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@SophusBevanus

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Soprano. Terrible at social media. Trying to be better but mostly failing. MBE, amazingly. Mother of Raphie and Annie, wife of Ryan. Sister of many

Joined November 2020
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2 years
I’M HOME!!The hospital let me out last night and I woke up this morning to the sun streaming in and the view of trees from my bedroom window and my gorgeous children wanting a gentle hug with Mama. I’m so lucky and so happy to be back in comfort and surrounded by family 😊
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2 years
I’m out of surgery!! It took rather longer than we thought, but apparently that’s because I have “an unusually long rectum”. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Also it was very deep inside my pelvis.
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Sorry to post again, but it’s important to include those BBC post holders who’ve requested to have their signatures added.
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2 years
Mr Lindsey is confident he got it all&I’m lying in bed drugged up to the eyeballs looking forward to some sleep. I can’t tell you all what a comfort it has been to have all of your support. I’ve been so moved and felt a cushion of love surrounding me and carrying me through. 🥰
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Here it is again but now with an updated list of signatories - all conductors/artists associated with BBC performing groups
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2 years
4 of 4) It’s so strange writing a post like this. I’m not really one for sharing this sort of stuff. But at the same time, I’d like to show people that as an artist it’s possible to have these blips and then come back better than ever!! 🤞xxx
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
This video seems to have cheered up a lot of my friends on facebook so I’m going post it here too. For anyone who needs a giggle; the eternally happy Raphael Wigglesworth:
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2 years
Update: My operation has been brought forward to next Tues, 11th October with Mr Lindsey at the JR in Oxford. Good news!! Just been looking him up and it looks like he knows what he’s doing. AND he uses a robot 🦾 🤩
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3 months
If you’ve just watched the first night of the Proms you may have seen that we’re now expecting number 3!!! Here it is, facing down with its arm and fist up by its face 😊
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Update for those who’d like to know - Looks like I’ll be having an operation on October 22nd. Not set in stone yet but 🤞We know that it’s stage 3 rectal cancer and he’s going to take out the tumour and surrounding lymph nodes>
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2 years
Such a joy to be back and singing Ryan’s beautiful music. Also first time singing Mahler 4 and I LOVE singing it!! Just incredible to sit right amongst it onstage during that heart-breaking 3rd movement @the_halle What playing!
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Helen Hogh
2 years
What a concert…. Brava @SophusBevanus @GrovesArtists @the_halle and Ryan Wigglesworth. So good to hear the #Magnificat ’s UK premiere so wonderfully performed!! 👏👏👏
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
Our first ever single as a family consort from the album we recorded last summer has just been released!! We had such fun making this album in memory of my darling Dad who brought this beautiful music into our lives. Listen to the full track here:
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2 years
>I’m hoping I won’t have to have any chemo afterwards but they won’t know until after the operation. Thank you all for all your beautiful messages and prayers. I feel surrounded by love!
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3 years
Right! I’m back!! Since 2019 I’ve popped out two babies and now it’s time to get back on the road aarrgghhhhh. Here’s some shameless self-publicity for those who want to know:
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
My gorgeous Auntie Rachel died last night. She was the naughtiest, funniest, most beautiful and courageous person I’ve ever known and we will miss her so much. So happy to think of her reunited with my Dad who adored his sister. She held up her 2 fingers to cancer and so will I!
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
3 of 4) BUT the good news that I received yesterday, is that it just looks like I need an operation and maybe some radiotherapy. I’ll be bouncing back and singing again as soon as my body permits.
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
Now including the signatures of Anna-Maria Helsing, Ludovic Morlot, Sir Donald Runnicles and Barry Wordsworth.
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2 years
The most beautiful sight in the world. Two sleeping babies shhhhhhhh (and they’re touching hands 🥹)
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2 years
1 of 4) I’ve wondered whether to write this post, but I feel that as a performer I have to be honest about why I have to keep cancelling work especially having only really just started again after having children.
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
Happy to announce our Wigmore Recital in November! Trying out some more Mahler mmmmmm. Also some beautiful rarely heard Müller-Hermann @wigmore_hall
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
Reflection: 1.I’ve never known guilt like the guilt I feel about starting work again having had children. Tearing myself away from this new instinct to have my brain trained solely on all things baby, is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do
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2 years
2 of 4) I’ve been diagnosed with a colo-rectal cancer, which is funny given that was what my darling Dad died of last year, and I probably had it the whole time we were nursing him!
