Waterperry Opera Festival
Artistic Director & CEO Guy Withers talks about Waterperry Opera Festival 2023
Waterperry Opera Festival, based at the stunning Waterperry House & Gardens in Oxfordshire, is soon approaching its sixth festival as a company. When we founded the company, with a short 3-day festival in 2018, we would never have imagined the scale to which we have grown. In 5 festivals we have produced 26 new productions…
Figaro gets an update and twist at Waterperry Festival Opera
- 15th August 2022
- Reviews
- Adam Maxey
- ALison Langer
- Annie Rilley
- Bertie Baignet
- Charlotte Henery
- Edmud Danon
- Eleanor Sanderson-Nash
- Figures in the Garden
- Guy Withers
- Isabelle Kettle
- Jerome Knox
- Jessica Cale
- Jonathan Dove
- Katherine Crompton
- Lawrence Thackeray
- Marriage of Figaro
- Oxford County Youth Orchestra
- Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
- Waterperry Opera Festival
I am late to the party in only discovering what a wonderful experience opera (and dance) is at Waterperry Opera Festival, now enjoying its fifth season at the gorgeous Oxfordshire gardens that gives it its name. All the summer opera festivals have their own feel and what made Waterperry distinctive on this first visit was,…
Mansfield Park in an idyllic setting
Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton’s Mansfield Park has been presented in a plethora of performance spaces since first staged in 2011. However, it is difficult to image a more idyllic and ideal venue than the elegant ballroom of Waterperry House which becomes part of the holistic experience of this charming take on the Jane…
Waterperry Opera Festival 2022 season
This year Waterperry Opera Festival is celebrating its fifth anniversary with an innovative eight-day open-airfestival in August 2022. The programme at the Oxfordshire festival will include eight productions, as well as a variety of other events including talks and workshops. Taking advantage of Waterperry’s extensive historic grounds, the festival will build on the experiences of…