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Mousehole Male Voice Choir's 91st Summer Festival Concert

Our very special guests were the internationally acclaimed duo, Bonaventura Bottone (tenor) and Jennifer Dakin (soprano). This event took place on Sunday 3rd August, 2025 7:30pm, St. Mary's Church, Penzance

Musical Director: Stephen Lawry
Assistant MD: David Williams
Accompanist: Annette Turton
Video Recording: Tony Allbright
Sound Recording: Chris Trevena, Tony Allbright

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91st SUMMER FESTIVAL:
A warm welcome to the 91s Summer Festival presented by Mousehole Male Voice Choir. We hope you will thoroughly enjoy your evening. Welcome back to Jennifer Dakin and Bonaventura Bottone, who last performed with us over twenty years ago. We greatly look forward to hearing them. They will be accompanied by our own David Ceredig-Evans.
It has been a busy year for the choir, enjoying many events, including a super tour in the Bristol area, a trip to Sherborne to sing for the RNLI, a busy Christmas, as always, and many of the regular concerts we perform. We were honoured to sing at the memorial service for Eddie Farwell in Exeter Cathedral, and to sing at the funeral of our former MD Tom Waters.
It has been great to welcome several new members since last summer, including a 20-year-old and two teenagers. Our practices are always open, and we are delighted to see visitors and prospective members at Paul Church on Monday evenings from 7.30pm.
Before our tour to Yorkshire and Lancashire in September we look forward to hosting Pontarddulais Male Choir here at St Mary's on Saturday 6th September.
Another night not to be missed!

JENNIFER DAKIN
Born in Derbyshire, Jennifer studied at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney winning London, winning many prizes including the Opera Prize awarded by Dame Eva Turner.
Accompanied by the composer, she sang at Michael Head's 70th Birthday Concert.
Jennifer was a Professor of Singing at the Royal Academy of Music from 2002 - 2017.
Her wide experience of opera and concert repertoire has taken her to venues throughout the world including the Middle East, the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus and Grieg's house in Bergen. Closer to home, she has broadcast for the BBC, performed in opera galas at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, the Guildhall and the Mansion House, Hagley Hall, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Jersey Opera House, Viennese Galas with the Palm Court Orchestra and Classical Spectaculars with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She has sung with the Gresley, Dunvant, Port Talbot, Ystradgynlais, Mousehole and Shiney Row Male Voice Choirs.
Recently Jennifer and her husband Bonaventura have enjoyed singing on music cruises from Venice to Mantua, Amsterdam to Bernkastel and Vienna - Salzburg - Budapest.

BONAVENTURA BOTTONE
escribed by the New Grove Dictionary of Opera as 'a superb actor with a strong over five decades, appearing with the most eminent conductors and orchestras. He has worked with leading directors and sung with artists of the last century and the rising performers of the twenty first century. His operatic repertoire spans over a hundred leading roles in a wide range of styles.
Recordings include Die Fledermaus with Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland, Lucia di Lammermoor with Edita Gruberova and Alfredo Kraus, Faust et Hélène by Lili Boulanger, Hugh the Drover, The Mikado, Candide, Der Zerbrochene Krug, A Little Night Music, Street Scene, The Student Prince, Adriana Lecouvreur, Der Rosenkavalier and Otello.
In the last decade he has performed in The Jacobin, Lucia di Lammermoor for Buxton Festival, La Fanciulla del West, The Snowmaiden and Turandot for Opera North. In Canada Bonaventura performed On Wenlock Edge with The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and his Mario Lanza tribute evening. Bonaventura sang 'Pepe' in Donizettis Rita for the Oborne Festival, 'The Rector' in Britten's Peter Grimes in Bucharest at the 'George Enescu' International Festival, 'The Roasting Swan' in Orff's Carmina Burana for The Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra.
He sang 'Don Ottavio' in Mozart's Don Giovanni for Salisbury Festival where he returned to perform 'Basilio' and 'Curzio' in Le Nozze di Figaro.
He has judged the Bampton Young Singers Classical Opera Prize for the past ten years.
In 2022 Bonaventura sang on a cruise from Venice to Mantua, the Amphill Festival, for an Arcadian Opera Gala and was interviewed at the Bromley Arts Festival on his life and works.
In 2023 he sang Operetta in Germany and performed Haydn's Creation for the Daventry Choral Society and Carmina Burana for the Bath Choral Society. The Thaxted Singers invited him to sing in their summer concert.
Bonaventura sang the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier with Saffron Walden's Opera Group.
In 2026 Bonaventura has been engaged to sing in a production of Stephen Sondheim's 'Follies' in Strasburg.