Ceruleo | Bridport, 10 July 2026
Ceruleo
Jenni Harper, Emily Owen, sopranos
Toby Carr, theorbo
Kate Conway, viola da gamba
Satoko Doi-Luck, harpsichord
Programme
Selection from:
Barbara Strozzi Sonetto proemio dell’opera – Mercé di voi, Op 1
Girolamo Frescobaldi La Riamata da chi amava, Op 2 Canzona quinta detta la Tromboncina
Barbara Strozzi Begl’occhi, bel seno, bei crini, e bella bocca, Op 2
Tarquinio Merula Desideri vani, Op 3 Toccata del secondo tono, Composizioni per organo e cembalo
Barbara Strozzi Che si può fare, Op 8
Alessandro Piccinini Partite variate sopra l’aria Francese detta l’Alemana
Barbara Strozzi Sospira, respira, Op 6
Tarquinio Merula L’Amante segreto, Op 2 La Bianca, Canzoni overo Sonate concertate
Barbara Strozzi chiesa e camera Op 12 I baci, Op 2
Biagio Marini La sol fa, mi, re, do, Op 2 La Caotorta, Gagliarda a 2
Barbara Strozzi Amante ravveduto, Op 6 – Begli occhi, Op 3
Venue
Bridport
Friday 10 July, 11.30AM
Booking
Bridport Arts Centre, South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR
Box Office: 01308 424901
Adult ticket price – £16 – concessions available
Ticket sales by phone or in person from the Tourist Information Centre,
South Street, Bucky Doo Square, Bridport, DT6 3LF
Monday to Saturday, 9am – 5pm
1 November to 29 March:
Monday to Saturday, 10am – 3pm
OR online at www.bridport-arts.com
Tickets can be bought on the door from 11am, by card only.
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Alternative concert dates
Ilminster
Friday 10 July, 7.30PM
Ilminster Arts Centre, East Street, Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 0AN
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Crewkerne
Saturday 11 July, 7.30PM
The Dance House, Gouldsbrook View, North Street, Crewkerne, TA18 7AL
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Taking communication, collaboration and experimentation as the basis to grow as a group, Ceruleo create dramatic programmes using spoken text alongside music for two sopranos and continuo. Every member of the group performs as a soloist, and Ceruleo use all available combinations of instruments and voices to create innovative and captivating performances.
They specialise in performing the music of Restoration England and Seventeenth Century Italy. Ceruleo’s most recent project, the Arts Council England funded ‘Burying the Dead‘, a staged show about Henry Purcell written by the scriptwriter Clare Norburn and directed by Thomas Guthrie, began in May 2018. They performed ‘Burying the Dead’ at Festivals including the Buxton International Festival, Lake District Summer Music, Baroque at the Edge at LSO St Luke’s, Brighton Early Music Festival and the York Early Music Christmas Festival.
They released their first album of the music of Henry Purcell, ‘Love Restor’d’ on Resonus Classics in 2022. Ceruleo formed in 2014 at The Guildhall School, and were subsequently invited to be Artist Fellows there for 2016/17. They were Brighton Early Music Festival’s Early Music Live! scheme participants for 2015/16. They have performed at venues including St John’s Smith Square, St Martin-in-the Fields, the Courtauld Gallery and for City Music Society, The London Handel Festival, the Folkestone Literature Festival and live on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’. They created and premiered ‘Rival Queens’, an immersive operatic experience, for Handel and Hendrix in London.