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Oxford Opera Company stage Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at Oxford Playhouse in October

23/08/2026 by AUTHOR

Oxford Opera Company’s The Marriage of Figaro at Oxford Playhouse on 9 and 19 October.

Oxford Playhouse is excited to announce a brand-new production of Mozart’s classic opera The Marriage of Figaro, presented by award-winning Oxford Opera Company.

Following the sell-out success of their 2025 production of Tosca, the company return to The Playhouse stage on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 October with an exciting new take on one of Mozart’s most popular operas. The production will be sung in English in a new translation by George Robarts, commissioned exclusively for the company.

Sir Bryn Terfel CBE named as Artistic Director of Oxford International Opera and stars as Scarpia

13/08/2026 by AUTHOR

The launch of the UK’s newest international opera company

The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra is delighted to announce its exciting new opera venture: Oxford International Opera.

Helmed by Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra founder, Marios Papadopoulos and Artistic Director, bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel CBE, the debut production from the UK’s newest international opera company will be Puccini’s Tosca on 24th and 26th September 2026 at the New Theatre, Oxford.

To book tickets click here.

Haydn’s fishy comedy is served up with playful relish by New Chamber Opera at Oxford

10/07/202604/07/2026 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom New Chamber Opera – Haydn, Le pescatrici: Soloists, The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor). New College, Oxford, 1.7.2026. (CR)

Illustration of Act I, Scene 1 from Carlo Goldoni’s libretto for *Le pescatrici*

A thrilling Mahler Third Symphony from Joe Davies and the Oxford Millennium Orchestra

10/03/202609/03/2026 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Mahler: Rhian Davies (alto), Oxford Millennium Chorus, Oxford Youth Choirs (musical director: Benedict Goodall), Oxford Millennium Orchestra / Joe Davies (conductor). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 6.3.2026. (CK)

Joe Davies conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony

Oxford International Song Festival delivers a Monday of ‘Creativity Unlocked’ to live long in the memory

24/11/202516/10/2025 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Various: Holywell Music Room and The Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Oxford, 13.10.2025. (CP)

Anne Le Bozec and Christian Immler at the Oxford International Song Festival

Chinese-Western musical exchange as Ziyang Huang’s erhu joins the Oxford Phil’s Vivaldi Four Seasons

23/07/202522/07/2025 by AUTHOR

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)

Salieri’s The School for Jealousy is offered with flair and improvisatory flourish in Oxford

08/07/202507/07/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom New Chamber Opera – Salieri, La scuola de’ gelosi: Soloists, The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor). New College, Oxford, 2.7.2025. (CR)

Oxford International Song Festival: 10 to 25 October 2025

16/05/202509/05/2025 by AUTHOR

Oxford International Song Festival – Stories in Song Oxford International Song Festival announces a thrilling and ambitious fortnight of song, with storytelling at its heart. Across 67 events, audiences can explore stories in many different forms, from fairytales and ballads to the human and artistic relationships behind the songs, to the developing stories of national … Read more

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