An Evening of Opera

 'Royal Opera House standard, choices excellent, the quality terrific and the staging exactly right.'
Libby Purvis, The Times on our Opera Evening

 Director Guido Martin-Brandis has crafted a fresh narrative using favourite arias and scenes from operas by Handel, Mozart, Puccini and Rossini, alongside songs from classic musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bernstein and Noel Coward. 

 Semi-staged and performed by four outstanding singers accompanied by a world-class string quintet, the story unfolds over 75 minutes of spellbinding music. Follow our cast of characters through a drama filled with intrigue, jealousy, comedy, idealism, and, ultimately, true love.

Highlights include The Flower Duet from Lakmé by Delibes, Overture to William Tell by Rossini, the Jewel Song from Gounod's Faust, Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better from Annie Get your Gun, On the Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady and many more. 

A sparkling and mischievous summer treat! 

'Spectacular doesn’t even begin to do it justice! Wow.★★★★★ '
Review of our Opera Evening 2024

Leoncavallo Prologue from I Pagliacci

Rossini Opening Scene from La Cenerentola

Gluck Che faro senza Euridice from Orfeo ed Euridice 

Handel Ombra mai fu from Xerxes

Irving Berlin Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better from Annie Get Your Gun

Gounod Jewel Aria from Faust

Cilea Io son l’umile from Adriana Lecouvrer

Massenet Act 1 Duet from Werther

 - interval - 

Rossini Overture to William Tell

Lerner and Loewe On the Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady

Donizetti Confrontation Scene from Maria Stuarda

Rodgers and Hammerstein If I Loved You from Carousel

Noel Coward Someday I’ll Find You from Private Lives

Mozart Un' aura amorosa from Così fan tutte  

Leoncavallo Nedda! Silvio! from I Pagliacci

Delibes The Flower Duet from Lakmé

Bernstein Make Our Garden Grow from Candide