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Ryan and I are delighted to announce the inaugural St Birinus Festival this November! It's a series of concerts featuring visiting musicians and academics as well as our very own Davey Consort () Please do come and please spread the word!!
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
Tonight’s the night! First big concert back and my first note is a pianissimo middle C
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
Peter GRIIIIIIIIIIIMES!! @fatboyclayton is the best thing since sliced beard
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
Incredibly moving Bach St Matthew Passion to a packed RFH yesterday. Wonderful singing from @TheBachChoir , beautiful playing from @FlorilegiumUK and cracking comrade soloists (not literally)
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2 years
Tonight in Wieeeeeen!
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4 years
The night I was asked to stand in for Susanna for the cinema broadcast... 😵😵😵 it’s being streamed again this Friday!
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Royal Ballet and Opera
4 years
🎶 Join us next Friday (5 March) for a stream of @TheRoyalOpera 's The Marriage of Figaro! Mozart's glorious comic opera is one of his best-loved works 😍 Grab your ticket: #OurHouseToYourHouse
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
🎉WOOHOOOOOO!!!🎉
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Richard Morrison
2 years
Bevan's triumphant return in superb new choral work
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
2.Maybe it’s wrong to start again while they’re so young. So many people do these days but it seems to go against everything that feels natural. I never realised how strong parents need to be mentally in this respect
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Sophie Bevan
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Ryan and I are performing a recital of Schumann, Müller-Hermann and Mahler together tonight at the Wigmore Hall. If you feel like venturing out on this cold, wet November Sunday evening, we’d love to see you!
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
Same concert, 2 separate reviews haha! I can tell you, my diction was amazing. I surprised myself
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Sophie Bevan
2 months
Off to Rome in a week 🤩 Can’t wait to sing this role with wonderful colleagues in a beautiful city that I’ve never been to!
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C L A R E P R E S L A N D
4 months
So this will be something…. excited to make my debut @OperaRoma next season in @deborahwarner59 ’s incredible production of Peter Grimes and in such illustrious company too! 🚤 🎣 ⭐️
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2 years
Tamerlano… coming soon… @GrangeFestival
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
Are there any basses/baris out there not already booked to sing Christmas Eve and Christmas morning and would like a last min job singing for us in Oxfordshire?! Ryan directing/playing organ and my sisters/cousins singing too. £££, sausages and lots of fun guaranteed
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Sophie Bevan
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We are passionate about encouraging the next generation of music makers and concert goers. St Birinus Festival has tickets available at £5.00 for anyone under the age of 25 years. Visit the festival website to order online
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Sophie Bevan
1 year
If anyone wants to hear a truly beautiful piece of music and one of my favourite pieces of Ryan’s, listen again here to last night’s broadcast of his piano concerto played wondrously by Stephen Osborne and the BBCSSO (2nd in programme, before Mahler)
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
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Summiteer
2 years
Amongst all of the of his other Symphonies I had forgotten how magical Mahler's 4th is. Truly mesmerising performance by @the_halle with conductor Ryan Wigglesworth and the dreamlike voice of @SophusBevanus at the @BridgewaterHall tonight. #livemusic is best.
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
So unfair that singers have to be consistently filmed from below! Surely we need all the help we can get from the camera?! #BBCProms
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Sophie Bevan
9 months
Warning: I’m going to mention the unmentionable - periods! I want to know if anyone else suffers like I do with their voice when they start their period? Is there ANYTHING that can be done to take down the swelling of the cords every month or is it dangerous to take anything? 🧵
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
Baby Annie fast asleep just in time for @domjparker to come and watch her while I sing my aria! 😅 @BBCSSO
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Sophie Bevan
9 months
(Periods!🧵)It seems worse having had children… I sang a concert last night and it was terrifying having to perform with a voice that just wasn’t working as usual. Having rehearsed with ease, I was looking forward to the concert and then I woke up with a different voice 🤬
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
We’re Critic’s Choice this week!
