Opera Evening Tour
The 2025 tour includes débuts at the Minack Theatre and Wolterton Hall in Norfolk, plus return invitations to favourite venues in Lincolnshire, Devon, Suffolk, Somerset, Oxfordshire, Cornwall, London and Essex.
2025 OPERA EVENING public performances
Hall Barn, Beaconsfield
Dunster Castle, Somerset
Dunster Castle, Somerset
Sunday 8 June
Dunster Castle, Somerset
Dunster Castle, Somerset
Dunster Castle, Somerset
Date tbc
Burford, Oxfordshire
Dunster Castle, Somerset
Burford, Oxfordshire
Friday 4 July
Hall, North Devon
The Minack Theatre, Cornwall
Boconnoc, Cornwall
Wednesday 16 July
Our first visit to the magnificent Great Hall at the 3,000 acre Hall Estate, on a beautiful hill overlooking the river Taw in Devon.
Boconnoc, Cornwall
The Minack Theatre, Cornwall
Boconnoc, Cornwall
Thursday 17 July
The Minack Theatre, Cornwall
The Minack Theatre, Cornwall
The Minack Theatre, Cornwall
Friday 18 July, 7.30pm
Chestlion House, Bampton
Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire
The Minack Theatre, Cornwall
Date tbc
Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire
Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire
Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire
Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 July 2025
We're delighted to return to this incredible Tudor palace for a third year, with two performances.
Clayesmore School, Dorset
Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire
Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire
Date tbc
Sudeley Castle
Painswick Rococo Gardens, Gloucestershire
Painswick Rococo Gardens, Gloucestershire
Date tbc
Painswick Rococo Gardens, Gloucestershire
Painswick Rococo Gardens, Gloucestershire
Painswick Rococo Gardens, Gloucestershire
Friday 1st August 2025
Taynton, Oxfordshire
Painswick Rococo Gardens, Gloucestershire
Taynton, Oxfordshire
Sunday 3rd August 2025
Our OPERA EVENING PROGRAMMES
Songs of Summer Love
The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned
Featuring music from:
Gershwin - Shall We Dance; Oh, Kay!
Handel - Ariodante, Giulio Cesare
Lehár - Die Iustige Witwe
Lehrer - An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
Lortzing - Undine
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
Rodgers - Carousel
Rossini - L'italiana in Algeri
Tchaikovsky - The Queen of Spades
Verdi - Falstaff; Il Trovatore; La Traviata
The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned
Featuring music from:
Bellini - I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Bernstein - West Side Story
Handel - Acis and Galatea
Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
Nicolai - The Merry Wives of Windsor
Puccini - Gianni Schicchi
Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin
Rodgers and Hammerstein - Oklahoma
Rossini - Cenerentola; Il barbiere di Siviglia
Verdi - Don Carlo
Weill - Lady in the Dark
Tales of Love and Second Chances
Tales of Love and Second Chances
Tales of Love and Second Chances
Featuring music from:
Beethoven - Fidelio
Donizetti - Rigoletto
Handel - Rinaldo
Korngold - Die Tote Stadt
Lehàr - The Merry Widow
Lehrer - An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
Mozart - Don Giovanni; Le Nozze di Figaro
Rodgers and Hammerstein - Oklahoma
Rossini - Otello
Smetana - The Bartered Bride
Sondheim - Follies
Strauss - Die Fledermaus
Verdi - Falstaff
Love, Actually
Tales of Love and Second Chances
Tales of Love and Second Chances
Featuring music from:
Bernstein - Candide; West Side Story
Britten - Billy Budd
Donizetti - Don Pasquale; L'Elisir d'Amore
Handel - Semele
Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
Porter - Kiss me Kate
Puccini - La Bohème
Verdi - Falstaff
Rodgers and Hammerstein - Carousel
Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia
Verdi - Rigoletto
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