The Early Opera Company is a British ensemble dedicated to the performance of baroque operas using period instruments.
[1] Handel's operas feature prominently in its repertoire, and the Company has given notable performances of Acis and Galatea,[2] Dido and Aeneas,[3] Agrippina in New York, Orlando at the South Bank Centre Early Music Festival and Partenope at the Linbury Studio Theatre.
[4] The recording of Semele was awarded the Handel Prize in 2008.
Soloists who have performed with the company include Joshua Bell, Sam Haywood and Jonathan Biss.
[5] They performed at the Lufthansa Baroque Music Festival, in May 2009, with John Eccles's The Judgment of Paris in one of its first performances.