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| Nov 2008 | Inner Harmonies Independent Opera recreates the dream world of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in the intimate setting of the Lilian Baylis Theatre  |
| Nov 2008 | The Cumnor Affair Tête à Tête investigate a famous Elizabethan mystery with help from Iain Pears and Philip Cashian |
| Nov 2008 | Don't Go Down The Elephant after Midnight New Chamber Opera bring death and London taxis to Oxford |
| Oct 2008 | For You Seasoned composer Michael Berkeley and first-time librettist Ian McEwan collaborate on a new opera for Music Theatre Wales |
| Oct 2008 | Fatal Attractions English Touring Opera's autumn tour sees a dramatic reworking of Bizet's Carmen and Dvořák's Rusalka transported to Haiti |
| Sep 2008 | Bewitching Rogue Pimlico Opera's young singers tour Verdi's Falstaff |
| Oct 2008 | In Brief: Fit for Kings |
| Sep 2008 | The Cat's Whiskers The Opera Group's new commission brings Julian Philips and Kit Hesketh-Harvey together for a musical version of the successful children's novel Varjak Paw. |
| Sep 2008 | French Connections Puccini's La Rondine and Jonathon Dove's Flight, combined in British Youth Opera's new season, each owe a little something to France |
| Jul 2008 | Tickling the Boundaries The Tête à Tête Opera Festival celebrates risk and experiment |
| Jun 2008 | Grounds for Divorce Garden Opera tours Donizetti's Don Pasquale, the tale of a marriage made in hell, to outdoor venues throughout the land |
| Jul 2008 | The Great Northern Hippo! Rahel Leach and Opera North have created a new opera with the Little London Community Primary School, Leeds, which features a larger than life hippo |
| Jul 2008 | Persian Complexities New Chamber Opera provides a rare opportunity to see Artaxerxes, one of the most popular operas of the 18th century |
| Jul 2008 | A Figaro from the East Operaluna hosts a production of The Marriage of Figaro |
| Jul 2008 | Streets of New York The Opera Group's new production is a truly American opera by Kurt Weill |
| Jun 2008 | Liberating Leonora Bampton Opera presents the UK premiere of Ferdinando Paer's Leonora |
| Jun 2008 | In Brief: The Trojan Connection |
| Jun 2008 | From Grange Park with Love James Bond and exotic locations feature in Grange Park Opera's 2008 season which includes La Fanciulla del West, Rusalka and Blue Beard |
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| Jun 2008 | Greek Myth and Chinoiserie Bampton Classical Opera combine two unusual dramatic works by Mozart and Gluck |
| Jun 2008 | 18th Century Pleasures Garsington Opera's 2008 season is inspired by the 18th century with works by Vivaldi and Mozart plus Stravinsky's version of The Rake's Progress |
| Jul 2008 | Dido by the Shore |
| Jun 2008 | In Brief: Independent Opera's Orlando |
| Jun 2008 | A Trial to be Tried Handmade Opera presents Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury in an appropriate setting |
| Jun 2008 | King for a Day Repolished Opera della Luna present a new version of Un giorno di Regno |
| Jul 2008 | Tour de Force Armonico Touring Opera combines Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Dido and Aeneas in a new double bill featuring seminal French and English composers |
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| Jun 2008 | Oranges are the Only Fruit English Pocket Opera, specialists in education, use Prokofiev's Three Oranges as a recipe for success with children |
| May 2008 | In Brief: Opera UK revives Così fan tutte |
| May 2008 | Johnny's Midnight Goggles Tête à Tête and SharpWire join up to present a one-man operatic thriller |
| Apr 2008 | In brief: Glimpses of Haydn |
| Mar 2008 | Red-Blooded Trio English Touring Opera presents three new, full-throttle productions of Don Giovanni, Anna Bolena and Floyd's Susannah - an English premiere for an American classic |
| Mar 2008 | Adult Content Music Theatre Wales revives Harrison Birtwistle's controversial Punch and Judy |
