Mezzo-soprano
Anita Monserrat
British mezzo-soprano Anita Monserrat is recognised for her poised musicianship and richly coloured voice.
Guiting Music Festival
Guiting Power
Cheltenham
GL54 5TX
Ellington Take the "A" Train
Kern The Way You Look Tonight from Swing Time
Kern Can't help lovin dat man from Show Boat
Strauss Serenade op. 7
Alma Mahler Mild Summer Night from Five Songs 1910
Alma Mahler Harvest Song from Four Songs 1915
Gustav Mahler Adagietto from Symphony no. 5
Gershwin Someone to watch over me from Oh, Kay!
Elgar Chanson de Nuit
Strauss Die Nacht from Songs op. 10
Elgar Chanson de Matin
Strauss Morgen from Four Songs op. 27
Sondheim Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music
Porter I Get a Kick Out of You
Gershwin Let's Call the Whole Thing Off from Shall We Dance
Gershwin Summertime
With arrangements by Harry Baker
Fantasia returns to Guiting Music Festival with a programme featuring the soaring romanticism of Alma Mahler and Richard Strauss to the bittersweet elegance of Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim.
A love letter to twentieth century song in its many different forms, this programme has lush orchestral arrangements of songs for solo voice that are heard alongside music from beloved twentieth century shows and musicals.
Join us in the idyllic Cotswold village of Guiting Power, with its rolling hills and glorious countryside, for a concert that features British mezzo-soprano Anita Monserrat.
Tickets on sale:
20 March 2026 - Guiting Festival Sponsor and Donors
27 March 2026 - Guiting Festival Patrons
7 April 2026 - General Public
British mezzo-soprano Anita Monserrat recently won 1st prize at the 2024 SWR Junge Opernstars competition, 2nd prize at Neue Stimmen 2024 and was a semi-finalist at the 30th edition of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition. In the UK, she reached the final of both the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the 2022 Handel Singing Competition. She was a member of the Young Singer’s Project at the 2023 Salzburger Festspiele and also took part in the 2024 International Meistersinger Akademie (IMA).

Tom Fetherstonhaugh is Artistic Director of Fantasia Orchestra, which he founded in 2016.
Alongside Fantasia, in the 25/26 season Tom returns to the BBC Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and Ulster Orchestra.

Guiting Music Festival
Guiting Power
Cheltenham
GL54 5TX