Vache Baroque Festival Announces 2026 Season

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⁩The Vache Baroque Festival has announced its 2026 season held at the Chalfont Saint Giles, Buckinghamshire. The festival will be held on between August 29 and Sept. 6 , 2026. “The Tempest: A Semi-Opera” will be presented featuring Stephanie Hershaw, Isabelle Peters, Camilla Seale, Conor Prendiville, and Ross Cumming. Paul O’Mahony directors and Jonathan Darbourne conducts. Performance Dates: August 29-Sept. 6, {…}

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Vache Baroque Festival 2022 Review: La Descente d’Orphée Aux Enfers

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(Photo: The Photography Shed) Situated in the shade of the Chiltern Hills on the outskirts of London lies The Vache, a country house dating from the 16th century, with extensive grounds covering 86 acres. In 2020, it became the venue for Vache Baroque, a late summer festival dedicated to the performance of baroque music, under the stewardship of Betty Makharinsky {…}

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Founding a New Festival – Betty Makharinsky on Co-founding The Vache Baroque Festival

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Vache Baroque Festival Launches Video Series Celebrating Women Composers of the Era

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Photo: Michael Wheatley The Vache Baroque Festival has announced a new video series entitled “VB Showcase,” highlighting women composers of the baroque era. The Festival will release a video every two weeks from May 22 through July 31, 2022. Featured vocalists include sopranos Hilary Cronin, Angela Hicks, Jasmine Flicker, and mezzo-soprano Karima El Demerdasch. On the program are compositions by Lady {…}

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Vache Baroque Festival Announces Ukraine Fundraiser

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The Vache Baroque Festival has announced its Ukraine Fundraiser concert at Grosvenor Chapel in London on May 19, 2022. Featuring award-winning Kyiv-born pianist Sasha Grynyuk and a consort of Vache Baroque Singers, the program comprises music by Purcell and Baldassare Galuppi, along with 16th and 17th century Italian and English vocal music by Marenzio, Byrd, Dowland, Gibbons, and Handel. Grynyuk {…}

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Vache Baroque Festival Announces 2022 Festival

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(Credit: Vache Baroque Festival) U.K.-based Vache Baroque Festival has announced its 2022 slate which kicks off in late August. The showcase will be headlined by a production of Charpentier’s “La descente d’Orphée aux enfers.” The opera will star Samuel Boden, Henry Waddington, Lauren Lodge-Campbell, Naho Koizumi, Katie-Louise Dobson, Lila Chrisp, Alexander Chance, lars Fischer, and Jamie Woolard. Jonathan Darboune conducts {…}

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Vache Baroque Festival to Present Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’

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(Credit: Tim Dunk Photography) The Vache Baroque Festival will present Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas” on September 4 & 6, 2020. Katie Bray, winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at Cardiff Singer of the World 2019, will headline the cast as Dido. Bray’s recent roles include Zerlina in Mozart and Da Ponte’s “Don Giovanni,” title role in Vivaldi’s “La Griselda,” Dorabella in {…}

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Q & A: Soprano Stephanie Hershaw on Singing for ‘Amadeus’ & Preparing for Vache Baroque’s Semi-Opera of ‘The Tempest’

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(Photo: Viktoria Orel) Experimental operatic powerhouse Vache Baroque has cast Stephanie Hershaw in the role of the spirit Ariel in a new production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” — a “semi-opera” in partnership with multi award-winning theater group Out of Chaos and soundscape artist Dan Samsa. Paul O’Mahony (artistic director of Out of Chaos) and Vache Baroque’s co-founding music director Jonathan {…}