Messiah at Layer Marney Tower 2025

10 EXTRA TICKETS RELEASED.
We will also be performing at Chelmsford Cathedral on 18 December or Smith Square Hall in London on 9 December.

 Our star singers bring the music and story to life, and this time will sing both solos and choruses from memory. The specialist period players of the Wild Arts Ensemble will play on natural trumpets, gut strings, baroque bows and calfskin timps. Doors will open at 3pm, and the performance will begin at 4pm, with a 20 minute interval. The performance should finish by 6.30pm.

Our hosts Nick and Sheila Charrington and the Wild Arts team invite anyone who is a Friend of Wild Arts or who is interested in becoming one, to join us at the end of the performance for a glass or two of fizz in the beautiful Long Gallery.

Tickets £65 | £45 | £35 

Because of the winter weather, we can only park on the hard gravel. There is only room for 60 cars, so we need everyone to please car-share. We're very happy to help organise this - please get in touch via info@wildarts.org.uk. We will organise a minibus, possibly from Colchester or Chelmsford if necessary to get you all there and back safely. We hugely appreciate your help in this matter - we don't want any of you bogged down in the field!

The opera barn and loos at Layer Marney Tower are fully accessible. The seating in the opera barn is flexible and we can accommodate wheelchairs easily - please book in the aisles and on the entrance side if possible. We will reserve parking places for blue badge holders by the entrance through to the opera courtyard. Please email us at info@wildarts.org.uk for any further access or seating questions and we'd be very happy to help.

We would like to share the music and drama in real life with you all, and so we don't allow any photographs or filming in any of our performances. It is not possible for the performers to concentrate and communicate to a live audience while someone is filming, and it is also distracting for fellow audience members. Thank you very much.