Bampton Classical Opera

Operatic Repertory

2010	Portugal The Marriage of Figaro (UK premiere)
2009	Schubert The Conspirators Gluck Le cinesi and Mozart Apollo and Hyacinth Haydn Le pescatrici Gluck La danza and Le cinesi
2008	Gluck Le cinesi and Mozart Apollo and Hyacinth Paer Leonora (UK première)
2007	Mozart Apollo and Hyacinth Mozart/Handel Acis and Galatea Haydn L’infedeltà delusa Benda Romeo and Juliet (UK première)
2006	Martín y Soler The Taming of the Shrew Mozart The Jewel Box
2005	Paisiello The Barber of Seville Haydn L'infedeltà delusa
2004	Salieri Falstaff Haydn L'infedeltà delusa Haydn La vera costanza Gazzaniga Don Giovanni
2003	Salieri Falstaff (UK première) Cimarosa The Two Barons of Rocca Azzurra
2002	Cimarosa The Two Barons of Rocca Azzurra Mozart Waiting for Figaro (a triple bill: The Impresario, The Deluded Husband and The Cairo Goose)
2001	Mozart, Henneberg, Schack, Gerl and Schikaneder The Philosopher's Stone (UK staged première) Storace The Comedy of Errors
2000	Mozart Così fan tutte Storace The Comedy of Errors
1999	Paisiello Nina
1998	Arne Alfred
1997	Gazzaniga Don Giovanni
1996	Gluck Orpheus and Euridice
1995	Purcell Dido and Aeneas (with the Mayfield Chamber Opera Company) Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors
1994	Mozart The Impresario and The Cairo Goose
1993	Handel Acis and Galatea

Concert Repertory

Since 1995 Bampton Classical Opera has celebrated the feast-day of the town's obscure patron Saint Beornwald, 21st December, with a concert in St Mary's Church. We also give occasional concerts, both in Bampton and elsewhere, at other times of year.

If you are interested in booking us for a concert of high-quality chamber music, for between eight and twenty singers, do contact us. We would be delighted to discuss a programme with you.

Bampton concerts

December 2009	Handel by Candlelight Benjamin Bayl directs the Bampton Classical Players in Apollo and Dafne, arias from Messiah and Water Music. With Gilly French (soprano) and John Lofthouse (baritone)
December 2008	Bach by Candlelight Gilly French and Edmund Connolly with the Bampton Classical Players. Cantatas 51 (Jauchzett Gott in allen Landen) and 203 (Amore traditore), Concerto for two violins, Flute Suite in B minor and excerpts from the Christmas Oratorio
December 2007	Vivaldi by Candlelight Camilla Scarlett, Gilly French, Serena Kay and the Bampton Classical Players in a programme featuring The Four Seasons, Laudate pueri and a selection of operatic arias.
December 2006	A Baroque Christmas: Caldara Christmas cantata Amarilli vezzosa; Gibbons This is the record of John; Michael Haydn Aria de Passione Domini et adventu, Deutsches Magnificat; Kuhnau Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern. With Amanda Pitt, Serena Kay, Ruth Massey, Mark Chaundy and the Bampton Baroque Players, conducted by Gilly French.
December 2005	A concert inspired by music for voices and harp, including Britten's A Ceremony of Carols and Janacek Otcenas, with Deian Rowlands (harp) and David Owen Norris (organ), conducted by Tecwyn Evans
December 2004	A Mozart Pianorama, featuring his concertos for two pianos and for three pianos as well as the concert aria Ch'io mi scordi di te? and music by Richard Strauss. With Murray Hipkin and Jeremy Gray (piano) and Amanda Pitt (soprano), conducted by Gilly French
October 2004	A cabaret evening, with wine and supper, given by Amanda Pitt, Mark Saberton and Steven Grahl
December 2003	A European Christmas, including Charpentier Messe de minuit and Scarlatti Christmas cantata, conducted by Gregory Rose
December 2002	Purcell and Handel Odes to St Cecilia, conducted by Gilly French
December 2001	Festive music by Bach, Buxtehude, Handel, Monteverdi and Purcell, conducted by Gilly French
December 2000	A baroque performance of Handel's Messiah, conducted by Gilly French
April 2000	Music for Holy Week by Victoria, Sanders, Zelenka, Poulenc and d'Astorga, conducted by Gilly French
December 1999	Biber Missa Alleluia and settings of In dulci jubilo by Scheidt and Praetorius, conducted by Janet Lincé
December 1998	Christmas vespers by Vivaldi, Monteverdi and Handel, conducted by Janet Lincé
March 1998	Scarlatti Stabat Mater, Carissimi Jephthe and Tudor anthems, conducted by Roger Moon
December 1997	A service of lessons and carols for Advent
December 1996	Handel's Messiah, conducted by Edward Kay
December 1995	Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, directed from the piano by Guy Hopkins

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Concerts in other venues

July 2009	Wigmore Hall. Concert performances of two short Gluck operas, La danza and Le cinesi, with Martene Grimson, Serena Kay, Lina Markeby, Tom Raskin, Nicholas Sharratt; Christian Curnym conducts the Bampton Classical Players
July 2009	Joana Seara, Tom Raskin, Vojtěch Šafařík and the Bampton Classical Players perform an all-Handel concert Compton Verney, for our Patron, Lady Goodhart
November 2007	Music at Westonbirt Vivaldi by Candlelight as above
October 2007	Vivaldi’s Four Seasons; Handel arias for voice and violin. Camilla Scarlett, Gilly French and the Bampton Classical Players at St Andrew’s, Park Walk, London SW10.
May 2007	Handel orch Mozart Acis and Galatea. A semi-dramatised concert version, directed by John Arthur, with Rebecca Bottone, John McMunn, Robert Murray, Vojtěch Šafařík and Cantandum. Richard Dickins conducts the London Mozart Players.
May 2006	Spencer House, London. Amanda Pitt, Mark Saberton and Steven Grahl perform at a London charity gala
November 2005	Singers Amanda Pitt and Michael Powell, and pianist Katrine Reimer, perform operatic arias and duets at a London private party.
September 2003	A recital of opera, oratorio and song, with Amanda Pitt, Nicholas Merryweather and Jeremy Gray; Thruxton Parish Church.
May 2003	Music for a summer evening Music for voices and instruments, with Gilly French and Amanda Pitt (soprano), Nicholas Merryweather (baritone), Jeremy Gray and Murray Hipkin (piano) and musicians from Cote, at Cote Baptist Chapel.
October 2001	A Night to Remember A concert of arias and duets from oratorio, opera and the shows, with Amanda Pitt, Harry Brett-Jones and Christopher Glynn, Thruxton Parish Church.
March 2001	Storace The Comedy of Errors. A semi-dramatised concert version as part of the Bath Shakespeare Festival, conducted by Alexander Briger.
December 2000	A concert of music for Advent, including Bach's Cantata 140, Wachet Auf!, for the Iffley Music Society, conducted by Janet Lincé
September 2000	A short recital of operatic arias and duets, given by Amanda Pitt, Mark Saberton and Christopher Glynn as part of the opening ceremony for the newly-restored Cote Baptist Chapel.

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