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BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2020 – Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Paris and Helen (1770)
Performances:
[Gardens at The Grange, Bampton, Oxfordshire: Friday 17, Saturday 18 July – postponed]
[The Orangery Theatre, Westonbirt School, Gloucesteshire: Monday 31 August – postponed]
St John’s Smith Square, London: Friday 18 September
Stephen Storace’s Bride and Gloom (Gli sposi malcontenti)
Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: Friday 19, Saturday 20 July
The Orangery Theatre, Westonbirt School, Glos: Monday 26 August
St John’s Smith Square, London: Tuesday 17 September
Gian-Carlo Menotti’s AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS
St John’s Smith Square, London: 16 December 3pm
St Mary’s Church, Bampton, Oxfordshire: 21 December 7.30pm
Semi-staged production, performed in Menotti’s 2-piano version
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2018 – 25th ANNIVERSARY SEASON
NICOLÒ ISOUARD’s CINDERELLA (CENDRILLON)
Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: Friday, Saturday 20, 21 July
The Orangery Theatre, Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire: Monday 27 August
St John’s Smith Square, London: Tuesday 18 September
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2017 – ANTONIO SALIERI’S THE SCHOOL OF JEALOUSY (La scuola de’ gelosi)
Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: Friday, Saturday 21, 22 July
The Orangery Theatre, Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire: Monday 28 August
St John’s Smith Square, London: Tuesday 12 September
Libretto: Caterino Mazzolà
New English translation: Gilly French and Jeremy Gray
Director: Jeremy Gray
Conductor: Anthony Kraus
Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera (Bampton, Westonbirt)
CHROMA (St John’s Smith Square)
Following highly successful UK premières of Salieri’s Falstaff (in 2003) and Trofonio’s Cave (2015), this summer Bampton Classical Opera will present the first UK performances since the late 18th century of arguably his most popular success: the bitter comedy of marital feuding, The School of Jealousy (La scuola de’ gelosi). The production will be designed and directed by Jeremy Gray and conducted by Anthony Kraus from Opera North. The English translation will be by Gilly French and Jeremy Gray.
United Kingdom Gluck, Philemon and Baucis (1769) & Arne, The Judgement of Paris (1742): Bampton Classical Opere/Paul Wingfield (conductor), The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire, 22.7.2016. (RJ)
United Kingdom Antonio Salieri, Trofonio’s Cave (La Grotta di Trofonio): Bampton Classical Opera / Paul Wingfield (conductor), Deanery Gardens, Bampton, Oxfordshire, 17.7.2015. (RJ)