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FORTHCOMING DATES & TICKET INFORMATION

Calendar Listing Those events marked with an asterisk * are University events

Recitals TICKET DETAILS January 18 Sam Keeler, baritone 25 Aileen Thompson, soprano Lunchtime Vocal February Recitals 1 Steven Grahl, tenor 1.15pm 8 Thomas Nicols, baritone 15 Katie Cochrane, soprano New College Antechapel £2/£1 concessions on the door Galilei 15 and 16 February 2013 Philip Glass 8.30pm New College Ante-Chapel 15 and 16 February 2013 Conductor Harry Sever, Repetiteur Edmund Whitehead, Director Michael Burden 8.30pm New College Ante-Chapel

22 Thomas Drew, tenor Tickets March £12 / £6 concessions 1 Daniel Laking, countertenor at www.galileoinoxford.co.uk 8 Amrit Gosal, soprano or on the door

Summer Opera Handel Summer Opera 3 (Preview), 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 July 2013 Wednesday 3 (Preview) The Warden’s Garden, New College Sunday 7 & Tuesday 9 New Please download forms from New Chamber Opera - N ew Chamber Opera Ensembl e h t tp : / / w w w. n e w c h a m b e ro p e r a . c o. u k The Band of Instruments - Phoenix - Cutting Edge Saturday 6 & Friday 12 Singing Pa t r o n James Bowman New College Development Office D i rector of Pro d u c t i o n s M i chael Burden (01865) 279 337 D i r e c t o r, the Summer Opera S t even Devine Tuesday 9 . D i re c t o r, The Band of Instruments Roger Hamilton D i r e c t o r, Opera Studio Benjamin Holder OXPIP (01865) 778 034 . R epetiteurs H a r ry Seve r, Edmund Whitehead Company Secre t a r y C l a re Atkinson Wednesday 10 . C o m p t ro l l e r G raham Midgl ey Wa r d r o b e Diana Lintott, Fiona Hodge s Friends of the Botanic Garden Recitals Administrator Wilfrid Jones (07722) 605 787 New Chamber Opera . 4 Mansfield Road . Oxford OX1 3TA Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 Tel: 01865 281 966 . Fax: 01865 279 590 . Email: info @ n ewch a m b e ro p e ra . c o.uk Friends of WNO (01865) 408 045 Web pages: http://www. n ewch a m b e ro p e ra . c o. u k C o m p a ny No 3502769 . Charity No 1095069

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Milo Commerford, Edward Edgcumbe, Ashley Francis-Roy, Johanna Harrison, Andrew Hayman, Michael Hickman, Gessica Howarth, David Le Provost, Esther Mallett, Tara Mansfield, William Pate, Samuel Poppleton, Nick Pritchard, Rose Rands, Daniel Tate, AileenThomson

15 and 16 February 2013 8.30pm New College Ante-Chapel

hilip Glass’s chamber opera, Galileo opens with Galileo as an old, blind, man, the motions of celestial bodies, a theme which Galilei, is an essay on the life of the under house arrest, and works in reverse completes the cyclic nature of the opera PItalian scientist, philosopher, order through his trial and inquisition for already established by the backwards-moving astronomer, and author of the texts A dialogue heresy; his break with the Church; his own plot. Other operas by Philip Glass include the concerning the two chief world systems and struggle of belief in both religion and trilogy, , , . The opera’s libretto is based science; and the nature of his writings. The and , and The Fall of the House of on excerpts of letters of Galileo and his family, opera ends with the young Galileo watching U s h e r , performed by NCO in 2008. His including his daughter, Maria Celesta, and is an opera composed by his father, Vincenzo, output also includes dance music, constructed as a one act set of scenes. who was a member of the Florentine symphonies, concertos and chamber music. Dramatically, the opera works backwards. It Camerata. The subject of his father’s opera is Photo credit: Steve Pyke

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