Opera Choruses

John Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and first came to notice as a composer and arranger of Christmas carols and other choral pieces during those early years; today his compositions, including such concert-length works as Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, The Gift of Life, and Visions are performed around the world. John edits the Oxford Choral Classics series, and, with Sir David Willcocks, co-edited four volumes of Carols for Choirs. In 1983 he formed his own choir The Cambridge Singers, with whom he has made numerous recordings on the Collegium Records label, and he appears regularly in several countries as a guest conductor and choral ambassador. John holds a Lambeth Doctorate in Music, and in 2007 was awarded a CBE for services to music. In September 2023, he received the Ivors Academy Fellowship, and in 2024 he was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours.

• Prisoners' Chorus (Fidelio) ; Roman Carnival (Benvenuto Cellini) ; Habanera and March of the Toreadors (Carmen) ; Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) ; Chorus of Wedding Guests (Lucia di Lammermoor) ; Soldiers' Chorus (Faust) ; Chorus of Enchanted Islanders (Alcina) ; Bell Chorus (Pagliacci) ; Easter Hymn (Cavalleria Rusticana) ; Priests' Chorus (Die Zauberflote) ; Voyagers' Chorus (Idomeneo) ; Coronation Scene (Boris Godunov) ; Humming Chorus (Madama Butterfly) ; Dido's Lament and Final Chorus (Dido and Aeneas) ; Procession of the Nobles (Mlada) ; Prayer (Moise) ; Villagers' Chorus (Guillaume Tell) ; Waltz Scene and Chorus of Peasant Girls (Eugene Onegin) ; Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Nabucco) ; Anvil Chorus (Il Trovatore) ; Triumphal Scene (Aida) ; Rataplan (La Forza del Destino) ; Brindisi (La Traviata) ; Chorus of Scottish Refugees (Macbeth) ; Soldiers' Chorus (Il Trovatore) ; Witches' Chorus (Macbeth) ; Bridal Chorus (Lohengrin) ; Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhauser) ; Procession and Chorale (Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg) ; Sailors' Chorus and Spinning Chorus (Der Fliegende Hollander) ; Huntsmen's Chorus (Der Freischutz)