Lakmé
Next year we will perform Lakmé , probably on Thursday 27th and Saturday 29th August 2026, at St Mary Magdalene, Canning Road, Croydon . We will also perform it at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall throughout the week from Monday 7th until Friday 11th September 2026.
Soirée and Christmas Celebration
Our 2025 Opera Soirée took place on Saturday 13th December 2025 at 8pm in Clyde Hall, Clyde Road, Croydon CR0 6SZ.
Don Pasquale
Surrey Opera performed Don Pasquale by Donizetti , directed by John Upperton at St Mary Magdalene, Canning Road, Croydon on Thursday 18th September (evening) and Saturday 20th September 2025 (matinée and evening).
It was also performed on Saturday, 27th September at St Matthew’s Redhill at 5pm.
Sense & Sensibility at the Minack Theatre
We took our production of Sense & Sensibility: the Musical, by Jeffrey Haddow and Neal Hampton, to the Minack Theatre in Cornwall in the week from Monday, June 17th to Friday, June 21st 2024.
Some sad news – Surrey Opera’s President, Ted Van Loock, died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday evening, 20th August 2023, after being poorly for some time. He had reached the grand age of 95 and died at home, with his family around him, which is what he wanted.
Sense & Sensibility by Jeffrey Haddow and Neal Hampton
Our latest production was the UK Première of Sense & Sensibility: the Musical by Jeffrey Haddow and Neal Hampton, based on the book by Jane Austen, at The Harlequin Theatre, Redhill in the week ending Saturday, May 27th 2023. It was directed by our Artistic Director Jonathan Butcher and our Associate Artistic Director Christopher Cowell , who enjoys a worldwide opera directing career and previously directed Surrey Opera productions: The Flying Dutchman, Thelma, Die Fledermaus, Faust and Hansel & Gretel.
Here are a few photos from the production in Redhill in 2023.
50th Anniversary
Here is a page celebrating our 50th Anniversary in the year 2020, many activities delayed because of Covid-19.
Anniversary Soirée
The much-delayed 50th Anniversary Opera Soirée took place on 3rd December 2022 at 7.30pm in Whitgift School Concert Hall.
The programme included music from five glorious decades of Surrey Opera productions, featuring many of our regular professional soloists, plus the Surrey Opera chorus and conducted by Jonathan Butcher – of course!
Don Giovanni
Our production of Don Giovanni by Mozart (postponed from 2020) took place at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall on 11th-15th July 2022, following performances in Croydon during June.
This dramatic, timeless story, first performed in 1787, is a black comedy for all ages. Ranging from farce to tragedy and set to Mozart’s magnificent music, with an English translation by the late and much missed Amanda Holden.