Vache Baroque was founded in 2020 by Co-Founders Betty Makharinsky and Joanthan Darbourne with a mission to deliver high-quality, accessible Baroque music—breathing new life into old masterpieces while pushing the boundaries of Baroque and classical performance. Since its inception, Vache Baroque has produced four critically acclaimed productions and a wide range of projects, including the award-winning Visionaries, which brought opera and classical music to the DeafBlind community.
Looking ahead to 2025, Vache Baroque will expand its programming with its first national opera tour, including a performance at the Buxton International Festival, as well as stops in Oxford and Brighton and London with a program “Out of The Deep” exploring the life of the prolific figure, Oscar Wilde through a baroque medium.
Beyond the stage, we are deeply committed to outreach, bringing music into schools in areas of high deprivation to inspire and engage the next generation of audiences. Our work comes full circle by integrating the children we reach into our larger productions, offering them a platform to inspire and expose them to the wonders of classical music. Through initiatives like the James Bowman Young Artist Program, which nurtures emerging talent at a higher level, where we seek to address the gap between higher level music education, to a career in classical music, both on and off the stage.
2025 will also mark our most ambitious production to date, where the worlds of opera and circus collide. Partnering with the renowned circus troupe Up-Swing, we will bring Campra’s Le Carnaval de Venise to life in a breathtaking fusion of music and movement. This Spectacular production will take place in a circus tent on the picturesque Vache Estate in Chalfont St Giles, just outside London, spanning the final weekend of August and the first weekend of September. Staying true to our mission of celebrating lesser-known Baroque works, we are also introducing a Jazz event for the first time in our Summer Festival, creating a unique fusion and broadening our audience experience.
PROGRAMME
Vivaldi - Ho il cor già lacero (Griselda)
Monteverdi - Nigra sum (Vespers)
André Campra - Air d’un Joueur (Les fêtes Venitiennes) Sang by Bradyn Debysingh James Bowman Young artist
Georg F. Handel - As with Rosy Steps (Theodora)
Mozart - Laudamus te (C minor mass)
Fauré - Mandoline
Weill - Je ne t’aime pas
Weill - J’attends un Navire
Giraud - Sous le Ciel de Paris
Louiguy - La Vie en Rose
Porter - I Love Paris in the Springtime
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