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English Touring Opera Announces Spring 2026 Season

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The English Touring Opera has announced the 2026 spring season. Phil Wilcox, Lauren Young, George Robarts, Kelli-Ann Masterson, Matthew Siveter, Robin Bailey, Samuel Pantcheff, and Natasha Agarwal star in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Gondoliers.” Liam Steel directs and Jack Ridley conducts. Performance Dates: March 20-May 21, 2026 The season will include Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” with Paula Sides, Ronald Samm, Phillip Rhodes, {…}

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English Touring Opera Announces 2025-26 Slate

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English Touring Opera has announced its 2025-26 slate. First up is “The Elixir of Love” in a production directed by Martin Constantine and conducted by Alice Farnham. Natasha Page, Tamsanqa Tylor Lamani, Emry Wyn Jones, and Timothy Nelson star. The opera will be performed in London, Coventry, Darlington, Buxton, Malvern, Bath, Walden, and Barnstaple. Performance Dates: Sept. 27 – Nov. 22, {…}

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English Touring Opera Present Shakespeare-Themed Spring 2025 Season

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(Photo credit: Richard Hubert Smith) English Touring Opera has announced its upcoming Shakespeare-themed spring 2025 season. Stops on the tour include London, York, Truro, Norwich, Durham, Crawley, Snape, Sheffield, Buxton, Exeter, Canterbury, and Poole. The seasons starts off with a new production of Bellini’s “The Capulets and the Montagues,” by Eloise Lally. Jessica Cale, Samantha Price, Brenton Spiteri, Timothy Nelson, {…}

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English Touring Opera Unveils Autumn 2024 Slate

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English Touring Opera has announced its autumn 2024 season. Olivia Fuchs will direct “The Snowmaiden” with a cast starring Ffion Edwards, Kitty Wahtely, Katherine McIndoe, Edmund Danon, and Hannah Sandison, among others. Hannah Quinn conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 28 & Oct. 4 (London); Oct. 12 (Snape); Oct. 19 (Saffron Walden); Oct. 26 (Buxton); Nov. 4 (Crawley); Nov.  6 & 9 {…}

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English Touring Opera Announces Casting for ‘Blond Eckbert ‘

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(Photo credit: Edmund Choo, Zaira Biagini, & Simon Goldsmith) The English Touring Opera and Britten Pears Arts have released the casting for its new c0-production of Dame Judith Weir’s “Blond Eckbert.” Baritone Simon Wallfisch returns to the English Touring Operas for the first time since 2015, in the title role. He is joined by soprano Aoife Miskelly, who sings the {…}

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Instruments Stolen Following English Touring Opera Performance

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The English Touring Opera has announced that instruments were stolen in Hackney on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. The company took to social media and shared Joe Harper’s facebook post that said, “Devastated to say my Oboe and Cor Anglais were stolen last night between 00.23am and 00.27am from the Old Ship in Hackney. Both in a BAM Xlite double case {…}

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English Touring Opera Announces Spring 2024 Production

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The English Touring Opera is set to present new productions of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” and Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” for its Spring 2024 tour. There will also be a children’s opera “The Great Stink.” The tour opens with a radical, dreamlike interpretation of “Manon Lescaut,” directed by Jude Christian. She brings a new English translation to the piece with Gerry {…}

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English Touring Opera Presents Two New Productions on Its 2023 Autumn Tour

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© feastcreative The English Touring Opera has announced that its upcoming autumn tour will include new productions of Monteverdi’s “The Coronation of Poppea” and Rossini’s “Cinderella.” The first tour to be programmed by General Director Robin Norton-Hale since taking up the role in January this year, explores the overlaps of love and power. This season brings fresh perspectives to these {…}