As part of our Educational Programme, we run orchestral workshops on very large operas so that orchestral players and our singers can enjoy working on operas in their original orchestrations in a non-pressured environment.

Our next Orchestral Study Day is scheduled Sunday 11 & 12 May 2024, working on Berg’s Wozzeck.

Location: Dulwich Hamlet School

Approximate Timings:

Saturday
11.00 Orchestra alone rehearsal
1.30 Lunch
2.45 Full rehearsal

Sunday
11.00 Arrival Strings
11.30 -12.45 Strings sectional
12.45 Arrival Wind Brass and Percussion 13.00 -14.00 Rehearsal
14.00- 15.15 Lunch
15.15 – 18.10 Rehearsal with break
18.45 – 19.45 Playthrough - guests welcome - suggested donation of £10

Conductor:  Ben Woodward

Woodwind

Brass

Strings

Orchestral players can make their donations here.

Future Orchestral Study Weekends:

11 & 12 May 2024:  Wozzeck

13 & 14 July 2024:  Vanessa

7 or 8 December 2024:  either Act 1 or 2 of Das Wunder der Heliane

Past Orchestral Study Weekends:

November 2023: Bluebeard’s Castle

July 2023: Elektra

April 2023: The Love of Three Oranges

December 2022: Carmen

July 2022: Die Tote Stadt

April 2022: Tippett, The Midsummer Marriage

27 November 2021: Hänsel und Gretel

October 2021: Jenufa

July 2021: Die Ägyptische Helena

December 2019: Die Frau ohne Schatten Act 3

13 & 14 July 2019: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

27 & 28 April 2019: Káťa Kabanová

1 & 2 December 2018: Die Meistersinger Act 3

7 & 8 July 2018: Die Frau ohne Schatten

21 & 22 April 2018: Das Rheingold

2 & 3 December 2017: Otello

15 & 16 July 2017: Der Rosenkavalier

22 & 23 April 2017: Götterdämmerung Prologue & Act 1

4 December 2016: Der fliegende Holländer

16 & 17 July 2016: Arabella

30 April & 1 May 2016: Die Walküre Acts 1 & 3

6 December 2015: Zemlinsky “Lyric Symphony”

4 & 5 July 2015: Dialogues des Carmélites

18 & 19 April 2015: Peter Grimes

6 December 2014: Siegfried Act 3

11 & 12 October 2014: Elektra

April 2014: Salome

December 2013: Götterdämmerung Act 3

Summer 2013: Siegfried Act 1