Overview

Hampstead Theatre is proud to offer booking services for the Hampstead & Highgate Festival.  To book an event, simply click the ‘Book Now’ link under your desired event, or use the quick booking links below.  Tickets will be posted to you for a charge of 75 pence.  Should you choose to have the tickets held at Hampstead Theatre, please ensure you visit us to collect them before the festival, within our opening times of 10am – 7pm Monday to Saturday.

For more information about the festival, please visit their website www.hamandhighfest.co.uk or call 020 8761 6565.

 

Quick Booking Links:

Book Now | Russian Voices: Dance Figures 

Book Now | Festival Opening Concert

Book Now | Russian Voices: A Journey from Vladivostok to Moscow

Book Now | Festival Ballet (1 & 2)

Book Now | Diaghilev in Italy 1 

Book Now | Diaghilev in Italy 2 

Book Now | Walking Highgate

Book Now | Chopin’s Letters

Book Now | Russian Voices: The Lightning Conductor

Book Now | Night Skies (1, 2 & 3)

Book Now | Russian Voices: ‘Ordinary People’

Book Now | Walking Hampstead

Book Now | Chalemie: Welcome to the Pleasure Gardens!

Book Now | Russian Voices: ‘After the Ball’

Book Now | Fauré Quartett

Book Now | Russian Voices: The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

Book Now | Diaghilev In Song

Book Now | Do Trees Dance?

Book Now | Russian Voices: Requiem

Book Now | Babar the Elephant and Friends

Book Now | Jean Cocteau — An Exploration

 

Russian Voices: Dance Figures

VENUE: Burgh House

• Friday 24 September, 1pm.  Tickets £6
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An entertainment of poetry and prose on the theme of Dance and Dancing, presented by Diana Bishop, Piers Plowright and Valerie Sarruf.

Festival Opening Concert

VENUE: Hampstead Parish Church

• Friday 24 September, 7:45pm (6:45 Pre-concert talk).  Tickets £11-£19
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Simon Crawford-Phillips, Philip Moore, pianos

Debussy: Prelude a l’après-midi d’un Faune

Schumann: Canonic Studies for Pedal Piano Op 56 (arr Debussy)

Ravel: Suite No 2 from Daphnis & Chloe (arr Leon Roques)

Goossens: Rhythmic Dance

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

This remarkable duo presents three Ballets Russes works crowned by Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring which caused a riot at its 1913 première. Eugene Goossens, born in Camden Town, conducted the British première of this notorious work and is celebrated with his energetic Rhythmic Dance.

*Free pre-concert talk for ticketholders, 6.45 pm

The Psychology of the Hectic — Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes

The Revd Stephen Tucker gives a general introduction to the extraordinary character and career of Sergey Diaghilev and discusses the tumultuous première of The Rite of Spring in Paris.

Russian Voices: A Journey from Vladivostok to Moscow

VENUE: Keats House

• Sat 25 September, 1pm.  Tickets £6
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Poet Jehane Markham performs her narrative poem with musical interludes played by Robin Phillips, piano, and Jonny Gee, double bass.

Festival Ballet

VENUE: Embassy Theatre

• Sat 25 September, 3:30pm
• Sun 26 September, 11:30am.  Tickets £8, £4 (Children aged 14 and under)
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Pupils from Hampstead Ballet School, West Hampstead School of Dance, Jump Up Ballet and Rona Hart School of Dance join forces in a unique festival production; dances to music from Stravinsky’s Firebird, Debussy, Rachmaninoff and a revival of L’éventail de Jeanne (Jean’s Fan), a Parisian children’s ballet with music by Ravel, Poulenc, Milhaud and others, in which Tamara Toumanova danced the lead role aged 10 in 1929.  Not to be missed!

Diaghilev in Italy 1

VENUE: Hampstead Parish Church

• Sat 26 September, 6pm.  Tickets £9 - £15
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The Linden Piano Trio: Danny Driver, piano; Thomas Gould, violin; Oliver Coates, cello

Stravinsky: Suite Italienne

Prokofiev: Suite from Chout, Op 21

March from The Love of Three Oranges, Op 33

Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50

The Suite Italienne is taken from Stravinsky’s ballet Pulcinella, where Stravinsky borrows extensively from Italian baroque music. Like Prokofiev’s opera The Love of Three Oranges, Pulcinella is based on the Commedia dell’Arte. The concert closes with Tchaikovsky, Diaghilev’s ‘Uncle Petya’, and his glorious piano trio, composed in Rome in memory of his friend and mentor Nikolai Rubinstein.

