HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN ELIOT!

John Eliot Gardiner’s sixty-year career has encompassed an exceptionally wide range of music. His performances, fuelled by scholarship and passion, have breathed new life into familiar music, and brought lesser-known repertoire the international attention it deserves.

Our 2023 season showcases particularly three composers whose reputation in concert halls and opera stages has been irrevocably shaped by John Eliot Gardiner’s work. The Mass in B minor, which can be regarded as a summation of Bach’s musical and theological thought, will be performed during our European tour in April and in America in October.

In June, solo singers and instrumentalists will join the Choir in an exploration of the work of our namesake, Claudio Monteverdi, for performances in evocative venues associated with the composer’s career in Italy, which will be filmed as a documentary investigating his life.

Later in the summer the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, alongside outstanding soloists, will bring Berlioz’s opera Les Troyens to some of Europe’s most prestigious festivals.

We do hope you will be able to join us for our landmark 2023 season celebrating John Eliot Gardiner’s 80th birthday.

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras presents