Diary
2022
January 23 MENDELSSOHN | DIE ERSTE WALPURGISNACHT |Fanny Hensel HIOB CANTATA (Arioso)
Alexandra Palace Theatre, Alexandra Palace Way, London N22 7AY 15:00
Conductor – David Temple | Crouch End Festival Chorus & London Mozart Players
February 13 DORABELLA | COSI FAN TUTTE Saffron Opera Group, Saffron Hall, CB11 4UH
14:30 Concert Performance
March 19 Rossini | STABAT MATER | Colchester Choral Society, St. Botolph’s | 19:30 | Conductor – Ian Ray
March 20 Dvorăk |STABAT MATER | Marlborough College | 19:30 | Conductor – Adam Meehan-Staines
April 2 Bach | ST MATTHEW PASSION |Tewkesbury Abbey, Church Street, GL20 5RZ
Cheltenham Bach Choir | Conductor – David Crown
April 13 MacMillan | STABAT MATER | Conductor – Michael Bawtree | St. Endellion Easter Festival
April 15 16 Bach ST MATTHEW PASSION St Endellion Easter Festival conductor – David Watkin in new edition and translation by Jeremy Sams
April 23 Blackford | PIETA | Mozart | REQUIEM | St. Alban’s Cathedral | Conductor – George Vass
May 29 Ralph Vaughan-Williams | FIVE TUDOR PORTRAITS | Norfolk & Norwich Festival | Britten Sinfonia | Will Vann – Conductor | Baritone – Dominic Sedgwick | Norfolk & Norwich 250th Festival celebration in 2022
June 7/8/10/12 Jonathan Finney | A KIND MAN | Hoxton Hall, London, N1 6SH Tickets can be purchased here together with further details of the project.
This world premiere performance of an opera based on the Susan Hill novella “tells the story of a couple, already dealing with the grief of losing a child, who face the prospect of further tragedy. Through a mysterious transformation, the opera leaves us with a message of hope…”
July 13 Opera Gala at RHS Wisley – further details tbc
July 16 Paul Patterson The Fifth Continent | St Leonard’s Hythe| The Holst Singers|Conducted by Nicholas Cleobury Rebecca is delighted to be making a return to Jam on the Marsh Festival in Kent for 2022. Please find a link to the festival here
July 30 Rebecca will be making her debut at The Ryedale Festival in the world premiere of Julian Philips‘ new piece Looking West together with soprano Rebecca Bottone, conducted by George Vass.
Booking details to follow soon…
August 25 Julian Philips | LOOKING WEST | Nova Music Opera at Presteigne Festival |19:00 St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne | Conductor – George Vass
October 12 Julian Philips | LOOKING WEST | Nova Music Opera | Milton Court, Silk Street, London EC2Y 9BH|Conductor – George Vass
October 29 Mozart| REQUIEM | Cheltenham Bach Choir / Gottingen Stadtkantorei | Tewkesbury Abbey, Church Street, GL20 5RZ | Conductor – David Crown
November 4 Pergolesi| STABAT MATER | Cotswold Music Festival | Northleach Church of St Peter & St Paul GL54 3HL| Conductor – Steven Devine | 18:30 Tickets here
November 11 Lunchtime Concert with John Frederick Hudson, piano | Vaughan Williams, Barber, Bernstein & Britten | St Bride’s Church Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8AU| 13:15
November 13 Blackford | PIETA | Vaughan Williams | DONA NOBIS PACEM | Music for Remembrance at St George’s Bristol, BS1 5RR| Saxophone – Amy Dickson | Conductor – David Ogden | 18:00
November 19 Elgar| SEA PICTURES | Together with music by Vaughan Williams & Sibelius | Truro Cathedral, TR1 2AF | Three Spires Singers | Conductor – Christopher Gray | 19:30
Further details to follow…
SEASON 2021 ARCHIVE
March 15-16 Kerstin | JULIANA | Recording for Resonus Classics to be released later this year. Conducted by George Vass with Nova Music Opera
April 1 Broadcast On Jam TV | Concert for Eastertide with Elinor Rolfe Johnson (soprano) and William Vann (piano/organ) to be broadcast from The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
May 15-16 | Small scale concerts for Mid Wales Opera – details here
