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Bampton Classical Opera

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Bampton Classical Opera is an opera company based in Bampton, Oxfordshire specialising in the production of lesser known opera from the Classical period. [1]

49 relations: Acis and Galatea (Handel), Alfred (Arne opera), André Grétry, Antonio Salieri, Bampton, Oxfordshire, Benedikt Schack, Blaise le savetier, Charles Mackerras, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Classical period (music), Concert version, David Cameron, David Pountney, Domenico Cimarosa, Emanuel Schikaneder, Falstaff (Salieri), Felicity Lott, Ferdinando Paer, Fidelio, François-André Danican Philidor, Franz Xaver Gerl, George Frideric Handel, Giovanni Paisiello, Jiří Antonín Benda, Joseph Haydn, L'amant jaloux, La finta semplice, Le pescatrici, Leonora (opera), Marcos Portugal, Opera, Oxfordshire, Philip Ledger, Purcell Room, Roger Norrington, Secondary education, Singspiel, St John's, Smith Square, The Choice of Hercules (Handel), The Italian Girl in London, The Judgement of Paris (opera), Thomas Arne, United Kingdom, Vicente Martín y Soler, Westonbirt House, Westonbirt School, Wigmore Hall, Witney (UK Parliament constituency), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Acis and Galatea (Handel)

Acis and Galatea (HWV 49) is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay.

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Alfred (Arne opera)

Alfred is a sung stage work about Alfred the Great with music by Thomas Arne and a libretto by David Mallet and James Thomson.

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André Grétry

André Ernest Modeste Grétry (baptised 11 February 1741; died 24 September 1813) was a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality.

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Antonio Salieri

Antonio Salieri (18 August 17507 May 1825) was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher.

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Bampton, Oxfordshire

Bampton, also called Bampton-in-the-Bush, is a settlement and civil parish in the Thames Valley about southwest of Witney in Oxfordshire.

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Benedikt Schack

Benedikt Emanuel Schack (Benedikt Žák) (7 February 175810 December 1826) was a composer and tenor of the Classical era, a close friend of Mozart and the first performer of the role of Tamino in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.

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Blaise le savetier

Blaise le savetier (Blaise the Cobbler) is a 1759 one-act opéra comique, by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor.

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Charles Mackerras

Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras (1925 2010) was an Australian conductor.

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (born on 2 July, baptized 4 July 1714As there is only a documentary record with Gluck's date of baptism, 4 July. According to his widow, he was born on 3 July, but nobody in the 18th century paid attention to the birthdate until Napoleon introduced it. A birth date was only known if the parents kept a diary. The authenticity of the 1785 document (published in the Allgemeinen Wiener Musik-Zeitung vom 6. April 1844) is disputed, by Robl. (Robl 2015, pp. 141–147).--> – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.

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Classical period (music)

The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1730 to 1820, associated with the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

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Concert version

Operas and musicals presented in concert version are performances with limited or no staging, sets and costumes.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016.

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David Pountney

David Willoughby Pountney (born 10 September 1947) is a British theatre and opera director and librettist internationally known for his productions of rarely performed operas and new productions of classic works.

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Domenico Cimarosa

Domenico Cimarosa (17 December 1749, Aversa, Kingdom of Naples, now Province of Caserta – 11 January 1801, Venice) was an Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school.

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Emanuel Schikaneder

Emanuel Schikaneder (1 September 1751 – 21 September 1812), born Johann Joseph Schickeneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer and composer.

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Falstaff (Salieri)

Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle (Falstaff, or The Three Jokes) is a dramma giocoso in two acts by Antonio Salieri, set to a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi after William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

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Felicity Lott

Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, (born 8 May 1947) is an English soprano.

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Ferdinando Paer

Ferdinando Paer (1 July 17713 May 1839) was an Italian composer known for his operas and oratorios.

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Fidelio

Fidelio (originally titled; English: Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Op.

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François-André Danican Philidor

François-André Danican Philidor (September 7, 1726 – August 31, 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player.

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Franz Xaver Gerl

Franz Xaver Gerl (–) was a bass singer and composer of the classical era.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

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Giovanni Paisiello

Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello; 9 May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s.

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Jiří Antonín Benda

Jiří Antonín Benda, also Georg Anton Benda (30 June 17226 November 1795), was a Czech composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period.

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Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.

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L'amant jaloux

L'amant jaloux, ou Les fausses apparences (The Jealous Lover, or False Appearances) is a French comédie mêlée d'ariettes in three acts by André Grétry first performed at Versailles on 20 November 1778.

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La finta semplice

La finta semplice (The Fake Innocent), K. 51 (46a) is an opera buffa in three acts for seven voices and orchestra, composed in 1768 by then 12-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Le pescatrici

Le pescatrici (The Fisherwomen) Hob. 28/4, is an opera (dramma giocoso) in three acts by Joseph Haydn set to a libretto by Carlo Goldoni.

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Leonora (opera)

Leonora, ossia L’amore coniugale (Leonora or Conjugal Love) is an opera (specifically a dramma semiserio) in two acts by the Italian composer Ferdinando Paer.

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Marcos Portugal

Marcos António da Fonseca Portugal (March 24, 1762 – February 17, 1830), known as Marcos Portugal, or Marco Portogallo, was a Portuguese classical composer, who achieved great international fame for his operas.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Philip Ledger

Sir Philip Stevens Ledger, FRSE CBE (12 December 193718 November 2012) was an English classical musician and academic.

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Purcell Room

The Purcell Room is a concert and performance venue which forms part of the Southbank Centre, one of central London's leading cultural complexes.

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Roger Norrington

Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington CBE (born 16 March 1934) is a British conductor.

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Secondary education

Secondary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale.

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Singspiel

A Singspiel (plural: Singspiele; literally "sing-play") is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera.

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St John's, Smith Square

St John's Smith Square is a former church in the centre of Smith Square, Westminster, London.

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The Choice of Hercules (Handel)

The Choice of Hercules (HWV 69) is an oratorio in one act (three scenes) by George Frideric Handel.

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The Italian Girl in London

The Italian Girl in London (L'italiana in Londra) is one of eight comic operas, termed intermezzi, which Domenico Cimarosa wrote between 1777 and 1784 for the Teatro Valle, a handsome neo-classical Roman theatre built in 1726, which still stands today.

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The Judgement of Paris (opera)

The Judgement of Paris is an operatic libretto written by William Congreve.

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Thomas Arne

Thomas Augustine Arne (12 March 1710, London – 5 March 1778, London) was an English composer.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Vicente Martín y Soler

Vicente Martín y Soler (2 May 175430 January 1806) was a Valencian composer of opera and ballet.

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Westonbirt House

Westonbirt House is a country house in Gloucestershire, England, about southwest of the town of Tetbury.

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Westonbirt School

Westonbirt School is an independent day and boarding school for girls aged 11 to 18 located near Tetbury in Gloucestershire in South West England.

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Wigmore Hall

The Wigmore Hall is a concert hall located at 36 Wigmore Street, London.

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Witney (UK Parliament constituency)

Witney is a county constituency in Oxfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bampton_Classical_Opera

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