Regents Opera June Newsletter - DON GIOVANNI goes on tour and tickets for London show on sale!
Dear All,
I hope you’re enjoying the traditional British summer! Amidst the background of crazy politics(!), we have spent the past couple of weeks furiously rehearing Don Giovanni in a church in Honor Oak, and we just opened it at our long-time venue of Walcot Hall in Shropshire.
Our award-winning director (and outgoing chair of the Board) Sarah Heenan has created a truly beautiful show in Regency style (think Bridgerton…) and it is being wonderfully sung by our audience favourite baritone Oliver Gibbs and our ensemble of Christine Buras, Isolde Roxby, Justine Viani, Ashley Mercer, Davide Basso, Alistair Ollerenshaw and ENO tall-man Andrew Tinkler as the Commendatore.
Oliver Gibbs as the Don, Isolde Roxby as Donna Elvira at Walcot Hall photograph by Sarah Heenan
We just opened this past weekend at Walcot Hall in Shropshire for our first performances to rapturous applause and compliments, and next week we head to Minety in North Wiltshire the following weekend, and then to Theatre la Basse Passière near Le Mans before coming back for our London show at Hoxton Hall on Saturday 29th June.
Tickets are genuinely selling far faster than I expected, so if you would like to get yours now, please visit the Hoxton Hall website:
Davide Basso as Don Ottavio, Christine Buras as Donna Anna photograph by Sarah Heenan
We’d love to see you there!
Other things that are still going on, but just not quite so soon:
Saturday and Sunday 13th and 14th July: Barber’s VANESSA orchestral workshop weekend - location tbc
Sunday 29th September: Regents Opera Alpine Symphony concert at St John’s Smith Square - tickets go on sale next week… A concert to raise money for the Ring Cycle
Sunday 8th December : Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane orchestral workshop day
Sunday 9th to 16th February 2025: RING CYCLE 1: TICKETS
Sunday 23rd February - 2nd March: RING CYCLE 2: TICKETS
Also - not Regents, though our Friends at New Palace Opera are doing BILLY BUDD this weekend!
Jonathan Finney and NPO continues their journey through the operas of Benjamin Britten with a rare outing of Billy Budd.
Onboard HMS Indomitable in a time of war, the story navigates the fateful relationship between the revered Captain Vere, his Master-at Arms John Claggart and Billy Budd, the darling of the crew.
For this concert performance, conducted by Michael Thorne, the title role of Billy Budd is sung by the rising star of opera Arthur Bruce, described in Opera Magazine as possessing a “burnished timbre and charismatic stage presence.”
The malignant Claggart is sung by Regent Opera's very own Hunding, Gerrit Paul Groen, with Jonathan completing the trio as Captain Vere.
Concert performance
Sunday 16 June 6.30 St John’s Church, Waterloo London SE1 8T
Tickets £25 at the door and from Eventbrite
Ashley Mercer as Leporello photograph by Sarah Heenan
And, as ever, a big thank you to our friends at Big Yellow storage in Camberley. Thank you for looking after all our stuff!!
Have a fantastic June, everyone, and, just in case you’ve read this far, here’s another ticket link for Hoxton Hall: