Bampton Classical Opera

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Bampton Classical Opera is a Bampton, Oxfordshire based opera company specializing in the production of lesser-known classical operas. Performances are always sung in English.

She works with a wide variety of conductors and ensembles and has no permanent music director. It performs with both modern and historical instrument orchestras and has often performed with the London Mozart Players and the Chroma Ensemble. In particular, it aims to offer performances for young singers.

Bampton Classical Opera is a finalist for an International Opera Award 2020 , in the Rediscovery category for Gli sposi malcontenti by Stephen Storace , which was produced in 2019. This was the second British production ever.

Stephen Storaces Gli sposi malcontenti , performance of the Bampton Classical Opera 2019 (performed under the English pun Bride & Gloom )

In 2020 and 2021, the company Pâris et Hélène by Christoph Willibald Gluck plans to play.

history

Bampton Classical Opera was founded in 1993 by current artistic directors Gilly French and Jeremy Gray. After staging Mozart's rare unfinished opera L'oca del Cairo (The Cairo Goose) in 1994, the company began specializing increasingly in rare classical works, mostly from the second half of the 18th century.

Venues

The company's staged opera productions will be performed in a garden in Bampton and in Westonbirt House, the premises of Westonbirt School, and in St. John's, Smith Square, London .

From time to time it toured other UK venues and festivals including Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room in London, the Buxton Festival, Cheltenham Music Festival and others.

Settings

Among other:

John-Colyn Gyeantey (the Earl) and Emily Rowley Jones (Susanna) at the UK premiere of Marcos Portugal's The Marriage of Figaro , Bampton 2010
Scene from Ferdinando Bertoni's opera Orfeo , performed by Bampton Classical Opera in 2014, with Anna Starushkevych in the title role
Catherine Backhouse (Pallas Athena), Aoife O'Sullivan (Venus), Barbara Cole Walton (Juno) in the production of Thomas Arnes Judgment of Paris 2016
  • 2016: Philemon and Baucis by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the first act of Gluck's opera Le Fest d'Apollo , premiered in Parma in 1769 - a British premiere
  • 2017: La scuola de 'gelosi (The School of the Jealous) by Antonio Salieri, a UK premiere
  • 2018: Cendrillon by Nicolas Isouard - a British premiere

Young Singers' Competition

The company launched a biennial competition for young singers in 2013, with the public finale in the Holywell Music Room in Oxford .

patron

The company's patrons include Roger Norrington , Andrew Parrott and Sir David Pountney .

The company's patrons included Dame Felicity Lott , the late Sir Charles Mackerras, and David Cameron , whose constituency included Witney Bampton.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Opera Awards 2020 Nominees. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  2. ^ Salazar, David (March 16, 2020). Bampton Classical Opera Unveils Cast for Upcoming Gluck Production, OperaWire .
  3. ↑ https://bamptonopera.org/operadetail.htm?opera=16
  4. ↑ https://www.bamptonopera.org/operadetail.htm?opera=31
  5. ↑ http://www.bamptonopera.org/operadetail.htm?opera=18
  6. ↑ Holloway, Amanda (September 13, 2017). "Review: The School of Jealousy " . The Stage . Retrieved April 22, 2020.
  7. ^ Young Singers' Competition. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .