Postscript & Laila Cathleen Neuman
Proserpina
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Recorded live at Gasthuis Leeuwenbergh Utrecht, 29 August 2021
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About this concert
Dutch soprano Laila Cathleen Neuman specialises in historical acting techniques. In this performance she applies the theatrical principles of the Amsterdam actor and painter Johannes Jelgerhuis (1770-1836) to the melodrama Proserpina: a nineteenth-century version of the Roman myth, created in a collaboration between Goethe and his music director Carl Eberwein.
Programme
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Carl Eberwein
Proserpina (1815)
1749-1832 / 1786-1868
Musicians
- Laila Cathleen Neuman soprano
- Postscript
- Aysha Wills traverso
- Tomoe Badiarova violin
- Emma Williams violin
- Iteke Wijbenga viola
- Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde cello
- Jesse Solway double bass
- Artem Belogurov fortepiano
- Irene Sorozabal soprano
- André Pérez tenor
- Sebastiaan Ammerlaan, Andreas Goetze bass
About the performers
Laila Cathleen Neuman studied classical singing at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and Lied and Oratorio at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She can regularly be heard as a soloist in international opera and oratorio productions. In her PhD research at Leiden University she is studying the theatrical legacy of Johannes Jelgerhuis and Aaron Hill and possible applications of this to historical performance practice for singers.
The core members of the Dutch ensemble Postscript are Aysha Wills (traverso), David Westcombe (traverso), Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde (cello) and Artem Belogurov (harpsichord). After winning the first prize at the international Brothers Graun Competition (DE) in 2018, Postscript performed a series of concerts in Germany. In June 2019 they recorded their first CD for the Dutch label TRPTK. Two days after its release, one track of the album was selected for Spotify’s ‘Best new Classical releases’ playlist, receiving more than 10,000 plays during that week. The ensemble members share a passion for exploring new ways to approach old music, through the use of both historical research and experimentation.