Frostbite Mexicano Padel Tournament: Fun, Festivity, and Fierce Competition
There was a clue in the name as over 30 padel players gathered in the foggy and cold Rye weather…
There wasn’t a spare seat to be had in the auditorium of Rye Creative Centre on Saturday 30th November for the fifteenth annual opera concert by alumni of the Royal Ballet & Opera Jette Parker Artists Programme, organised for the benefit of Rye Lawn Tennis Club by chairman Jonathan Jempson.
This year the stars of the show included soprano Anita Watson, mezzo-soprano Monika-Evelin Liiv, returning to Rye for the fourth time, tenor Michael Gibson and baritone Josef Jeongmeen Ahn. At the piano was Oliver Gooch, on his seventh visit to Rye, who created the programme and guided the musical journey from Mozart and Verdi through, among others, Tchaikovsky, Massenet and Bizet and back to Verdi again, all rendered with power and precision by the talented team. For good measure, Scotsman Michael Gibson unexpectedly threw in Kenneth McKellar’s The Midge Song – if you missed it, you can watch another of his Midge performances by clicking here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VplO4by7d8). After a rousing encore of ‘Brindisi’, the ‘Drinking Song’, from La Traviata, the appreciative audience dispersed to reflect on yet another superb musical evening.
The event’s success was underscored by support from the local community and Rye Lawn Tennis Club is grateful to all attendees, advertisers and contributors to the evening. Thanks also go to our hosts, Rye Creative Centre. The funds raised from ticket sales will contribute to enhancing facilities and help the Club, as a Community Amateur Sports Club, to continue to provide excellent amenities for the local community.
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Photographs by Roger Way
