Instrumentation

strings

Availability

Score and parts for hire

 

Programme Notes

A song from Terry Hands’ celebrated production which toured extensively, including seasons in Los Angeles (as the centrepiece of the Olympic Arts Festival) and on Broadway. The score, together with Cyrano de Bergerac (playing in repertory with Much Ado), won the New York Drama Desk Award for ‘Outstanding Music in a Play’. "Remarkably catchy music (Shakespeare's greatest hits?) is supplied by Nigel Hess. His more solemn setting of ‘Sigh no more, ladies’ deserves to be more than a hit: a standard." (Robert Cushman, The Observer)

Sigh No More

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre (London, United Kingdom)

Sir Derek Jacobi/Samantha Bond/Morgan Pearse/Cantus Ensemble/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Nigel Hess

Sigh No More

Cadogan Hall (London, United Kingdom)

Gemma Arterton/Sir Patrick Stewart/Michael Dore/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Metro Voices/Nigel Hess