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
Wow @MasabaneCecilia . Just wow. Spectacular! Flawless, I’m such a fan x
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
Full screening this Friday! xxx
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Royal Ballet and Opera
4 years
😍 One of the most beautiful duets from @TheRoyalOpera 's The Marriage of Figaro performed here by @elliedehn and @SophusBevanus Mozart's brilliant opera will be streamed via our website on Friday (5 March)! Grab your ticket: #OurHouseToYourHouse
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Sophie Bevan
11 months
@SamEvansLondon I WISH I got handed a cheque quietly backstage after a gig instead of having to wait weeks/months for it 😫
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
1)7th&8th April I’m starting with Ryan’s new Magnificat for Sop, chorus & orch in Bergen with Ed Gardner 10th April - Bach St Matt Pass at RFH 14th April - Mozart Concert Aria with Mark Elder & BBSSO
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Sophie Bevan
2 months
Off to Rome in a week 🤩 Can’t wait to sing this role with wonderful colleagues in a beautiful city
@ClarePresland
C L A R E P R E S L A N D
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So this will be something…. excited to make my debut @OperaRoma next season in @deborahwarner59 ’s incredible production of Peter Grimes and in such illustrious company too! 🚤 🎣 ⭐️
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
Sorry @MaryCBevan I keep nicking your tweets but I couldn’t take any videos last night, babe in arms! Just want to re-iterate this!!
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Mary Bevan
3 years
My sister @BevanDaisy taking her bow last night after having sung the frilly pantaloons off the Countess @rncmlive Le Nozze di Figaro. She has such a beautiful voice; I’m a very proud sister. And lucky them having @Whelanpp conducting
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
If you’re missing some beautiful live music, here’s a link to our live Mass this morning. Croce-Missa Octavi Toni, Palestrina-Benedicite Gentes & Ferrabosco-Cantate Domino. Feat. Ryan Wigglesworth, me, Francis Bevan, Dominic Bevan and Dan Tate!
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
3) June - Tamerlano for Grange Festival 12th June - Phaedra at Aldeburgh Festival 17th July - Wigmore Recital with Ryan Next season dates to come later!
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
This is utterly brilliant and inspiring. Congratulations to everyone involved. Best thing I’ve seen this year
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
4 years
Wow! 👏 A huge congratulations to everyone who made this fantastic project happen. If you missed tonight's streaming of @Vopera20 L’enfant et les sortilèges, it's available to watch for free for 30 days on our YouTube channel: #HereForCulture
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
The position has been filled by Uncle Ben!
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
So SO proud of my wonderful sister @BevanDaisy who sung her first Countess at RNCM last night. So beautiful, poised and radiant. She made it sound easy. Well done you amazing girl!!! I sobbed uncontrollably 😭
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Daisy Bevan
3 years
Last night, @SophusBevanus brought baby Anastasia to see me singing my first Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at @rncmlive So pleased she enjoyed it and thank you for all the support and larfs @MaryCBevan and my lovely Mum! Looking forward to Thursday’s show!
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
@RichmoMusic Thank you Richard for your lovely review. Last night was a night I’ll never forget. And you completely understood everything Ryan wrote x
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
@DavidPNice @spconnolly Thank goodness it’s just an op and no chemo. I’m praying I won’t have to have any chemo and this is IT! 3rd day after op and I’m home and going to the loo on my own! Days 1&2 are hardest but get gradually easier. Amazing how quickly the body heals! Any advice needed; I’m here x
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2 years
Further signatories added…
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
I will be joining @iestyn_davies and NeAL for Saul and singing the role of Merab at @edintfest this year!
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
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Royal Ballet and Opera
4 years
🎵 Join us for what promises to be a wonderful evening!' Soprano @SophusBevanus on why you should join @TheRoyalOpera tomorrow night for a very special stream of Handel's Ariodante in concert 🎟️ Book now: #OurHouseToYourHouse
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Sophie Bevan
1 year
Come and support #RoyalAcademyofMusic students playing chamber music with #RyanWigglesworth on Saturday 4th Nov afternoon in the beautiful Dorchester Abbey @RoyalAcadMusic @DorchesterAbbey
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Sophie Bevan
1 year
We are passionate about encouraging the next generation of music makers and concert goers. St Birinus Festival has tickets available at £5.00 for anyone under the age of 25 years. Visit the festival website to order online
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6 months
Tomorrow afternoon at 3pm, Ryan and I will be giving a recital of Schubert, Müller-Hermann and Mahler at St Mary’s Church, Wingham in Kent.
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
Proceeds from this live stream actually go to us, the performers! It was a while ago but if you feel like listening to a live Messiah. Here’s one! 😌
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The Mozartists
4 years
We're pleased to announce that our 6th 'RE-LIVE' download is now available on @exitlivemusic . Our memorable performance of Handel's Messiah at @wigmore_hall in December 2012, featuring @SophusBevanus , @ChrisAinslieSA , @fatboyclayton and @jacquesimbrailo . 🎶
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
Wooohoooooo!!!!!!
