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23 December 2012
19h30
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GF Handel
Messiah
Wigmore Hall
London
Sophie Bevan
Allan Clayton
Jacques Imbrailo
Classical Opera Company
conducted by Ian Page
25 January 2013
Recital with
les Passions de l'Ame
Bern
Switzerland
27 January 2013
Recital with
les Passions de l'Ame
Brugge
Belgium
15 to 29 March 2013
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F Cavalli
Eliogabalo
Title role
The Box
New York City
Music Director: Grant Herreid
Stage Director: James Marvel
20 May 2013
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Tales from Ovid
Excerpts from
Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice
Mozart Apollo et Hyacinthus
Wigmore Hall
London
Anna Devin - Soprano
Benjamin Hulett - Tenor
Classical Opera
Conducted by Ian Page
18, 21, 28 July 2013
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Andre Tchaikowsky
The Merchant of Venice
- World Premier -
Antonio, a merchant of Venice
Festspielhaus
Bregenz Festival
Austria
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Music Director: Erik Nielsen
Stage Director: Keith Warner
Autumn 2013
B Britten
Midsummer Night's Dream
Role - Oberon
Opera North
England
Autumn 2013
B Britten
Death in Venice
Role - Voice of Apollo
Opera North
England
March 2014
GF Handel
Rodelinda
Role - Unulfo
Details to be announced
England
Past performances
Opera
Detlev Glanert's Caligula (Helicon) - May/June 2012 - English National Opera, London. Conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth and directed by Benedict Andrews
GF Handel's Amadigi di Gaula (Title role) - March 2012 - Wigmore Hall, London. Conducted by Matthew Halls and directed by Alessandro Talevi
John Blow'sVenus & Adonis (Cupid) - January 2012 - Warsaw, Paris, Versailles. Les Arts Florissants Conducted by Jonathan Cohen, directed by Bruno Ravella
GF Handel's Rinaldo (Eustazio) - October, November 2011 - Glyndebourne on Tour. Conducted by Laurence Cummings, directed by Robert Carson and revived by Bruno Ravella
GF Handel's Amadigi di Gaula (Title role) - July, August 2011 - Central City Opera, USA. Conducted by Matthew Halls and directed by Alessandro Talevi
C Monteverdi's l'Incoronazione di Poppea (Ottone) - Autumn 2010 - Glyndebourne on Tour, England, Conducted by Jonathan Cohen, directed by Robert Carsen (revived by Bruno Ravella)
GF Handel's Tamerlano (Title role) - May 2010 - Goettingen Handel Festival, Germany. Conducted by Nicholas McGegan and directed by Johanna Garpe
Thomas Arne's Artaxerxes (Title role) - October/November 2009 - Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera, Covent Garden. A collaboration with the Classical Opera Company, conducted by Ian Page and directed by Martin Duncan
Claudio Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Ottone) - July/August 2009 - Drottningholm Slottsteater, Stockholm, conducted by Mark Tatlow and directed by Johanna Garpe
Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice (The Voice of Apollo) - May/June 2009 - Opera de Lyon, conducted by Martyn Brabbins and directed by Yoshi Oida
GF Handel's Alcina (Ruggiero) - December 2008 (Riga), February 2009 (Hong Kong) - Latvian National Opera, conducted by Andris Veismanis
GF Handel's Partenope (Arsace) - August 2008 - Les Azuriales Opera Festival , Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, France - Directed by Alessandro Talevi and conducted by Natalie Murray
GF Handel's Rinaldo (Title role) - July 2008 - Sigulda, Latvia - conducted by Andris Veismanis and directed by Jane Gingell
GF Handel's Orlando (Medoro) - June 2008 - Wigmore Hall, London - conducted by Gary Cooper, with Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells
Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur (Innocent 4) - April 2008 - World Premier at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by Antonio Pappano and directed by Stephen Langridge
Monteverdi's Poppea (cover of Ottone) - October, November 2007 - English National Opera
GF Handel's Poro (title role) - May 2007 - London Handel Festival - conducted by Laurence Cummings, directed by Christopher Cowell
GF Handel's Xerxes (Arsamenes) - August 2006 - Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Edinburgh Symphony Baroque, directed by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