| Nov 2007 | Nightmare Songs Gilbert and Sullivan continue to inspire Opera della Luna |
| Feb 2008 | Electrifying Gilbert and Sullivan The Carl Rosa Opera Company continue their season at the Gielgud Theatre, London, with two more revitalised Gilbert and Sullivan satires on British social life |
| Feb 2008 | Creative Partnerships Opera by definition mount Così fan tutte at the recently renovated Tunbridge Wells Opera House |
| Jan 2008 | Tra la! Two touring productions of The Mikado are as welcome as flowers that bloom in the spring |
| Feb 2008 | In Brief: National Opera Studio Takes to the Road |
| Jan 2008 | Fifties Figaro Armonico Opera's new production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro is set in an age of transition |
| Jan 2008 | In brief: The London Bach |
| Jan 2008 | A Moving Hamlet Children's Music Workshop collaborates with the University of the Arts to stage an unusual version of the Hamlet story by French composer Ambroise Thomas |
| Nov 2007 | A Christmas Treat Opera North tours Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel to rural arts centres and studio theatres across the north |
| Nov 2007 | In Brief: Adventures in Inner Space |
| Nov 2007 | Beauty Queen New Chamber Opera bring Thomas Arne's beauty contest to the dreaming spires |
| Nov 2007 | Blind Date Tête à Tête matchmake composers and librettists to create six marriages of words and music |
| Nov 2007 | In Brief: Remembering Così |
| Nov 2007 | Maconchy returns to Sadlers Wells Independent Opera mount a double bill of surreal and contrasting one-act operas to celebrate the centenary of composer Elizabeth Maconchy |
| May 2007 | Misalliance Music Theatre Wales presents the UK premiere of Julie, Philippe Boesmans' take on Strindberg's drama about a destructive relationship |
| Sep 2007 | Devices and Desires Handel and Haydn star in ETO's autumn season presenting ruthless fathers, misaligned couples and women determined to control the action |
| Oct 2007 | Verona comes to Birmingham Birmingham Opera Company's autumn production of La Traviata is a partnership between the Arena di Verona and the people of Birmingham |
| Oct 2007 | Future Stars The National Opera Studio's autumn Evening of Opera |
| Sep 2006 | Capulets and Montagues The familiar and the unfamiliar are united in Bellini's reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story to be toured by Pimlico Opera this autumn |
| Sep 2007 | Tarantara! Opera della Luna revive their signature Gilbert and Sullivan entertainment for tour this autumn |
| Jul 2007 | Everybody Shops! The Opera Group's new commission focuses on the intoxicating thrill of acquisition |
| Sep 2007 | The First Commandment Classical Opera stages Mozart's first oratorio: his youthful dramatisation of the requirement to honour God offers many insights into his later work |
| Sep 2007 | A String of Pearls Northampton Festival Opera tours Bizet's Pearl Fishers |
| Sep 2007 | British Youth Opera Comes of Age A season of celebration features Albert Herring and The Magic Flute |
| Jul 2007 | Romeo, Juliet and Laura Bampton Classical Opera presents an 18th century variation on the Romeo and Juliet story with an unusual ending and some new friends |
| Jun 2007 | Goodnight Sweetheart Mimi dies in 40s style in Garden Opera's new production of Puccini's most famous opera |
| Jul 2007 | Black Virtuosi Inspired by the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade the City of London Festival and English Touring Opera have commissioned a jazz opera from Julian Joseph and Mike Phillips |
| Aug 2007 | Opera, Glorious Opera Tête à Tête's new venture aims to nourish both the stomach and the soul |
| Jun 2007 | Strong Women Iford Festival Opera's season contains jazz, concerts and three operas featuring strong-minded and determined women |
| Jun 2007 | Recipe for Success Opera della Luna tour Donizetti's most popular opera, L'Elisir d'Amore |
