Gentlemen of the Choir take to the operatic stage

These productions come after the success of Kepler's Trial, a work conceived by St John's Fellow Professor Ulinka Rublack, with the music written by composer and Sub-director of Studies in Music at St John's, Tim Watts. 10 Gentlemen both past and present were involved in the work: William Ashford was the Director; Theodore Platt performed as Johannes Kepler, Hugh Cutting as Daemon, and Michael Bell as the Schoolmaster/Gabelkhover; the Madrigal Quintet were James Beddoe, Daniel Brown, Gopal Kambo, Piers Kennedy, and Stephen Matthews; and in the orchestra Joseph Wicks played the keyboards. The other instrumentalists included many students from St John's, and the Chorus were the St John's Voices - our sister choir - with their Director Graham Walker conducting the work. The opera received its first performance in St John's College Chapel, the entire of which can be viewed below via Youtube.