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BUYING TICKETS
Full Festival Passes are on sale now. A limited number of Early Bird Passes for the Festival are available on a first come first serve basis that provide a significant discount (£225 versus £290 for individual tickets). Once they are sold out only Full Price Passes (£250) and Student/Child Concession Passes (£190) will be available.
From 1st March Day Passes will go on sale (£25-£70). Individual event tickets will be available from 1st April (£10, £20 and £30).
Festival at a Glance
Friday 2 nd May
12.15 – 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
16.30 – 17.30 Holy Trinity Church How Shakespeare became global: Michael Dobson
19.30 – 21.30 Town Hall 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 in Opera: Dame Jane Glover
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, Ben 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– 16.00 Guild Chapel Motets by Byrd, Tallis, Gibbons and other contemporary composers, Stratford Chamber Choir