Conductors
Bampton Classical Opera has worked with a number of conductors, some of whom are described below. We do not have a permanent music director.
2010 season
Robin Newton read music at Cambridge University before going on to study conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where he was twice winner of the Ricordi Prize for Conducting Opera. He was recently awarded the Leonard Ingrams Memorial Prize and last year was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Fellowship. Robin has studied conducting with Sir Mark Elder, Jiří Bělohlávek, Andrew Litton and David Parry. He made his debut conducting Tosca for English Touring Opera. Robin has conducted for Bampton Classical Opera, Garsington Opera, ENO, Den Nye Oper and Opera Rara. He has worked with leading British orchestras including the Philharmonia, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Orchestra of Opera North and sinfonia ViVA, and recently made his debut with the London Mozart Players. Plans for 2010 include the British premiere of Marcos Portugal’s The Marriage of Figaro with Bampton Classical Opera, a gala performance at Garsington Opera, Le nozze di Figaro (Co-Opera Co.), a recording of Il pirata (Opera Rara, assisting David Parry), Armida (Garsington Opera, assisting David Parry), La bohème (Den Nye Oper, assisting Andrew Litton) and a return to the London Mozart Players.
Past seasons
Benjamin Bayl Handel by Candlelight (concert)
Alexander Briger The Philosopher's Stone;
A Comedy of Errors
Matthew Coorey The
Jewel Box
Christian Curnyn Le cinesi; Apollo and Hyacinth; La danza
Richard Dickins Acis
and Galatea (Mozart orchestration)
Tecwyn Evans Music for
voices and harp (concert)
Alice Farnham Le pescatrici
Gilly French Apollo and Hyacinth; The Conspirators; several
concerts
Edward Gardner Waiting
for Figaro
Matthew Halls Romeo and Juliet
Murray Hipkin Falstaff;
La vera costanza; Apollo and Hyacinth; Le cinesi
Guy Hopkins Orpheus
and Euridice; Don Giovanni; Alfred; Nina
Paul
Hoskins The Barber of Seville ;
La capricciosa corretta
Jason Lai L'infedeltà delusa; Don
Giovanni
Robin Newton Leonora
David Owen Norris The Two
Barons of Rocca Azzurra
Simon Over A
Comedy of Errors
Gregory Rose A European
Christmas (concert)
Alexander Walker A Comedy
of Errors
