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Highgate

HGO’s mesmerising talent in a rather confusing The Fairy Queen

29/04/202428/04/2024 by Agnes Kory

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Purcell, The Fairy Queen: Soloists, HGO Antiqua Orchestra / Seb Gillot (conductor). Hampstead Garden Opera, Jackson Lane, London, 20.4.2024. (AK)

HGO’s The Fairy Queen © Laurent Compagnon

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HGO perform Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in Highgate this April

20/03/202428/02/2024 by AUTHOR

‘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.

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Go see HGO’s new and innovative production of Hänsel und Gretel this November

28/11/202306/11/2023 by AUTHOR

Come down to the forest with HGO…

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HGO’s production of Agrippina is a fine, collegial enterprise

27/08/202316/05/2023 by Mark Berry

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Handel, Agrippina: Soloists, HGOAntiqua Orchestra / Thomas Payne (conductor). Jacksons Lane Arts Centre, Highgate, London, 13.5.2023. (MB)

Francesco Giusti as Ottone © Laurent Compagnon

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