Catch Odaline de la Martinez in London subsequent month with scenes from Imoinda and Canciones

Odaline de la Martinez

There’s a likelihood subsequent month to catch music from Odaline de la Martinez’ highly effective opera Imoinda: A Story of Love and Slavery. Vincent Godfrey is conducting the Merlyn Ensemble on 1 November 2025 on the Warehouse in scenes from Imoinda with Donna Bateman as Imoinda and Sandeep Gurrupadi as Okoin a programme that additionally contains music by Britten, Smyth, Coleridge-Taylor and Florence Value. The programme is repeated on 15 November at Guildford United Reformed Church.

Loosely based mostly on Aphra Behn’s 1688 novel Oroonoko: or the Royal Slave, one of many first printed works by an English feminine author, the libretto for Imoinda was tailored by award-winning poet and educational Joan Anim-Addo. The opera traces the start of the Afro-Caribbean Tradition from Africa, by way of the horrific boat journey, to the arrival of the enslaved folks within the Caribbean. [ticket details]

There can be extra of Odaline de la Martinez’ music in London in November as her Canciones for Voice, Piano and Percussion can be featured on the London Music Pageant at Hinde Avenue Methodist Church on 21 November in as a part of a Celebration of Latin American Ladies Composers  carried out by pianist Nigel Foster, soprano Ana Beard Fernandez and percussionist Gillian McDonagh who together with baritone Michel de Souza can be performing songs ranging in date from the nineteenth to twenty first centuries, by composers from Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and Cuba. [further details]