BertieBaigent

Press

• Bizet Carmen at Waterperry Opera Festival

  Oxfordshire

  Aug 2023

  • The small orchestra [was] brilliantly led by Bertie Baigent.

    • Sheila Bailey, Ox in a Box
    • 20 August 2023

• Donizetti L'elisir d'amore at Waterperry Opera Festival

  Oxfordshire

  Aug 2021

  • The irrepressible Baigent conducted his own rescoring for ten instruments with flair and spirit

    • Mark Valenica, Opera Magazine
    • 17 August 2021

  • Donizetti's score sounded as idiomatically fresh, effervescent and dynamic as you could ever expect.

    • Jim Pritchard, Seen and Heard International
    • 14 August 2021

• Dove's Ariel and Mozart's Cosi fan tutte at Waterperry Opera Festival

  Oxfordshire

  Aug 2020

  • ...Bertie Baigent conducted with great flair and energy, and played the harpsichord for the recitatives. He somehow kept the ensemble very tight, even in the swift ensembles, although the physical arrangements often denied him line of sight to his singers. His instrumentalists responded expertly throughout...

    • Roy Westbrook, Backtrack
    • 14 August 2020

• Cantelli Conducting Competition

  Italy

  Sep 2020

  • ...Baigent whipped up collective forces into a storm in the wildly swirling tarantella and saltarello, adroitly unravelling the yarn of interweaving musical threads while eliciting vigorous percussive interjections...

    • Musical America on Cantelli competition
    • 17 September 2020