Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
This moving masterpiece tells the story of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and her love for the Trojan hero Aeneas, ending in heartbreak when he abandons her.
Giulio Cesare
Join us for our Grange Festival debut with a production of Handel’s most celebrated opera.
Giulio Cesare
Join us for our Grange Festival debut with a production of Handel’s most celebrated opera.
Giulio Cesare
Join us for our Grange Festival debut with a production of Handel’s most celebrated opera.
Giulio Cesare
Join us for our Grange Festival debut with a production of Handel’s most celebrated opera.
Acis and Galatea
Handel’s much-loved opera is a tale of love between the nymph Galatea, shepherd Acis, and the jealous giant Polyphemus. The most performed of Handel’s operas during his lifetime, the tragicomic Acis and Galatea – based on an episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses – was written for private performance in the gardens of the Duke of Chandos’ […]
Music for Queen Mary
The Early Opera Company is excited to return to the wonderful Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, this October, where they celebrate the old dynastic and artistic ties between the Netherlands and England with odes by Purcell to Queen Mary and songs by Constantijn Huygens. Funeral music Mary Stuart II and her husband (and cousin) William of Orange came […]
Pygmalion – Rameau
One of the UK’s most exciting Baroque ensembles returns to the splendour of Middle Temple Hall for a feast of French baroque music, bringing with them a superb cast. Jean-Philippe Rameau described music as ‘the language of the heart’. His sudden and unexpected entrance into the world of theatre at the age of 50 revolutionised […]
Handel Floridante HWV 14 at London Handel Festival
Handel opera specialists The Early Opera Company, along with their conductor Christian Curnyn and a cast of acclaimed Handel singers, close the 2025 Festival with a rare concert performance of one of Handel’s hidden operatic gems. First performed at the King’s Theatre, Haymarket in 1791, Floridante was one of Handel’s most successful operas, so much so that […]
Streams of Pleasure: Mary Bevan and Iestyn Davies
Some of Handel’s finest duets and arias from his most celebrated works, sung by Mary Bevan and Iestyn Davies.