Byre Opera presents Handel's Xerxes

The Priory Church of the Order of St John, St John’s Gate, St John’s Lane, Clerkenwell
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This event ended on Thursday 5th of July 2018
Admission
£22 / £18 (concession) / £10 (students, U26)
Location

The Priory Church of the Order of St John, St John’s Gate, St John’s Lane, Clerkenwell

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Farringdon 0.15 miles

Byre Opera’s production will offer a contemporary take on Handel’s classic tragicomedy, sung in Nicholas Hytner’s English translation.

It will reunite the director-and-designer team of Tania Holland Williams and Gregor Donnelly who collaborated so successfully on The Turn of the Screw for Byre Opera two years ago, and will feature a period-instrument ensemble, The Fitzwilliam Band, led by Lucy Russell and conducted by Michael Downes.

For the first time, Byre Opera will be touring to London with two semi-staged performances of Xerxes in the Priory Church of the Order of St John.

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User Reviews

Hannah
from Edinburgh

Jul 5, 2018

Saw this last weekend in Berwick and loved it - a great production, funny and professional - really recommend for an entertaining evening if you love opera or Handel.