YORK Opera will celebrate the festive season with Realms Of Glory, a programme of English Christmas music spanning more than four centuries from Byrd to Benjamin Britten, at the National Centre for Early Music, York, tomorrow night.
In a tribute to Britten in his centenary year, the 7.30pm concert will feature his Ceremony Of Carols, alongside Victorian hymns and Christmas songs from that period, while company members will show off their lusty choral singing in a group of songs from the folk tradition.
York Opera has spent the intervening weeks since October’s production of Verdi’s Nabucco at York Theatre Royal rehearsing Realms Of Glory with conductors Pauline Marshall and Clive Goodhead and piano accompanist Tim Tozer.
Tickets are available at £12, under-18s £8, on 01904 658338 or at ncem.co.uk
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