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The festival will also hold a Jubilee Choral Celebration featuring music from the Queen’s 1953
coronation alongside works by Parry, Walton, Handel and Purcell. The Choir of All Saints’,
Hertford, the Choir of Hertford St Andrew and Hertford Chamber Choir will come together to
perform the programme with organist William Whitehead under the batons of conductors
Manvinder Rattan, Jane Eldred and Martin Penny.

More information about the concerts and tickets can be found here.

The Jubilee Elgar Festival

The Elgar Festival taking place next week (3 - 5 June) in Worcester has this year been dedicated to
the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The festival’s Royal Platinum Jubilee Gala concert will take place in
Worcester Cathedral on 4 June, hosted by writer and presenter Ian Skelly. The event will include
works by Vaughan Williams, Ian Venables and, of course, Elgar performed by Elgar Festival
Chorus and the resident English Symphony Orchestra (conducted by festival artistic
director Kenneth Woods).

More information and tickets for the gala concert can be found here.

Opera Holland Park

Opera Holland Park (pictured) is celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by offering visitors
early entry (doors open from 5pm on 3 and 4 June), happy hour and Jubilee-themed dining
alongside its performances of Eugene Onegin on 3 June and Carmen on 4 June.

Artists will also be performing a series of pop-up performances before the shows.

You can find out more about celebrating the Jubilee at Opera Holland Park here.

©Ali Wright

The Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House celebrates the 70 year of our monarch with its A Very Royal Opera
th
House tours. Running across the June bank holiday weekend (3-5 June), the unique tours offer a