return to this month

An evening concert
a programme of solos and duets by composers including Purcell, Handel, Mozart, Chopin and Schumann.

Puccini     Madam Butterfly
doomed love of an American naval lieutenant and his beautiful Japanese bride, sung in Italian with English surtitles.  The opera company is on its first ever tour of the UK, accompanied by the Russian State Opera Orchestra.

Verdi     La Traviata
the tragic tale of courtesan Violetta and her love for nobleman Alfredo, sung in Italian with English surtitles.  The opera company is on its first ever tour of the UK, accompanied by the Russian State Opera Orchestra.

Lunchtime recital

Puccini     La Bohème
heartfelt story of Mimi from streetlife fun in the Café Momus till her tragic death in a Paris garret - sung in Italian with English surtitles.  The opera company is on its first ever tour of the UK, accompanied by the Russian State Opera Orchestra.

Concert
in aid of Southwick's 12th century Parish Church

I-sing on the cake!
styles from musaical theatre to grand opera combine in a unique canaret for all tastes, including the icing on the chocolate fudge cake served in the interval.

Lunchtime recital

also on 21 June in Lancing College Chapel

The Birth of the Baroque
Choral music from 17th century England
including works by Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Tomkins.

In Concert
Christ's Hospital senior chamber choir Schola Cantorum joins with two local children's choirs to perform both independently and together.

Trees - if you go down in the woods
join a musical ramble to Walk in the Black Forest via Linden Lea, through The Ash Grove under The Green Leaves of Summer to The Green Cathedral - with wonderfully evocative poems by Robert Frost, Rudyard Kipling and others.

A picnic break and raffle complete the evening.

A little light music
an Adur Festival event

In Perfect Harmony
featuring Haydn's Harmoniemesse

Lunchtime concert

Britten       Albert Herring
A revival of Peter Hall's 1985 Festival production, conducted by Gérard Korsten.

Haydn     Litle Organ Mass
Fauré     Requiem
this choir from Oxford University gives these and other works in their concert in support of Friends of Brighton & Hove Hospitals.

Handel      Acis and Galatea

Karl Jenkins     The Armed Man
an oratorio that follows a six-century-old tradition of "Armed Man" masses that take the fifteenth century French song "L'Homme Armé" as their starting point.

Saturday 14 June at 8 pm Dining Hall, Christ's Hospital, near Horsham

tickets: 01403 247434

Gilbert & Sullivan
H.M.S. Pinafore
a light concert celebrating the music of G&S, culminating in a concert performance of HMS Pinafore.  Bring a picnic for 7 pm before joining the concert.

Songs of Innocence and Experience
music, prose and poetry explore themes both classical and contemporary from William Blake's poems, taking in works by Aaron Copland, Beethoven, The Doors, Kate Bush and Kurt Weill.

Shakespeare's musicke
an evening of music connected with William Shakespeare, including music by his contemporaries and settings of his texts by various composers. The programme will feature George Shearing's delightful Songs and Sonnets, and the première of a new set of three songs by Clive Osgood.

Fauré     Requiem

Mozart     The Marriage of Figaro
a light-hearted farce around the servants' intrigues to reveal the indiscretions of their philandering nobleman master.

Workshop on
Mendelssohn's  Elijah

Bizet     Carmen

The Birth of the Baroque
Choral music from 17th century England
including works by Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Tomkins.

Parlour songs and other light music

A West End Musical Spectacular

Music for a Mid-Summer's Eve

Raffle proceeds in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care

Contemporary and early English music.  Part of the Music outside the Box Soundwaves Festival 2008.

40^th anniversary gala Prom
includes

together with Jerusalem, Land of Hope and Glory, and music by John Williams, Mascagni and Elgar.

Solo music at its best
one of four innovative soloists over the weekend, as part of the Music outside the Box Soundwaves Festival 2008.

Favourite Opera Choruses

Summer concert

A Summer Night on the Water
songs for a summer night on the water - with supper.

the concert includes
Finzi     Dies Natalis for tenor solo
and some arias, together with Dvořák's Symphony no.8 and a movement from Mozart's Violin Concerto in G.

