About The Truth About Love

The Truth About Love is a recital by Rachel Roper and Claire Habbershaw exploring the themes of love and companionship in music.

Rachel Roper has recently been awarded the position of Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne for the 2025, a prestigious programme that champions up and coming artists. Rachel is also due to be soloist at Hereford 2025's performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's The Atonement.

Claire Habbershaw is an award winning British pianist & musical director, who specialises in art song, opera and musical theatre repertoire. She is an international recitalist, concert curator and recording artist and regularly performs with some of the finest opera singers in the world.

Programme

Schumann Du Bist Wie Eine Blume
Strauss Das Rosenband
Maeterlinck Six Songs after Poems
Ian Venables Pine Boughs Past Music
Gurney in Flanders
Ian Venables Midnight Lamentation
Vaughan Williams Silent Noon
Vaughan Williams Whither must I wander
Elgar A Poets Life
Schubert An Die Musik
Schubert An Sylvia
Novello I can Give you the Starlight
Novello We’ll gather Lilacs
Weill I’m a Stranger Here Myself
Britten Tell me the Truth About Love

Rachel Roper mezzo-soprano
Claire Habbershaw piano