| Jul 2007 | Critical Mass Streetwise Opera's new commission takes songs from around the globe and weaves them into a summit meeting to change the world |
| Jun 2007 | Mozart on the Marche Classical Opera launches its new Marriage of Figaro in Italy prior to a UK tour |
| Jul 2007 | Buxton's Royal Flush King, Queen, Duke, Count ... and lots of aces. Buxton Festival plays a noble hand with an extensive programme of opera, music and literature |
| May 2007 | In Flanders Fields Armonico Opera's production of Purcell's King Arthur takes the War to End all Wars as its inspiration |
| Jul 2007 | Handelian Imbecilities? New Chamber Opera's production of Xerxes aims to bring out the humour sometimes obscured for modern audiences by Handel's formidable musical reputation |
| May 2007 | The Gambler, the Flute and the Shakespeare Connection On its tenth birthday Grange Park Opera celebrates works from the 18th to the 20th centuries |
| Jul 2007 | Blood Sports come to Wiltshire Operaluna hosts a new production of Carmen |
| Jun 2007 | Balkan Blues The music of the Balkans inspires Nigel Osborne's new opera for Opera Circus |
| Jul 2007 | In Brief: a Handmade Cosi fan tutte |
| Jun 2007 | A Season fit for Heroes Opera in heroic style is illustrated in both serious and comic form in Garsington Opera's 2007 season |
| Jun 2007 | Potsdamer Dragon Opera Restor'd takes a baroque burlesque on Italian opera to a German palace |
| Jun 2007 | A House on the Moon English Touring Opera creates a lunar fantasy with the diverse communities of Wolverhampton |
| May 2007 | Shameless Opera Anywhere's controversial new production of Don Giovanni goes live |
| May 2007 | National Opera Studio Showcase 2007 The operatic stars of the future, in fully staged excerpts from Bizet to Verdi... |
| Apr 2007 | Koanga Pegasus Opera give a rare outing to Delius's African-American opera |
| Mar 2007 | Two Puccinis and a Verdi Young company Opus 1 Opera tours with a trio of classics: Tosca, Bohème and Trovatore |
| Mar 2007 | Transformations English Touring Opera's spring season features tragic, comic and musical transformations with Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Mozart's Seraglio and the Strauss pasticcio, The Spirit of Vienna |
| Mar 2007 | Double bills Bills are the key to this double bill from Opera Anywhere who combine the work of one librettist - Paul Dehn - and two composers: Walton (The Bear) and Berkeley (The Dinner Engagement) |
| Feb 2007 | David and Goliath The legendary David is seen as an ambitious social climber in a commission by New Chamber Opera |
| Feb 2007 | European Opera Days Opera houses across Europe unite to invite everyone to explore opera |
| Feb 2007 | The Amorous Goldfish Moonlight and love songs in Opera della Luna's new Valentine programme |
| Jan 2007 | A Tropical, Topical Magic Flute Armonico Touring Opera's new production of Mozart's last opera is inspired by Rousseau and updated by Kit Hesketh-Harvey |
| Dec 2006 | The Festive Pig The Opera Group and the Young Vic get together for a Christmas special by Jonathan Dove |
| Nov 2006 | Season of Goodwill Opera Anywhere celebrate the festive season with an upbeat combination of The Little Sweep and Amahl and the Night Visitors |
| Nov 2006 | More Rats! Opera North's successful children's opera based on the Pied Piper tours once more |
| Nov 2006 | Love or Glory? For its second production Independent Opera brings Orlando, Handel's tale of chivalry and magic, to Sadler's Wells |
| Nov 2006 | In Brief: Crossing the Styx |
| Oct 2006 | In Brief: National Opera Studio Concert |
| Dec 2006 | IN BRIEF: Streetwise Opera on Radio 4 |
| Oct 2006 | Winds of Change Streetwise Opera, whose aim is to change lives, première the first full opera to be written for homeless people |
| Oct 2006 | Knit Me an Opera! Tête à Tête's new commission combining the tale of Odysseus with the work of Shetland craftspeople is ready to cast off |
| Oct 2006 | In Brief: Classical Opera Associate Artists Recital |
