Friday 5 June – Sunday 26 July 2015
Three new productions and the first collaboration on a joint project with the Royal Shakespeare Company in an abridged version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Mendelssohn’s incidental music.
Così fan tutte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (sung in Italian)
Conductor Douglas Boyd Director John Fulljames Designer Dick Bird
Cast Andreea Soare, Kathryn Rudge, Ashley Riches, Robin Tritschler, Lesley Garrett, Neal Davies
5, 7, 13, 19, 22, 25, 28 June & 3, 8, 11 July. Start time 5.40pm
Intermezzo
Richard Strauss (sung in English)
Conductor Jac van Steen Director Bruno Ravella Designer Giles Cadle
Cast Kate Valentine, Mark Stone, Ailish Tynan, Sam Furness, Benjamin Bevan, Sarah Redgwick, Oliver Johnston, James Cleverton, Gerard Collett, Barnaby Rea
6, 8, 14, 20, 26 June & 2, 5, 7, 9 July. Start time 6pm
Death in Venice
Benjamin Britten
(sung in English)
Conductor Steuart Bedford
Director Paul Curran
Designer Kevin Knight
Cast Paul Nilon, William Dazeley, Tom Verney, Joshua Owen Mills, Henry Manning
21, 23, 27 June & 1, 4, 10 July. Start time 6pm
Garsington Opera Orchestra & Chorus
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare’s play (abridged)
with incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn
Royal Shakespeare Company under the creative guidance of Gregory Doran
Conductor Douglas Boyd
RSC Actors, Garsington Opera Orchestra & Chorus
16, 17, 18 July at Wormsley. Start time 6.30pm
26 July at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Start time 7.30pm
Garsington Opera at Wormsley General enquiries 01865 361636