List of performances at the Llantilio Crossenny Festival

Forty-five years ago Charles Farncombe the conductor, Mansel Thomas from the BBC and Dorothy Adams Jeremiah the County Music Organiser, living in the nearby village of Treadam, started a festival in St Teilo’s church. It was a modest affair. Mansel played the organ and his wife Megan played the cello. Dorothy had a choir consisting mainly of reverend gentlemen and Jean Adams, Head of Music at Pontypool School for Girls had a choir consisting mainly of teachers.  Since then the festival has advanced to the highly professional performances given today.

Given below are the opera, or equivalents, in each year
1962 Three Musical Morality Plays
1963 Amis & Amile
1964 The Representation of the Soul & Body
1965 The Play of Daniel
1966 The Play of Herod
1967 The Easter Trilogy
1968 The Story of Abraham and Isaac The Bndegroom
1969 The Play of Elche
1970 In Praise of the Nativity and The First Commandment
1971 Athalia
1972 The Play of Daniel
1973 The Return of Tobias
1974 Esther
1975 Jonah & the Whale, Dives & Lazarus and The Red Sea
1976 Hercules
1977 Acis & Galatea
1978 Thomas & Sally and Bastien & Bastienne
1979 Jephtha
1980 An Evening with Mr Handel
1981 Appollo & Daphne and Bastien & Bastienne
1982 Pepito and Cox & Box
1983 The Impressario and Rita
1984 Don Pasquale
1985 Thomas & Sally and Three’s Company
1986 Music Master and A Husband on the Mat
1987 The Barber of Seville
1988 L’Elisir d’Amore
1989 La Cenerentola
1990 The Magic Flute
1991 The Marriage of Figaro
1992 Don Pasquale
1993 The Coronation of Poppea
1994 La Pietra del Paragone
1995 Xerxes
1996 Cosi fan Tutte
1997 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
1998 Orpheus & Eurydice
1999 Hansel & Gretel
2000 Julius Caesar
2001 The Italian Girl in Algiers
2002 Tosca
2003 Alcina
2004 Don Giovanni
2005 La Bohème
2006 Cosi fan Tutte
2007 The Barber of Seville
2008 Imeneo