May Newsletter - Carmen on Sale!
Greetings everyone from Regents Opera
We hope you’re having a nice summer, now it seems like it might be here!
Yes, we’re touring the Most Popular Opera in the repertoire! Carmen may well be far from our usual fayre of Verdi, Wagner and Strauss, but it is a truly remarkable piece, particularly if you have really tremendous singers.
Kassandra Dimopoulou leads our cast - a fiery Greek mezzo who many of you would have heard in our 2019 Don Carlo. We have just got back from a short trip to Thêatre La Basse Passière near Le Mans in France, where we gave a reduced performance with the four principal cast members, including tenor Howard Hutt - most recently seen with us in Verdi's La Forza Del Destino and soprano Jillian Finnamore who was a recent winner of our Verdi Prize.
For the rest of this tour, we are joined by an amazing group of singers, including soprano Francesca Matta who toured with us last year as Violetta in La Traviata.
We cannot wait for this tour to begin and you can join us at the London shows!
Booking is now open for these performances.
At the Marylebone Theatre (formerly Rudolf Steiner House) on 14 & 15th June.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Kassandra Dimopoulou sings the Habanera.
Cast for the Regents Ring to be announced on 1st June
Our Friends at New Palace Opera present a new opera by Jonathan Finney
Jonathan Finney, who is well known to Fulham and Regents Opera supporters as a singer, conductor and arranger of several scores for Fulham Opera has composed the first opera based on a novel by Susan Hill, most famous for her novel The Woman in Black.
The opera premieres on the stage of London’s Hoxton Hall with a cast of established and in-demand singers and staged by an award-winning creative team. The performances are at London’s Hoxton Hall on Tues 7, Weds 8, Fri 10 June 2022 at 19.30 and Sun 12 June at 16.00.
Tickets are available from www.hoxtonhall.co.uk.
And as ever, our grateful thanks to Big Yellow Storage in Camberley for storing all of our stuff.
