Rehearsals

This afternoon the Dunedin Consort were rehearsing at Mackintosh Queen's Cross for tonight's performance of Venus & Adonis by John Blow.

John Blow’s Venus & Adonis is often considered the first opera in English. Combining elements of Ovid, Shakespeare and the influences of 17th-century French opera, it creates a powerful dramatic retelling of a tale that charts the extreme states of love and grief when beautiful Adonis is gored to death by a boar.

Tonight's performance is being recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

During the rehearsal I captured a number of the musicians in performance. This is Bill Hunt playing the Violone.