| Oct 2006 | Going for Baroque English Touring Opera's autumn season is taking a Baroque turn this year with a touring festival of opera and a full programme of additional events |
| Oct 2006 | Party Politics New company Opera UK brings Verdi's Simon Boccanegra and Lehár's The Merry Widow to The Bloomsbury Theatre, London |
| Sep 2006 | Starters and Entrées Northampton Festival Opera's rich collection of opera tasters is designed to make an ideal introduction |
| Sep 2006 | Sail Away Opera della Luna tours HMS Pinafore |
| Sep 2006 | Something for the Weekend Opera's most famous barber supplies Pimlico Opera's autumn season |
| Sep 2006 | Mozartissimo: Happy Returns British Youth Opera celebrates 20 years with two of the most popular and infamous operatic portraits -- Don Giovanni and Eugene Onegin |
| Aug 2006 | Mozartissimo: A Box of Delights Mozart's missing theatre music is championed by Bampton Classical Opera |
| Aug 2006 | In Brief Opera by Definition at SpaFest06 |
| Jul 2006 | Shrewmaker Bampton Classical Opera's summer production is a variation on The Taming of the Shrew written by the Spanish composer who once outshone Mozart |
| Jul 2006 | The Rich List Eight operas plus a whole feast of musical and literary fringe events makes Buxton Festival one of the richest pickings of the operatic year |
| Jul 2006 | Wiltshire Treats Marlborough-based organisation Operaluna supports local musical charities and hosts opera performances every summer |
| Jul 2006 | Mozartissimo: A Midsummer Marriage Handmade Opera with a tempting idea - The Marriage of Figaro in an Essex orchard |
| Jul 2006 | Count Your Blessings Le Comte Ory, with which Rossini demonstrated the creative potential of recycling, is staged by New Chamber Opera in Oxford |
| Jun 2006 | Diversions and Deceptions London premières, concerts, art and Parisian visitors make up Almeida Opera's eclectic season where not all is as it seems and there is much to entertain |
| Jun 2006 | Close-Ups Handel, Donizetti and Haydn in the intimate setting of Iford Manor |
| Jun 2006 | Moonstruck Opera della Luna create a Luna landscape for Iford Arts |
| Jun 2006 | Cinderella in an English country garden Stanley Hall's sixth season brings Rossini's La Cenerentola to the party |
| Jun 2006 | Push! Tête à Tête act once again as midwife to new opera |
| Jun 2006 | Mozartissimo! With a Little Help from his Friends Garsington Opera is under new management following the death last year of its founder Leonard Ingrams, but continues to reflect his vision of presenting the well-known and discoveries of the little known with works by Mozart and friends, Rimsky-Korsakov and Donizetti |
| Jun 2006 | Mozartissimo! Test Match Garden Opera are bowling around the country with Così fan tutte |
| Jun 2006 | Mixed Messages? The Grange Park season combines three well-known comedies with a rare sighting of Massenet's Thaïs: but are there happy endings? |
| Jun 2006 | Empire Day The National Opera Studio's annual Showcase moves to the Hackney Empire |
| May 2006 | Mozartissimo! Prima la musica... The Classical Opera Company continues to celebrate Mozart year with a popular favourite directed by conductor Ian Page |
| May 2006 | Some Enchanted Evening! Baroque musical in modern fusion: Armonico Touring Opera present a Fairy Queen for the 21st century |
| Apr 2006 | Off with the Motley Leoncavallo's 'slice of life' drama Pagliacci takes on the style of Italian neorealistic cinema in a touring co-production by Pegasus Opera and ETO |
| May 2006 | Adult Material Following her success with opera for kids, Lynn Plowman's new commission for Music Theatre Wales is aimed at the grown-ups |
| May 2006 | Leading by a Nose Shostakovich's The Nose heralds The Opera Group's 2006 performances - a season strong on fantasy, including several tales by the Brothers Grimm, and music by Judith Weir |
| Apr 2006 | Shoreline...Stories of Love and War Opera Circus in Scotland |