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Garsington Opera
4 years
We are over the moon... Garsington Opera's production of The Turn of the Screw has been awarded the RPS Award for Opera and Music Theatre 2020. 🎉 In this difficult year, we dedicate this to all working in the opera industry - we're all winners! #RPSAwards #Opera #OperaFamily
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
2) 30th April - Knussen Whitman Settings with Ed Gardner & LPO at RFH 3rd May - RVW Sea Symphony with HDW and RPO at the Barbican 7th May - Mozart Concert Arias at Newbury Festival
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
@AliceCoote @ReneeFleming @RoyalOperaHouse @roseandfriends @andris_nelsons @ROHchorus What a memory! I reminisce about this often. Singing that trio with the two of you has to be the best musical thing that’s ever happened to me 😘
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
LIVE at 2pm on Radio 3!
@_natashariordan
Natasha Riordan-Eva
4 years
Social distancing may mean a slightly smaller @BBCSO but they are sounding as mighty as ever 💪🏻 Join us LIVE at 14.00 on @BBCRadio3 for Schumann x 2 and Copland’s exquisite settings of Emily Dickinson with the radiant @SophusBevanus ☀️ - the extra space suits this music so well
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
@iestyn_davies You can spit trousers whenever you like Iestyn. It really helps
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
@clivepaget @the_halle Thank you for such a wonderful review. So happy that you enjoyed the Magnificat so much; as did we all!
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
@DavidPNice No it’s my ‘new’ rectum! The surgeon removed the whole damn thing and my colon is now learning how to do the job. My surgeon really wanted to try and do it without me having to have a stoma. Hope you have the same, although life with a stoma is better than no life as you say!
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1 year
@ben_hulett @theoae The image of you frolicking around the stage in your gym slip I hope will never leave my memory. ‘Twas but a beautiful sight to behold
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
Do I have any friends who know any Ukrainians who are looking to get a visa under the Ukrainian Sponsorship Scheme? Another friend of mine has 4 rooms available and has applied to help via 3 different charities and gov websites but has not heard a word back…
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
@Paul_McCreesh @nfmtweets “I think I’m going to be sick”
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
My amazing sister, Mary...
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Intermusica
4 years
In case you missed it: @MaryCBevan in recital @wigmore_hall with a programme woven around songs inspired by the ‘muses’ of the day, both mythological and divine. Watch back here:
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
@MusicMagazine From memory
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Sophie Bevan
3 years
Thanks for the photo @helendhogh !
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2 years
@spconnolly Thank you darling Sarah for this. Love you xx
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
@HilaryConductor @rpoonline @CityLondonChoir @BarbicanCentre @RGCWbaritone Great fun was had by all! Particularly enjoyed the drama you added between parts 3 & 4 😉 Thanks Hilary x
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
Thank you for a lovely write-up, at a time when we most need it! X
@RobertHugill
Robert Hugill
4 years
Ariodante returns: Handel's opera back at @RoyalOperaHouse after 280 years; so many reasons for enjoying the performance + Paula Murrihy, @ChenReiss , @SophusBevanus , @iestyn_davies , @ed_lyon , @GeraldFinley , @ChristianCurnyn . My opera review:
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
@SorayaMafi You’re going to love it Soraya, I’m so happy for you. It literally makes your life 💯 times better xx
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
@jessicaduchen Have a bath
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
@GarsingtonOpera @jacquesimbrailo And I was pregnant in that photo! Haha!
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
@lizgoingon I’ve started work on it too!! 😍
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
@PeteDavTenor @BBC @BBCSingers Ahhh thank you! What an honour! I absolutely do and I think you are all wonderful x
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
Garsington’s production of The Turn of the Screw from ‘the last summer before Covid’ is still available to watch here! (I’m the pregnant one)
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
@Helen_Sherman Wow LOVE it! You have a lovely side! So good to see some other pics! Hope you’re doing OK and recovering well xxxxxxxxx
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Sophie Bevan
4 years
This Beethoven Concert is up for an extra week!
@LPOrchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
4 years
📣Great news! As we're celebrating 250 years of Beethoven, last week's Beethoven-packed concert is now free to watch for an extra week on @MarqueeArtsTV : #HereForCulture #LPO2020 #Beethoven250
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Sophie Bevan
9 months
@ifagiolini Thank you! I’ll have a listen tonight. A few people have forwarded it to me today; it’s sounds very interesting
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Sophie Bevan
2 years
Just got over the worst cold I think I’ve ever had that lasted about 4 weeks then suddenly felt awful again this morning, and it’s bloody Covid now!! Someone up there really doesn’t want me to work 😫
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