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