OPERA ANYWHERE PRESENTS The Pirates of Penzance Thorington Theatre – Saturday 31st May THE COMPANY The Pirate King – Edmund Caird Samuel – Dale Harris Sergeant of Police / Pirate – Mark Horner Ruth – Vanessa Woodward Frederic (and Stage Director) – Tristan Stocks Edith – Rachel Falaise Kate –…

🎉 Opera Anywhere’s Summer of Celebration! 2025 is a year of milestones for Opera Anywhere—not only are founders Mike and Vanessa Woodward celebrating 25 years of Opera Anywhere, but also a quarter-century since launching the original Sunningwell Music and Arts Festival, famously staged on the village pond! This year also…

2025 marks a remarkable year of milestones for Opera Anywhere. Not only are founders Mike and Vanessa Woodward celebrating 25 years of opera performances, but it’s also a quarter-century since the original Sunningwell Music and Arts Festival—famously staged on the village pond—first brought the community together in spectacular style! Back…

A Magical Mozart Weekend – Celebrating 25 Years of the Sunningwell Festival We’re thrilled to invite you to a very special weekend of opera at Opera Anywhere’s unique home venue – The Quarry in Sunningwell, a beautiful open-air performance space set in the garden of our home, nestled within an…

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEHeadline Folk Artist Jon Boden to Perform at Sunningwell Festival Folk Night Sunningwell, Oxfordshire – Friday 1st August 2025, 7:00PM – The Quarry, OX13 6RA The Sunningwell Festival is thrilled to announce that renowned folk musician Jon Boden will headline this year’s Folk Night on Friday…

🎉 Sunningwell Festival 2025: A Joyful Celebration of Music, Art & Community Get ready, Oxfordshire—Sunningwell Festival is back, and it’s set to be bigger and better than ever! This much-loved local celebration returns in 2025, bringing with it a joyful mix of live music, opera, art, and community spirit in…

Opera Anywhere invites you to our summer season of opera performances, taking place in numerous locations across the country. Whether you’re in the north, south, east, or west, you’ll be able to enjoy our shows without having to travel too far from home*. This summer, Opera Anywhere is proud to…

Our opera summer season continues in some wonderful locations So far this year we’ve performed in East Sussex, Cornwall, Dorset, Oxfordshire and Nth London, performing not just our new Gilbert & Sullivan ‘Iolanthe’ but also our long established ‘Mikado’ and H.M.S. Pinafore productions. We were also able present our brand…

Like most industries over the last couple of difficult years, the performing arts has taken a battering and so Opera Anywhere are even more delighted to be still performing, some 22 years since our first appearance at the Sunningwell Festival. We are greatly encouraged by the number of new venues,…

Welcome to our latest Newsletter – the first one ever written in the middle of a global pandemic. As the current Chair of the Board of Trustees of Opera Anywhere, I have seen a number of challenges over recent years that the Board have had to face. Though it may…