NEW DATE  Rossini Stabat Mater & Puccini Messa di Gloria
Saturday 31st October 2020, 7.30 pm
​Royal Hall, Harrogate

Due to the impact of Coronavirus our planned concert has been rescheduled. All ticket bookings will be transferred to the new date. ​

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: ​​(online only at the moment)  
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! 

NEW DATE - The Harrogate Proms 
Saturday 26 June 2021 at 7.30 pm
Harrogate Symphony Orchestra with Voices for Harrogate
​Harry Gration, Compere

It is with great regret we must announce that due to the continuing public health crisis, we are unable to prepare for and perform the Proms Concert originally planned for 27th June 2020.  It is our intention now to perform this concert on 26th June 2021. We have been enormously grateful to our sponsors and volunteer singers for their tremendous support. Thank you all.
 
The Box Office have been notified and tickets purchased for the concert will be valid for the later date.
 
Over the next few months, our wonderful NHS staff will be facing unprecedented challenges and we are sure that this will only increase the public’s support for them and for this delayed event once the crisis has passed.
 
​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: ​​(online only at present)
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.
Other Planned Future Concerts
Saturday 5 December 2020 - The Harrogate Christmas Concert
Saturday 12 December 2020 - Handel Messiah
Saturday 6 March 2021 - Brahms Requiem, Ave Maria & Alto Rhapsody
Saturday 19 June 2021 - Chilcott & Todd