We're delighted to be posting our first Bampton Classical Opera blog.  In this we hope to give you an insight into some of the delightfully complex processes leading up to an operatic production, in this case Haydn's wonderful setting of a Goldoni farce, Le pescatrici.  We are presenting performances of this to mark Haydn's 200th anniversary in 2009 - it's our third Haydn production, after L'infedeltà delusa and La vera costanza and adds to our long list of rarities from the eighteenth century on which our strong reputation is built.