Tuesday 25, Thursday 27 and Friday 28 November:
La tragédie de Carmen by Bizet.
Sung in French with English surtitles

La tragédie de Carmen is opera at its most powerful, a raw and visceral adaptation of Bizet's most popular work. Peter Brook and his collaborators have crafted a concentrated night of theatre that focuses on the fatal relationships between the gypsy, soldier, village girl and bullfighter.

The score retains all of the most famous musical moments of the original; Carmen's ‘Habanera' and ‘Seguidilla', Don Jose's ‘Flower Song', and Escamillo's swaggering ‘Toreador Song'.

Wednesday 26 and Saturday 29 November
Rusalka by Dvořák -
Sung in English

She is the mermaid forbidden to mix with mortals. He is the handsome prince for whom she risks everything. Together they embark on a love affair that sees her sacrifice her home and her immortality. Dvorak's rapturous score, presented here in an acclaimed chamber version, is crowned by the poignant ‘Song to the Moon'.

Booking Info:
Book Online - www.cambridgeartstheatre.com or ring the box office - 01223 503333

Programme details:
C Gibbons - Not to us O Lord
C Gibbons - Above the Stars
C Gibbons - Fantasia in A
C Gibbons - The Lord Said unto my lord
Purcell - Dido and Aeneas

Booking information:
£14, £20, £27
Arts Theatre Box Office: 01223 503333

Programme details:
Handel - Messiah

Booking information
£15, £12 (concessions), £5 (school children), Restricted View Seats £10 and £9 (concessions)

Cambridge Corn Exchange Box Office: 0123 357 851

Chorus Ticketline 0870 458 0445

tickets@hertfordshirechorus.org.uk

Rowena Whitehead is a Cambridge-based singer and community choir leader who has been running voice workshops since 1991. She is known for her engaging and relaxed approach, and is Musical Director of Talking in Tune and a founder member of the Natural Voice Practitioners' Network (www.naturalvoice.net)

Please feel free to bring food to share for supper half way through the evening.

Week 1 of a new mixed voice choir starting at Comberton.
This new choir for mixed voices seeks new members with a passion to sing.
Come prepared to explore, learn and have fun. Open to music sight-readers and non sight-readers.
The choir will be led by Anne L Ryan and will meet for 10 weeks on Wednesdays, and may work towards giving a public concert.
Contact Diana Cook Community Education, Comberton Village College, on 01223 264721 for more information. 

Let's sing for the Peace in Georgia

Chela is a small Cambridge based choir who sing traditional, religious and folk songs of Georgia. As a demonstration of support and solidarity with the people of Georgia, Chela will ‘Sing for Peace in Georgia’ on Wednesday, 20 August at 6pm at St Edwards Church, Market Hill, Cambridge (behind the Guildhall). This will be a synchronized sing with choirs in Georgia, Turkey, Corsica, Brittany, Paris and London.

All are welcome.  A small collection for refugees and good causes in Georgia will be made.

The Georgian polyphony, listed on the Unesco World Heritage, is a thousand-year-old tradition of singing which accompanies the life of Georgians in joy and pain, in celebration and mourning. It is also the ferment of courage and solidarity that enabled Georgia to outlast the difficulties.

The conflict between Russia and Georgia claimed lots of lives during those last days. Whole populations were scattered. A flimsy agreement of a cease-fire was signed by both countries.

On the 21st July the Cologne New Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra will perform a number of popular pieces including:

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - "Summer"

Mozart - Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in E Flat Major KV 447

Mendelssohn - Music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Purcell - "Pavane et Chaconne" for String Orchestra

Pachelbel - "Canon" for 3 Violins and basso continuo

Cantate is one of the UK's leading young choirs. It exists to encourage young people to sing a wide choral repertoire to the highest professional standards, and is renowned for exciting, dynamic performances and refined music-making. It draws its membership of over 180 young singers from more than 70 schools in the Cambridge, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire area. Cantate consists of three main choirs: the Training Choir for high voices from 8 years old; the Youth Choir of mixed voices from 13 to 16 years old; and the Senior Choir for singers from 15 to 19. In addition, there is a Chamber Choir of alumni, and a parents' and friends' choir - Amici Cantate. The choirs perform separately and together, both in their home area as well as in London, nationally and internationally. During the last year, Cantate has appeared on BBC's Songs of Praise three times. In November 2006, the Senior and Youth Choirs performed the world premiere in Cambridge of Bob Chilcott's Missa Cantate, and appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in the Schools Prom. In December, their London engagements included the Royal British Legion Christmas Celebration at Freemasons' Hall and Family Carols in St Paul's Cathedral. The Youth Choir toured Tuscany and Umbria in May 2007, and the Senior Choir performed 4 concerts to packed audiences around Lake Garda in July.

Cantate is one of the UK's leading young choirs. It exists to encourage young people to sing a wide choral repertoire to the highest professional standards, and is renowned for exciting, dynamic performances and refined music-making.

It draws its membership of over 180 young singers from more than 70 schools in the Cambridge, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire area. Cantate consists of three main choirs: the Training Choir for high voices from 8 years old; the Youth Choir of mixed voices from 13 to 16 years old; and the Senior Choir for singers from 15 to 19. In addition, there is a Chamber Choir of alumni, and a parents' and friends' choir - Amici Cantate. The choirs perform separately and together, both in their home area as well as in London, nationally and internationally.

During the last year, Cantate has appeared on BBC's Songs of Praise three times. In November 2006, the Senior and Youth Choirs performed the world premiere in Cambridge of Bob Chilcott's Missa Cantate, and appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in the Schools Prom. In December, their London engagements included the Royal British Legion Christmas Celebration at Freemasons' Hall and Family Carols in St Paul's Cathedral. The Youth Choir toured Tuscany and Umbria in May 2007, and the Senior Choir performed 4 concerts to packed audiences around Lake Garda in July.

Booking Info:
Ticket Secretary: 01376 331 160
Email: tickets@cantate.co.uk