SEASON PASS - CTBO 2025 Summer Baroque Season
Sat Feb 1, 11:00 - Sat Feb 15, 21:00
Various venues across Cape Town
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The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra (CTBO) presents their Summer Baroque Season of three concerts in February 2025 in various venues across Cape Town. The season includes a variety of baroque repertoire, including chamber, orchestral and vocal music, all played and sung by an exciting line-up of local and international artists. We are offering a limited number of discounted season passes, which include access to all three concerts of the season. Click here for a downloadable summary of the season's events, or scroll down for more information, included below.
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In two repeat performances of the award-winning ‘Variations’ programme (Event 1) on Saturday 1 February at 11:00 and 13:00, the focus is on sets of variations or divisions that are built on thematic material originating from songs or hymns, performed by Lynelle Kenned (soprano), Ralitza Macheva (baroque violin) and the CTBO’s Artistic Director Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord), in the atmospheric Weltevreden chapel in Noordhoek.
In ‘String concerti, plus a suite or two!’ (Event 2) on 12 February at 19:30, we welcome two baroque violin soloists, Julia Wedman and Cristina Prats-Costa, from the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto, Canada. They will lead us in a varied programme of orchestral repertoire in both the Italian and French baroque styles at our home venue, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in De Waterkant.
The last event of the season, ‘Queens & Kings’ (Event 3) on 15 February at 19:00, is a collaboration between CTBO, our regular partner Lutesong Consort, and South African-born countertenor, Clint van der Linde, in a programme of some of his favourite repertoire that also showcases the varied roles the countertenor voice served in a historical context, presented at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in De Waterkant.
In true Cape Town Baroque Orchestra style, there will be a complimentary glass of wine after each concert!
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The 2025 Summer Baroque Season is generously supported by the Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rupert Musiekstigting and Friends of Orchestral Music.