(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, {…}
(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 {…}
The Cumbria Opera Festival has unveiled its 2023 lineup, which will include a range of operas and educational workshops and three fully staged operas and the creation of a Cumbria Community Chorus. There will also be a Young Composers’ Competition, with the winning composition performed at the “Cumbrian Opera & Song” event. As part of the festival, “Opera Highlights” concerts {…}