Concert ends approx. 7.25 pm

Diaghilev in Italy 2

VENUE: Hampstead Parish Church

• Sat 26 September, 9:30pm.  Tickets £9 - £15
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Amy Freston, soprano; Louise Mott, mezzo-soprano; The International Baroque Players; Christopher Bucknall, organ & director

Respighi: Il Tramonto

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

In the second of tonight’s concerts we celebrate the 300th birthday of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi with a performance of his Stabat Mater. An important figure in the Italian baroque, works attributed to him influenced Stravinsky, whose Suite Italienne was heard earlier this evening. Ottorino Respighi’s link to our Festival theme lies in the fact that he orchestrated music by Rossini for Diaghilev and Massine’s ballet Le Boutique Fantasque. Tonight we hear his Il Tramonto (Sunset), a mellifluous setting of Percy Bysshe Shelley for mezzo-soprano and string quartet.

Concert ends approx. 10.30 pm.

Walking Highgate

MEETING POINT: Highgate Tube Station Booking Hall

• Sun 26 September, 1:45pm.  Tickets £8, £6 (65+)
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Join a guide from London Walks for an insightful walking tour of Highgate. Walk ends at Waterlow Park in time for Jazz at Lauderdale House (Shireen Francis and the Island Project)

Walk covers almost 2 miles; ends approx. 3.45 pm.

Chopin’s Letters

VENUE: Dyne House, Highgate School

In association with Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution

• Sun 26 September, 3pm.  Tickets £11 
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Danny Driver, piano; Gabriel Woolf, reader

A portrait of Chopin in his 200th birthday year, including some of his best-loved piano music and Chopin’s own letters to friends and relatives.

Russian Voices: The Lightning Conductor

VENUE: Embassy Theatre

• Sun 26 September, 7:30pm.  Tickets £15 - £19
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Simon Callow is Sergey Diaghilev in Matthew Hurt’s dramatic profile of the man who lived by one rule: ‘Don’t repeat; never look back’. Followed by Q & A. Presented and produced by broadcaster Piers Plowright.

Ends approx. 8.45 pm.

Night Skies

VENUE: Hampstead Observatory

• Sun 26 September, 9pm.
• Tue 28 September, 9pm.
• Thur 30 September, 9pm. Tickets £8
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Join Doug Daniels for the first of three surveys of the autumn skies in the centennial year of the Hampstead Observatory (also 28th and 30th September). Tickets very limited so book early!

Ends approx. 10.30 pm.

Russian Voices: ‘Ordinary People’

VENUE: Embassy Theatre

• Tue 28 September, 8pm.  Tickets £13, £16
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Director of theatre, opera and TV, Jonathan Miller examines the radical nature of Anton Chekhov’s dramatic writing and its effect on actors and acting. With readings by special guests. Presented and produced by broadcaster Piers Plowright.

Ends approx. 9.15 pm.

Walking Hampstead

Meeting Point: Hampstead Tube Station

• Wed 29 September, 2:10pm.  Tickets £8, £6 (65+)
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A guided tour of historic Hampstead, taking in some points of interest that relate to our Festival theme of Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.

Walk covers almost 2 miles; ends approx. 3.45 pm near Hampstead tube station.

Chalemie: Welcome to the Pleasure Gardens!

VENUE: Embassy Theatre

• Wed 29 September, 8:30pm. Tickets £9 - £13
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Chalemie combine dance and song with commedia to evoke the spirit of the Pleasure Gardens and Theatres of 18th century London in this exuberant and fully-costumed show

Russian Voices: ‘After the Ball’

VENUE: Embassy Theatre

• Thur 30 September, 8pm.  Tickets £10 
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Zinovy Zinik, novelist, essayist and critic, gets behind the masks of Leo Tolstoy to look at his politics, religion and sexual obsessions. Illustrated by readings, and music performed by Mary Hofman, violin and Anya Fadina, piano. Presented and produced by broadcaster Piers Plowright.

Ends approx. 9.15 pm.

