English Touring Opera’s General Director, Robin Norton-Hale , launches the ETO’s new era with an ambitious season that places innovation and excellence at the heart of the company’s work.
Norton-Hale, who assumed leadership of ETO in January this year, has introduced several key changes that will expand ETO's work. These initiatives aim to further strengthen the company's mission oftouring outstanding live productions and impactful education andcommunity projects to more towns and cities than any other UK opera company, and to make exceptional artistic experiences available to...
Twelve of Exeter Junior School's Year 6 singers are looking forward to taking part in a production of Puccini's wonderful opera 'Tosca' performed by English Touring Opera at the Northcott Theatre.
They will be singing in three performances, on 23, 26 and 27 May, taking the role of the choir of the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome, where the story is set.
Under the guidance of Music teacher Mrs Tina Guthrie, they have worked extremely hard over the last few weeks to learn the Italian words and the music and we wish them well as they take up this exciting opportunity...
Following the success of The Siege of Calais and The Wild Man of the West Indies, ETO continues to explore Donizetti’s operas with the first British production of Pia de’Tolomei. Ghino has fallen in love with his cousin’s wife, Pia – but when she doesn’t reciprocate his passion, he vows to take revenge by persuading Nello of his wife’s unfaithfulness.
Don Giovanni is one of the best-loved of all operas, with a dramatic story and ravishing music. Part thriller, part comedy, it’s the provocative tale of a womaniser whose conquests come back to haunt him. Is Don Giovanni a hero who defies all authority − or a murderous villain? Whichever way you are pulled, Mozart’s masterpiece is a musical and dramatic whirlwind – from the first bars of the magnificent score to the chilling supernatural conclusion.
English Touring Theatre return to Exeter Northcott Theatre in March with their new, critically-acclaimed, production of The Herbal Bed.
"I have always wanted that which I cannot have."
Based upon real events from Stratford-upon-Avon in the summer of 1613, The Herbal Bed is an emotional thriller recounting the public trial of Shakespeare’s daughter. Accused of adultery with her neighbour, Susanna and her husband fall under the glare of intense public scrutiny as they sue her accuser for slander.
A powerful exposé of the contradiction between human desire and social...
English Touring Theatre return to the Exeter Northcott Theatre at the end of November, this time with The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead, their acclaimed collaboration with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse.
The production reunites Simon Armitage and Nick Bagnall after their recent collaborations on The Last Days of Troy and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
A high ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on a delicate diplomatic mission to Istanbul. But when his trip ends up in a horrific bar room brawl, social...
The Olivier Award-winning English Touring Opera (ETO) is performing a new season of fully-staged Italian opera at Exeter Northcott Theatre this April and May.
Puccini’s masterpiece La bohème is joined by two rare Donizetti titles, The Wild Man of the West Indies (Il furioso all’isola di San Domingo) and The Siege of Calais (L’assedio di Calais). All three are sung in full costume, in Italian with English surtitles, accompanied by ETO’s chorus and 25-piece orchestra.
One of the greatest and most moving operas of all time, La bohème is a story of young love, starting on...
Audiences are set to enjoy Olivier Award-winning performances at Exeter's Northcott Theatre this month.
English Touring Opera (ETO) was recognised for Outstanding Achievement in Opera for its productions of Paul Bunyan and King Priam which take to the stage on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 May respectively.
It is the first time the company has ever won the prestigious prize and it was up against world-famous nominees – Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez for their performances in La Donna Del Lago at the Royal Opera House, and Placido Domingo for his performance in Nabucco,...
As a hugely successful opera composer, Handel was commissioned by the grandest patrons of the day to bring his theatrical brilliance and flair to important ceremonial occasions – his four coronation anthems, used at the coronation of every monarch since 1727, are the most famous example
ETO’s soloists and period instrument orchestra, the Old Street Band team up with the Gentlemen of the Cathedral’s Choir, Counterpoint and Isca Voices for an evening of Handel's Italian Vespers, staged at Exeter Cathedral. Written during his visit to Italy, when the supremely talented young composer...
Handel’s three year visit to Italy culminated in the premiere of his opera Agrippina in Venice in 1709. Composing at speed to a scandalously witty libretto by a Cardinal, Vincenzo Grimaldi, Handel drew on his experience of the Italian style, plundering his catalogue of cantatas written for the intelligentsia of Rome and producing a youthful masterpiece of dazzling invention and virtuosity. Widely regarded as Handel’s first operatic masterpiece, Agrippina stands out for the quality of its music, full of freshness and musical invention.
Using many of the same characters as Monteverdi...
