William Shield Festival 2025 - Mozart vs Shield

With Rocket Opera soloists, William Shield Chamber Orchestra, leader Bradley Creswick and chorus

Highlights from William Shield’s operas including arias and choruses from Robin Hood and other stage works contrast with Mozart’s early masterpiece of 1768, ‘Bastien et Bastienne’, composed when Mozart was only 12. There are just three characters, and it is a simple work, being a comic parody of a play by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ‘Le Devin de village’. The music is lively, tuneful and colourful.

Celebrity artists from Rocket Opera are Ruth Jenkins Robertsson, soprano; Austin Gunn, tenor and Andri Bjorn Robertsson-Colas, bass baritone.

Rocket Opera is a North East based company providing operatic entertainment and opera singers for events. The Honorary President of Rocket Opera is international operatic bass Graeme Danby.

For more information about Rocket Opera please visit their website www.rocketopera.weebly.com.