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  2012

Saturday 5 May at 4 pm
The Chapel, Roedean School, Roedean Way, Brighton
free concert, but admission by ticket in advance
information: 01273 667500
Roedean School Choir and Orchestra

Mozart Coronation Mass
The concert also includes Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, and Beethoven's Romance in G major, both performed by Roedean soloists.

rottingdean_arts.png (7127 bytes) Saturday 19 May at 7 pm
The Village Hall, Rottingdean
tickets and information: 01273 300894
Rottingdean Arts

Songs from the Shows
during a 3-course dinner, well known songs from the shows will be presented by artists from English Studio Opera. The evening will end with an opportunity for everyone to join in singing some songs from
favourite musicals including The Sound of Music, Oliver, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Cats, Les Misérables, The King and I, Cabaret and Phantom of the Opera.


Sunday 20 May at 5.10pm
Glyndebourne Opera House, near Lewes
tickets:  01273 813813 or book on-line
telephone and internet booking open from 24 March

then performances on:
24, 29, 31 May at 6.25 pm
7, 13, 16, 19, 22, 28 June at 6.25 pm
Sundays 27 May, and 3, 10 June at 5.10 pm

Study Day on Sunday 13 May 11am to 5pm
led by members of the Glyndebourne production team and singers.

Pre-performance talks in the Ebert Room:
3.55 pm on 3 and 10 June

Glyndebourne Festival Opera
London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus
Sergei Leiferkus
(Gamekeeper), Lucy Crowe (Bystrouška - the Vixen),  Emma Bell (Fox), Mischa Schelomianski (Parson / Badger), William Dazeley (Harašta, a poacher), Jean Rigby (Gamekeeper’s Wife / Owl ), Adrian Thompson (Schoolmaster/Mosquito), Colin Judson (Pásek, Innkeeper), Sarah Pring (Innkeeper’s Wife)

Leoš Janáček     The Cunning Little Vixen
A new production for the 2012 Festival, this is perhaps the only opera to be inspired by a newspaper cartoon strip. Every morning, Janáček would catch up with the exploits of the mischievous vixen Bystrouška. Becoming a dedicated follower of her adventures, he responded with an outpouring of music evoking the wooded rolling hills of the composer’s homeland of Moravia, and rich in both humour and humanity. The opera is directed by Melly Still and conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Sung in Czech with English supertitles.


Wednesday 23 May at 5.20 pm
Glyndebourne Opera House, near Lewes
tickets:  01273 813813 or book on-line
telephone and internet booking open from 24 March

then performances on:
25, 28, 30 May at 5.20 pm
1, 8, 15, 20, 29 June at 5.20 pm
Sunday 24 June at 4.05 pm
4, 7, 10 July at 5.20 pm

Pre-performance talk in the Ebert Room: 3.55 pm on 24 June

Glyndebourne Festival Opera
London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus
Elizabeth DeShong
(Angelina - La Cenerentola), Taylor Stayton (Don Ramiro), Umberto Chiummo (Don Magnifico), Bruno Taddia (Dandini), Shenyang (Alidoro), Elena Xanthoudakis (Clorinda), Victoria Yarovaya (Tisbe)

Gioachino Rossini     La Cenerentola
A revival of the 2005 Festival production retelling the story of Cinderella. When this production, directed by Peter Hall, was first seen in 2005, Opera magazine credited it as ‘thoughtful, fresh and full of insight’. The opera is conducted by James Gaffigan and sung in Italian with English supertitles.


