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Full Festival and Day Passes: Full Festival Passes (£250) and OAP/Student/Child Concession Passes (£125) 

Day Passes (£20-£70)

 

Individual event tickets (links below £5-£30). All tickets are half price for OAPS, Students and accompanied children.  

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Festival at a Glance

Friday 2 nd May
12.00 – 13.20 Holy Trinity Church  Venus and Adonis with music by Felix Mendelssohn, Christopher Kent and Gamal Khamis
14:00 – 15:00 Holy Trinity Church  'Come, some music. Come, the recorders' Renaissance Recorders Consort from the Royal College of Music
15.30 – 16.30  Holy Trinity Church  How Shakespeare became global: Michael Dobson
19.30 – 21.30 Holy Trinity Church  Shakespeare’s Legacy in English Opera, Jon French with soloists from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Saturday 3 rd May
10.00 – 11.00 Guild Chapel  Shakespeare's Music: Dr Simon Smith
12.00 - 13.00 Guild Chapel  'A Mermaid on a Dolphin' Continental influence on Shakespeare's music, with the Linarol Consort of Renaissance Viols and Héloïse Bernard
15.00 – 16.00 Guild Chapel  Elizabethan Madrigals, The Wells Madrigal Singers
19.30 – 21.30 Holy Trinity Church  Shakespeare Songs and Sonnets, Mark Padmore and Elizabeth Kenny

Sunday 4 th May
10.00 – 11.00 Guild Chapel  David Garrick’s 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee, Clive Francis
12.00 – 13.00 Guild Chapel  Brush up your Shakespeare! Organ recital, Bel Comeau
15.00 -16.00 Guild Chapel  Music for Shakespeare’s Jubilee 1769, Composed by Charles Dibdin with Singing Scholars from Voces8 and woodwind from the Orchestra of the Swan
19.30 – 21.30 Town Hall  Shakespeare’s Legacy in Continental Opera, Hosted by Robert Lloyd

Monday 5 th May
10.00 – 11.00 Guild Chapel  Singing Shakespeare, Dr Katy Hamilton
12.00 – 13.00 Guild Chapel  Roger Quilter: The Shakespeare Songs, with baritone William Drakett and a string quintet from the Orchestra of the Swan
15.00– 16.15 Guild Chapel  Motets by Byrd, Tallis, Gibbons and other contemporary composers, Stratford Chamber Choir