English Touring O pe ra

Once considered elitist and not something , particularly for the average person, these days going to the opera now figures prominently on the radar of g roup travel organisers. With special g roup rates, behind-thescenes tours, and even free tickets for the g roup’s leader.

Olivier Award-winning English Touring Opera brings exciting and accessible live opera to a theatre near you this spring

Old Street Band, conducted by Serg e y Rybin.

Donizetti, Lucrezia Borg ia Fri 3 Mar – Fri 26 May

Lucrezia Borg ia is a trag edy of g reat pathos, presented in a new production directed by Eloise Lally and conducted by ETO Music Director Gerr y Cornelius

R ossini, IL VIAGGIO A REIMS, Sat 4 Mar – Sat 27 May politics, romance and lost lug g ag e all play their part in Rossini’s last Italian opera

Giulio Ce Sare

Sat 25 Feb – Thu 25 May

Handel’s Giulio Cesare is a majestic opera in which the characters are driven to extreme feeling s and actions, and in which the music strikes the heart A stor y of passion and re veng e, featuring a treasure trove of g reat arias with immense dramatic intensit y, the opera follows the e vents surrounding Julius Caesar ’ s conquest of Eg ypt, as well as his uneasy alliance and romance with the fabled Eg yptian queen, Cleopatra

James Conway's 2020 production returns accompanied by the period instrument specialists of the

Donizetti created in Lucrezia one of his g reatest rolesknown to histor y as of histor y ’ s most famous poisoners, she is a complex woman in a dang erous situation, a cunning strateg ist, and a loving mother at the same time.

ETO presents Rossini’s comic masterpiece in a new production from Valentina Ceschi, conducted by Jonathan Peter Kenny and featuring one of the larg est casts ETO has e ver assembled.

In a provincial hotel, g uests from all over Europe are stranded on their way to a g reat coronation Intrig ue,

Lucie Treacher & K ate Wakeling ZOO !

Tue 7 Mar – Fri 26 May

Ari has fallen asleep and lost their tree frog ! Become a zookeeper for the day with Eng lish Touring Opera and help Ari find it ! Warthog s, purple turtles and Amazonian parrots – you'll meet them all this Spring in Z oo !, Eng lish Touring Opera’s new participator y opera for ag es 2-5 and audiences with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Full of adventure, sing ing and multisensor y elements, Z oo ! teaches us all about communication, confidence and how the most important thing in life is to be oneself

Noah Mosley and JL Williams

THE WISH GATHERER

Thu 9 Mar – Fri 19 May

e Wish Gatherer is the first installment in Eng lish Touring Opera's trilog y of world, in a national curriculumlinked adventure stor y e stor y follows Lola , a young g irl strug g ling with the effects on her world aer COVID, her parent ’ s recent divorce and the climate crisis. Join Lola on her journe y, and meet the mag ical Wish Gatherer, the mysterious and dark Muddier, the disenchanted bee, Bumbella , and the enterprising Seed Planter, in this stor y of beaut y, loss, re volution, and new beg inning s. englishtouringopera .org.uk

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Love and war, epic tragedy and timeless comedy in a theatre near you

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