SussexChorus.gif (4608 bytes) Saturday 26 May at 7.30 pm
St Bartholomew's Church, Ann Street, Brighton
tickets: 01273 273333  or by e-mail (Sussex Chorus)
Sussex Chorus
Daisy Brown
(soprano), Michael Bunting (baritone)

Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert
music to include Mozart's Coronation Mass, Handel's Coronation Anthems, Parry's I was glad when they said unto me, Walton's overture Orb & Sceptre, and more.


phoenix.gif (9296 bytes) Saturday 26 May at 7.30 pm
All Saints Church, Grange Road, Eastbourne
tickets: 01323 761194
and  from: Bonners, Langney Road
Tourist Information Centre, Cornfield Rd
Phoenix Choir

Summer concert
a celebration in music for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee


Sunday 27 May at 3 pm
Glyndebourne Opera House, near Lewes
in the Ebert Room
information and tickets:  01273 813813
Glyndebourne Festival Extra

Composition project
based on Janáček
's The Cunning Little Vixen
Led by composer Julian Philips, a series of new compositions inspired by Janáček's opera have been composed by A Level students from the East Sussex Academy of Music in Lewes and Bishop Thomas Grant School in London. Glyndebourne singers and musicians from the London Philharmonic Orchestra will be performing thre new works.


Monday 4 to Saturday 9 June
Monday 4 to Thursday 7 June at 7.45 pm
Friday 8 June at 5.30 pm and 8.30 pm
Saturday 9 June at 4 pm and 7.45 pm
Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton
tickets: 0844 871 7650 (Ambassador Theatre group)
or book on-line
Avenue Q
a Tony Award winning musical about hopeless characters on a downtown New York street, trying to make sense of life's burning issues - love, work, relationshsips and, above all, paying the bills. Full of mischief, bad behaviour and political incorrectness, performed by an alliance of humans and puppets.

Wednesday 6 June at 6.05 pm
Glyndebourne Opera House, near Lewes
tickets:  01273 813813 or book on-line
telephone and internet booking open from 24 March

then performances on:
9, 14, 21, 26 June at 6.05 pm
Sunday 17 June at 4.50 pm
6, 11, 13, 19, 27, 31 July at 6.05 pm
Sundays 1, 22 July at 4.50 pm

Pre-performance talks in the Ebert Room:
3.55 pm on 17 June and 22 July

Glyndebourne Festival Opera
London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus
David Lomeli
(Rodolfo), Ekaterina Scherbachenko (Mimì), Andrei Bondarenko (Marcello), Michael Sumuel (Schaunard),  Nahuel Di Pierro (Colline), Irina Iordachescu (Musetta), Richard Mosley-Evans (Benoît), Donald Maxwell (Alcindoro). [On 27,31 July Mimì is played by Maija Kovalevska.]

Giacomo Puccini     La bohème
A revival of the 2000 Tour production directed by David McVicar.  Using Henri Murger’s book about bohemian life in Paris as a source, Puccini's librettists fashioned a perceptive and touching drama. Writers and painters, permanently in debt, live in squalid shared accommodation, falling tumultuously in and out of love. The true-to-life characters make La bohème as relevant now as it was when it was first performed in 1896. The opera is sung in Italian with English supertitles and conducted by Kirill Karabits.


Saturday 16 June at 7.30 pm
G Live, London Road, Guildford
tickets: 0844 7701 797
Guildford Choral Society with the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra

Midsummer Music


Wednesday 27 June at 4.45 pm
Glyndebourne Opera House, near Lewes
tickets:  01273 813813 or book on-line
telephone and internet booking open from 24 March

then performances on:
30 June at 4.45 pm
5, 12, 21, 26 July at 4.45 pm
Sundays 8, 15, 29 July at 3.30 pm
3, 7, 11, 14, 17, 20, 22 August at 4.45 pm

Pre-performance talks in the Ebert Room:
3.55 pm on 8, 15, 29 July

Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Glyndebourne Chorus
Vito Priante
(Figaro), Sophie Karthäuser (Susanna), Sally Matthews (Countess), Audun Iversen (Count), Andrew Shore (Bartolo), Ann Murray (Marcellina), Isabel Leonard (Cherubino), Alan Oke (Don Basilio), Nicholas Folwell (Antonio), Colin Judson (Don Curzio), Sarah Shafer (Barbarina)

W A Mozart     Le nozze di Figaro
A new production for the 2012 Festival, sung in Italian with English supertitles. Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro has particular resonance as a new production – in 1934 it was the first opera to be performed at Glyndebourne, and it was also the opening production of the newly built opera house in 1994. The story of servants outwitting their master had immediate appeal to Mozart, who responded with music that is unrivalled in beauty and characterisation. The opera is conducted by Robin Ticciati and newly directed by Michael Grandage.


