Classical Opera Company

“The Classical Opera Company has quickly established an enviable reputation, not only for the high quality of its performances but also for its ability to identify and develop new talent. Its exciting plans for the future can provide a unique platform for this talent to flourish.”

Sir Charles Mackerras

“The Classical Opera Company feel like a true ensemble, and their generous acting and musicianship made the evening a joy from start to finish.”

The Independent on Sunday

“My personal pick for giving this year is the Classical Opera Company's glorious The A-Z of Mozart Opera, which is fresh, diverse, insightful and illuminating (everything that such recital anthologies usually fail to be).”

David Vickers, Gramophone

LATEST NEWS

Tickets are now on sale for the stunning Autumn season at Kings Place. The Classical Opera Company will be holding a week long residency at this exciting new venue from 2 December.

2 – 5 December

Handel in Italy

The Classical Opera Company commemorates the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death with a survey of the magnificent series of works which he wrote in Italy at the outset of his career. Highlights of the week will include performances of Handel’s celebrated oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, with artists including acclaimed soprano Rebecca Bottone and Ferrier Award winner Ben Johnson, and “Handel’s Tragic Heroines”, a concert of Italian cantatas sung by Martene Grimson, Sigríður Ósk Kristjánsdóttir and Ruby Hughes, recent winner in the 2009 London Handel Festival competition.

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5 September

Classical Love Songs

As part of Kings Place’s Autumn Festival of 100 concerts, the company presents three 45-minute concerts of Classical love songs. Entitled ‘Mozart’s Burnt Love Letters’, ‘Haydn’s Piercing Eyes’ and ‘Beethoven’s Kiss’, the concerts will be performed by Sophie Bevan (soprano), Thomas Hobbs (tenor) and Sigríður Ósk Kristjánsdóttir (mezzo soprano), and accompanied by the acclaimed fortepianist Gary Cooper.

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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.

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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.

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On 11 June 2007 the Classical Opera Company’s debut CD, The A-Z of Mozart Opera, was released by Sony BMG. To purchase your copy online, Click Here

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Welcome

The Classical Opera Company presents vibrant, insightful and life-enhancing performances of the works of Mozart and his contemporaries, nurturing world-class young artists and inspiring audiences towards a fuller appreciation of classical music. The company is unique in securing regular bookings at such prestigious venues as Sadler’s Wells, Wigmore Hall and the Barbican and Kings Place and recording on Sony BMG, while retaining the development of young talent at the centre of its mission.

We hope you enjoy reading about the company’s work on our website. We do hope that you will stay in touch with the Classical Opera Company, and look forward to seeing you at an event in the future.

Zaide

The Classical Opera Company plans to stage its groundbreaking completion of Mozart’s unfinished opera, Zaide, in 2010. This will essentially be a new Mozart opera, and will be one of the year’s most innovative operatic highlights. However, we need considerable funds to get this project up and running.

Can you help to enable a new Mozart opera?

Click here for information on how to support this production.

Membership schemes

The members of the Classical Opera Company are extremely important to the company. They make a vital contribution to by providing the essential stability to enable our work. Members enjoy a close relationship with the company and receive further, specific benefits. We would be delighted if you could join us.

Read more about our Amadeus Society, Associates and Friends.

Events Diary

Mitridate, re di Ponto- world-premiere staging
Sadler’s Wells – 2 June
Buxton Festival – 12, 20, 24 July

"…an artistic director with a genuine sense of vision."
Andrew Stewart, Classical Music

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GALLERY

Check out the gallery with pictures taken at the rehearsal on the Barbican Stage.

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