Fauré Quartett

VENUE: Dyne House, Highgate School

• Fri 1 October, 7:45pm.  Tickets £16
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Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor K 478

Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet in F minor Op 2

Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat Op 47

Fresh from recent appearances at the Berlin Philharmonie and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Fauré Quartett make their only 2010 appearance in England at the Hampstead & Highgate Festival, celebrating Schumann in his 200th birthday year.

Russian Voices: The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

VENUE: Keats House

• Sat 2 October, 1pm.  Tickets £6.
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Cathy Porter, writer and translator, talks to writer and psychotherapist, Liane Aukin about her newly published edition of Tolstoy’s wife’s revealing and touching diaries.

Diaghilev In Song

VENUE: Hampstead Parish Church

• Sat 2 October, 7:30pm.  Tickets £16 - £26
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Dame Felicity Lott, soprano, and Graham Johnson, piano

Hector Berlioz: Le Spectre de la Rose (Gautier)

Maurice Ravel: Vocalise en forme de habanera

Igor Stravinsky: Pastorale; Tillimbom (Ramuz)

Erik Satie: Trois Mélodies (1917)

Georges Auric: Printemps (Ronsard)

Marie Laurencin (Cocteau)

Le Tilbury (Chalupt)

Darius Milhaud: La Tourterelle (Latil) from Catalogue des Fleurs (Daudet)

Henri Sauguet: Le Chat (Baudelaire)

Lord Berners : Red Roses and Red Noses

Come on Algernon:

Francis Poulenc: Trois poèmes de Louise Lalann (Marie Laurencin)

Cinq poèmes de Max Jacob (Jacob)

Tel Jour telle Nuit (Eluard)

A programme celebrating composers who were commissioned by Diaghilev, performed by one of the world’s leading vocal recital partnerships.

Do Trees Dance?

Meeting Point: East Heath Car Park (East Heath Road)

• Sun 3 October, 1pm.  Free event, but booking is essential.
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Join professional storyteller Debs Newbold on a story walk across Hampstead Heath and she will tell you all about tall trees and tall tales that burst right out of the ground under your feet. Skip through the leaves on this magical autumn walk and discover the names of the trees and the ancient stories they keep along the way.

Suitable for children aged 7–14 with their parents (max. 35). Walk ends at Highgate Boating Pond (nr. Millfield Lane).

Duration 90 mins. Wear sensible shoes!

Russian Voices: Requiem

VENUE: Keats House

• Sun 3 October, 1pm.  Tickets £10.
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A reading of Anna Akhmatova’s epic cycle of poems produced by Liane Aukin and read by Glenda Jackson, CBE MP

Babar the Elephant and Friends

VENUE: Dyne House, Highgate School

• Sun 3 October, 3pm.  Tickets £9 (group discount for 5+ available through the Box Office – 020 7722 9301)
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Jacques Ibert: The Little White Donkey

Saint-Saëns: Selections from Carnival of the Animals

Poulenc: The Story of Babar (arr David Matthews)

Concluding sing along: ‘Mud Glorious Mud’ 

Join Channel 5’s Milkshake presenter Naomi Wilkinson and composer, writer and cabaret artist Richard Sisson for an hour of music, poetry and fun, with the vibrant sounds of the New Professionals under the baton of Rebecca Miller.

Ends approx. 4 pm

Jean Cocteau — An Exploration

VENUE: Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution

• Sun 3 October, 5:30pm.  Tickets £15.
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Jean Cocteau’s turbulent life, complex relationships and the sheer variety of his talents as poet, novelist, dramatist, film maker and visual artist will be explored by Dr Benjamin Andréo. The programme includes film of a live performance by Denise Duval (soprano) and Francis Poulenc (piano) of extracts from Poulenc’s operas, including Cocteau’s La Voix Humaine, and a screening of the Paris Opera Ballet’s production of Cocteau’s Le Train Bleu, first performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1924. Cocteau’s work as a graphic designer will also be shown, along with extracts from several of his films.

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Honorary Patrons: Lord Bragg, Alfred Brendel KBE, Humphrey Burton CBE, Victor and Lilian Hochhauser, Sir Simon Rattle, Nicholas Snowman. Hampstead and Highgate Festival Limited, PO Box 11845, London SE21 8ZS Registered Charity No. 1072246