Saturday 30 June at 7.30 pm
Varndean School, Balfour Road, Brighton
tickets: 01273 699107
or reserve by e-mail or use the on-line form
and available on the door
Brighton Orpheus Choir with the Brighton Youth Orchestra String Ensemble

Jubilate
a summer concert with a rich variety of music to celebrate the Queen's 60th anniversary and the Olympic Games being held in the UK


HailshamCS.gif (4954 bytes) Saturday 30 June
Community Hall, Hailsham
information: 01323 845571
Hailsham Choral Society

Summer concert


Saturday 30 June at 7.30 pm
The Angmering School, Station Road, Angmering
tickets: 01243 554501
Angmering Chorale

Show-stopping songs

SussexChorus.gif (4608 bytes) Sunday 1 July at 6 pm
Burgess Hill School
tickets: 01273 273333  or by e-mail (Sussex Chorus)
Sussex Chorus

Mini Glyndebourne
Let me wander not unseen
from Handel's L'Allegro ed il Penseroso, plus solo works.


rottingdean_arts.png (7127 bytes) Wednesday 4 July at 7.30 pm
St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean
tickets and information: 01273 300894
Rottingdean Arts

Australian Sunshine Coast Oriana Choir
an attractive, varied programme of choral works by a very fine mixed voice choir, which comes to Rottingdean from singing in St Paul's Cathedral and St Martin-in-the-Fields on previous evenings, and continues the next day to the Llangollen International Eisteddfod.


Saturday 7 July at 7.30 pm
The Village Hall,
off the High Street, Henfield
tickets: 01273 699107
or reserve by e-mail or use the on-line form
and available on the door
Brighton Orpheus Choir

Jubilate
a summer concert with a rich variety of music to celebrate the Queen's 60th anniversary and the Olympic Games being held in the UK


Saturday 14 July, 10.30 am to 5 pm
St John sub Castro Church Hall, Talbot Terrace, Lewes
information: 01273 476093
Lewes Chamber Choir

Summer Singing Day


Friday 20 July at 4.40 pm
Glyndebourne Opera House, near Lewes
tickets:  01273 813813 or book on-line
telephone and internet booking open from 24 March

then performances on:
20, 25, 28 July at 4.40 pm
1, 9, 15, 18, 24 August at 4.40 pm
Sundays 5, 12, 26 August at 3.25 pm

Pre-performance talks in the Ebert Room:
3.55 pm on 5, 12, 26 August

Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Glyndebourne Chorus
Cast includes: Carolyn Sampson, Emmanuelle de Negri, Claire Debono, Peter Gijsbertsen, Robert Burt and David Soar

Henry Purcell     The Fairy Queen
A revival of the 2009 Festival production, sung in English. When The Fairy Queen was first produced at London's Dorset Gardens Theatre in 1692, it featured stage effects that nearly bankrupted the theatre. There were elaborate costumes, swans gliding over lakes, grottoes, woods and 12-foot high fountains. At Glyndebourne The Observer said of the 2009 production that ‘it is hard to imagine a more brilliantly creative approach to the work’. The opera is conducted by Laurence Cummings and directed by Jonathan Kent.


