# Event Details - **Event Name**: William Shield Festival 2025 - Mozart vs Shield - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: A performance of Mozart's early masterpeice of 1765, Bastien et Bastienne contrasted with highlights from William Shield's operas.About this EventWith Rocket Opera soloists, William Shield Chamber Orchestra, leader Bradley Creswick and chorusHighlights from William Shield’s operas including arias and choruses from Robin Hood and other stage works contrast with Mozart’s early masterpiece of 1768, ‘Bastien et Bastienne’, composed when Mozart was only 12. There are just three characters, and it is a simple work, being a comic parody of a play by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ‘Le Devin de village’. The music is lively, tuneful and colourful.Celebrity artists from Rocket Opera are Ruth Jenkins Robertsson, soprano; Austin Gunn, tenor and Andri Bjorn Robertsson-Colas, bass baritone.Rocket Opera is a North East based company providing operatic entertainment and opera singers for events. The Honorary President of Rocket Opera is international operatic bass Graeme Danby. For more information about Rocket Opera please visit their website www.rocketopera.weebly.com. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/aba2c700-b268-11f0-bc3b-55cfec1e4694-rimg-w521-h740-dc020101-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/whitley-bay/william-shield-festival-2025-mozart-vs-shield/100001671351329819 - **Event Categories**: festivals, music, art, entertainment, theatre - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fwilliam-shield-festival-2025-mozart-vs-shield-tickets-1671351329819 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 13.7, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Whitley Bay - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Valley Gardens Middle School - **lat**: 55.0469558 - **long**: -1.4695954 - **full address**: Valley Gardens Middle School, Valley Gardens, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Community Music Whickham and Swalwell (https://allevents.in/org/community-music-whickham-and-swalwell/22803990) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/633282cb9855c81ce94e9bae3ba0006cdf645996e2da90bc6bf988d337439373-rimg-w493-h700-dc020101-gmir.jpg?v=1761482316 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/a7c31aea0f0a387bb020552bbc04da927e7f03d5a18c919f66d1103371749103-rimg-w400-h400-dc02c5b1-gmir.jpg?v=1761482315 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Valley Gardens Middle School, Valley Gardens, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 13.7 GBP - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Community Music Whickham and Swalwell - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** festivals, music, art, entertainment, theatre - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about William Shield Festival 2025 - Mozart vs Shield ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "William Shield Festival 2025 - Mozart vs Shield", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/633282cb9855c81ce94e9bae3ba0006cdf645996e2da90bc6bf988d337439373-rimg-w493-h700-dc020101-gmir.jpg?v=1761482316", "startDate": "2025-11-15", "endDate": "2025-11-15", "url": "https://allevents.in/whitley-bay/william-shield-festival-2025-mozart-vs-shield/100001671351329819", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Valley Gardens Middle School", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Valley Gardens", "postalCode": "NE25 9AQ", "addressLocality": "Whitley Bay", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "55.0469558", "longitude": "-1.4695954" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "A performance of Mozart's early masterpeice of 1765, Bastien et Bastienne contrasted with highlights from William Shield's operas.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2025-11-15", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "13.70", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/whitley-bay/william-shield-festival-2025-mozart-vs-shield/100001671351329819" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/whitley-bay/william-shield-festival-2025-mozart-vs-shield/100001671351329819", "price": "13.70", "name": "General Admission" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/whitley-bay/william-shield-festival-2025-mozart-vs-shield/100001671351329819", "price": 0, "name": "Child / Student" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Community Music Whickham and Swalwell", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/community-music-whickham-and-swalwell/22803990", "description": "Community Music is a registered charity in the heart of Tyneside set up with the aim of bringing music to the whole community. We provide access to music lessons and ensemble playing for young and old, offer instrument loan and organise various recitals and music events.William Shield Festival 2023William Shield and some literart connections.Following the success of the four previous festivals, this year promises to offer a new and exciting perspective of Tyneside’s neglected musical genius,William Shield.Born in Swalwell, near Gateshead, in 1748, Shield was apprenticed to a boat-builder following the untimely death of his father. A prodigiously gifted young violinist, he studied with the celebrated Charles Avison, the Newcastle organist and composer, before moving first to Scarborough and then to London. Here he became the leading composer of operas at Covent Garden, and a good friend of King George IV. His operas were extraordinarily popular – he truly was the Andrew Lloyd Webber of his age- and his songs were on everybody’s lips. He was appointed Master of the King’s Music in 1817 and was buried in Westminster Abbey following his death in 1829.This year the Festival continues its work of bringing William Shield’s genius to a wider recognition. The Festival’s Artistic Director, John Treherne and Community Music Whickham and Swalwell present a varied programme exploring Shield's life, era and contemporaries with specific focus on some fascinating literary connections." } ] } ] ```