As part of our digital season, we thought to include the three parts of our unusual staging of 17th century music, produced and toured in 2018. None of these archive films of dress rehearsals were intended for a public - but in this year of silence in theatres the performers wanted us to share them with you.
The first of these is the most familiar: Henry Purcell’s extraordinary Dido and Aeneas. “Remember me!” the abandoned Dido calls, and in her eloquent lament she will be remembered forever. Director Sebastian Harcombe and designer Adam Wiltshire conjure in this production a Jacobean night-world, in which a great woman (played by soprano Sky Ingram) contemplates her ruin. This production, with members of the Old Street Band, is conducted by Jonathan Peter Kenny.
In preparation for a brand new production and tour of Handel’s ‘magic’ opera Amadigi, the English Touring Opera and its partner period orchestra the Old Street Band came together at Stone Nest in London’s West End to film a selection of arias.
Featuring Jenny Stafford, Harriet Eyley, Francesca ...
Josquin des Prez was the pre-eminent composer of the renaissance, living at the very centre of European culture. A professional singer, his vocal work for several voices (polyphony), is cherished the world over.
To mark the 500th anniversary of his death, Liam Steel and Jonathan Peter Kenny stag...
One year on from the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, English Touring Opera presents a free broadcast of our 2020 production of Bach's St John Passion to kick off our 2021 digital season.
Shot at Hackney Empire on 5 March 2020, the film weaves together performance footage with 90 individual vi...
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