Filipa Portela & Gregor Forbes

About Filipa Portela & Gregor Forbes

Following her sensational performance of Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine at the Edinburgh Festival in 2019, the Portuguese soprano Filipa Portela has been in great demand in opera houses and recital halls across Europe.

Accompanied by Scottish pianist, Gregor Forbes, who will also play some of Debussy’s evocative piano miniatures, her “outstanding and effortless virtuosity” (Leipzig Glocal) will, on a cold winter’s night in Melrose, conjure up the heat, light and passions of the Mediterranean.

Delibes: Filles de Cadiz

Debussy: Fêtes galantes, Livre 1; Clair de lune;La sérénade interrompue; La Puerta del Vino

Toldrà: Seis Canciones

Mendoza: Nana

Ravel: Vocalize en forme de Habanera

de Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas

Montsalvatge: Canción de cuna para dormir un negrito