Baroque Summer School Participants

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Sat 26 Jul 2025 18:30

Baroque Summer School singer‘The Tempest’: a commentary on the transitoriness of life, and allows for melancholy airs as well as uplifting dances to entertain us with the magic of The Enchanted Island, where our protagonists have been marooned following a dramatic shipwreck.

John Weldon’s ‘The Tempest’ or ‘The Enchanted Island’ has been the inspiration for this year’s Summer School, once again in collaboration with the Academy of Ancient Music. Interwoven with other music by Weldon, Purcell and other contemporaries, Students have had the opportunity to work with a dynamic faculty including an inspirational dance specialist whose research and expertise is inspiring musicians to look afresh at the dance music which is at the heart of the Baroque repertoire.

An outstanding example of post-Restoration theatre, this work has not had the prominence in the repertoire that it deserves, partly as a result of uncertainty over the composer’s identity!

The performance is expected to last about 60 – 90 minutes with no interval.

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