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

Semi-staged by director Guido Martin-Brandis and woven into a new narrative full of dramatic intrigue, jealousy, comedy, idealism, and true love – follow our characters as they travel through 75 minutes of spell-binding music. Featuring favourte arias and scenes from operas by Handel, Mozart, Puccini and Rossini and songs from the classic musicals by Rogers and Hammerstein, Bernstein and Noel Coward plus many more. 

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

Programme

Mascagni Prologue from i Pagliacci

Rossini Opening Scene from Cenerentola

Gluck Che faro senza from Euridice 

Dorothy Fields Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better from Annie Get Your Gun

Handel Ombra mai fu from Xerxes

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

Puccini Nessun Dorma from Turandot OR Mozart Un' aura amorosa from Così fan tutte 

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 S’altro che lagrime from La Clemenza di Tito

Mascagni  Nedda! Silvio! from I Pagliacci

Lehar Lippen Schweigen from The Merry Widow

Delibes The Flower Duet from Lakmé

Bernstein Make Our Garden Grow from Candide