The new programme of events for our brand new opera festival in the Cotswolds has been announced. Productions include no less than three popular, family friendly Gilbert & Sullivan shows, a Puccini double bill, a Magic Flute accompanied by live painting evolving as the opera proceeds and the wonderful Christmas[…]
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Oxfordshire’s Opera Anywhere and Cokethorpe School have joined forces to create The Cokethorpe Opera Festival which will be based within the school’s grounds near Witney and launched to the public next year. The collaboration will be a first for Opera Anywhere who regularly tour throughout the UK with their accessible[…]
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‘Stephen’ the stag lives close to the Opera Anywhere office, in the fields adjacent to our music department. We are treated to his warm, rich, bass voice as he uses his vocal prowess to impress all those around him. Many have likened him to the welsh bass-baritone, Bryn Terfel! Stephen[…]
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Following an exhilarating but exhausting summer, Opera Anywhere are pleased to announce a considerable Autumn programme of performances which include no less than 6 different productions reaching no less than 6 different counties! Setting off to Cheltenham for a Gilbert & Sullivan double bill this weekend and then swiftly on[…]
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As we put the final preparations for our Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore on Punts at Wolfson College, Oxford this weekend we are very aware of the changeable weather forecast! Every effort will be made to continue our performances on our new stage and on the punts we have[…]
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Our performances in the amphitheatre at Waterperry Gardens last week certainly proved popular with our audiences and our new canopy proved to be a real bonus allowing respite from the searing heat of the sun. The schedule for our last week at Waterperry includes no less than five Gilbert &[…]
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“It’s been really tough to make the numbers make sense this year. Providing a temporary roof over the amphitheatre during our July performances at Waterperry Gardens has something we’ve been wanting to do for years. Thankfully we have friends such as Dominic Rogers, Managing Director of Rogers Gardenstone who was[…]
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The Amphitheatre at Waterperry Opera Anywhere is long established at the Amphitheatre in Waterperry Gardens but this summer brings our most ambitious programme of performances ever. And this year we are delighted to announce a canopy to protect our audiences from the extremes of our British summers! So whether the[…]
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The ‘Pirate of Eastbourne’ has scuppered our plans for our four performances on Hastings Pier, scheduled for August 8th and 9th. We have now moved our Gilbert and Sullivan favourites, The Pirates of Penzance & HMS Pinafore, to just down the road at St Mary in the Castle. The Pirates of[…]
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Ticket sales have exceeded demand for the 7th July performance of The Magic Flute with illustrator James Mayhew and his partner Antonio Reche-Martinez. We have now invited them to our 6th July 3pm performance at Waterperry Gardens in order to help us cope with the demand for this obviously popular concept![…]
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