A Night at the Opera

A Night at the Opera is a musical journey through the history of Western vocal music, from the Renaissance to the Romantic era: sacred music, art songs, arias from the great operas and the Baroque.

Lyric soprano Vaibhavi Singh and guitarist Pranay Verma perform pieces first written for orchestra or piano in their own arrangements for voice and guitar. Between pieces they talk about each work, its story and its world, and translate the poetry of songs sung in Italian, German and Latin, so the evening works as well for someone new to opera as for a lifelong listener.

Vaibhavi Singh specialises in opera and Western classical singing and teaches voice at the Delhi School of Music. She trained for more than six years at the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Conservatory and the KM Music Conservatory in Chennai, and has performed with The Neemrana Music Foundation and the Delhi Chamber Choir.

Pranay Verma is a Delhi guitarist and composer who plays with The Revisit Project, Dastaan LIVE, Pragnya Wakhlu and Arinjoy Das, and in the jazz and neo-soul group Wet Volumes with saxophonist Agneya Singh. He studied at the Parikrama School of Music under the late Sonam Sherpa and holds an artist diploma from the Global Music Institute. His debut release is Voices.