Cambridge Handel Opera's production in 2009, a year that marked the 800th anniversary of Cambridge University, was Handel’s masterpiece Ariodante. Ariodante is one of the very greatest of Handel’s operas, and indeed one of the finest of all eighteenth-century operas. Its themes of love, loyalty, ambition, and sexual jealousy are depicted in a drama of extraordinary power with music that never fails to move a modern audience.
We welcomed our new Stage Director, John Ramster, who, in addition to his distinguished career as an opera director, has an abiding commitment to education: he is a Drama Lecturer for Royal Academy Opera, and has taught and directed at the Casa da Música Studio in Porto, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Morley College, London City Opera, Abbey Opera at Birkbeck College, and at many other educational establishments.
Andrew Jones (Music Director)
