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Waterperry Opera Festival 2024, UK

9 August - 18 August

Free – £85

The Waterperry Opera Festival returns to the wonderful gardens of Waterperry House in August

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The Waterperry Opera Festival returns to the wonderful gardens of Waterperry House in August.

This year the festival will include productions as well as workshops, masterclasses and talks, as well as for the first time a Waterperry Prom on the front gardens.

Performances include: Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, and the first dramatic staging of some of Jonathan Dove’s Nights Not Spent Alone.

Waterperry Opera Festival
The wonderful Waterperry Gardens will be the setting for the Waterperry Opera 2021, photo Mark Bibby Jackson

Waterperry Opera Festival 2024 Schedule

This year’s festival will include the following performances:

Rossini’s The Barber of Seville : 10, 11, 14, 15 & 17 August 2024

Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw : 9, 13 & 16 August 2024

Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf : 10, 11 & 17 August 2024

Jonathan Dove’s Nights Not Spent Alone : 15, 16 & 17 August 2024

Last Night at the Opera : 18 August 2024.


Read Mark Bibby Jackson’s review of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love at the 2021 festival.


Waterperry Opera Festival
Audience in Amphitheatre

Where is the Festival?

It is held in the gardens of Waterperry House, Near Wheatley, Oxfordshire, UK.

When is the Festival?

It will be from 9 to 18 August, 2024

Tickets for the Waterperry Opera Festival

Tickets can be bought here. Box office (07776 749 175).


More information on Waterperry Opera Festival

To discover more about the company and the performances click here.

Main image: Mansfield Park – Jonathan Dove, Waterperry Opera Festival.


Details

Start:
9 August
End:
18 August
Cost:
Free – £85
Website:
http://www.waterperryoperafestival.co.uk/

Venue

Waterperry Gardens
Near Wheatley,OxfordshireOX33 1JZUnited Kingdom
Website:
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Mark Bibby Jackson

Mark Bibby Jackson

Before setting up Travel Begins at 40, Mark was the publisher of AsiaLIFE Cambodia and a freelance travel writer. When he is not packing and unpacking his travelling bag, Mark writes novels, including To Cook A Spider and Peppered Justice. He loves walking, eating, tasting beer, isolation and arthouse movies, as well as talking to strangers on planes, buses and trains whenever possible. Most at home when not at home. Mark is a member and director of communications of the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW).

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