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 Pagliacci

Rossini Opening Scene from La Cenerentola

Gluck "Che farò senza Euridice" from Orfeo ed Euridice 

Handel "Ombra mai fu" from Serse

Berlin "Anything You Can Do" from Annie Get Your Gun

Bernstein "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story

Cilea "Io son l’umile" from Adriana Lecouvrer

Massenet Duet from Werther

- Interval -

Rossini Overture from William Tell (part 1)

Loewe "On the Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady

Donizetti Duet from Maria Stuarda

Rodgers "If I Loved You" from Carousel

Coward "Someday I’ll Find You" from Private Lives

Surprise aria

Rossini Overture from William Tell (part 2)

Saint-Saëns "Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix" from Samson et Dalila 

Leoncavallo "Nedda! Silvio!" from Pagliacci

Delibes "The Flower Duet" from Lakmé

Bernstein "Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide