Time & location
04 Oct 2025, 7:30 pm
St Mary-le-More Church, Market Place, Wallingford OX10 0EG, UK
About the event
Purcell: Come Ye Sons Of Art
Interval
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
N.B. there is a change to the performers listed in our brochure for this concert.
We close our season in customary fashion with the Wallingford-based ensemble, the Thames Consort, who, after last year’s concert of mainly sacred music, go distinctly secular with a concert performance of Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas, with mezzo-soprano, Elinor Carter singing the part of Dido, Lisa Gifford-Guy (soprano) as Belinda, her lady-in-waiting, joined by Rhian Davies (mezzo-soprano) as the Sorceress and Paulo Cerqueira (baritone) as Aeneas. First given in 1689, Purcell’s work is the first English language opera and charts the tragedy of Dido’s abandonment by Aeneas, plotted by the dastardly witches. There is plenty of colour and humour with a group of rustic sailors, a coven of witches and a ghostly spirit.
In the first half of the concert, we hear Purcell’s most popular ode:…
Tickets
Pew seat
This seat is on a wooden pew which is less comfortable than our regular seating, so we recommend that you bring your own cushion.
From £17.00 to £19.00
Sale ended£17.00
£19.00
Choir Stall
This seat has slightly restricted views, and is on a wooden bench which is less comfortable than our regular seating, so we recommend that you bring your own cushion.
From £14.00 to £16.00
Sale ended£14.00
£16.00