performances

Summer Tour 2008

Our new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro was performed at a number of venues across the south of England. It began in Harrow, north west London, on the 18th May and finished at the Church Stretton & South Shropshire Arts Festival on 3rd August. Click here to view full tour details.

The Marriage of Figaro >

Heart of Darkness (in association with Opera Genesis and American Opera Projects)

During the 2009/10 season, OEP will give the European première of this latest work from composer, Tarik O’Regan, who has been described by The Observer as, “ one of the most original and eloquent of young composers … tonal but cutting edge”. Based on Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece of the same name and set in the African Congo at the height of European colonialism, it is the story of an obsessive search by Marlow, a steamboat captain, for Kurtz, a renowned ivory trader stationed farther up the river.

The New York Times has described the opera as, “ … a dense dreamlike chamber opera heavily tinged with exoticism, like Death in Venice on steroid.” Click below for more information.

Heart of Darkness >

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OEP’s The Rake’s Progress 2007

“ … the clarity with which vocal and instrumental lines were defined was often revelatory.”
(Rian Evans, Opera)