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Summer Opera Gala
A selection of Opera choruses by Purcell,Verdi, Bizet and others
Part of the Medici Choir 2025 - 2026 Season
Add to my Calendar 26-06-2026 19:30 26-06-2026 21:30 36 Summer Opera Gala From Purcell to Bernstein via Verdi and Puccini, a selection of opera choruses will be sung by the Medici Choir with soprano and tenor soloists who will also perform arias and duets, . This well-known London choir's Summer Opera Gala will include the Chorus of The Hebrew Slaves (Va Pensiero) from Verdi’s opera Nabucco, arguably the most famous of all opera choruses, as well arias, ensembles and choruses from Bizet’s Carmen, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, and the exciting Polovtsian Dances from Borodin’s Prince Igor, among many more. The programme will end with a suite of choruses from Bernstein's West Side Story. For all lovers of opera and choral music, this is a concert not to be missed. St Gabriel's Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Gabriel's Church
Warwick Square
Pimlico
London
SW1V 2AD
England
Programme
Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly: Humming Bird Chorus
Giuseppe Verdi – Il Trovatore: Anvil Chorus
Georges Bizet – Carmen: Habanera - 'L'amour est un oiseau rebelle'
Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco: Va, pensiero
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin, Op.24: Waltz with Chorus 'Vot tak syurpriz!'
Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas: 'With drooping wings ye cupids come'
Pietro Mascagni – Cavalleria Rusticana: Easter Hymn
Georges Bizet – Carmen: March of the Toreadors
Aleksandr Borodin – Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata: 'Brindisi'
Performers
Lynsey Docherty – Soprano
Robert Forrest – tenor
Ben Lewis-Smith – organ / piano
David Gostick – Conductor
Medici Choir
Programme Note
From Purcell to Bernstein via Verdi and Puccini, a selection of opera choruses will be sung by the Medici Choir with soprano and tenor soloists who will also perform arias and duets, .
This well-known London choir's Summer Opera Gala will include the Chorus of The Hebrew Slaves (Va Pensiero) from Verdi’s opera Nabucco, arguably the most famous of all opera choruses, as well arias, ensembles and choruses from Bizet’s Carmen, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, and the exciting Polovtsian Dances from Borodin’s Prince Igor, among many more. The programme will end with a suite of choruses from Bernstein's West Side Story.
For all lovers of opera and choral music, this is a concert not to be missed.
