Sunday, February 16, 2020 The English soprano Jenny Stafford, with her "voice full of immense beauty and her modern and pragmatic sincerity" as an English reviewer described it, is already a welcome guest on the European opera scene. In the Netherlands she already sang with Dutch National Opera. Also as an interpreter of the Lied, she is in the spotlight. Logical. Her recital choices are just as daring as original. She puts Debussy's lyrical Ariettes Oubliées without any problems alongside Alban Berg's feverish Sieben frühe Lieder and ends with five songs by Richard Strauss. A beautiful program full of few live-heard songs that immediately demand the utmost of a vocalist. Program: Jenny Stafford, soprano (United Kingdom) Somi Kim, piano (New Zealand) Claude Debussy: Ariettes oubliées Alban Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder Richard Strauss: Fünf Klavierstücke Richard Strauss: Fünf Lieder Where: Hoornder church, Den Hoorn. Start time: 4 p.m. Duration: 60 minutes, without a break. Tickets: available via this site, see below: