Médée, Cherubini's best known work, was premiered on 13 March 1797 in Paris. During the nineteenth- and most of the twentieth-century, it was usually performed in Italian translation as Medea, with the spoken dialogue replaced by recitatives not authorised by the composer. This performance will be given the original French version.

The title role will be sung by Yvonne Howard and the performance will be conducted by Andrew Greenwood. Full cast details will be announced later..

Booking at Cadogan Hall has already started and you can buy tickets here. For full details about the hall, including how to book tickets, visit their website here.

"As for Elizabeth Woods, it is hard to provide a technical commentary to her nigh-on-perfect performance." (Mariana Romani reviewing Simon Boccanegra at MusicalCriticism.com). To see the Elizabeth Woods in Come in quest`ora bruna click here.

"This is an opera which needs performing with care and with love; Chelsea Opera Group gave it both and the results paid immense dividends."
(Robert Hugill reviewing COG's performance of Cendrillon, at Music & Vision.)

"This was a performance of which any opera company would have been proud." (Robert Hugill reviewing COG's performance of I puritani, at Music & Vision.)

"Opera simply does not come much better than this: the Chelsea Opera Group’s concert performance of Verdi’s Macbeth was an unqualified triumph in musical and dramatic terms." (Evan Dickerson at Seen and Heard)

"I have seen several expensively staged productions of this work but I have never been as gripped by the COG performance last week". (Clare Colvin in the Sunday Express).

For links to complete reviews of recent performances please click here.