New Chamber Opera |
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New Chamber Opera was founded in 1990 by Michael Burden and Gary Cooper to work in the fields of chamber opera and music theatre. Its productions include Handel's Orlando, Amadigi, Cimarosa's The Secret Marriage, Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Tom Johnson's The 4-Note Opera, and a complete cycle of Britten's Church Parables. Its resident baroque orchestra is The Band of Instruments. With its contemporary music ensemble Phoenix, it has performed major pieces of twentieth-century music theatre including Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King, Vessalii Icones, Notre Dames des Fleurs and Miss Donnithornes Maggot and Harrison Birtwistle's Down By the Greenwood Side. The company has a particular commitment to young singers, and aside from its professional commitments, stages two student productions and a recital series of twenty four concerts in which they take part. The company's Singing Patron is James Bowman.
The whole project feels and sounds like a fully committed team effort. The message of this
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| Recordings | ||
| Title/Work/Composer | Catalogue number | Description |
| Le Mariage forcé; Les Fous divertissants (Charpentier) | ASV Gaudeamus ASV CD GAU 167 | World première recordings of two delightful sets of theatre music by one of the greatest masters of the genre. |
| Intermedes d'Andromède; Le Ballet de Polieucte (Charpentier) | ASV Gaudeamus ASV CD GAU 303 | Recording of Intermedes dAndromède and the premiere recording of Le Ballet de Polieucte (Rameau) |
| Complete Cantatas (Rameau) | ASV Gaudeamus ASV CD GAX 234 | First complete recording of all Rameaus cantatas. |
| Purcell (Gresham Autograph) | ASV Gaudeamus ASV CD GAU 194 | The first recorded presentation of a priceless manuscript of 24 delightful songs and arias for soprano, prepared in the composer's own hand, plus six instrumental pieces. |
| Music From Ceremonial Oxford | ASV Gaudeamus ASV CD GAU 222 | Four world premieres of the best Odes written for the Oxford University 'Acts' of Restoration England (Henry Purcell) |
| Key staff | |
| Name | Title/Function |
| Michael Burden | Director of productions |
| Gary Cooper | Musical Director |
