OPERA Brava celebrates its 30th year with a weekend of alfresco opera this summer at Rodmarton Manor near Cirencester.
A leading professional outdoor touring opera company, Opera Brava returns to the Cotswolds for the 11th successive year with performances of The Barber of Seville and The Impresario & Opera Gala on July 13 and 14.
John Biddulph, owner of Rodmarton Manor, said: “The Manor is looking forward to hosting Opera Brava’s Cotswold reach of the tour again this year.”
Bronek Pomorski, artistic director of Opera Brava said that audiences can expect: "a professional opera performance with chamber ensemble with cast in full period dress on the boards, set in a quintessential Cotswold venue.”
On Friday audiences can enjoy Rossini’s masterpiece The Barber of Seville. One of the wittiest and most immediately appealing comic operas in the repertoire today, the opera is as fresh to the ear now as when it first burst upon Italian audiences in 1816.
On Saturday, there will be an Opera Gala with Mozart’s comic opera The Impresario and a “pot pouri” of inspiring music with the Pearl Fishers and Lakme duets, arias, trio’s and quartets all rounded off with a helping of Gilbert & Sullivan.
Formed 30 years ago by two former English National Opera singers, Opera Brava aims to bring opera to a wider audience, bring together top artists from leading opera houses to country house gardens and estates up and down the country.
Bring a picnic, blanket, chairs and fizz.
Tickets can be purchased online at operabrava.com. Adults £30 until June 30 and then £35. Children 5-16 £10. Box office operabrava.com information 01444 443060
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