Così fan tutte tour 2022
Heronsgate, Buckinghamshire
Essex Summer Opera Festival at Layer Marney Tower
Essex Summer Opera Festival at Layer Marney Tower
3pm Sunday 3 July
A Sunday matinee in a truly stunning private garden in Heronsgate, Buckinghamshire.
You are welcome to arrive at 2pm with your picnic lunch to have on the lawn.
30-minute interval. The show will end at around 6pm.
Photo: Ella Teylor as Fiordiligi and Joanna Songi as Despina, by Lucy J Toms
Essex Summer Opera Festival at Layer Marney Tower
Essex Summer Opera Festival at Layer Marney Tower
Essex Summer Opera Festival at Layer Marney Tower
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7 | 9 | 10 July
Layer Marney Tower, Essex
Childerley Hall, Cambridgeshire (SOLD OUT)
6.30pm Friday 15 July
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
Childerley, Cambridgeshire
Così fan tutte
Gardens open from 4pm
Act I 6.30pm
Picnic interval
Tickets will be available soon.
Co-hosted by Childerley Hall and Cambridge Summer Music.
Childerley Hall
Dry Drayton, Cambridge, CB23 8BA
Photo: Martha Jones as Dorabella, by Lucy J Toms
PREVIOUS DATES & REVIEWS
Reveiws
Lawford, Essex
Lawford, Essex
“We thought last night was an absolute delight from beginning to end….
As for the music — we left feeling utterly elated. What a joy to be listening to marvellous singing in such an atmosphere. The orchestra was brilliant and Orlando’s arrangement genius.”
“It was an ecstasy of delight! Stripped of the self-conscious pomp and splendour of the grand opera houses, the music, singing and acting were transporting.
Wild Arts is a wonderful vision .... was better than any Glyndebourne or Met..
That was brilliant! It made so many people happy, people who knew opera and people who’d never seen anything like it!
Enormous thanks for such a wonderful evening — the transposition from eighteenth-century Vienna to 1970s Cambridge was brilliant!
Lawford, Essex
Lawford, Essex
Lawford, Essex
6pm Friday 3 June
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
Mozart’s delightful comedy of young lovers tying themselves in romantic knots is given a new lease of life in this brand new production, transposing the action to 1970s Cambridge where a bunch of buttoned up students are about to get a tutorial in love-making...
Garden open from 4:30pm
Performance 6pm with an interval of one hour.
You are welcome to bring your own bubbly, picnic, rug, chairs, candlabras and anything else you'd like to set the scene and enjoy this magical evening.
£30 / £20 students / children free
Abbots Manor
Church Hill, Lawford
Essex CO11 2JX
Thorington Theatre, Suffolk
Thorington Theatre, Suffolk
Thorington Theatre, Suffolk
6pm Friday 10 June
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
The Thorington Theatre is a hidden gem - a beautiful open-air wooden theatre nestled in Suffolk woodland, with incredible acoustics.
Mozart’s delightful comedy of young lovers tying themselves in romantic knots is given a new lease of life in this brand new production, transposing the action to 1970s Cambridge where a bunch of buttoned up students are about to get a tutorial in fidelity...
A lighthearted, romantic production for our times, suitable for all ages. Expect flowery shirts, serious flares, rock stars, and more …
You are welcome to arrive from 5.15pm to set up your picnic. There will be an hour's interval for picnicking, and the show will finish at around 915 / 930pm
We also return to Thorington on Friday 8 July with our Opera Evening.
Thorington Theatre,
near Southwold, Suffolk IP17 3RB
Abbey Hall, Suffolk
Thorington Theatre, Suffolk
Thorington Theatre, Suffolk
6pm Saturday 11 June
COSÌ FAN TUTTE - unique dinner party version
You are invited to supper and around you the opera will take shape.
You’ll be right in the centre of the action, which will take place around the dinner table, with the orchestral score expertly and beautifully played by six eminent chamber musicians in a new realisation by Orlando Jopling.
Abbey Hall is a beautiful 15th century Hall in ten acres of water meadows outside the town of Eye in Suffolk.
6pm drinks, 7pm opera
£110 including a feast of food and wine. Very limited availability - please book soon.
Abbey Hall
Hoxne Road Eye IP23 7NJ
Wissington, Suffolk
6pm Saturday 18 June
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
Tucked into the rolling hills around Nayland in Suffolk is a beautiful natural amphitheatre, where we will perform Così fan tutte.
You are welcome to arrive from 4pm to set up your picnic, enjoy your drinks, and arrange your chairs or blankets to view from.
Act I will start at 6pm and there will be an hour's interval for your main picnic, followed by Act II which will end by 930pm.
Photo: Richard Dowling as Ferrando being carried by Gareth Jones as Guglielmo, by Lucy J Toms
Coming to Così fan tutte at Layer Marney?
We will pick you up from Witham station (and take you back there) in this vintage Routemaster bus, for the Saturday and Sunday performances.
There's no cost to you - it's all part of our commitment to making fantastic opera available to everyone, and attempting to live within planetary boundaries.