GF Handel's Tolomeo (Alessandro) - May 2006 - London Handel Festival - conducted by Laurence Cummings, directed by James Conway
Oratorio
Handel's Messiah - December 2012 - Poole and Exeter, UK Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas McGegan
Handel's Messiah - December 2012 - Powell Hall, St Louis, USA St Louis Symphony, conducted by Christopher Warren-Green
Handel's Messiah - November 2012 - The Sage, Gateshead, Newcastle Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Matthew Halls
Purcell's Dido & Aeneas (Sorceress) and Blow's Venus & Adonis (Cupid) - 12 August 2012 - MAFestival, Concertgebouw, Brugge. Retrospect, conducted by Matthew Halls
JS Bach's Matthäus-Passion - 6 April 2012 - Bishop's Chapel, Cape Town. St George's Singers and Camerata Tinta Barocca, conducted by Barry Smith
JS Bach's Johannes-Passion - 31 March 2012 - Cadogan Hall, London. Kingston Choral Society and London Festival Baroque, conducted by Andrew Griffiths
JS Bach's Cantata 42: : Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats and Cantata 150: Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich - 25 February 2012 - Bath Bach Festival, Bath Abbey. Matthew Halls conducting Retrospect
JS Bach's Cantata 180: Schmuecke dich, o liebe Seele and Lutheran Mass in G major BWV 236 - 12 February 2012 - Johanneskirche am Feuersee, Stuttgart. Matthew Halls conducting Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart
JS Bach's Magnificat and Cantata 110 - 31 December 2011 - Wigmore Hall, London. Matthew Halls conducting Retrospect
GF Handel's Samson - December 2011 - St Andrew's Church, Cape Town. Barry Smith conducting the St George's Singers and Camerata Tinta Barocca
GF Handel's Messiah - December 2011 - Christopher Warren-Green conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
GF Handel's The Choice of Hercules - November 2011 - St George's, Hanover Square, London. Laurence Cummings conducting the London Handel Players
GF Handel's Samson - April 2011 - Epsom, England. Jonathan Rennert conducting the Brook Street Band
JS Bach's Johannes-Passion - March 2011, City Hall, Cape Town and Endler Hall, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Kaare Hanken conducting the Camerata Tinta Barocca and Philharmonia Choir
JS Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium - December 2010, Cadogan Hall, London. Graham Ross conducting the Purcell Orchestra
GF Handel's Jephtha - August 2010 - Cape Town, South Africa. Barry Smith directing the St George's Singers and Camerata Tinta Barocca
H Purcell's Come, Ye Sons of Art and JS Bach's Magnificat- June 2010 - Tilford Festival, England - directed by Adrian Butterfield and Laurence Cummings
JS Bach's Matthäus-Passion - April 2010 - Diocesan College, Cape Town, South Africa - Barry Smith conducting the St George's Singers and Camerata Tinta Barocca
JS Bach's B Minor Mass - March 2010 - Petersfield, England. Paul Spicer directing Southern Pro Musica Orchestra
John Blow's Venus & Adonis - February 2010 - Ghent, Belgium. Gary Cooper directing B'Rock and Stile Antico
GF Handel's Messiah - December 2009 - Cape Town, South Africa. Barry Smith directing the St George's Singers and Camerata Tinta Barocca
GF Handel's Solomon - December 2009 - Eton College Hall, Eton, England. Ralph Allwood directing the The Windsor & Eton Choral Society
GF Handel's Messiah - December 2009 - Belfast Waterfront, Belfast. Matthew Halls directing the Ulster Orchestra
GF Handel's Messiah - December 2009 - London Handel Festival, St George's, Hanover Square, London. Simon Williams directing the London Handel Orchestra and St George's Choir
GF Handel's Theodora - September 2009 - Cape Town, South Africa. Barry Smith directing the Camerata Tinta Barocca and St George's Singers
H Purcell's Ode to St Cecilia, GF Handel's Te Deum in D - August/September 2009 - Innsbruck, Utrecht and Antwerp Early Music Festivals. Timothy Brown directing B'Rock and Innsbruck Festival Chorus
GF Handel's Messiah - April 2009 - Guildford Cathedral, England. Neil Ferris directing the Brandenburg Sinfonia and Epworth Choir
GF Handel's Messiah - December 2008 - Waterford, Dublin and Galway, Ireland. Gary Cooper directing the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Resurgum
