Carmen's Last Dance: Bizet, Bohemians & La Belle Epoque
Date
9 October 2026
Time
17:30
Drinks & Canapés
Free-flowing drinks and delicious food
Location
Luxury Villa Sainte-Maxime, France
World-Class Artists
2 internationally acclaimed performers
The world that created Bizet, the scandal that created Carmen, and the extraordinary French composers who followed — Gounod, Massenet, Fauré, Debussy, Poulenc. Featuring British operatic sensation Iúnó Connolly.
The Programme
Event Programme
17:30
Drinks with a view
18:30
Concert
Music by
Programme Highlights
Bizet
Gounod
Massenet
Fauré
Debussy
Poulenc
Meet the Artists
Pavel Timofeyevsky
Piano
Virtuoso pianist, composer for film and the concert stage, arranger and lecturer, Pavel Timofeyevsky has received numerous prizes and accolades, including the BBC/Guardian Young Composer of the Year award. Pavel has appeared at nearly all the major concert venues across the UK. Concert tours, along with television and radio appearances in other parts of the world include the USA, China, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Russia, Latvia, Greece, Cyprus and India.
Iúnó Connolly
Soprano
Soprano Iúnó Connolly has performed at major venues including the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Wexford Festival Opera, and the Philharmonie de Paris, and has appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall. A prize winner at the 2023 Concorso Voci Nuove per La Lirica G. Fraschini and recipient of the Elena Gehardt Lieder Prize, she trained at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Music, and studies with Maestro Antonio Lemmo.