A West End Musical Spectacular

Bizet       Carmen
A revival of David McVicar's 2002 Festival Production, sung in French with English supertitles, and conducted by Stéphane Denève and Jakub Hrusa (9,12,15,18 August).

Elgar     The Dream of Gerontius

Tony Biggin      Cry of the Earth
a new work

Puccini     Madam Butterfly
a heart-wrenching story of a young geisha in Japan, sacrificing her family, religion and ultimately losing her life for her American naval officer husband.

Lunchtime recital

Mozart     The Impresario
part of a candlelit garden concert, this short comedy opera wittily pictures the problems of an opera manager's life.

Humperdinck       Hänsel und Gretel
A new production for the 2008 Festival, directed by Laurent Pelly sung in German with English supertitles and conducted by Kazushi Ono.

Summer concert
an evening of well-loved songs sung by the choir with guest soloists The Saxy Girls - a saxophone quartet.

Mozart      C minor Mass
the concert will also include a Mozart Piano Concerto, with soloist Young-Choon Park (piano).

Rachmaninov      Vespers
the concert will also include a Mozart Piano Concerto, with soloist Young-Choon Park (piano).

Bizet     Carmen

The English House and Garden
        in words and music
songs and part-songs by Purcell, Gounod, Balfe, Sullivan, Stanford, Germasn, Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Quilter and Rutter. complement an afternoon of poetry and light verse devised by Peter Thorogood, with actors Simon Brett and Gwyneth Powell.

A summer celebration - with tea and cake, in the garden if fine

Mozart     The Marriage of Figaro
a light-hearted farce around the servants' intrigues to reveal the indiscretions of their philandering nobleman master.

Peter Eötvös      Love and Other Demons
A new commission for the 2008 Festival, sung in English and conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. This Glyndebourne commission will be the first major production in the UK of any of the operas of Peter Eötvös.

Directed by Silviu Purcarete, Love and Other Demons is a story of forbidden love set in the tropical and magical world of 18th century Colombia. The opera has been adapted from a novella by Nobel prizewinner Gabriel García Márquez. A young girl Sierva Maria, apparently miraculously unhurt by a rabid dog bite, is superstitiously imprisoned in a convent, where Cayetano Delaura, the bishop's exorcist, comes to drive out her demons. But soon it is Delaura himself who is possessed, consumed by Love, "the most terrible demon of all".  As the lovers' obsession grows, so too does the desire of the authorities to purge this sickness from their midst.

Concert
featuring works of American composers, including Eric Whitacre and Morten Lauridsen - part of the Cranleigh Choral Week.

Lunchtime recital

Lunchtime choral concert

Sing-a-long South Pacific

Concert
in aid of charity fund-raising

Handel      Solomon

The Full Monty
a musical adapted from the 1997 film - six unemployed steel workers produce a strip act for their local club.

Mozart     The Magic Flute
A revival of Adrian Noble's 2004 Festival production, sung in German with English supertitles.

Bizet     Carmen
A revival of David McVicar's 2002 Festival production, conducted by Jakub Hruša, and sung in French with English supertitles.

Humperdinck     Hänsel und Gretel
Laurent Pelly's new production from this year's summer Festival, sung in German with English supertitles.

Autumn concert

Lionel Bart     Oliver!

Grand Hotel
a musical with book by Luther Davis, lyrics and music by George Forrest, Robert Wright and Maury Yeston, from the 1929 play and 1932 MGM film (starring Greta Garbo).  The story is set in the faded grandeur of one of the world's most expensive hotels, where a colourful cast of eccentric guests find themselves entangled in each others' lives.

Rose, Furber, Gay & Fry
Me and my girl
a revised version of the Lambeth Walk musical, with book by Stephen Fry.   Memorable tunes include Leaning on a lamp-post, The Sun Has Got His Hat On and the title song Me and my girl.

Celebration of Age
a concert for the Brighton & Hove Older People's Forum

The orchestra will also play Elgar's Cockaigne overture and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Greensleeves.

Concert
to celebrate St Cecilia and Advent

Autumn concert

Yuletide greetings