Dido and Aeneas

19-05-2024 19:30 - 22:00

https://www.bollfestchoir.org.uk/dido-and-aeneas-2/

St Oswald's Church Bollington

Address: 7 Bollington Rd, Bollington, Macclesfield SK10 5EG, UK

A classical tragedy telling the love of the doomed Carthaginian Queen for a Trojan war hero. Passion, witchcraft, betrayal and death told in glorious music from the 17th century.

Concert Tickets: £15 (£5 for 18s and under) 01625 575554

Please note that there will be Interval refreshments (tea and coffee) with donations welcome; a raffle with tickets costing £1.

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Englishmen Abroad

08-06-2025 19:30 - 08-06-2025 22:00

7:30pm Sunday 8 June 2025

Bollington Arts Centre

Despite facing racial prejudice, Coleridge-Taylor's settings of Longfellow's epic poem became hugely popular at the very end of the 19th century.

The concert begins with the best known, Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.

The other Englishmen abroad are Elgar with his Songs from the Bavarian Highlands and Parry, whose magnificant Blest Pair of Sirens sets John Milton's poem At a Solemn Music.

Concert Tickets: £15 (£5 for 18s and under) 01625 575554