Surrey Opera
Surrey Opera is a semi-professional English opera company based in the county of Surrey. Using professional singers for the leading roles and an amateur chorus, the company stages two productions a year. While opera forms the majority of its repertoire, the company also performs operettas and musicals.
Company history
Surrey Opera was founded by the late Joyce Hooper MBE in 1969. The company's first production was Mozart's The Magic Flute, performed in the Market Hall, Redhill, Surrey in June 1970. Over the years, productions of all Mozart's major operas followed, as well works by other composers. In 1976, conductor Jonathan Butcher took over as Artistic Director, and has been at the helm ever since.
Performance venues
- The Harlequin, Redhill
- The Epsom Playhouse, Epsom
- E M Forster Theatre, Tonbridge School
- Chequer Mead, East Grinstead
- Minack Theatre, Cornwall
Past productions
| Year | Productions |
|---|---|
| 2010 | My Fair Lady;[1] The Bartered Bride[2] |
| 2009 | The Barber of Seville; Madam Butterfly[3] |
| 2008 | The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| 2007 | The Marriage of Figaro; The Mikado |
| 2006 | The Beggar's Opera; A Masked Ball |
| 2005 | The Abduction from the Seraglio; Peter Grimes |
| 2004 | The Magic Flute; Fiddler on the Roof |
| 2003 | Macbeth; The Cunning Little Vixen |
| 2002 | The Pearl Fishers; Orpheus in the Underworld |
| 2001 | La traviata; La bohème |
| 2000 | Carmen |
| 1999 | Tosca; L'elisir d'amore |
| 1998 | Sweeney Todd; Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci |
| 1997 | The Flying Dutchman; Aida |
| 1996 | The Yeomen of the Guard; The Magic Flute |
| 1995 | Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci; Don Giovanni |
| 1994 | The Marriage of Figaro, Turandot |
| 1993 | Hansel and Gretel; Faust |
| 1992 | Hansel and Gretel; Die Fledermaus |
| 1991 | Cosi Fan Tutte; Nabucco |
| 1990 | Eugene Onegin; Madam Butterfly |
| 1989 | La traviata |
| 1988 | Falstaff; The Barber of Seville |
| 1987 | The Magic Flute; The Turn of the Screw |
| 1986 | Amahl and the Night Visitors; The Zoo; La bohème |
| 1985 | Don Giovanni |
| 1984 | Peter Grimes |
| 1983 | Carmen |
| 1982 | Fidelio |
| 1981 | The Marriage of Figaro; Dido and Aeneas; Noye's Fludde |
| 1980 | The Barber of Seville |
| 1979 | Idomeneo |
| 1978 | Carmen |
| 1977 | The Magic Flute |
| 1976 | La clemenza di Tito |
| 1975 | The Abduction from the Seraglio |
| 1974 | Fidelio |
| 1973 | Don Giovanni |
| 1972 | Così fan tutte |
| 1971 | The Marriage of Figaro |
| 1970 | The Magic Flute |
Notes and references
- ↑ Ames, Simon, Review: My Fair Lady presented by Surrey Opera at The Harlequin, Redhill, Surrey Mirror, 23 February 2010
- ↑ scheduled for July 2010
- ↑ Ames, Simon, Review: Surrey Opera presents Madama Butterfly, Surrey Mirror, 18 February 2009
External links
- Official website
- Biography of Jonathan Butcher on OperaTalent.com