Kentish Opera provides a fantastic opportunity to try opera with a full chorus and orchestra at affordable prices in local venues where you are close to the action - which makes a huge difference to the experience. So come along and prepare to be blown away!
AIDA
The Stag, Sevenoaks
18-20 April 2024
Tickets are now on sale!
A favourite with audiences around the world, this tragic story of doomed love in the time of Ancient Egypt draws its appeal from the impassioned arias, magnificent choruses, including The Grand March, and exhilarating orchestral music that highlight Verdi at the peak of his composing prowess, all set in the time of Ancient Egypt.
One of Verdi's most dramatic works, this fully staged production sung in English features professional soloists from major opera companies, accompanied by a full orchestra and the superb Kentish Opera chorus.
Directed by Stephen Anthony Brown with Robyn Sevastos as Musical Director this is a production not to be missed. Costumes designed by Carol Stevenson and Alice Harvey and set designed by Harry Stevenson.
Giles Davies, King of Egypt in our forthcoming Aida, gives you three excellent reasons to come and enjoy one of classical music's greatest theatrical spectacals live at The Stag Theatre.
Lexie Wisniewska, High Priestess in the seriously eerie temple scene in our forthcoming Aida, talks about the experience of singing Verdi's music.
Aida - with local gin-tasting at the Thursday performance
At our forthcoming production, we are pleased to be collaborating with Greensand Ridge, a local gin distillery based in Shipbourne, near Tonbridge.
As well as being a genuinely local distillery, Greensand Ridge is also the UK's most sustainable. Specialising in gins, brandies, rums and whiskeys, they make spirits with a local influence, use sustainable practices and turn surplus produce from local growers into fine spirits.
Their signature gin uses a delicately balanced mix of local botanicals including cobnuts, gorse flowers and bay laurel to craft a gin of distinction.
The tasting will be free of charge and drinks will be available to buy by the bottle or via gift voucher - available from 6.30pm and during the interval on the Thursday night only.
Workshop - 7th January 2024
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We are keen to give people who are new to opera the chance to come along and have a go, and so we have decided to run a 'Musical Theatre to Opera' workshop on Sunday 7th January 2024 - it will be a great way to spend one of those early January afternoons when we all need something to help us get through the post-Christmas lull...
So if you're a Musical Theatre enthusiast but would like to give opera a try, our a taster workshop will be held at at The Stag, Sevenoaks, Plaza Suite from 13:00-17:00. You will have the opportunity to learn an opera chorus and then stage and choreograph it.