| Mar 2006 | Bad Girls? Sensational plot twists and difficult moral choices - Puccini's Tosca and Janácek's Jenufa on the road with ETO |
| Mar 2006 | Mozartissimo! He Had It Coming Birmingham Opera Company mounts a new version of Don Giovanni in a Birmingham Bank |
| Mar 2006 | Mozartissimo! Hip H'Opera Così fan tutte becomes School 4 Lovers in Glyndebourne's fusion of opera and hip-hop |
| Mar 2006 | Duel Purpose Romance and cynicism, the high life and the simple life duel anew in opera by definition's production of Eugene Onegin |
| Mar 2006 | George the Third for Birds to Sing Handmade Opera goes mad eight times in Wantage with a little help from Peter Maxwell Davies |
| Feb 2006 | Little and Large The Royal Opera House's Education Department despatches a small ensemble to bring a Gentle Giant to young people |
| Jan 2006 | Mozartissimo! Mozart events in 2006 |
| Feb 2006 | Mozartissimo! Salzburg School Commissions Opera from Child Prodigy The Classical Opera Company premieres Mozart's first opera in Ireland prior to an English tour |
| Jan 2006 | Mozartissimo! A year of Mozart celebration begins with works from his prodigious childhood selected and performed by Mozart specialists the Classical Opera Company |
| Dec 2005 | Love's Labyrinth Opera Restor'd brings the music and poetry of the 17th century to life in a mini opera about the pains and pleasures of love |
| Nov 2005 | A Magic Flute English Pocket Opera give Mozart's exotic fairy tale a seasonal flavour |
| Nov 2005 | Curiouser and Curiouser Opera Anywhere merge Alice in Wonderland and Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury into a Wonderland Pantomime |
| Nov 2005 | A Night at the Opera Northampton Festival Opera's rich collection of opera tasters is designed to make an ideal introduction |
| Oct 2005 | A Grecian Yarn Tête à Tête have commissioned composer Julian Grant and librettist Hattie Naylor to write A Shetland Odyssey, a full-length piece based on the story of Odysseus, for six singers, seven instrumentalists and five Shetland knitters and spinners |
| Oct 2005 | Gateway to a New Audience Glyndebourne Education's new commission Tangier Tattoo aims to reach a younger audience with a contemporary sound and a cinematic storyline |
| Oct 2005 | Autumnal ETO's autumn tour features two characters in the autumn of their lives: Verdi's Falstaff and Handel's Alcina both face up to waning powers |
| Oct 2005 | Balkan Blues in the West Country Dorset-based Opera Circus brings together East European and English performers in the development of a new opera with music from Nigel Osborne |
| Oct 2005 | Rats! Opera North's new children's opera features the Pied Piper and friends |
| Sep 2005 | Great Expectations The acclaim accorded to Streetwise Opera's extraordinary combination of opera and work with the homeless means that their new production - the operatic premiere of Mahler's Rückert Lieder - is keenly anticipated |
| Sep 2005 | Hands across the Ocean A rare opportunity to see Vaughan Williams' Riders to the Sea and Menotti's Old Maid and the Thief is the result of a collaboration between Handmade Opera and Utah State University |
| Sep 2005 | The Simple Life at St John' Smith Square Bampton Classical Opera bring their production of Haydn's L'infedeltà Delusa to London |
| Sep 2005 | Kurt Weill in Margate Weill's song about Margate shellfish is part of New Kent Opera's cabaret evening |
| Sep 2005 | The Magic Flute Goes Small A special version of Mozart's opera takes English Touring Opera to places it can't normally reach |
| Sep 2005 | Letters of Introduction Opera by definition use Tchaikovsky's letters to illuminate their forthcoming production of Eugene Onegin |
| Sep 2005 | Hallo, Young Lovers? British Youth Opera gives new singers their first experience of star-crossed lovers with Roméo et Juliette and Così fan tutte |
| Aug 2005 | Pastoral Premiere in Constable Country Opera Restor'd and the Suffolk Villages Festival mount the world premiere of Stanley's pastoral opera Teraminta |
