# Event Details - **Event Name**: An Evening of Spring Romance - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 08 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Sat, 08 Mar, 2025 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a delightful spring evening filled with a heady bouquet of romances performed by mezzo-soprano Jessica Lawrence-Hares and pianist Olga Elbourn. Experience the themes of love, loss, joy, and nature through the captivating works of Dargomyzhsky, Cui, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff.Concert ProgrammeMikhail Glinka (1804-1857)Oh, do not sing to me, fair maiden, Op. 51, No. 2BarcarolleThe LarkAlexander Dargomyzhsky (1813-1869)My sister’s gardenA mad one, I still love himI loved youMily Balakirev (1837-1910)I loved himCome to meSong of the golden fishCésar Cui (1835-1918)A statue in Tsarskoye Selo, Op. 57, No. 17My desire, Op. 57, No. 25I touched the bloom lightly, Op. 49, No. 1Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)Night, Op. 8, No. 2My dreams, Op. 40, No. 3The swift parade of clouds, Op. 42, No. 3IntervalPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)Lullaby, Op. 16, No. 1At the ball, Op. 38, No. 3Why?, Op. 6, No. 5 Again, as before, alone, Op. 73, No. 6Indoors, the lights were being put out, Op. 63, No. 5None but the lonely heart, Op. 6, No. 6Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)April, a festive spring dayIn the silence of the secret night, Op. 4, No. 3A dream, Op. 8, No. 5Oh, do not sing to me, fair maiden, Op. 4, No. 4My child, you are as beautiful as a flower, Op. 8, No. 2A dream, Op. 38, No. 5The night is mournful, Op. 26, No. 12Spring waters, Op. 14, No. 11Jessica Lawrence-Hares received her BM magna cum laude and her MM in voice performance from Boston University. Her operatic roles include Mercedes (Carmen) and Nicklaus (Hoffmann’s Erzählungen) with the Komische Kammeroper München, Lady with a Hat Box (Postcard from Morocco) and the Sea (Before Night Falls) with the Boston University Opera Institute, as well as Mad Margaret (Ruddigore) the Third Lady (The Magic Flute), and Marcellina (The Marriage of Figaro) with the Cambridge Operatic Society.She has been a featured soloist in performances of Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning and Mozart’s Requiem in the Boston area, as well as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Tuscany. Jess has also performed in the premieres of several new operas, including Are Women People? (Mother, 2014) and Porcelain and Pink (Lois, 2015) by Kate Waring, as well as Strange Ghost (Ka Cox, 2015) by David Earl.Her concert repertoire includes Sea Pictures and excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier with the Cambridge Sinfonietta, and performances of The Music Makers, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Dido and Aeneas, and The Canterbury Pilgrims with Choir2000. In 2019, she performed in the premiere of Peddars Way, a new work by Kevin Flanagan.Most recently, Jess joined the Lepetit Ensemble for a concert featuring women composers at Hughes Hall and sang Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël with the Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra.Visit Jessica’s website for more details https://www.jessicalawrencehares.com/Olga Elbourn graduated in 2004 with highest honours from the State Conservatoire in St. Petersburg, Russia, as a concert pianist, piano teacher, accompanist, and chamber ensemble player. After completing a postgraduate course at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire in 2006, she held a position there for the next nine years as a Senior Accompanist for opera singing and Russian folk instrument classes, working with some of the best-known opera singers and folk instrumentalists.On the concert platform, she has collaborated with soloists from leading opera theatres worldwide and has been a member of numerous chamber ensembles in Russia and Europe. She is a prize-winner of several international competitions and, in 2007, was awarded the prestigious “Richard Wagner Stipendienstiftung” scholarship in Germany.Since 2014, Olga has lived permanently in the UK, in Cambridge, where she continues her extensive performing and teaching career. She is the Principal Accompanist of the St. Ives Choral Society, regularly collaborates with various instrumentalists and singers for performances, and teaches a large class of piano students. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/an-evening-of-spring-romance-tickets/80003352778582 - **Event Categories**: concerts, performances, music, entertainment, workshops, art, theatre, parades - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 5 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 10, max: 15, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Cambridge - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: The Chapel at Churchill College - **lat**: 52.2141702 - **long**: 0.09696420000000001 - **full address**: The Chapel at Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DE, United Kingdom, Cambridge ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Event Photo 1 - **Image URL**: https://cdn2.allevents.in/thumbs/live_large67b06b4cc933b.jpg - **Alt text**: Event Photo 2 - **Image URL**: https://cdn2.allevents.in/thumbs/live_large67938aca2a6cd.jpg - **Alt text**: Event Photo 3 - **Image URL**: https://cdn2.allevents.in/thumbs/live_large67938aca3f5bd.jpg ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is An Evening of Spring Romance being held? - **A:** An Evening of Spring Romance takes place on Sat, 08 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Sat, 08 Mar, 2025 at 09:00 pm at The Chapel at Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DE, United Kingdom, Cambridge. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for An Evening of Spring Romance? - **A:** Ticket prices for An Evening of Spring Romance range from GBP 10 to GBP 15 depending on the ticket type. - **Q**: What is the refund policy for An Evening of Spring Romance? - **A:** The refund policy for An Evening of Spring Romance is as follows: Please note that we are unable to issue refunds. 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