11.30am | Worcester Cathedral

Opening Service
Three Cathedral Choirs
Festival Chorus Philharmonia Brass

Event no: 3
1.15pm | St. Martins Church, London Road

Michael Heighway will be performing the first of 5 organ recitals presented in association with the Royal College of Organists.

Event no: 4
2.30pm | Kings School Theatre

Purcell - Dido & Aeneas
Lully - La Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Prodigious Snob)
(Kit Hesketh-Harvey's new text for Lully's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was commissioned by the Norfolk and Norwich Festival).

We welcome the return of this internationally renowned vocal ensemble for their performance of Purcell's astonishingly powerful and captivating short opera and Lully's brilliant melodious comedy-ballet. (If you love Mozart, you will adore this!)

Event no: 5

2.30pm | Huntingdon Hall

Vaughan Williams: Orpheus and his lute The Sky above the roof Winter's willow Silent noon Elaine Hugh-Jones: Songs of war Samuel Barber: Hermit Songs Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op.48

James Gilchrist - Tenor
Anna Tilbrook - Piano

"James Gilchrist is now unsurpassed amongst lyric tenors in sweetness and technical security, and for his musical intelligence" The Independent

Free Entrance

5.30pm | Worcester Cathedral

EVENSONG
Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir

Stephen Shellard - Conductor

Event no: 6

7.45pm | Worcester Cathedral

Sponsored by Worcester County Council, Severn House Publishers and the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust

Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Adrian Lucas - Conductor

Commissioned for the 1903 Birmingham Triennial Festival, this is Elgar's unsurpassed setting of the New Testament.