Saturday 15th May at The Judge’s Lodging, Presteigne – SOLD OUT
Sunday 16th May at The Willow Globe, Llanwrthwl, Rhayader – TICKETS
May 28 Release date of PRESTEIGNE PREMIERES for Resonus Classics: Listen and purchase here
May 29 Small scale concert at Lampeter House Span Arts See Mid Wales Opera for details
June 25 Pergolesi | STABAT MATER | with Kate Semmens (soprano) and Steven Devine at Cotswold Festival of Music, Northleach Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, GL54 3HL POSTPONED TO November 2022
June 30 July 3,6,7,9,10 | Countess | LA DIAVOLESSA by Galuppi | New Chamber Opera Oxford Outdoor Performance
July 17 Dove | THE FAR THEATRICALS OF DAY | Conducted by Paul Mealor at JAM on the Marsh Festival, St. Leonard’s Hythe, 20:00
October 1, 2 Dardano AMADIGI English Touring Opera Hackney Empire
October 5 Dardano AMADIGI English Touring Opera Hexham Abbey
October 11, 12 Dardano AMADIGI English Touring Opera Theatre Royal, York
October 15, 16 Dardano AMADIGI English Touring Opera The Lighthouse Poole
October 19 Dardano AMADIGI English Touring Opera Malvern Priory
October 23 Dardano AMADIGI English Touring Opera Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa
October 27 Dardano AMADIGI English Touring Opera Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon
October 29, 30 Dardano AMADIGI English Touring Opera Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
November 6 Dardano AMADIGI English Touring Opera The Coro, Ulverston, South Lakeland
November 9 Dardano AMADIGI English Touring Opera Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells
November 12, 13 Dardano AMADIGI English Touring Opera Snape Maltings
November 16, 17 Dardano AMADIGI English Touring Opera Northcott Theatre, Exeter
December 11 Lucretia THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA St Cyprian’s, London NW1 6AX New Palace Opera
Press the link for tickets and further information
SEASON 2020 ARCHIVE
March 22 Lucretia | THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA | New Palace Opera | St. John’s Waterloo, London |19:00 | Conductor – Michael Thorne POSTPONED to Winter 2021
April 10-11 MacMillan | STABAT MATER | Conductor – Sir James MacMillan | St. Endellion Easter Festival POSTPONED
April 12 Haydn | NELSON MASS | Conductor – David Watkin | St. Endellion Easter Festival CANCELLED
April 25 Blackford | PIETA | Mozart | REQUIEM | St. Alban’s Cathedral | Conductor – George Vass POSTPONED
April 29 – June 12 | In rehearsal for 3. Lesni Zinky/ Nymph | RUSALKA |Garsington Opera CANCELLED
June 14,18,26, July 1,4,8,10,16,18 | 3. Lesni Zinky / Nymph | RUSALKA |Garsington Opera | Conductor – Douglas Boyd | Director – Michael Boyd CANCELLED
June 20 Mahler | SYMPHONY No. 8 | Mulier Samaritana | Conductor – Richard Howarth | Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, Liverpool Welsh Choral, Chester and Manchester Cathedral Choristers | Bridgewater Hall, Manchester POSTPONED
July 7 | JAM Festival Recital | Repertoire to include Elgar, Britten & Jonathan Dove | Anna Tilbrook – piano
August 9,11,12 3. Lesni Zinky / Nymph | RUSALKA |Garsington Opera at The Edinburgh International Festival | Conductor – Douglas Boyd | Director – Michael Boyd CANCELLED
August 20 | Hugh Wood | BEGINNINGS | Conductor – George Vass | Recording for Resonus Classics | Producer – Adam Binks
August 27 | Weir | KING HARALD’S SAGA | Janáček | THE DIARY OF ONE WHO VANISHED (trans. by Seamus Heaney) | Presteigne Festival | St. Andrew’s Church, Presteigne CANCELLED
October 4 | Harvest Festival | Soloist | St.Stephen’s Church, Old Radnor, Radnorshire
November 29 | Lucretia | THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA | New Palace Opera | St. John’s Waterloo, London |19:00 | Conductor – Michael Thorne TBC Autumn 2021