The innovative Opera Anywhere – now approaching its 20thanniversary – has come up trumps again with this lovely production of Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck’s operatic version of the famous Grimm brothers’ fairy tale…The mime sequences are extraordinarily moving, but the opera itself is full of fun and mischief, with a mainly professional cast doing full justice to the story and to Humperdinck’s sublime score.’
– Nicola Lisle, Oxinabox.co.uk (Hansel and Gretel, 2019)
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…
Many of you know Opera Anywhere was formed for the first Sunningwell Festival in 2000, the then pro-active parish clerk approached us and requested that we create a musical event that would capture the imagination of the general public, the parish council wanted a special event to help celebrate 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…
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,…
Opera Anywhere are delighted to be one of the founding company members of Opera UK , working together alongside many other UK opera companies to shape the future of opera. What is Opera UK? Opera UK aims to become a responsive sector support organisation which will evolve and develop according to the…
Opera Anywhere online performance Friday 15th October 2020
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…
Our first staged production since lockdown and first Mikado in nine months was booked for Brighton Open Air Theatre on August 25th. We’ve performed there and been to gigs there before. It’s a lovely venue…in good weather. Performing (with social distancing) in 55mph winds, however, was rather a challenge! We…
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!
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