welcome to opera east productions
We are the East of England’s own touring opera company. However, such is our growing reputation, that we are now often invited to perform beyond this region. Thus, dates for last year’s summer tour included venues in Rutland, Northants, Shropshire, Wiltshire and London, as well as East Anglia.
From the outset, our performances have enjoyed regular critical acclaim. Reviewing one of our earliest productions in Opera Now magazine, Michael White wrote, “there was so much promise and potential here.”
Albert Herring
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A Dinner Engagement
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summer tour 2009
This year (2009) we mark the bicentenary of the death of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) with a new production of his comic masterpiece, A World upon the Moon (Il mondo della luna). In enjoying this comic romp and its wonderful music, let us not forget that 2009 also marks two important and rather more serious lunar events. These are the 400th anniversary of the making of the first maps of the moon's surface - Englishman Thomas Harriot is now believed to have achieved this in July 1609, just a few months before Galileo's similar work; and the fortieth anniversary of man's first landing on the moon in 1969. 2009/10 will be our tenth anniversary season and Haydn will enable us to celebrate in style.
summer evening opera gala
On Saturday 27th June we have organised a special opera gala in the delightful gardens of Childerley Hall near Cambridge. Bring a picnic and hear talented young singers, including Ji-Min Park from South Korea, hotly tipped to win this year's Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Oliver Gooch will conduct the Southbank Sinfonia. For more information, click here>.
Stop press: Looking ahead to 2010/11, we are planning to give a number of performances of Heart of Darkness, the new chamber opera by Tarik O'Regan.
