Grange Park Opera
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Performance History
You can also view past production photographs in the Photo Album.
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2012 Puccini Madama Butterfly, Mozart Idomeneo, Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades, 15th Birthday Party with Simon Keenlyside, and at Nevill Holt Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin.
2011 Verdi Rigoletto, Dvorak Rusalka, Wagner Tristan & Isolde, Bryn Terfel, and at Nevill Holt Puccini Tosca
2010 Puccini Tosca, Richard Strauss Capriccio, Prokofiev Love for Three Oranges, Jazz Evening with the Henry Armburg Jennings Band, and at Nevill Holt Puccini Madama Butterfly
2009 Cavalli Eliogabalo, Janacek The Cunning Little Vixen, Bellini Norma, a concert performance of Wagner Flying Dutchman, a night of revelries: Ray Davies of the Kinks, The Ballet Boyz, O Duo, Harry the Piano, Brahms sextet played by members of the London Symphony Orchestra, and at Nevill Holt Verdi Rigoletto
2008 Offenbach Blue Beard, Dvorak Rusalka, Puccini La Fanciulla del West, Brideshead Revisited (film), Bryn Terfel recital, Prima ballerina Mara Galeazzi and friends from the Royal Ballet, and at Nevill Holt Verdi Falstaff (revival) and concert performances of Purcell Dido & Aeneas and Eccles Judgement of Paris
2007 Mozart Magic Flute, Prokofiev The Gambler, Verdi Falstaff, a concert performance of Handel Semele, 10th anniversary celebration: London Symphony Orchestra, the Kings Singers, O Duo, Boy Blue, Kit & the Widow, and at Nevill holt Bellini I Capuletti e I Montecchi (revival)
2006 Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro, Massenet Thais, Donizetti Elixir of Love, Bruce Ford recital, and at Nevill Holt Rossini Barber of Seville
2005 Mozart Don Giovanni, South Pacific, Donizetti Maria Stuarda, and at Nevill Holt Donizetti Elixir of Love
2004 Rossini Cenerentola, Tchaikovsky The Enchantress, Wonderful Town, and at Nevill Holt Mozart Cosi fan tutte
2003 Puccini La Boheme, Gilbert & Sullivan Iolanthe, Chabrier Le Roi malgre lui
2002 Verdi La Traviata, Cole Porter Anything Goes with Kim Criswell and Graham Bickley, Britten Turn of the Screw
2001 Mozart Cosi fan tutte, Bellini I Capuletti e I Montecchi, Messager Fortunio
2000 Gilbert & Sullivan Mikado, Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin, Handel Rinaldo
1999 Ravel L'Heure Espagnole, Poulenc Breasts of Tiresias, Rossini Barber of Seville, Grimethorpe Colliery Band
1998 Gala Opening, Mozart Figaro's Wedding, Grimethorpe Colliery Band
2013 HMP Erlestoke, Wiltshire: West Side Story
2012 HMP Erlestoke, Wiltshire: Les Misérables
2011 HMP Send, Surrey: Sugar
2010 HMP Wandsworth, London: Carmen - The Musical
2009 HMP Wandsworth, London: West Side Story
2007 HMP Wandsworth, London: Les Misérables
2006 HMP Bronzefield, Middlesex: Chicago
2005 HMP Coldingley, Surrey: Assassins
2004 HMP Ashwell, Leicestershire: Assassins
2003 HMP Wormwood Scrubs, London: Guys and Dolls
2002 HMP Winchester, Hampshire: West Side Story
2001 HMP Winchester, Hampshire: Threepenny Opera
1999 HMP Downview, Surrey: Threepenny Opera
1996 HMP Bullingdon, Oxfordshire West Side Story
1996 Mountjoy Prison, Ireland: West Side Story
1995 HMP Wandsworth, London: West Side Story
1993 HMP Wandsworth, London: Guys and Dolls
1992 HMP Wandsworth, London: West Side Story
The first joint production with prisoners took place in 1991 when Sweeney Todd was staged with people serving life sentences in HMP Wormwood Scrubs. In 1990 Pimlico Opera performed two operas in Wormwood Scrubs: Le Nozze di Figaro and Walton's The Bear.
2012 Eugene Onegin: revival director Stephen Medcalf
2011 Tosca: revival director Peter Relton
2010 Madama Butterfly: revival director Nikki Woollaston, revival designer Mark Bailey
2009 Rigoletto: revival director Peter Relton, revival designer Angela Davies
2008 Falstaff: revival director Hazel Gould, revival designers Emma & Guiseppe Belli
2007 I Capuleti e I Montecchi: revival director Ptolemy Christie, revival designer Louie Whitemore
2006 The Barber of Seville: director Ptolemy Christie, co-designers George Souglides / Emma Ryott
2005 Elixir of Love: director Martin Constantine, designer Lez Brotherston / Sara Perks
2004 Cosi fan tutte: director Ptolemy Christie, designer Adrian Linford
2002 La Traviata: revival director Ptolemy Christie, designer Dierdre Clancy
2001 Cosi fan tutte: director Janis Kelly, revival director Paul Featherstone, designer David Roger
2000 Eugene Onegin: director Ian Judge, revival director Geoffrey Doulton, designer Dierdre Clancy
1999 L'heure Espagnol / Breasts of Tiresias: director/designer Stewart Laing, revival director Linda Dobell
1998 Figaro's Wedding: director Emma Jenkins, designer Conor Murphy