22/05/2026
We’re in 18th century Paris for our next concert, with two of the mini-operas which make up Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes: Les Sauvages and Les Incas (back by popular request!).
Both pieces are set in the Americas at the time that they were falling to European dominance: with devious Spanish and French explorers vying with a noble Native American for the hand of a local chieftain’s daughter, Les Sauvages questions which of the parties is actually the ‘savage’. Les Incas culminates in a love duet sung at exactly the same time that an evil priest tries to summon a volcanic eruption to destroy both the Spanish and the last independent Inca city state - some of Rameau’s most fantastic music, and one of our favourite scenes from any opera!
We’ll be performing at Holy Trinity on 20th June, 7:30pm, with tickets from £2-£10, and our famous gin bar open from 7pm! Featuring the lovely Milly Atkinson, Camilla Seale, Tristram Cooke, Theo Nisbett, Oliver Doyle and Joachim Sabbat, with a band including Gabriel Alves Candido da Silva (flute) Flora Fontanelli and Katie Holmes (violins) Madison Marshall (viola) Rowena Jones (bassoon) Jude Chandler (double bass) and Peter Martin (baroque guitar)
