Longborough Festival Opera
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Longborough Festival Opera started life in 1991 as Banks Fee Opera. After a series of chamber music concerts in the drawing room of our house, Banks Fee, we decided to invite Travelling Opera, a small touring opera company to give two performances with a small orchestra on a temporary stage in the courtyard of the stable block in aid of Sue Ryder and Barnado’s. The original audience was mainly local supporters of the charities and about £3000 was raised after costs and including donations which was divided between the two charities.
The opera evenings, with picnic interval, were very popular and we were begged to continue! Until 1998, our relationship was exclusively with Travelling Opera, whose productions of well-known operas in English were much enjoyed by our steadily increasing audience which grew from a total of 400 in 1991 to 1600 in 1997. Over that period, Banks Fee Opera presented Cosi fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville, La Bohème, Don Giovanni, La Traviata, The Magic Flute and Carmen. Longborough Festival Opera was founded after our move to New Banks Fee, where we converted a barn into a theatre, using seats from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, which were being discarded during the process of its recent refurbishment.
Connected mandy members:
Wayne Dowdeswell
Lighting Designer
Eleanor Roe
Actor
Sophie Johnson
Deputy Stage Manager
Jake Ayris
Lighting Technician
Amber Harding
Wardrobe Assistant
Jordan Lightfoot
Lighting Technician
Wayne Dowdeswell
Lighting Designer
Lucinda Scott
Singer, Actor
Lucy Bradford
Assistant Stage Manager
Jessica Richardson
Production Assistant
Amy Woodhouse
Costume Maker
Christina Hostad
Deputy Stage Manager
Alexander Connatty
Costume Maker
Lisa Cochrane
Deputy Stage Manager
Anthony Hannah
Technician
Jordan Lightfoot
Lighting Technician
Naomi Brooks
Stage Manager
Lysanne van Overbeek
Director
Andrew Bird
Lighting Designer
Philippa Batt
Costume Supervisor
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