Dorset Opera Festival
Dorset Opera Festival is an annual country house opera festival combining amateur and professional performers, which takes place at Bryanston near Blandford Forum in Dorset, England.
Operas are staged at the conclusion of a two-week summer school, focussing on the 18–25 age group, based at Bryanston School. It attracts performers from around Europe.[1] Founded as Dorset Opera by Patrick Shelley at Sherborne School in 1974, it moved to Bryanston in 2005, when Roderick Kennedy became its artistic director, and it became Dorset Opera Festival in 2011. Operas are staged in The Coade Hall theatre at the school, and touring productions are also staged elsewhere.[2]
Recent productions below. For a full list from 1974 to present day visit the Dorset Opera Productions Archive
2011 Puccini's Tosca and Verdi's Otello [3]
2012 Verdi's Il trovatore, Puccini's Suor Angelica, and Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrament by Lord Berners.[4]
2013 La traviata, directed by Jonathan Miller, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and a reduced version of La bohème staged by Dutch National Touring Opera.[2]
2014 Verdi's Aida and Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio
2015 Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera and Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
2016 Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Verdi's Macbeth
2017 Gounod's Faust and Rossini's Le comte Ory
2018 Puccini's La bohème and Massenet's Le Cid (the British stage première)
2019 Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Verdi's Nabucco
2021 Mozart's Don Giovanni, Mozart's Così fan tutte and Handel's Acis & Galatea in the Mozart orchestration
Forthcoming July 2022: Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Mozart's The Magic Flute
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Christiansen, Rupert (4 August 2009). "Opera singing is not just for professionals". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ a b "Dorset opera festival is the real thing!". Blackmore Vale Magazine. 10 May 2013. Archived from the original on 13 July 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ Tanner, Michael (13 August 2011). "Dorset delight". The Spectator. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ "Reviews: Dorset Opera Festival". Blackmore Vale Magazine. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
External links[]
- Opera festivals
- Opera in the United Kingdom
- Music festivals in Dorset
- Music festivals established in 1974
- 1974 establishments in England
- Annual events in England