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 present not one, not two,…
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 new ‘Opera’s Heroines’ at the…
We are really excited to be able to announce a collaboration with our friends at ‘Sorelle’ this year, we’re producing an evening of opera together that will include Puccini’s one-act opera ‘Sister Angelica’. Sorelle are producing the first half of the evening which will include highlights from some of opera’s famous heroines. We are touring…
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, promoters and festivals that have been…
Welcome to our latest Newsletter – the first ever written in the middle of a global pandemic.
Our first staged production since lockdown was The Mikado, performed at Brighton Open Air Theatre on 25th August in 55mph winds!
We are immensely grateful to Arts Council England who have awarded Opera Anywhere a Covid-19 Emergency Fund grant. This generous grant will support our touring and online programmes. A big thank you to National Lottery players for making it possible for us to make more opera!
Throughout 2020 we have battled to find a way back to live performance. So, it is with the greatest pleasure that we have arrived at this moment, finally together again to experience live staged opera.
For every touring company providing entertainment and presenting events, this year has become a challenging one. At Opera Anywhere we are no different, but our optimistic attitude, fleet of foot and flexible approach enables us to remain positive in the face of adversity.
We were delighted to be invited to an interview by the BBC, prior to our Hansel and Gretel performance at the Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham. Serenna Wagner (production director), her daughter Rosina and Opera Anywhere co-founder Mike Woodward talked to BBC Radio Gloucestershire.