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English Touring Opera\u2019s Spring season 25 February \u2013 27 May 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n English Touring Opera presents two model new productions of Donizetti\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>Lucrezia Borgia<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and Rossini\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>Il viaggio a Reims\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>in Spring 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n Spring season additionally features a revival of the acclaimed 2020\u00a0<\/strong>manufacturing of Handel\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>Giulio Cesare<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n London, Poole, Sheffield, Norwich, York, Durham, Chester, Cambridge, Snape, Canterbury, Cheltenham, Buxton, Leamington Spa and Exeter<\/strong><\/p>\n English Touring Opera<\/strong>\u00a0(ETO) presents its first season underneath the management of recent General Director\u00a0Robin Norton-Hale<\/strong>\u00a0in Spring 2023, with a nationwide tour of three deeply contrasting operas. The Spring 2023 season options two new productions of operas by no means earlier than staged by ETO \u2013 Donizetti\u2019s\u00a0Lucrezia Borgia<\/em>\u00a0and Rossini\u2019s\u00a0Il viaggio a Reims,\u00a0<\/em>every directed by girls staging their first productions with ETO,\u00a0<\/em>in addition to a revival of one in every of Handel\u2019s most beloved works,\u00a0Giulio Cesare<\/em>. The tour will take excellent productions to audiences in 14 places throughout England, making stay opera accessible and obtainable to all.<\/p>\n Period-instrument specialists\u00a0The Old Street Band<\/strong>\u00a0will play for all three operas,\u00a0<\/strong>the primary time the operas by Donizetti and Rossini have toured within the UK with a interval instrument orchestra.<\/p>\n Donizetti\u2019s tragedy\u00a0Lucrezia Borgia<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>is staged for the primary time by ETO, in a\u00a0new\u00a0manufacturing directed by\u00a0Eloise<\/strong>\u00a0Lally<\/strong>, making her ETO directorial debut. An exciting and transferring meditation on energy and motherhood,\u00a0Lucrezia Borgia\u00a0<\/em>is the tragedy of a fancy girl in a harmful scenario. In\u00a0Lucrezia<\/em>\u00a0Donizetti created one in every of opera\u2019s nice antiheroines, in addition to one of the difficult roles within the soprano repertoire.\u00a0Paula Sides\u00a0<\/strong>stars within the title position, with\u00a0Thomas Elwin<\/strong>\u00a0as Gennaro,\u00a0Katie Coventry<\/strong>\u00a0as Orsini and\u00a0Aidan Edwards<\/strong>\u00a0as Alfonso, and ETO Music Director\u00a0Gerry Cornelius\u00a0<\/strong>conducts.<\/p>\n The tour additionally incorporates a new manufacturing of Rossini\u2019s\u00a0Il viaggio a Reims<\/strong><\/em>, one other first for ETO. Intrigue, politics, romance and misplaced baggage all play their half in Rossini\u2019s final Italian opera, as a bunch of entitled visitors from throughout Europe are stranded in a provincial resort on their method to an incredible coronation. Featuring a solid of 27 \u2013 one of many largest ever assembled by ETO \u2013 the manufacturing features a host of gifted younger singers together with\u00a0Lucy Hall<\/strong>\u00a0as Madame Cortese,\u00a0Luci Briginshaw<\/strong>\u00a0as Contessa di Folleville,\u00a0Susanna Hurrell<\/strong>\u00a0as Corinna and\u00a0Julian Henao Gonzalez<\/strong>\u00a0as Conte di Lebenskopf.\u00a0Valentina Ceschi<\/strong>, who directed ETO\u2019s on-line opera\u00a0The Firebird\u00a0<\/em>to nice acclaim in 2022, makes her ETO theatrical directorial debut, and ETO Artist in Association\u00a0Jonathan Peter Kenny<\/strong>\u00a0conducts.<\/p>\n One of Handel\u2019s most liked operas,\u00a0Giulio Cesare<\/strong><\/em>, additionally returns for the tour in a revival of ETO\u2019s acclaimed and standard 2017 manufacturing, with a deliberate 2020 revival curtailed by the pandemic.\u00a0James Conway<\/strong>\u00a0returns to direct, and\u00a0Susanna Hurrell<\/strong>\u00a0reprises her position as Cleopatra (famous by The Observer<\/em> in 2020 as \u2018simultaneously coquettish, petulant and radiant\u2026 wins the audience\u2019s coronary heart as absolutely as she wins Cesare\u2019s<\/em>\u2018), with Cesare sung by countertenor Francis Gush<\/strong>, Cornelia by\u00a0Carolyn Dobbin<\/strong>\u00a0and Sesto by\u00a0Margo Arsane<\/strong>.\u00a0Sergey Rybin<\/strong>\u00a0conducts\u00a0The Old Street Band<\/strong>\u00a0in some of Handel\u2019s best music.<\/p>\n Robin Norton-Hale, General Director of ETO, mentioned:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018This hugely ambitious season demands virtuosic singing and exceptional dramatic ability from our casts, in stories encompassing farce, social satire, political intrigue and epic tragedy. We\u2019re delighted to be working with two excellent administrators to current two operas ETO has by no means staged earlier than. It would be the first time these operas have been carried out in any respect of our tour\u00a0<\/em>venues<\/em>, and it\u2019s much more of a deal with to listen to them carried out on interval devices. Audiences can anticipate musical and dramatic fireworks!<\/em>\u2018<\/p>\n The Spring 2023 announcement comes after the conclusion of their critically acclaimed\u00a0Handelfest\u00a0<\/em>tour, which took three nice Handel operas \u2013\u00a0Tamerlano<\/em>,\u00a0Otton<\/em>e and\u00a0Agrippina<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 to many 1000’s of individuals in seven venues throughout England. ETO additionally accomplished a profitable run of\u00a0Tutankhamun\u2019s Shoes<\/em>, an opera for\u00a0kids\u00a0exploring Ancient Egyptian historical past and mummification, in theatres, museums and colleges across the nation.<\/p>\n Alongside three theatre-based opera productions in Spring 2023, kids throughout the nation will even be capable to expertise the magic of opera in\u00a0The Wish Gatherer<\/em>, the primary in a three-part sequence for Key Stage 2 specializing in serving to kids confront local weather change, and\u00a0Zoo!,\u00a0<\/em>their new opera for kids aged 2-5 and audiences with particular instructional wants and disabilities \u2013 each led by rising\u00a0singers from the primary tour.<\/p>\n