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Opera Gala
An unmissable festive journey into the world of opera via some of the most celebrated, and some of the most thrilling, choruses in the repertoire /more
Sunday 22 June, 7.30 pm
St Thomas’s Church, Salisbury SP1 1BA
Salisbury Chamber Chorus
Nova Foresta Philharmonic
Simon McEnery conductor
Tickets £25, under-18s free
using link below, or on the door
Friends' priority booking is available through ticketsource.com from Tuesday 15th April until Tuesday 22nd April 2025 and on general release from the 23rd April onwards.
There will be a reception for Friends in the Cathedral Close at 6.00 p.m.
We were delighted to perform at The Salisbury Choir Festival on 26th April, held in St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury. 18 choirs contributed to the Festival during the afternoon and evening and we entertained a large audience with four pieces, three of them from our 22nd June concert, Opera Gala. Follow the link for a sample of our vibrant and exciting choral style.
Opera Gala
An unmissable festive journey into the world of opera via some of the most celebrated, and some of the most thrilling, choruses in the repertoire.
Salisbury Chamber Chorus
Nova Foresta Philharmonic
Simon McEnery conductor
Sunday 22 June, 7.30 pm St Thomas’s Church, Salisbury SP1 1BA
Tickets £25.00 - under-18s free -
using link below, or on the door
Friends' priority booking is available through ticketsource.com from Tuesday 15th April until Tuesday 22nd April 2025 and on general release from the 23rd April onwards.
There will be a reception for Friends in the Cathedral Close at 6.00 p.m.
Opera Gala
Salisbury Chamber Chorus & Nova Foresta Philharmonic
An unmissable festive journey into the world of opera via some of the most celebrated, and some of the most thrilling, choruses in the repertoire
Salisbury Chamber Chorus has had a long association with opera, having performed concerts of Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Romantic Opera, Russian Opera - and now we are thrilled to celebrate that love of opera in a collaboration with our orchestral friends at Nova Foresta for what promises to be an exciting evening for opera lovers and opera newbies alike.
There are plenty of familiar favourites - the Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore, the Toreadors Chorus from Carmen, the Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana, the Pilgrims’ Chorus from Tannhäuser - plus adaptations of popular arias, duets and ensembles like Nessun dorma (the World Cup one) or the Flower duet from Lakmé (the British Airways one). But there are also numbers for aficionados from Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and Rossini’s Cenerentola.
We are honoured to be performing this concert first as part of Music at Beaulieu 2025
(musicatbeaulieu.org) on 14 June, but we bring it to Salisbury on Sunday 22 June at St Thomas’s Church.
The Chorus’s pianist John Cuthbert will be playing as part of the orchestra, and the concert will be conducted by the Chorus’s musical director Simon McEnery.
Audience feedback from our recent concerts:
‘So exciting! So moving!’ - ‘outstanding’ - ‘a tour de force’