| Aug 2005 | Me Me Opera Circus deconstruct Puccini's La bohème |
| Jul 2005 | Seeds of Change Hatstand Opera score a world first by podcasting opera to new audiences |
| Jul 2005 | Barber's Roots Bampton Opera reveal the early promise of the Barber of Seville in a version by Paisiello |
| Jul 2005 | Sex and Violence in Wiltshire Operaluna brings a production of Puccini's Tosca to Marlborough |
| Jul 2005 | A Woman Scorn'd Forsaken lovers feature in a musical evening by New Kent Opera |
| Jul 2005 | The Fruits of the Forest The National Forest provides both inspiration and performers for a new oratorio by Howard Moody, commissioned by Children's Music Workshop |
| Jul 2005 | Plots Galore New Chamber Opera's production of La Finta Semplice provides an opportunity to consider the art of plotting both on and off stage |
| Jun 2005 | Flight of Fantasy The Opera Group take Utopia to Buxton with Ed Hughes The Birds |
| Jun 2005 | Flights of Fantasy Iford Arts combine variety with fantasy in a season of escapism from Offenbach, Handel, Ed Hughes and Dvorak |
| Jun 2005 | Falstaff Comes Home Stanley Hall Opera fulfil Verdi's last wishes as they transport Falstaff to their Elizabethan manor house |
| Jun 2005 | Husbands and Wives Garsington Opera surveys marriage across three centuries with Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Le Comte Ory (Rossini) and Arabella (Strauss) |
| Jun 2005 | Goodness Triumphs or, a not-so-Grimm Cinderella Garden Opera will cheer us this summer with Rossini's version of Cinderella - an opera with a happy ending for both its heroine and its composer. |
| Jun 2005 | Animal Magic Almeida Opera 2005 features music theatre based on childrens' stories - The Cricket Recovers (Ayres) and Little Red Riding Hood (Aperghis) |
| Jun 2005 | Summertime at the Barbican Pegasus Opera's charity gala performance of Porgy and Bess at the Barbican unites old friends with new stars |
| May 2005 | A Noble Roman before the Revolution One of Gluck's finest pre-reform operas, his Clemenza di Tito, is performed by the Classical Opera Company as part of the Lufthansa Baroque Festival |
| May 2005 | Mainly Mozart, His Friends and Enemies Opera by Definition present works by Mozart's contemporaries Haydn, Gluck, Salieri, and follow with the first act of Don Giovanni |
| May 2005 | A Vote for the Stars of the Future The National Opera Studio's annual showcase take place at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on election day |
| May 2005 | Gardens of the Mind Psychology and technology cross-fertilise to celebrate Michael Tippett's centenary in Music Theatre Wales' new production of The Knot Garden |
| May 2005 | Tanks for the Inspiration An insight from Hatstand Opera into the creative potential of heavy weaponry |
| Apr 2005 | Divas in Beehives and Seducers in the Drink Music Theatre inspired by Dusty Springfield and Shakespeare's Falstaff illustrate the eclectic mix of the Drill Hall's spring/summer season |
| Apr 2005 | Haydn Revealed Classical Opera's four year survey of Haydn's work continues in 2005 with his early years in Eisenstadt (April) and Esterházá (September) |
| Apr 2005 | Back to the Future Birmingham Opera's vision of the future for opera is evident in their accessible staging of Monteverdi's Ulysses Comes Home |
| Apr 2005 | Double bills Bills are the key to this double bill from Opera Anywhere who combine the work of one librettist - Paul Dehn - and two composers: Walton (The Bear) and Berkeley (The Dinner Engagement) |
| Mar 2005 | The Monstrous Regiment of Women Men's views of women as lovers and rulers has often been soured by misogyny. ETO's 2005 spring tour explores Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and Donizetti's Mary Stuart and promises to provide a complex, dramatic and fascinating picture |
| Mar 2005 | Young Lions ENO Baylis Lionhunt workshops and activities for the 5-7 year olds of Southwark |
