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22nd July 2025
Celebrating 250 Years of Jane Austen
This recital brings Jane’s letters to her sister Cassandra to life.
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22nd July 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Celebrating 250 Years of Jane Austen-Soprano and Piano
Love, Life and Sisterhood
‘She was the sun of my life … the soother of every sorrow’ Cassandra Austen
Jane Austen’s perceptive storytelling makes us feel we know her. She was Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse, and Elinor Dashwood. Sisterhood was central to her life and novels.
This recital brings Jane’s letters to her sister Cassandra to life, underscored by Jonathan Dove’s The Beautiful Cassandra, alongside the music she loved by Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert.
Claire Booth Soprano
Andrew Matthews-Owen Piano
Alex Kingston Actor
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