Available in October 2025
Jakob Lehmann conductor
With: James Newby
Katharine Dain
Maria Warenberg
Esther Kuiper
Sharon Tadmor
Other soloists nbt
Jorinde Keesmaat director
W.A. Mozart Le nozze di Figaro
Available in October 2025
Available for international tour in October 2025
37 musicians + 11 soloists and choir
target price €50,000
Educational program possible; fringe program with chamber music possible
The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century traditionally plays a Mozart opera every two years. In October 2025 it is the turn of the amazing Le nozze di Figaro. A grand production in large halls with chorus, large orchestra and eleven soloists. The orchestra stages the opera semi-scenically, but just a little more than we are used to, with lighting plan, scenery and costumes as with Cosi fan tutte in 2023.
Available from November 26 - 30
Lucie Horsch recorder
Geert Mak advice
Works of Caccini, Duarte, Fesch, Handel
Available from November 26 - 30
International tour possible in smaller and larger venues; 16 musicians + soloist
target price: €20,000
Dutch star recorder Lucie Horsch and 18c present an attractive and varied program that tells the story of the influence on music of powerful women behind the scenes. Wealthy women had a surprising influence on the creation of new compositions during the time of the Republic of the Netherlands (1597 - 1795). Women like Anna of Hanover, patroness of Handel. Celebrating such power women of the 17th and 18th centuries, this program includes music by female composers such as Leonora Duarte and Francesca Caccini, as well as Handel and other composers supported by women, and covers a broad musical range from early to late Baroque. Of course, there are many fascinating stories to tell, and popular Dutch writer and historian (and also friend of the orchestra) Geert Mak helps us bring them to life.
Available from December 15 - 24; more information tba
G.F. Handel Messiah
Available from January 10 - 27, 2026
Richard Egarr conductor
Ian Bostridge tenor
Anna Prohaska soprano
Claire van Kampen director
+ choreography nbt
Monteverdi Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
work of Barbara Strozzi
Poetry from Hafez Shirazi
Available from January 10 - 27, 2026
International production for large venues; tourable in Europe
12 musicians
+ soloists and two dancers
target price: €60,000
Available from mid-March - April 3
Choir Cappella Amsterdam
Berit Norbakken soprano
Marianne Beate Kielland alt
Thomas Walker tenor
Tobias Berndt bass
J.S. Bach Matthew Passion
Available from mid-March - April 3
International production for large venues; touring Europe between March 15 - 25, then in the Netherlands.
24 musicians and 24 choir with possibility of larger cast for larger venues
target price: €45,000
Every two years, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century plays a passion with Cappella Amsterdam. In 2026 it will be the Matthäus Passion's turn. The tour begins abroad and then connects in the Netherlands until Good Friday.
Available from May 6 - 14
Elisabeth Hetherington soprano
Benjamin Wenzelberg Musical direction
Martines La Tempeste
Martines Berenice, ah che fai
Haydn Chi vive amante
Nicola Porpora Venticel che tra le frondi
Kate Moore new commission
Carroubel - Spagnolette
Luis de Brinceño - Españoleta
Plus instrumental Haydn
Available from May 6 - 20
Tour of the Netherlands
18 musicians + soloist
target price: €18,000
How is it possible for a composer to be so popular in her own time, only to disappear without a trace later on? Elisabeth Hetherington, a rising star on the vocal scene and an artist with a big personality, is putting together a varied program in collaboration with the musicians of O18c to celebrate and trace Martines' musical background. She grew up in a home with Metastasio and the young struggling Haydn, and was educated by the best music teachers of the time. As a young woman, Martines attracted attention with her beautiful voice and piano playing and would later distinguish herself as a fiery composer of instrumental, choral and vocal music, and it is a wonder she is not celebrated today. Kate Moore is writing a new composition inspired by the idea of how it is possible that someone so successful in her day could just disappear.
Available from May 11, 2026
Violin Theotime Langois de Swarte
Lolli Violin Concerto No. 7
Adagio Cantabile
W.A. Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 "Strasbourg"
Joseph Bologne Recitative from L'amant Anonyme
Joseph Bologne Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major
Allegro - Molto Adagio con Sordini - Rondeau
Joseph Bologne Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 7
Adagio
Joseph Bologne from Sinfonies à plusieurs instruments: Symphony II
Allegro Presto - Andante - Presto
W.A. Mozart Symphony No. 31
Available from May 11, 2026
International tour of major venues in Europe. 36 musicians + soloist
target price: €40,000
The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century joins forces for the second time with the amazing young violinist Theotime Langois de Swarte, an ambassador for historically informed music and specifically for the composer Joseph Bologne, better known as Chevalier St George. The Volkskrant announced Theotime two years ago as "the great sensation of the baroque violin" and not without reason. His albums are praised to the skies without exception, and last year he won an Edison classical for his Vivaldi album. Tonight you can hear him in repertoire you've probably never heard live before.
Joseph Bologne was a violinist and composer born in Guadeloupe in the 18th century as the illegitimate son of an enslaved and plantation owner. At the age of 10, he came to Paris. His life was a tremendously extraordinary story, but because of his skin color, he fell into oblivion. Bologne was a phenomenal composer and virtuoso violinist, fencing champion (yay!) and lived in the tumultuous Paris of around the French Revolution. He was probably taught by Jean Marie Leclair, and Haydn himself suggested him as conductor for his Paris symphonies. Either way, you will not forget the name Joseph Bologne after tonight.