World opera premiere at DLWP

The De La Warr Pavilion will be treated to a double dose of theatre this Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th as the English Touring Opera return to Bexhill with performances of Promised End and The Duenna.

 As one of the UK’s leading opera companies, The English Touring Opera have, for the last 25 years, successfully lead the way in making opera as accessible to as diverse a range of people as possible.  They will no doubt be welcomed back to De La Warr after their hugely successful last visit, when they performed La Boheme and Anna Bolena.

Tuesday night’s offering is a world premiere. Promised End, based on Shakespeare’s King Lear, is set to music by leading British composer Alexander Goehr, with arrangements provided by Sir Frank Kermode, and the award-winning Aurora orchestra.  It tells a tale old age, family, moral corruption and the meaning of life.  That’s right, the meaning of life.

In a change of tone, Wednesday’s show, The Duenna, is a comic opera by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.  One of the most famed operas of its time, selling out Covent Garden’s theatre on multiple occasions; this is a story of elopement.  Coincidentally, playwright Sheridan ran off with the daughter of one of the show’s aria composer’s.  Can’t think where they got their inspiration for that particular idea.

Both shows start at 7:30pm and tickets are available for both nights at £40 if you fancy both, or £25 each. 

Concessions are £24, under 18s £10.

For booking and information call 01424 229111