Blake Denson, baritone
Kevin Miller, piano
George & Nora London Foundation for Singers
The Morgan has partnered with the George & Nora London Foundation for Singers since 1995 on a series of vocal recitals and hosts the annual Competition Finals.
In the 2022-23 season, Blake Denson (2020 George London Award winner) made his German debut in La fanciulla del West with the Bayerische Staatsoper; performed at Staatsoper Hamburg, making his house debut in a new production of Carmen; and made his debut with English National Opera in a new production of Das Rheingold. He makes his Santa Fe Opera debut in productions of Tosca and Orfeo in Summer 2023.
The program features the four-song cycle I canti della sera (The Songs of the Evening) by Francesco Santoliquido written c. 1910; the nine-song Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams written c. 1904 to texts by Robert Louis Stevenson; and Shawn E. Okpebholo's arrangement of the spiritual "Steal Away".