Christopher Field repertoire

Christopher Field Repertoire
opera concerts festivals broadcasts discography
Recent performances
2005 August World premier performance in Melbourne, Australia, of the recently discovered Dixit Dominus by Antonio Vivaldi. Click here to read about it.
2004
June Recording with the Royal Winds dir. Paul Leenhouts (Holland) Monteverdi Vespers for Spitalfields Festival Handel Acis and Galatea with English Voices and Freiburg Barockorchester for Lufthansa Festival
July Mozart Requiem, with Polyphony and Academy of St Martin in the Field Handel cantata recording, with Tall Poppies, Australia. Handel Messiah, cond. Paul Esswood
August Recording of English Baroque music, with Salut! Baroque, Australia
November Solo recital for Musica Viva John Taverner 60^th Birthday concert, with Polyphony Bernstein Chichester Psalms. UWE Bristol

Early career
Opera Melo in Handel's Sosarme (Australian premiere – University of Melbourne, 1997) Sailor in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (University of Melbourne, 1997) Tosca (shepherd boy & acolyte, Australian Opera; Melbourne, 1992) Polinesso in Handel's Ariodante (Stopera; Canberra, 1999) Eustazio (cover) in Handel's Rinaldo (Opera Australia; Sydney, 1999) Waki-tsure in Crispin-Cresswell's The Nameless Dead (Stopera; Canberra, 1999) Eustazio (cover) in Rinaldo (Opera Australia; Melbourne, 1999) Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Nights Dream (Co*Opera; Adelaide, 2000/01)
Concerts Melbourne Chorale Schola Cantorum of Melbourne Accademia Arcadia The Australian Ballet (in Jiri Kilian’s Bella Figura – excerpts from Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater) Australian Classical Players – Handel: La Resurrezione (Australian premiere) cond. Graham Abbott (June 2001) – role of Mary Cleofas Collegium Musicum - Bach: Mass in B minor BWV 232 – alto soloist (Perth, July 2001) Ensemble Corund (Lucerne, Switzerland) – concert for Swiss National Radio (January 2002) Hereford Cathedral (UK) – solo recital Handel House Museum (London, UK) – solo recital National Portrait Gallery (London, UK) – solo recital Handel’s Messiah with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Collegium Musicum Perth (Dec 2002) Bach’s St Mark’s Passion with Sydney Philharmonia (April 2003) ACT Lieder Society Recital (May 2003) Pergolesi Stabat Mater – London Handel Festival (UK, April 2004) New Cambridge Singers and Sweelinck Ensemble – Bach Mass in B minor (UK, April 2004)
Festivals Sacred Heart Early Music Festival Melbourne Early Music Festival Melbourne International Festival of Organ and Harpsichord (MIFOH) Melbourne Autumn Music Festival (MAMF) Canberra Multicultural Festival Port Fairy Spring Music Festival London Handel Festival (2004)
Discography Memento (JDGWD092) Mary's Music (Chandos #529) O Rose So Red (Move MD 3209) Glory in Excelsis (BYC CD002) J D Zelenka: Magnificat; Litanies of St Francis Xavier (Move MCD 156) Tobias Hume: A Souldier’s Resolution (with Miriam Morris, gamba; Move MD 3232) Handel: Messiah (ABC Classics - released Dec 2002; joint ABC-DVD, ABC-TV and ABC Classics production) Handel: Italian Cantatas with Accademia Arcadia (Tall Poppies TP173 – released October 2004) A Noble Noyse of Musicke with Royal Wind Music, dir. Paul Leenhouts (Netherlands, release August 2005) Purcell Songs with Salut! Baroque (ABC Classics, release November 2005) Auld Scottish Sangs (Chandos #581)
Broadcasts ABC Classic FM, 3CCC FM, 3MBS Fine Music, Radio National, 2BL, 2XX FM, 2CN. Live broadcast of Handel’s Messiah with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (December 2002) ABC Young Australia Recording with Ensemble ‘Q’ (Hobart, November 2002) ABC ‘Friday Recital’ recording (June 2003)

The music you hear is Christopher Field singing E vanitá from Handel's Amarilli vezzosa with Catherine Shugg and Nicole Forsyth, violins, directed by Jacqueline Ogeil © 2004 Tall Poppies Records