JS Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium - December 2008 - Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Vladimir Jurowski conducting the Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory and Russian National Orchestra
JS Bach's B Minor Mass - November 2008 - Birmingham Town Hall, Brandenburg Baroque Soloists and Birmingham Bach Choir conducted by Paul Spicer
Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms - September 2008 - Opera de Lyon, conducted by Kazushi Ono, for the opening concert of the Opera de Lyon season
GF Handel's Judas Maccabaeus - September 2008 - Church of St Catherine, Vilnius, conducted by Steven Fox
John Blow's Venus & Adonis (Cupid) - August 2008 - Festival van Vlaanderen - Concert performance in the Concertgebouw Concertzaal, Brugge - Gary Cooper conducting B'Rock
JS Bach's Matthäus-Passion - March 2008 - St George's Church, Hanover Square, London - Laurence Cummings conducting the London Handel Orchestra
JS Bach's Johannes-Passion - March 2008 - St John's, Boxmoor - Madeleine Lovell conducting the Lea Singers and St George's Chamber Orchestra
GF Handel's Messiah - December 2007 - Verizon Hall, Philadelphia - Christopher Warren-Green conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra
GF Handel's Messiah - December 2007 - Tewkesbury Abbey and Cirencester Parish Church - Dr Donald Hunt conducting the Elgar Chorale and English Symphony Orchestra
GF Handel's Messiah - December 2007, St John's Waterloo, Murray Stewart conducting the East London Chorus and London Pro Arte Baroque
GF Handel's Messiah - December 2007 - St George's Hanover Square, London - Simon Williams conducting the London Handel Orchestra
GF Handel's Saul (David) November 2007 - St John's, Smith Square, London - Paul Spicer conducting the Whitehall Choir and Brandenburg Sinfonia
GF Handel's Belshazzar (Cyrus) - August 2007 - Frauenkirche, Dresden, conducted by Peter Kopp
Recitals
Recital in the Davos Festival, - August 2012, Davos, Switzerland, including Kuhnau cantata 'Ich hebe meine Augen auf'
Recital in the Davos Festival, - August 2012, Davos, Switzerland, including various Schubert Lieder
Recital with the Arcangelo, directed by Jonathan Cohen, - August 2012, Paunat Festival, France, including cantatas by Bononcini, Vivaldi and Porpora
Recital with the Songsmiths, piano: Audrey Hyland, - March 2012, St George's, Hanover Square, London, including songs by Purcell, Schubert, Hahn, Mendelssohn
Recital with the Katherine Manley, soprano, - 14 February 2012, Leamington Music Festival, England. Including Handel's 'Il duello amoroso' and opera arias by Handel
Recital with the Classical Opera Company, - May 2011, Wigmore Hall, London. Including arias and songs by Handel, Schubert and Mozart
Recital with Arcangelo, led by Jonathan Cohen - April 2011, London Handel Festival. The Tears of Sin including JC Bach Lamento and Porpora's cantata 'La Gelosia'
Recital with Les Passion de l'Ame, led by Meret Lüthi - February 2011, Bern and Biel. JS Bach alto cantata 'Vergnügte Ruh', JC Bach Lamento and Handel's 'A dispetto'
Recital at the Wigmore Hall - July 2010, including works by Dowland, Purcell, Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Schubert, Mahler, Yamada and Britten with Laurence Cummings, Adrian Butterfield, Elizabeth Kenny, Jennifer Bullock and James Baillieu
Recital at the St Andrew's, Cape Town - August 2010, including works by Dowland, Purcell, Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Schubert, Mahler, Yamada and Britten with Barry Smith, Peter Martens, Suzanne Martens and Albie van Schalkwyk
Duet Recitals with soprano Katherine Manley - Concerts in the West, England - July 2010, including works by Monteverdi, Handel, Gluck and Arne
Recital in 2010 London Handel Festival including Bach's 'Vergnuegte Ruh', Vivaldi's 'Sovvente il sole' and arias from Handel's Tamerlano - March 2010 - St George's, Hanover Square, with Ensemble Chocolat
Handel Duets recital with soprano Katherine Manely - March 2009 - St George's, Hanover Square, part of the London Handel Festival
GF Handel's Il duello amoroso and arias from Giulio Cesare - February 2009 - Croatian Baroque Ensemble, Zagreb, conducted by Laurence Cummings
Recital of Handel arias with Harry Bicket and players from The English Concert at Handel House Museum - November 2008