| Feb 2005 | New Chamber Opera's Valentine New Chamber Opera celebrate Valentine's Day with Venus and Adonis at the New College Chapel, Oxford |
| Jan 2005 | Not just another Nitro at the Opera Nitro return to the Royal Opera House with Revival! |
| Jan 2005 | Lessons in the Power of Love and Money Childrens' Music Workshop learning programmes use key themes from La traviata to help children explore their own creativity |
| Jan 2005 | The Final Destination Classical Opera's series of concerts based on Mozart's life and travels closes with his last years in Vienna |
| Jan 2005 | Creative Families ENO Baylis provides families with introductions to three ENO mainstage productions: The Pirates of Penzance (29th January), The Barber of Seville (5th March), and Eugene Onegin. (11th June) |
| Oct 2004 | Springtime Love and Winter Journey Mozart's youthful Il re pastore and a disillusioned Schubert's Winterreise feature in New Kent Opera's third annual festival at the Theatre Royal, Margate |
| Oct 2004 | Bach and Burma Music Theatre Wales once again teams up with composer Nigel Osbourne, to present the world premiere of The Piano Tuner, after the novel by Daniel Mason |
| Oct 2004 | Bohemian Garret and Moravian Forest ETO's autumn 2004 tour combines an intimate staging of La Boheme with tales from Janacek's Moravia in The Cunning Little Vixen |
| Oct 2004 | An A-Z of Mozart opera Classical Opera Company's survey of Mozart operas from the first, Apollo et Hyacinthus, to the last, Die Zauberflöte |
| Oct 2004 | Autumn Fusion at BAC The Battersea Arts Centre's Octoberfest 2004 |
| Sep 2004 | The Cloister Challenge Iford Arts' productions in-the-round for summer 2004 are Handel's Amadigi, Offenbach's rare Robinson Crusoe and Verdi's Falstaff |
| Sep 2004 | Bohème with added Flower Power Handmade Opera set their new production of La bohème in the Sixties. All you need is love? |
| Sep 2004 | Travelling Companions ETO teams up with the Young Vic to present a new production of Jonathan Dove's church opera Tobias and the Angel |
| Jul 2004 | Mozart première 234 years late? Classical Opera Company present the world première of the 'original' version of Mozart's Mitridate, completed by Stanley Sadie from Mozart's sketches |
| Sep 2004 | Vaulting Ambitions British Youth Opera and the South Bank Sinfonia share the ambition of preparing the stars of the future; here they collaborate on productions of Vixen and Semele whose heroines have less laudable ambitions |
| Sep 2004 | Bampton's Stone Guest visits London Bampton Opera bring a rare performance of Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni to St Johns Smith Square |
| Aug 2004 | Baroque and Roll Streetwise Opera brings together songs from two music makers living in the same house, but three hundred years apart, in Time Flows (A Handel and Hendrix Experience) |
| Aug 2004 | Womens' Wiles Women demonstrate their superior intelligence in an Opera Restor'd 18th century double bill of Pergolesi's La serva padrona and Charles Dibdin's The Ephesian Matron |
| Jul 2004 | Mad about the Girls New Chamber Opera present Alessandro Stradella's only full length comedy, Il Trespolo Tutore |
| Jul 2004 | Many Happy Returns The 2004 Almeida Opera festival marks the anniversaries of John Woolrich (with performances of his song cycle The Sea and its Shore, Harrison Birtwistle (performances of The Io Passion) and Michael Nyman (Man and Boy, Dada) |
| Jun 2004 | Touchstones and Tests of Love Rossini's La pietra del paragone at Stanley Hall |
| Jun 2004 | A Musical Adventure from the Briar Patch Pegasus Opera's Uncle Remus at the Hackney Empire |
| Jun 2004 | A Double First for Garsington Garsington's 2004 festival includes British premieres of Rossini's L'equivoco stravagante and Tchaikovsky's Cherevichki, with Mozart's Cosi |
| Jun 2004 | Garden's Rake Garden Opera's Don Giovanni provides the OMTF's Caroline Anderson with the opportunity for a pun, and an essay on the Don Juan story |
