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Gabrieli Roar in Southwark: Buy your tickets now!

Join us on 14 October 2025 for another Gabrieli Roar performance of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, on this occasion at St George’s Cathedral, Southwark with over 150 young people from across the London Borough of Southwark. First performed in collaboration with the Essex and Leicestershire Music Hubs, this project sees Purcell’s famous hour-long opera expanded […]

Roar Explore Days in Devon and Derbyshire

We kickstarted the Gabrieli Roar academic year with a series of Roar Explore Days in Devon and Derbyshire led by Creative Directors Charles Bequignon-MacDougall and Emily Dickens. Working in partnership with Devon Music Education Hub, we were delighted to work with regular partners at The Legacy Choir, Plymouth as well as reaching new schools in […]

Gabrieli Roar Summer Residential: Participant and Partner Feedback

“I think I speak for more people than just myself when I say you can’t put a price on the feeling of Gabrieli.” Reading through the feedback from our residential course this summer, we’re struck by how Gabrieli’s values are reflected in how our partners and participants feel about a Gabrieli Roar course … it’s […]

Purcell The Fairy Queen at St Martin in the Fields, 6 November 2025

On Thursday 6 November, Gabrieli bring one of their most celebrated programmes to London, when we perform Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at St Martin in the Fields on Trafalgar Square. Our celebrated cast of soloists include Anna Dennis, Rowan Pierce, Jeremy Budd, Matthew Brook and Marcus Farnsworth. Purcell’s semi-opera is a series of masques, originally conceived to […]

Gabrieli Roar Residential Course

From tenors rehearsing hunting choruses running through the woods to the mandatory Mediocre Joke Moment at the end of every alto sectional, the annual Gabrieli Roar Residential Course welcomes, entertains, challenges, excites… and exhausts (and that’s just the staff!). Our six day residential prepared over 200 participants to perform Haydn’s The Seasons at Ely Cathedral […]

Gabrieli at Herrenchiemsee

We are delighted to be packing our suitcases and searching out our passports this weekend, as we return to work with our friends at the Herrenchiemsee Festspiele, in southern Bavaria, Germany. Set in the idyllic, almost other-worldly surroundings of a castle built on an island, we’re delighted this year to be bringing a programme of […]

Gabrieli Roar: Purcell Dido and Aeneas with Leicestershire Music Hub

Much of June has been spent in Leicester, preparing over 350 young people for a super-sized Roar Evolve performance of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas: a unique production bringing together massed choruses of primary and secondary school students to perform the opera’s powerful choruses, interspersed with folk songs and sea shanties that are thematically linked to […]

Gabrieli delights with Purcell's King Arthur at 76th Aldeburgh Festival

Gabrieli’s performance of Purcell’s King Arthur at the 76th Aldeburgh Festival on 20 June featured soloists Anna Dennis, Mhairi Lawson, Rowan Pierce, Jeremy Budd, Christopher Fitzgerald-Lombard, Matthew Long, Tom Castle, Marcus Farnsworth and Ashley Riches.   The performance … roused the senses and filled the mind whilst also filling Snape Maltings Concert Hall to the […]