the concert

apparently, a group of young singers from the Royal Danish Opera would be giving a concert in a small church, about an hour's drive away. so off we went. after a failed dinner attempt in nearby St Clar, a lovely old town where no dinner could be served before 8pm - which was too late for our timetable - we arrived at the church of St Leonard very early. i was starting to wonder whether this had been a good idea, but finally the singing started and it was good. they sang from the French and Italian repertoire, airs that i recognised and others i didn't. and the pianist was really excellent, managing to sound like an entire orchestra. the whole thing lasted more than 2 hours, at the end of which we were invited to join some of the guests to an after-concert get together where some food and wine were served. it gave us the opportunity to have a chat with the singers - well, mostly one of them, really - and the organisers, respectively the director of the Opera Singing School and the head singing teacher there, who also happened to be man and wife.