| Jun 2004 | In the Beginning The Baylis Programme brings 330 children to the Coliseum's mainstage to interpret the Genesis myths, in The Early Earth Operas |
| May 2004 | Intoxicating The Drill Hall's Spring/Summer season 2004 |
| May 2004 | Send in the Clowns English Pocket Opera's The Clowns (Pagliacci) |
| May 2004 | Bite on This The Clod Ensemble's award winning mix of physical theatre and live piano in an affectionate homage to the silent films of the 1920s |
| May 2004 | Lifting the Veil Opera Circus present Arcane, a post-apocalyptic black comedy mixing opera singers with physical theatre and more. |
| May 2004 | Palace and Pastoral: Eszterházy Ecstacy Bampton Classical Opera perform Haydn's L'infedeltà delusa and La vera costanza in 2004 |
| May 2004 | Virtually Opera A preview of BAC's 'barrier-leaping and wildly original operafest' |
| Apr 2004 | Loyalty, Friendship and Basketball Slamdunk is a new hip-hop dance musical from Nitro |
| Mar 2004 | Orpheus Complete New Chamber Opera presents the world premiere of John Caldwell's Fabula di Orfeo |
| Mar 2004 | Dream Teams Britten's Midusmmer Night's Dream and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in ETO's spring 2004 tour |
| Feb 2004 | How to Make an Opera Six young composers contribute scenes to Tête à Tête's Family Matters, a setting of Beaumarchais' third Figaro play |
| Jan 2004 | Welcome to 2004! A preview of productions from OMTF members in 2004 |
| Nov 2003 | Carols From the Street Streetwise Opera present Britten's Ceremony of Carols and Winter Words with the homeless in Oxford |
| Nov 2003 | A Nitro at the Opera Nitro's day-long festival of black music-theatre throughout the Royal Opera House |
| Oct 2003 | Songs of Innocence and Experience ETO's Autumn 2003 pairing of Ariodante and The Turn of the Screw |
| Oct 2003 | From Castrati to the Science of Flying Reindeer The Drill Hall's autumn season 2003 |
| Sep 2003 | Greeks Bearing Gifts from East and West Greek, Indian and English influences combine in Music Theatre Wales' production of Ion by Param Vir |
| Sep 2003 | 120 Lovers and Counting Hatstand Opera's new show is commissioned by the Dulwich Picture Gallery and inspired by Shakespeare |
| Sep 2003 | The Inimitable Barber Handmade Opera sets Rossini's Barber in the 1920s |
| Aug 2003 | Two Funerals and a Wedding Opera Restor'd double bill of 1700s English opera |
| Aug 2003 | Youthful Charms British Youth Opera in Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Jul 2003 | Heroic Women Selfmade Music Theatre's one woman show at the Northern Aldborough Festival |
| Jul 2003 | The Trojan Connection Opera by Definition's Dido and Æneas and Achilles |
| Jul 2003 | A Fake in the Warden's Garden New Chamber Opera's production of La finta giardiniera |
| Jul 2003 | The Shock of the New Almeida Opera 2003, and the Genesis Prize |
| Jun 2003 | Garsington Celebrates its Fifteenth with Comedy Garsington Opera's 15th season in 2003 |
| May 2003 | Growing the Audiences of the Future and Mining the Treasures of the Past English Pocket Opera Company performs Bizet, Haydn and Mozart |
| May 2003 | The Fruits of Success Music Theatre Wales' Gwyneth and the Green Knight at the Linbury Theatre |
| May 2003 | Sharpening the Blade Battersea Arts Centre's Spring Opera Festival 2003 |
| Apr 2003 | Liquor is Quicker Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore transplanted to 1950's Jamaica by Pegasus Opera |
| Apr 2003 | Not What You Expect Birmingham Opera Company's Candide |
| Nov 2002 | Defining Opera in Tunbridge Wells New company Opera by Definition, based in Tunbridge Wells, debut with The Magic Flute |
| Nov 2002 | British Youth Opera : Young Singers' Symposium Open day of advice organised by British Youth Opera |
| Sep 2002 | Electrifying Norway Music Theatre Wales' present the new chamber version of Nigel Osbourne's The Electrification of the Soviet Union in coproduction with Norwegian company Opera Vest |