(Photo Credit: Ben McKee) Bampton Classical Opera will present its annual St Beornwald’s-tide concert on Dec. 17, 2025 at 7 p.m. at St Mary’s Church in Bampton, Oxfordshire. The performance features Bampton Classical Voices, Bampton Classical Players, and conductor Andrew Griffiths. This year’s program centers on Charpentier’s “Messe de minuit pour Noël” for five voices, two recorders, strings, and continuo. {…}
Bampton Classical Opera has named soprano Seohyun Go the winner of the 2025 Young Singers’ Competition. Second Prize was awarded jointly to mezzo-soprano Emma Roberts and soprano Erin Rossington. Daniel Peter Silcock received the Accompanists’ Prize. The final was held on Nov. 25 at the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford, adjudicated by tenor Bonaventura Bottone, mezzo-soprano Jean Rigby, and {…}
Bampton Classical Opera will hold the Public Final of its Young Singers’ Competition 2025 on Nov. 25 at 6 p.m. at the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford. The finalists include mezzo-sopranos Emma Roberts and Myrna Tennant; sopranos Seohyun Go, Erin Rossington, Shafali Jalota, and Erin O’Rourke; bass-baritone Wonsick Oh; and baritone Michael Lafferty. Each finalist will perform a 20-minute {…}
(Photo: © Bampton Classical Opera) Two hundred years after Antonio Salieri’s death, Bampton Classical Opera has once again shown why his work deserves a place on today’s stages. Their production of “La locandiera” (The Landlady), Salieri’s sparkling comedy based on Goldoni’s celebrated play, offered London audiences a rare chance to experience one of the liveliest works of eighteenth-century opera buffa. {…}
Bampton Classical Opera has unveiled the schedule for its upcoming Young Singers’ Competition 2025. The public final for the event is set for Nov. 25, 2025 at the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium in Oxford. Each finalist will perform for 20 minutes, showcasing a repertory of opera and song. At least one work must be in English and another must be an {…}
Bampton Classical Opera is set to present Salieri’s “La Iocandiera” this fall. The opening performance of the production is set for July 18 and 19 at The Deanery Garden in Bampton, Oxfordshire. That will be followed by an August 25 showcase at Westonbirt School in Gloucestershire and a Sept. 6 date at The Barn at Old Wallan in Wadhurst, Sussex. {…}
(Photo Credit: Sisi Burn) Bampton Classical Opera will present “A Musical Celebration” on Dec. 7, 2024 at St. Mary’s Church in Oxfordshire. The performance features countertenor Kieron-Connor Valentine taking on songs and arias by Rhys Joines, T. Soborne Roberts, Alain Boulil, Jake Heggie, Chalin, Berlin, and Amanda McBroom, among others, alongside pianists André Bertoncini and Jeremy Gray. The Bampton Winds {…}
Bampton Classical Opera has announced a cast change for its production of “Alcina’s Island.” The Giuseppe Gazzaniga opera will now be headlined by Inna Husieva, a Ukrainian soprano who has had major success at the Elizabeth Connell Prize Competition and is a Scottish Opera Emerging Artist. She joins a cast starring Sarah Chae, Charlotte Badham, Monwabisi Lindi, Simon Brown, Magnus {…}
Bampton Classical Opera has announced its 2024 season. It starts with a summer production of “L’Isola d’Alcina” by Gazzaniga. The opera will get five performances across four different venues in Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, East Sussex, and London. Thomas Blunt conducts and Jeremy Gray directs. Cast members include Susanna Fairbairne, Sarah Chae, Charlotte Badham, Monwabisi Lindi, Simon Brown, Magnus Walker, Jonathan Eyers, {…}
Bampton Classical Opera has announced its 2023 Christmas Concert “Feliz Navidad! – Christmas Music from the New World.” The event, which is scheduled for Dec. 19, 2023 at St. Mary’s Church in Bampton, Oxfordshire, will feature Juan Guitérrez de Padilla’s “Missa Joseph Fili” as well as music by Antonio de Salazar, Francisco López Capillas, Manuel de Zumaya, Francisco Guerrero, Tomás {…}
Bampton Classical Opera has a new addition to its 2024 season. The company revealed that it will present Giuseppe Gazzaniga’s “L’Isola d’Alcina.” The three-act opera is loosely based on the sorceress Alcina and features four men getting washed up on an island where they are seduced by an 800-year-old witch. The opera will be directed by Jeremy Gray and conducted {…}