre production 'Meal One' composed by Felix Cross [MBE], directed by @alandix99 and produced by @509arts . It's been such a joy to be on tour across the country with

POPULAR MUSIC

Moody Days

Performed by Sandeep Gurrapadi

Composition, Lyrics, Arrangement, Keyboards and Seaboard - Arun Varghese a.k.a Varkey Violin - Rithu Vysakh Electric guitar - Rony George, Bonny Abraham Bass - Aswin lal Percussion - Atul PM Drums - Subin Pappachan Mixing Engineer - Arun Varghese

Highart - Lofi

Composed and Performed by Sandeep Gurrapadi

Lyrics by Sri Sri - Modern classical Telugu poet - here he talks about the struggles of producing poetry.

'Kavitha' means poem/poetry. "Kavitha O Kavitha" - Translation: "Poem: You are that beauty which I cannot reach - can you not remember the days and nights of loneliness and strife where I have searched endlessly for you - poem o poem"

Mozart: Belmonte's Aria

Auld Lang Syne

Performed by Sandeep Gurrapadi , Shi Yijie , Josefina Brivio Ramirez, Aon Maarof, Evangelos Giamouris

Accompanied by ballroom dancers from across Asia, at the Asian Culture Carnival in Beijing’s National Stadium.

Highart-Lofi Part 2

John Tavener - A magnificent classical English composer. "The Lamb" is arguably one of his most performed choral pieces, a hauntingly beautiful piece that I certainly couldn't do justice alone.

G.V Subba Rao is a prolific Telugu Classical poet, who's 4 volume magnum opus is Sita Manoramayanam, a retelling of the Classic (Ramayana) - but entirely through the eyes of Sita and what she experiences.

In this poem 'Malupu' (written in the 1950's) the poet says that he does not wish to live an unchallenged and uneventful life, for that's a life not worth living. He wishes for a life filled with love and loss, pain and joy, uncertainty and stability.

That, he says, is a life worth living.

Highart - Pop

Ala (The Wave in Telugu)

Composed and performed- Sandeep Gurrapadi

I thought I'd write in Silvio Rodriguez's style of song. The last lines are from one of Federico Lorca's most famous poems.

Lyrics: Hold on, stay close As two stars collide and our hearts begin to part Vidhi maredi ela (Can destiny change?) Idhi mana Kadha (This is our story) Jahan naya sama (there towards a new atmosphere) No duerme nadie por el cielo (Out there in the sky, no one sleeps)