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N E W S  &  E V E N T S​

Saturday 1 July

7.30 pm

St Mary's Church

Fordingbridge SP6 1BB

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Shakespeare at the Opera

Verdi, Berlioz, Vaughan Williams, etc..  /more

Tickets £15 from eventbrite.co.uk available soon,

or on the door, under-18s free

What our audience says...

In March 2023 we performed the Mozart Requiem with the Nova Foresta Classical Players in two memorable sell-out concerts. Here are just a few comments we had from the audience: 

'sublime', 'wonderful', 'incredible', 'glorious', 'fabulous', 'uplifting', 'magnificent', 'fantastic', 'amazing orchestra', 'what extraordinary soloists you have in the choir' 

 

Thank you to everyone who came and who took the time to comment.

Saturday 8 July

7.30pm

St Mary &

St Nicholas Church

Wilton SP2 0DL

Shakespeare concert image banner.jpg

Shakespeare at the Opera

Verdi, Berlioz, Vaughan Williams etc.  /more

Tickets £15 from eventbrite.co.uk available soon,

or on the door, under-18s free

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Shakespeare at the Opera

John Cuthbert director

Rob Taylor piano

 

Saturday 1 July, 7.30 pm

St Mary Church

Fordingbridge SP6 1BB

 

Tickets £15 from eventbrite.co.uk coming soon, or on the door (under-18s free)

Shakespeare concert image portrait.jpg

“Here will we sit and let the sounds of music creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night become the touches of sweet harmony.”

So says Lorenzo to his love, Jessica at the end of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice as they share a quiet moment near the end of the play. These words will also close the upcoming concert given by the Salisbury Chamber Chorus, Shakespeare at the Opera. The chorus will present excerpts from operatic adaptations of several of Shakespeare’s plays; Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor and more. Ah, but Shakespeare’s plays are not known for their crowd scenes, nor Greek choruses, I hear you cry. Well, come and hear the three witches of Macbeth become an army of sopranos and mezzo-sopranos in Giuseppe Verdi’s take on the Scottish play. Or how Ophelia’s descent into madness is accompanied by the background noise of some Danish peasants celebrating the arrival of spring in Ambroise Thomas’ version of Hamlet.

The programme will even contain Shakespeare’s actual texts in amongst the French, Italian and German translations, in two pieces by Ralph Vaughan Williams. An extract from Sir John in Love, Vaughan Williams’ telling of The Merry Wives of Windsor, and his sublime Serenade to Music originally composed for sixteen soloists as a tribute to Sir Henry Wood and, which sets the text from The Merchant of Venice quoted above.

These two concerts promise to be an emotional rollercoaster through comedy and tragedy on a scale gifted to the operatic stage by the story-telling of the great bard.

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Shakespeare at the Opera

John Cuthbert director

Rob Taylor piano

 

Saturday 8 July, 7.30 pm

St Mary &

St Nicholas Church

Wilton SP2 0DL

 

Tickets £15 from stockbridgemusic.uk

or on the door (under-18s free)

Shakespeare concert image portrait.jpg

“Here will we sit and let the sounds of music creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night become the touches of sweet harmony.”

So says Lorenzo to his love, Jessica at the end of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice as they share a quiet moment near the end of the play. These words will also close the upcoming concert given by the Salisbury Chamber Chorus, Shakespeare at the Opera. The chorus will present excerpts from operatic adaptations of several of Shakespeare’s plays; Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor and more. Ah, but Shakespeare’s plays are not known for their crowd scenes, nor Greek choruses, I hear you cry. Well, come and hear the three witches of Macbeth become an army of sopranos and mezzo-sopranos in Giuseppe Verdi’s take on the Scottish play. Or how Ophelia’s descent into madness is accompanied by the background noise of some Danish peasants celebrating the arrival of spring in Ambroise Thomas’ version of Hamlet.

The programme will even contain Shakespeare’s actual texts in amongst the French, Italian and German translations, in two pieces by Ralph Vaughan Williams. An extract from Sir John in Love, Vaughan Williams’ telling of The Merry Wives of Windsor, and his sublime Serenade to Music originally composed for sixteen soloists as a tribute to Sir Henry Wood and, which sets the text from The Merchant of Venice quoted above.

These two concerts promise to be an emotional rollercoaster through comedy and tragedy on a scale gifted to the operatic stage by the story-telling of the great bard.

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