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The Deanery Garden
Church View
Bampton
Oxfordshire
OX18 2LL
England
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Prices: £45 (under 18's half price)
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Programme
Antonio Salieri – La locandiera (The Landlady)
Performers
Siân Dicker – soprano
Rosalind Dobson – soprano
Osian Wyn Bowen – tenor
David Horton – tenor
Aidan Edwards – baritone
Samuel Pantcheff – baritone
Andrew Griffiths – Conductor
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Programme Note
Bampton Classical Opera is delighted to announce their 2025 summer production will be Antonio Salieri’s comic opera 'La locandiera', marking the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death. It will be sung in a new English translation by Gilly French and Jeremy Gray as ‘The Landlady’ and will be the fifth opera by Salieri that the company has staged.
Antonio Salieri’s La locandiera (‘The Landlady’) with a libretto by Domenico Poggi was first performed in Vienna in 1773 when the press commented “Both words and music received loud and deserved applause”. The plot is based closely on what is considered to be one of Carlo Goldoni’s finest-crafted plays, in which the feisty innkeeper Mirandolina determines to ‘educate’ an arrogant and dismissive Baron, whilst also playing off the ardent affections of a foolish Count and a timid Marquis.
Bampton Classical Opera, twice a finalist in the International Opera Awards, marks the 200th anniversary of Salieri’s death with a sparkling new production of this witty and tuneful comedy of manners, sung in English. Andrew Griffiths conducts and Jeremy Gray directs, with a lively cast of some of the UK’s finest young singers.
Bampton has previously performed four great Salieri operas, including the UK premières of Falstaff and La fiera di Venezia, which was shortlisted for the 2023 International Opera Awards, also the UK modern times premières of La grotta di Trofonio and La scuola de’gelosi. Bampton’s production of Salieri’s La locandiera will again demonstrate how skilled the composer was at creating melodious and exciting comic opera, revealing the genius of this somewhat maligned composer. Bampton is delighted to present its fifth rarity by a composer who in his lifetime was performed across Europe, the respected teacher of Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt.
The strong cast includes two singers returning to Bampton: Siân Dicker (Haydn ‘Fool Moon’ 2022), Samuel Pantcheff (Salieri ‘The School of Jealousy’ 2017), with Rosalind Dobson, David Horton, Osian Wyn Bowen and Aidan Edwards all making their company débuts.
Bampton Classical Opera stages productions in rural venues in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire as well as regularly in London at Smith Square Hall. Other significant venues and festivals have included Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, Buxton Festival, Cheltenham Festival and Theatre Royal Bath. Eschewing familiar repertoire, Bampton concentrates instead on rarities from the late eighteenth century, sung in lively new English translations, and has given many enterprising performances of forgotten operas. Amongst these have been UK premières of Bertoni Orfeo, Marcos Portugal The Marriage of Figaro, Paer Leonora, Benda Romeo and Juliet, Gluck Il Parnaso confuso, Philemon and Baucis and Salieri Falstaff and La fiera di Venezia.
Bampton Classical Opera was a finalist in the Rediscovered Opera category of the 2020 International Opera Awards for Stephen Storace Gli sposi malcontenti (Bride and Gloom), and its recent production of Salieri La fiera di Venezia (At the Venice Fair) was shortlisted for the 2023 Awards.
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