Rossini Stabat Mater & Puccini Messa di Gloria
Saturday 28th March 2020, 7.30 pm
​Royal Hall, Harrogate

​Manchester Camerata
Sarah Power, Soprano
Adriana Festeu, Mezzo Soprano
Nicholas Watts, Tenor
Stephen Gadd, Bass
Andrew Padmore, Conductor

Tickets for this concert are priced
at £15 or £20 with £5 tickets available
for students and IBA. Under 16s free when accompanied by an adult 

​Tickets are on sale from The Harrogate Box Office: 
​​Tel 01423 502116 (opening hours 10am to 5pm Mon to Sat) or online 
Although Rossini saw his Stabat Mater as a work of sacred music the lyrical style in which he sets his composition is in parts, quite operatic in character. This is in contrast to the solemnity of the thirteenth-century text.  He declared, “The music should be of the finest quality” and the Stabat Mater is indeed full of glorious music.

Puccini is most famous for his contribution to the world of opera even though he began his musical career playing and composing church music. As his musical studies progressed, it was clear that young Puccini possessed the talent to become one of the world's greatest operatic composers – and his Messa di Gloria is evidence of such promise. Puccini himself wrote: "the Almighty touched me with his little finger and said, 'Write for the theatre - mind, only for the theatre! 

The Harrogate Proms 
Saturday 27 June 2020 at 7.30 pm

Harrogate Symphony Orchestra
Voices for Harrogate
​Harry Gration, Compere

​An opportunity for Harrogate Singers ​to join in! 
Please get in touch ​for more information and help us raise funds for Harrogate ​Hospital and Community Charity.

​Tickets for this concert are priced at £25 or £15
half price for students and free for under 14s when accompanied by an adult 

​Tickets are on sale from The Harrogate Box Office: 
​​Tel 01423 502116 (opening hours 10am to 5pm Mon to Sat) or online from 16th January 2020
Two leading music organizations are joining forces to present a special showcase concert, which will be compered by popular BBC Look North broadcaster Harry Gration, to raise funds for the Harrogate Hospital and Community Charity. 

Singers from Harrogate Choral Society (HCS) will be joined by many other local singers who will all sing as “Voices for Harrogate”. The concert will be conducted by Andrew Padmore (HCS Music Director) and Bryan Western (conductor of Harrogate Symphony Orchestra).

The programme will feature a feast of operatic and Proms favourites as well as other popular works suck as Carl Orff’s O Fortuna, Verdi’s Grand March from Aida, Jenkins’ Suite from the Armed Man and Rutter’s Look at the World.

Of course the proms section will include audience participation with flag waving and hooters, making it a memorable evening for all.
Planned Future Concert Dates
Saturday 31 October 2020 - Brahms Requiem, Ave Maria & Alto Rhapsody
Saturday 5 December 2020 - The Harrogate Christmas Concert
Saturday 12 December 2020 - Handel Messiah
Saturday 6 March 2021 - Schubert & Haydn
Saturday 19 June 2021 - Chilcott & Todd