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ENGLISH TOURING OPERA ANNOUNCE FOUR AMBITIOUS NEW PRODUCTIONS AND MORE FOR 2025-26 SEASON
Autumn 2025 – 27 September – 22 November 2025
Spring 2026 – 20 March – 21 May 2026
Autumn 2025 – ETO presents new productions of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love and Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia
Spring 2026 – the tour opens in Sheffield for the first time, featuring ETO’s debut production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, alongside Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
Chelsea Opera Group present a 75th Anniversary Concert
Verdi’s Macbeth – a concert performance in Italian, with English surtitles
Sunday 30th November 2025 at 5pm, Cadogan Hall, London
Pre-concert talk at 3.45pm with Dr Flora Wilson (free to ticketholders)
Due to popular demand, Melania The Opera additional performance added at the Cockpit Theatre for the 2025 Tête à Tête Opera Festival
Thursday 25th September & Thursday 2nd October 9pm
Sven Helbig’s REQUIEM A celebrates its UK premiere at Central Hall Westminster on 4 October, 2025, featuring René Pape, the London Contemporary Orchestra, and four European choirs.
United Kingdom Vivaldi’s Venice: Ziyang Huang (erhu), Gordon Hunt (oboe), Soloists of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Tamás András (director/violin). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 18.7.2025. (M-EW)
There’s sweeping age old European classics, stirring symphonies from the ‘New World’ and more lined up for Warwick Arts Centre’s 2025-2026 Orchestral Season.
Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, Paul Lewis CBE and Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha join Chineke!, CBSO, RPO and more. Plus we celebrate the musicians of tomorrow with the best youth orchestras, Lunchtime Concerts and more.
Opera Holland Park announces its 2026 Season
In a year that honours 30 years since Opera Holland Park was established, the 2026 Season will open with a new production of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West.
Waterperry Opera Festival appoints John Savournin as new CEO and Artistic Director
2025 biggest season so far, Handel’s Semele transfers to Opera Holland Park
The Board of Trustees at Waterperry Opera Festival is delighted to announce that John Savournin has been appointed as CEO and Artistic Director with effect from 1 September 2025.