FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Mitridate, re di Ponto- world-premiere staging
Buxton Festival – 12, 20, 24 July
The Classical Opera Company made a welcome return to Sadler’s Wells on 2nd June with the first-ever staging of the ‘world premiere staging of the ‘original’ version’ version of Mozart’s remarkable Mitridate, re di Ponto, written when the composer was only fourteen years old, and will take the production to the Buxton Festival in July. Directed by Martin Lloyd-Evans, the outstanding cast includes Royal Opera Young Artist graduate Kishani Jayasinghe, counter tenor Stephen Wallace and tenor Mark Le Brocq in the title role.
Artaxerxes- a collaboration with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
The Linbury Studio Theatre –
30 October and 1 (matinee), 3, 5, 7 (matinee), 9, 10, 12, 14 (matinee) November 2009
The Classical Opera Company returns to the Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House with an exciting collaboration between the company and the ROH of Arne’s remarkable Artaxerxes, one of the most important and successful of all English operas. Directed by Martin Duncan, the outstanding cast includes the multi-award winning Elizabeth Watts as Mandane, acclaimed Australian mezzo-soprano Caitlin Hulcup as Arbaces, soprano Rebecca Bottone as Semira, tenor Andrew Staples as Artabanes and counter-tenor Christopher Ainslie in the title role.