United Kingdom Purcell, The Fairy Queen: Soloists, HGO Antiqua Orchestra / Seb Gillot (conductor). Hampstead Garden Opera, Jackson Lane, London, 20.4.2024. (AK)
HGO’s mesmerising talent in a rather confusing The Fairy Queen
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HGO perform Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in Highgate this April
‘Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me, that yet we sleep, we dream.‘
In HGO’s revitalization of Purcell’s masterpiece, The Fairy Queen, we meet an ensemble of fourteen performers, led through the evening by master storyteller, Puck, a photographer studying love through her camera lens.
HGO’s production of Agrippina is a fine, collegial enterprise
United Kingdom Handel, Agrippina: Soloists, HGOAntiqua Orchestra / Thomas Payne (conductor). Jacksons Lane Arts Centre, Highgate, London, 13.5.2023. (MB)
Holst’s one-act Sāvitri will be performed live in London by HGO from 13-22 August
HGO brings back live opera performances to London
For Mark Berry’s review click here
HGO (formerly Hampstead Garden Opera) is dedicated to supporting singers at the start of their careers – they will lead the return of live opera to London. HGO’s staged open-air production with orchestra of Gustav Holst’s one-act Sāvitri will play at Lauderdale House, Highgate, on 13-22 August.
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival’s Beethoven 249 in November
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival, 23 – 30 November 2019 in Highgate, London.
The theme for 2019, Beethoven 249, sees HICMF celebrate this notable anniversary of the great man, with Beethoven featuring in each of the main concerts.
The festival opens with Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata (arr. for String Quintet) and much-loved String Quintet in C major, performed by Alexander Sitkovetsky, Natalie Klouda, Laurence Power, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Ashok Klouda. Further highlights include Julian Bliss performing Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio Op.11 and Dohnányi’s Sextet Op.37, and on 28 November Classic FM presenter John Suchet provides spoken introductions to music by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.