Opera on the Run Presents 'The Perfect Picnic'

Opera on the Run returns to London in the New Year to present The Perfect Picnic, a unique piece of opera theatre, in a limited season at Jermyn Street Theatre from Tuesday 15 January to Saturday 2 February 2008. Set to the music of Mozart and with a comic new libretto, The Perfect Picnic is a light hearted evening of entertainment combining elements of theatre and opera to produce a British tale of love and misunderstanding at an al fresco summer opera gala.

"Newly redundant accountant David Sterling and his long-suffering girlfriend Sarah Primrose mysteriously receive tickets to an opera gala at which, it transpires, David's ex-wife and rising opera star, Rachel, is performing. When Rachel's new boyfriend, the flamboyant celebrity TV designer Michael de Haughton-Tours, lays eyes on Sarah his attention is transferred immediately from the stage to the stalls. It is during the Picnic interval however that events unfold with more drama than the opera itself," explain press notes.

Neither opera nor play, neither musical nor music theatre, The Perfect Picnic paves the way for Opera on the Run's unique brand of opera theatre which fuses genres and melds music and drama in a manner hitherto unseen in the West End. Combining sultry singing, clever comedy and deliciously delightful drama, it's an English summer's picnic in the middle of winter and, as such, blurs the boundaries between the seasons at the same time.

Opera on the Run presents The Perfect Picnic at Jermyn Street Theatre, Jermyn Street, London SW1.

Performances are Tue 15 Jan – Sat 2 Feb 2008.  Show times are Tue – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 3.30pm. For tickets: £16.00 / £14.00 concs contact the Box Office: 0207 287  2875 or visit www.operaontherun.com

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