Surrey Opera

Surrey Opera is a semi-professional English opera company based in the county of Surrey. Using professional singers for the leading roles and an amateur chorus, the company stages two productions a year. While opera forms the majority of its repertoire, the company also performs operettas and musicals.

Company history

Surrey Opera was founded by the late Joyce Hooper MBE in 1969. The company's first production was Mozart's The Magic Flute, performed in the Market Hall, Redhill, Surrey in June 1970. Over the years, productions of all Mozart's major operas followed, as well works by other composers. In 1976, conductor Jonathan Butcher took over as Artistic Director, and has been at the helm ever since.

Performance venues

Past productions

Year Productions
2010 My Fair Lady;[1] The Bartered Bride[2]
2009 The Barber of Seville; Madam Butterfly[3]
2008 The Merry Wives of Windsor
2007 The Marriage of Figaro; The Mikado
2006 The Beggar's Opera; A Masked Ball
2005 The Abduction from the Seraglio; Peter Grimes
2004 The Magic Flute; Fiddler on the Roof
2003 Macbeth; The Cunning Little Vixen
2002 The Pearl Fishers; Orpheus in the Underworld
2001 La traviata; La bohème
2000 Carmen
1999 Tosca; L'elisir d'amore
1998 Sweeney Todd; Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci
1997 The Flying Dutchman; Aida
1996 The Yeomen of the Guard; The Magic Flute
1995 Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci; Don Giovanni
1994 The Marriage of Figaro, Turandot
1993 Hansel and Gretel; Faust
1992 Hansel and Gretel; Die Fledermaus
1991 Così fan tutte]; Nabucco
1990 Eugene Onegin; Madam Butterfly
1989 La traviata
1988 Falstaff; The Barber of Seville
1987 The Magic Flute; The Turn of the Screw
1986 Amahl and the Night Visitors; The Zoo; La bohème
1985 Don Giovanni
1984 Peter Grimes
1983 Carmen
1982 Fidelio
1981 The Marriage of Figaro; Dido and Aeneas; Noye's Fludde
1980 The Barber of Seville
1979 Idomeneo
1978 Carmen
1977 The Magic Flute
1976 La clemenza di Tito
1975 The Abduction from the Seraglio
1974 Fidelio
1973 Don Giovanni
1972 Così fan tutte
1971 The Marriage of Figaro
1970 The Magic Flute

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Ames, Simon, Review: My Fair Lady presented by Surrey Opera at The Harlequin, Redhill, Surrey Mirror, 23 February 2010
  2. ↑ scheduled for July 2010
  3. ↑ Ames, Simon, Review: Surrey Opera presents Madama Butterfly, Surrey Mirror, 18 February 2009

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