Opera Anywhere
Opera Anywhere are driven by a passion to produce accessible, innovative and entertaining opera for all ages. The company was founded by Mike and Vanessa Woodward in 2000. Beginning life, on an especially erected stage on a pond at the centre of their Oxfordshire village of Sunningwell. The early performances were Proms concerts, which soon developed into fully staged opera productions.Since 2000, Mike and Vanessa have taken Opera Anywhere on tour throughout the UK, the main objective to entertain audiences with popular but also less well-known operas. As the name suggests, Opera Anywhere specialises in performing in new and unusual venues but they also are very familiar with theatres and festival locations.
Opera Anywhere currently tour with a number of Gilbert and Sullivan productions including The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, Patience and H.M.S. Pinafore. One of their most exciting recent performances included a Pirates of Penzance on punts! Menotti also features heavily in their annual schedule of performances with the Christmas opera ‘Amahl and The Night Visitors’; recently Opera Anywhere added Mozart’s the Magic Flute to its repertoire.
In addition to fully staged opera performances, Opera Anywhere also get invited to perform pop-up opera at special events and parties and their ‘singing waiters’ has proved to be a particular favourite! Opera Anywhere also love to collaborate and work with music clubs and choral societies, schools and orchestras for combined performances.
In 2010 Opera Anywhere appointed a board of directors and trustees and became registered as a charity and a limited company. For more information about this brilliant company follow the link at the top of the page!
Opera Anywhere currently tour with a number of Gilbert and Sullivan productions including The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, Patience and H.M.S. Pinafore. One of their most exciting recent performances included a Pirates of Penzance on punts! Menotti also features heavily in their annual schedule of performances with the Christmas opera ‘Amahl and The Night Visitors’; recently Opera Anywhere added Mozart’s the Magic Flute to its repertoire.
In addition to fully staged opera performances, Opera Anywhere also get invited to perform pop-up opera at special events and parties and their ‘singing waiters’ has proved to be a particular favourite! Opera Anywhere also love to collaborate and work with music clubs and choral societies, schools and orchestras for combined performances.
In 2010 Opera Anywhere appointed a board of directors and trustees and became registered as a charity and a limited company. For more information about this brilliant company follow the link at the top of the page!
Cleopatra (2014)
A one night opera and a spectacle for 140 guests including a 40 piece orchestra, 40 opera singers, camels and a horse...it was a night to remember. Collaborating with the fabulous Oxfordshire based company Opera Anywhere and Triba Mythica who custom made our leather armour.
To see the performance - follow the links to Opera Anywhere's youtube channel to see part 1, part 2 and part 3!!!
Costumes designed, made, embellished and dyed by Louise Judge of Louise's Designs in consultation with Michael Sears.
To see the performance - follow the links to Opera Anywhere's youtube channel to see part 1, part 2 and part 3!!!
Costumes designed, made, embellished and dyed by Louise Judge of Louise's Designs in consultation with Michael Sears.
The Mikado
The red and white leafy kimono sourced by Louise's Designs.
Pink Kimono, Turquoise dragonfly kimono, Gold Kimono all designed and made by Louise's Designs.
Pink Kimono, Turquoise dragonfly kimono, Gold Kimono all designed and made by Louise's Designs.
The Magic Flute (2016)
Sister Angelica
Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as Il trittico (Triptych). It received its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on December 14, 1918.
Produced and Performed by Opera Anywhere
Directed by Katie Blackwell
Costumed by Louise Judge of Louise's Designs
You can find more photos from this production on Opera Anywhere's Facebook page or their website.
Watch a Lockdown Video here!
Produced and Performed by Opera Anywhere
Directed by Katie Blackwell
Costumed by Louise Judge of Louise's Designs
You can find more photos from this production on Opera Anywhere's Facebook page or their website.
Watch a Lockdown Video here!
Patience
Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride, is a comic opera in two acts with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera is a satire on the aesthetic movement of the 1870s and '80s in England and, more broadly, on fads, superficiality, vanity, hypocrisy and pretentiousness; it also satirises romantic love, rural simplicity and military bluster.
Produced and Performed by Opera Anywhere
Costumed by Louise's Designs (2018)
Photos from Opera Anywhere's Facebook page
Produced and Performed by Opera Anywhere
Costumed by Louise's Designs (2018)
Photos from Opera Anywhere's Facebook page