Bampton Classical Opera
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Bampton Classical Opera is an opera company based in Bampton, Oxfordshire and founded in 1993. It specialises in the production of lesser known opera from the Classical period. Performances are always sung in English. Opera today called the company 'ambitious, innovative and imaginative'.
Westonbirt House, one of Bampton Classical Opera's main performing venues
John-Colyn Gyeantey (the Count) and Emily Rowley Jones (Susanna) in the UK première of Marcos Portugal's Marriage of Figaro, Bampton 2010
Catherine Backhouse (Pallas Athena), Aoife O'Sullivan (Venus), Barbara Cole Walton (Juno) in the 2016 production of Thomas Arne's Judgement of Paris
A singer and her accompanist competing in the final round of Bampton Classical Opera's Young Singers' Competition in December 2021 in the Holywell Music Room
Bampton, Oxfordshire
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Bampton, also called Bampton-in-the-Bush, is a settlement and civil parish in the Thames Valley about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) southwest of Witney in Oxfordshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Weald. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,564. Bampton is variously referred to as both a town and a village. The Domesday Book recorded that it was a market town by 1086. It continued as such until the 1890s. It has both a town hall and a village hall.
St Mary the Virgin parish church
Bampton Town Hall
The public library, built in the 1650s as the free school
Tadpole Bridge carries the road between Bampton and Buckland