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Zemira e Azor is Bampton Classical Opera’s current success story and cannot fail to gladden the hearts.

20/07/2026 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Bampton Classical Opera Summer 2026 – Grétry, Zemira e Azor: Soloists, The Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Andrew Griffiths (conductor). Cokethorpe School, Witney, Oxfordshire, 17.7.2026. (CP)

Andrew Irwin (Ali) and Ffion Edwards (Zemira) © Bampton Classical Opera

Bampton Classical Opera’s André Grétry Zemira e Azor (‘Beauty and the Beast’) this summer

20/01/2026 by AUTHOR

Bampton Classical Opera 2026

André Grétry Zemira e Azor (‘Beauty and the Beast’) (1771/1776)

Performances:
Cokethorpe School, Witney, Oxfordshire: Friday 17, Saturday 18 July
Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire: Monday 31 August
Smith Square Hall, London: Friday 18 September

Bampton Classical Opera returns with a seasonal concert in Witney, Oxfordshire, on 12 December

28/12/202003/12/2020 by AUTHOR

BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2020

BAROQUE CHRISTMAS CANTATAS
A concert for St Beornwald’s Day
Saturday 12 December 2020, 4pm
St Mary’s Church, Church Green, Witney, Oxfordshire OX28 4AW

Bampton Classical Opera presents a seasonal concert at St Mary’s Church in Witney, Oxfordshire on Saturday 12 December at 4pm, to mark St Beornwald’s Day, the annual celebration of the patron saint of Bampton. The concert will feature two fine baroque pastoral Christmas cantatas: Alessandro Scarlatti’s ‘Non sò qual più m’ingombra’, and Antonio Caldara’s ‘Amarilli vezzosa’.