Brighton Festival's lunchtime concert series is one of the gems of the three-week arts fest.
This soprano and mezzo-soprano were a special bargain - there's no way you will ever see these two together again on a concert platform for just £7.
Both have been appearing in the current production of The Marriage Of Figaro at the English National Opera. Sarah shot to fame in the soprano role in Handel's Jeptha for the Welsh National Opera, while Stephanie made her name in the complex and difficult premiere of Paul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale, based on a novel by Margaret Atwood.
Here in Brighton, the two slim, blonde singers delivered a programme of songs by Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy and Benjamin Britten.
Each piece, whether a song of love, or loss, something humorous or a simple description of a landscape, came from these singers' hearts. Both voices were fresh, full of colour and velvety-smooth, with a bell-like quality from the mezzo, Marshall.
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