<![CDATA[Richard Lloyd Owen - Blog]]>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:19:01 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Dark deeds in deepest Devon with Richard Lloyd Owen]]>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:23:45 -0800http://www.richardlloydowen.co.uk/1/post/2010/03/dark-deeds-in-deepest-devon-with-richard-lloyd-owen.html
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Richard will be appearing in Hatstand Opera's "Opera can Be Murder" on Friday 16 April 2010.

Opera can be Murder is a tongue in cheek look at how opera dispatches its heroes and villains, in extracts by Verdi, Donizetti, Mozart and more. Discover heroines meeting their Maker still singing flat out, and bodies that revive at the crucial moment for top notes! All is revealed, in the best possible taste and with heaps of humour. Who knows, you might die laughing…

Friday 16 April 2010
Opera can be Murder
The Courtenay Centre, Kingsteignton Road, Newton Abbott, Devon, TQ12 2QA
time: 7.30pm
tickets: £10 NASDA members, £14 non-members, £2 for students under 21
available from: Tourist Information Centre, 6 Bridge House, Courtenay Street, Newton Abbot; Opus, 14a Guildhall Centre, Exeter; or on the door at the event
Buy online at http://www.eventelephant.com/nadsa
Presented by nadsa concerts
]]><![CDATA[Opera singing for the Maori]]>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:20:32 -0800http://www.richardlloydowen.co.uk/1/post/2010/02/opera-singing-for-the-maori.htmlYou never quite know where a career as an opera singer will take you. On a recent visit to New Zealand, I was honoured to become the first opera singer to perform in a Maori 'Tatai hono Marae', a remembrance service, for the Mercy Hospice in Auckland. The whole room was garlanded with flowers and memorabilia, and  every single Maori relative spoke in their native tongue giving a eulogy of their loved one.

One gentleman (whom I later found out was the relative of Maori royalty) spoke at some length giving his lineage back some four hundred years, which took quite some time! There was a passion and pathos in his voice which made me feel as though I knew what he was saying.  Maori people love music in a similar way as Welsh people do, and wear their heart on their sleeve. I was therefore given a special status for my vocal prowess and was welcomed everywhere.]]>