Wishing you a joyful festive season 🎄
The festive season is here — a time to celebrate, reflect, and create lasting memories. We hope your holidays are filled with happiness, warmth, and love.
At Opera Anywhere, we are delighted to round off our 25th anniversary year with performances this weekend of our much-loved, family-friendly Menotti opera Amahl & The Night Visitors.
We’re thrilled to welcome a cast made up of familiar faces alongside some wonderful new young talent. In particular, we’re delighted to introduce Raffy Gill-Wagner (treble), who will be performing the role of Amahl, the poor shepherd boy at the heart of the story. Raffy has been a chorister at Radley College for four years and was awarded Most Improved Chorister in 2025.
You can read Raffy’s full biography here: Raffy Gill-Wagner – Opera Anywhere.
Amahl & The Night Visitors is a short, one-act opera, so to complete the evening we’ve turned to our closest allies, Gilbert & Sullivan, with their hilarious 40-minute courtroom comedy Trial by Jury.
Cast
Trial by Jury
Learned Judge — Edmund Caird
Counsel for the Plaintiff — Serenna Wagner
Defendant — Dale Harris
Foreman of the Jury — Will Costello
Usher — Mark Horner
Plaintiff — Catrin Lewis
Bridesmaids — Rosina Gill-Wagner, Ellen Macrae, Fiona Macrae, Vanessa Woodward, Sophie Ruggiero
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury — The Audience! plus Mike Woodward, Rod Macrae
Director – Mike Woodward
Pianist — Nia Williams
Flute — Nick Planas
Violin — Holly Viner
Amahl & The Night Visitors
Amahl — Raffy Gill-Wagner
Mother — Serenna Wagner
King Kaspar — Mike Woodward
King Melchior — Edmund Caird
King Balthazar — Mark Horner
The Page — Dale Harris
Shepherds — Vanessa Woodward, Dale Harris, Will Costello, Catrin Lewis, Fiona Macrae, Ellen Macrae, Rod Macrae, Sophie Ruggiero, Rosina Gill-Wagner
Director – Serenna Wagner
Choreographer, Shepherdess and Assistant Director – Rosina Gill-Wagner
Pianist — Nia Williams
Flute — Nick Planas
Violin — Holly Viner
If you’re in Oxfordshire this weekend, we’d love you to join us as we bring a touch of operatic sparkle to the holiday season.
Our Christmas performances promise enchanting music, festive warmth, and a generous dose of community spirit — the perfect way to begin your celebrations.
👉 Find out more & book here
And finally, we thought you might enjoy revisiting a little piece of Opera Anywhere history. Here’s an excerpt from one of our early performances of Amahl & The Night Visitors, filmed at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford some years ago: https://youtu.be/sENKtN0dsg8
With festive best wishes,
The Opera Anywhere Team
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