Cumbria Opera Group Announces Major 2026 & 2027 Operas

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Cumbria Opera Group has announced the headline operas for its 2026 and 2027 seasons. In 2026, the company will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a semi-staged production of Bizet’s “Carmen.” The opera will be headlined by mezzo-soprano Jess Dandy in the title role with performances set to take place at Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands, on Saturday, August 29, 2026, at 7:00 {…}

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Cumbria Opera Group Announces Outdoor Opera Event

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The Cumbria Opera Group has announced a unique outdoor opera weekend. Taking place on July 9 and 10, 2022 at the Battlebarrow House Gardens in Appleby, the showcase will feature “Swallows and Armenians” by Karen Babayan as well as “Ariel.” Additionally, there will be an afternoon of operatic arias by such composers as Puccini, Mozart, and Verdi, among others. The {…}

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Cumbria Opera Group Announces First-Ever Festival of Opera

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UK-based Cumbria Opera Group is set to present its first-ever Festival of Opera. The festival, which will take place between Sept. 4-11, will open with a performance by Roderick Williams on July 4. The performance will take place in Penrith. Next up will be a double bill of Bernstein’s “Trouble in Tahiti” and Barber’s “A Hand of Bridge” scheduled for {…}

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Cumbria Opera Group Announces 2021 Season

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The Cumbria Opera Group has announced the 2021 season. The festival based in Kendal, U.K. will open with an Education Workshop followed by an Open Rehearsal for “Così fan tutte.” Performance Date: Sept. 4, 2021 Roderick Williams OBE will give a recital alongside Christopher Glynn at the Penrith Methodist Church. Performance Date: Sept. 4, 2021 The festival will present a Jazz {…}

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Cumbria Opera Festival 2025: The Marriage of Figaro

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(Photo: Chris Tribble) In June of this year, OperaWire was fortunate enough to report and review the sterling efforts being made by the regional opera company New Sussex Opera in bringing the wonderful world of opera to the masses, performing glorious art away from the mainstream houses with their performance of a rarely sung opera, Saint-Saëns’s “The Silver Bell.”  This time, {…}

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Cumbria Opera Festival Announces 2025 Season

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(Photo credit: Cumbria Opera Festival) Details of the 2025 Cumbria Opera Festival have been announced. A new English translations of Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” opens the festival. This large-scale production features the Cumbria Community Opera Chorus and the Cumbria Opera Youth Chorus. Performance Dates: August 21 – 23, 2025 (Penrith Methodist Church) The “Night at the Opera” series features two soloists {…}