English Touring Opera is one of the UK's leading touring opera companies, with two seasons of high-quality professional productions performed around the country each year.
ETO offers a wide range of repertoire, from critically-acclaimed productions of traditional operas, to the first performances of masterpieces from the 17th to the 21st century. 2009 saw the company celebrate its 30th anniversary.
Monday 12
Don Pasquale (sung in English)
by Donizetti
This is a comedy with zest, cream, and an Italian accent - think zabaglione! - in a new production directed by William Oldroyd, with Dominic Wheeler conducting.
Keel Watson plays Don Pasquale, a stubborn, competitive, old bachelor - and here a tyrannic orchestra conductor - who wants to procure a young wife. He seems set to steal from his nephew a beautiful, and apparently submissive bride - but his clumsy wooing turns to painful woe when she turns out to have a mind of her own.
Tuesday 13
The Marriage of Figaro (sung in English)
by Mozart
An elegant, period costume production of one of the world's most popular operas, containing some of Mozart's most beautiful and familiar music.
The plot (based on Beaumarchais' controversial play) traces the intrigues of one day at the house of Count Almaviva. Figaro is to marry Susanna, (a maid, but also a 'favourite' of the Count - and opera's most charming heroine, here played by Eliana Praetorian and Claire Ormshaw), but he must overcome every obstacle put in his way by the Count and his cronies, before he can be united finally with his bride.
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