Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera

Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera, the only permanent collegeiate opera group in Cambridge, is a new venture which offers singers and instrumentalists from Fitzwilliam and the University as a whole the chance to perform opera under the close guidance of leading professional musicians. Its inaugural production, Handel's Xerxes, took place five years ago at Fitzwilliam.

PRODUCTIONS

Handel: Xerxes
16, 18 November 2007, Fitzwilliam College Auditorium
11-12 April 2008, Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo  (in association with Cambridge University Baroque Ensemble)
27-31 January 2009, ADC Theatre, Cambridge

Purcell: The Fairy Queen  (concert performance, in association with Orchestra on the Hill)
November 2009, Fitzwilliam Auditorium

Judith Weir: The Consolation of Scholarship  and Ivan Moody: Fables of La Fontaine (world premiere)
5-6 May 2011, Fitzwilliam Auditorium

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
2-3 March 2012, Fitzwilliam Auditorium

Contact

For any enquiries about Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera, please email the Director of Music, Francis Knights, at music@fitz.cam.ac.uk.