Pop-Up Opera to Launch Summer Season 2016 with IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA

After performing their first ever tragedy this Spring, Pop-Up Opera return to comedy for their Summer Season 2016. Running Wednesday 1st June - Saturday 30th July 2016. Press Night: Wednesday 8th June, Thames Tunnel Shaft.

Pop-Up Opera challenge the way opera is traditionally performed, by taking it into unusual spaces and making it fun, fresh and intimate. Rossini's famous opera buffa Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is brought to life by the critically acclaimed company, sung in Italian with English captions.

Pop-Up Opera take to the stage with this incredibly fast-paced comical farce in their adaptation of this much loved score. Witness razor-sharp timing as the ever resourceful barber, Figaro, tries to help the young Count Almaviva win the hand of the beautiful Rosina out of love rather than for his wealth. Soon the pair set about to produce many disguises for the count, and thus the farce ensues...!

Rossini's sparkling comic opera is given a 'make-under' in James Hurley's daringly unfussy staging, laying bare the characters in all their glorious eccentricity.

Pop-up Opera will be touring to some new and exciting venues this season Leeds Castle, the Spirella Ballroom at Letchworth (the building used to be the Spirella Corset Factory in Victoria era!) and Broome Farm (where Pop-Up Opera began).

Company Director Clementine Lovell comments, This is exciting for us as it really embraces the kind of spaces we go to and the nature of what we do. The opera is so well known, and this will be a wholly different way of approaching it. We can never rely on a set or fancy props and costumes to carry our productions, so it forces us to be creative and to really pay attention to the drama and conveying the story in a totally engaging way.

A two-hour explosion of beautiful music, top-class singing, and exceptional acting... I honestly cannot imagine anyone, of any age or class or tastes, who would have been bored or unmoved (The Times).

The combination of amazing venues, along with an informal atmosphere and engaging productions, offers a greater connection to the singers and the music, something even seasoned opera-goers often miss. If Pop-up Opera pops up near you, do pop in.

Running time: 2 hours plus interval. For more, visit www.popupopera.co.uk or follow on Twitter: @PopupOperaUK and Facebook: www.facebook.com/popupopera.

TOUR DATES:

Wednesday 1st June

St Mary's, London, 7.30pm
Upper Street, Islington, London N1 2TX

Fri 3rd - Sat 4th June

The Garlic Farm, Isle of Wight, 7.30pm
Mersley Lane, Newchurch, Isle of Wight, PO36 0NR

Tues 7th - Wed 8th Jun

Thames Tunnel Shaft, London, 7.30pm
Brunel Museum, Railway Avenue, Rotherhithe, London, SE16 4LF

Saturday 11th June

St Luke's Church, Somerset, 7.30pm
Exmoor, Simonsbath, Somerset, TA24 7SH

Tuesday 14th June

The Bull, London, 7.30pm
3 North Hill, Highgate, London, N6 4AB

Saturday 18th June

Spirella Ballroom, Hertfordshire, 7.30pm
Spirella Building Bridge Road, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 4ET

Tues 21st - Wed 22nd

Thames Tunnel Shaft, London, 7.30pm
Brunel Museum, Railway Avenue, Rotherhithe, London, SE16 4LF

Friday 24th June

Christ Church, Chorleywood, 7.30pm
The Common, Rickmansworth, WD3 5SG

Saturday 25th June

Court Gardens Farm, East Sussex, 7.30pm
Court Gardens Farm, Orchard Lane, Ditchling, East Sussex, BN6 8TH

Thursday 30th June

The Corn Barn, Devon, 7.30pm
Sutton Barton, Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1NF

Friday 1st July

Beaminster School Festival Hall, Dorset, 7.30pm
Newtown, Beaminster, Dorset, DT8 3EP

Thursday 7th July

Lower Grenofen, Devon, 7.30pm
Grenofen, Tavistock, Dartmoor, Devon, PL19 9ES

Wednesday 6th July

Culters Hall, Bristol, 8pm
Brasserie Blanc, The Friary Building, Cabot Circus, Bristol, BS1 3DF

Saturday 9th July

Kingsland Church, Herefordshire, 7.30pm
St. Michael's and All Angels Church, Kingsland, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 9QW

Tuesday 12th July

London Museum of Water and Steam
Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, London, TW8 0EN

Thursday 14th July

Bath Function Rooms, tbc
Bath Greek Park, Bath, BA1 1JB

Friday 15th July

Three Choirs Vineyard, Gloucestershire, 7.30pm
Ledbury Road, Castle Tump, Gloucestershire, GL18 1LS

Sunday 17th July

Broome Farm Cider Barn, Herefordshire, 4pm
Ross-On-Wye, Herefordshire, HR9 6QG

Wednesday 20th July

Leeds Castle, Kent, 7.30pm
Broomfield, Maidstone, Kent, ME17 1PL

Friday 22nd July

St Margaet's Church, Wiltshire, 7.30pm
Leigh Deleamere, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14 6JZ

Saturday 23rd July

Court Farm, Herefordshire, 7.30pm
Tillington Court Farm, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR4 8LG

Wednesday 27th July

The Flavel, Devon, 7.30pm
Flavel Place, Dartmouth, Devon TQ6 9ND

Friday 28th July

tbc

Saturday 30th July

Shelley Theatre, Dorset, 7.30pm
Beechwood Avenue, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH5 1LX

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