Sunday 29 July, time tba
Arundel Cathedral, London Road, Arundel
Sussex Festival Choir with the Sinfonia da Chiesa
soloists: Dame Felicity Lott, Neil Jenkins, Gerard Delrez, Michael Bundy

Elgar      The Apostles


Saturday 4 August at 6.25 pm
Glyndebourne Opera House, near Lewes
tickets:  01273 813813 or book on-line
telephone and internet booking open from 24 March

then performances on:
6, 8, 10, 13, 16, 21, 23, 25 August at 6.25 pm
Sunday 19 August at 5.10 pm

Study Day on Sunday 4 August, 10.30 am to 1.30 pm
led by members of the Glyndebourne production team and singers

A Family Workshop for 8-12 year-olds and their families will be run by Glyndebourne's education team at 4.30 pm on 13 August

Pre-performance talk in the Ebert Room: 3.55 pm on 19 August

Glyndebourne Festival Opera
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Maurice Ravel
L’heure espagnole
Elliot Madore (Ramiro), François Piolino (Torquemada), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Concepción), Alek Shrader (Gonzalve), Gomez Paul Gay (Don Inigo)
L’enfant et les sortilèges
Cast includes: Khatouna Gadelia, Elodie Méchain, Elliot Madore, Paul Gay, Julie Pasturaud, Hila Fahima, François Piolino, Kathleen Kim, Stéphanie d’Oustrac and The Glyndebourne Chorus
A new production for the 2012 Festival, sung in French with English supertitles, this is a double bill of two Ravel one-act operas – L’heure espagnole is set in the house of a clockmaker. It compares the wound-up mechanism of a clock with the erotic compulsions driving flesh-and-blood humans. In L’enfant et les sortilèges, inanimate objects come to life when a child, fed up with doing his homework, throws a temper tantrum – then all the things that have been damaged by him start to voice their objections.The double-bill is conducted by Kazushi Ono and directed by Laurent Pelly.

Monday 21 August at 4.15 pm
Tuesday 22 August at 2.50 pm
Saturday 25 August 4.15 pm
Glyndebourne Opera House, near Lewes
in the Jerwood Room
tickets:  01273 813813
Glyndebourne Festival Extra

Julian Philips     The Yellow Sofa
a tale of sex, a city and the seductive power of furniture with a libretto by Edward Kemp, The Yellow Sofa was composed during Julian Philips' tenure as Glyndebourne's first Composer in Residence. The production is directed by Frederick Wake-Walker and conducted by Gareth Hancock.


Saturday 22 September
venue details tba

information: 01273 699107
Brighton Orpheus Choir

Come and join an afternoon choral workshop on
John Rutter's Feel the Spirit

all singers welcome

It's a work held in special affection by the Brighton Orpheus Choir which gave the 2nd British performance in 2002.


Saturday 20 October at 7.30 pm
Arundel Cathedral, London Road, Arundel
tickets: 01798 831234 (ACS box office)
or reserve by e-mail
tickets also available at:
Castle Chocolates, Tarrant Street, Arundel
Country Kitchen Tea Rooms, Tarrant Street, Arundel
The Steyning Bookshop, 106 High Street Steyning
Ackerman Music, 42 West Street, Chichester
Arun Choral Society

a Centenary concert
Dvořák Te Deum
Gounod St Cecilia Mass

HailshamCS.gif (4954 bytes) Saturday 10 November at 7.30 pm
St Saviour & St Peter Church, Spencer Road,
Eastbourne
information: 01323 845571
Hailsham Choral Society

Autumn concert


Saturday 24 November at 7.30 pm
Arundel Cathedral
tickets: 01243 554501
Angmering Chorale with orchestra and soloists

Mendelssohn     Elijah

HailshamCS.gif (4954 bytes) Saturday 20 December at 7.30 pm
The Parish Church, Hailsham
information: 01323 845571
Hailsham Choral Society

Christmas concert



  2013

Saturday 16 March at 7.30 pm
Arundel Cathedral
tickets: 01243 554501
Angmering Chorale with orchestra and soloists

Mozart Requiem
Rutter Requiem
Mozart Symphony no.40

Sunday 28 July, time tba
Arundel Cathedral, London Road, Arundel
Sussex Festival Choir with the Sinfonia da Chiesa

Mozart Requiem
Mass in C minor

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