SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS
This year the festival presents operas, ballets, a ballet biography and choral works
Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain
Joseph Haydn: The Creation
(102 min; 1990; dvd; English)
With Emma Kirkby (Gabriel, Eve); Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Uriel); and Michael George (Raphael, Adam)
The Choir of New College, Oxford
Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Conductor: Christopher Hogwood
Christopher Hogwood conducts outstanding soloists and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music in this performance of Haydn’s much-loved oratorio, sung in English and filmed in the ancient splendour of Gloucester Cathedral
