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United Kingdom Bampton Classical Opera – Gazzaniga, Alcina’s Island: Soloists, Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Thomas Blunt (conductor). Bampton, Oxfordshire, 19.7.2024. (CP)
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2024 SEASON
For their summer production Bampton Classical Opera will present Giuseppe Gazzaniga’s bubbling comedy L’isola d’Alcina, with a libretto by Giovanni Bertati. It will be sung in a new English translation by Gilly French as Alcina’s Island. Performances will be conducted by Thomas Blunt and directed by Jeremy Gray.
The company will also give a performance of Haydn’s delightful comic opera The Apothecary (Lo speziale) on May 6 at The Manor House, Dorchester on Thames, as part of the 2024 Dorchester Festival.
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Bampton Classical Opera 2024 Season
Giuseppe Gazzaniga, L’isola d’Alcina – Alcina’s Island (1772)
Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire – Friday 19, Saturday 20 July
Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire – Monday 26 August
The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurst, Sussex – Saturday 31 August
St John’s Smith Square, London – Friday 13 September
United Kingdom Bampton Classical Opera – Salieri, At the Venice Fair (La fiera di Venezia): Soloists, Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Thomas Blunt (conductor). Bampton, Oxfordshire, 21.7.2022. (CP)
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2023: 30TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
SUMMER PRODUCTION – UK première Antonio Salieri’s ‘At the Venice Fair’ (La fiera di Venezia) (1772)
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: 21, 22 July; Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire: 28 August; St John’s Smith Square, London: 13 September
Exhibition of costumes, props and artefacts celebrating 30 years of Bampton Classical Opera: Bampton Community Archive, Old Grammar School, Church View, Bampton OX18 2NE – 13 June-6 August, every day 10-4pm, admission free, with accompanying book for sale written by Jeremy Gray.
F J Haydn double-bill ‘The Diva’/’The Apothecary’ – 15 June, 6.30pm
The Northern Aldborough Festival 2023: St. Andrew’s Church, Aldborough, YO51 9ER
F J Haydn’s ‘The Apothecary’ – 9 September.
The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurst, East Sussex TN5 6LU
Bampton Classical Opera Young Singers’ Competition 2023
Public Final 25th November: The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford, OX2 6UD
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2022 – G F Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno (1707) Performances: 3 September, 7pm: Old Walland, Wadhurst, Sussex, TN5 6LU 11 September, 3pm: Weald Manor, Bampton, Oxfordshire, OX18 2HQ 24 September, 4pm: Summer at Breinton, Woking, Surrey, GU22 0RD Libretto: anonymous, English translation by Gilly French Conductor: Julian Perkins Bampton Classical Player This autumn Bampton … Read more
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2022 – F J Haydn ‘Fool Moon’ (Il mondo della luna)
Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: Friday 22, Saturday 23 July
Westonbirt School, Glos: Monday 29 August
St John’s Smith Square, London: Friday 16 September
Libretto: Carlo Goldoni
English Translation: Gilly French
Director/Designer: Jeremy Gray
Conductor: Thomas Blunt
Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera (Bampton, Westonbirt)
CHROMA (St John’s Smith Square)
Bampton Classical Opera’s summer 2022 production will be Haydn’s Il mondo della luna. This three act dramma giocosa from 1777 is the best-known of several operatic settings during the second half of the century of a delightfully crazy libretto by Carlo Goldoni. As Mozart was to do later with Così fan tutte, Haydn was inspired by a bizarre plot of disguise and deception to create a score of ravishing beauty and wit. How better to persuade an over-protective but gullible father to allow the marriages of his daughters than to persuade him that he has been transported to the moon?
United Kingdom Gluck, Paris and Helen (Parida ed Elena): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Thomas Blunt (conductor). The Deanery Garden, Bampton, 23.7.2021 (CP)
