UK Opera Information

Last modified: 6 February, 1996

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Information On-Line

• Performance Schedules and listings for the UK
• Opera venues and companies
• Other Opera information on the Internet
• Information on Operas (libretto, performance history etc)

Main Venues

London

• London Coliseum, WC2, 0171 632 8300 (24hr)
  Home of The English National Opera (ENO). Autumn/Winter 1996 season:
• The Royal Festival Hall
  
  Home of The Opera Factory
• The Royal Opera House, 0171 304 4000
  Home of the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet. Season details:
• British Youth Opera, BYO.

Elsewhere

• Leeds Youth Opera
• Glyndbourne, Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 5UU. 01273 813 813
  Opera at Glyndebourne and on tour.
• Broomhill Opera, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. 01892 517720.
• D'Oyly Carte company
• The Welsh National Opera. 50th Anniversary Season tour
• Glasgow Theatre Royal 0141 332 9000
  Home to both Scottish Opera and Scottish Ballet
• Scottish Opera
  • Spring 96 Season (Hansel and Gretel, La Traviata).
• Opera North
• Northern Ireland

• Castleward Opera Summer opera festival
• Wexford Opera House Wexford (Ireland) summer opera festival 17 Oct to 3 Nov. Includes Donizetti's Parisina, Meyerbeer's L'Etoile du nord and Fibich's Sarka. +353 53 221 44

Other Information

• Opera site listing
• Opera/Vocal classical CD's and information, stories and vocalists. Plus Opera Talk BBS.
• A list of opera sites (worldwide as well as UK) can be found at Yahoo.
• London opera information, including what's on.
• Time Out Guide classical music and opera page
• Communique.com information.
• Background (rather than schedule) information from the Opera Schedule Server.
• Pointers to other Web Pages for those interested in opera.
• Stinette-Donahue who tour Europe and the UK from time to time.
• Roma Opera House
• The Yahoo Opera index

Operas

• There is a growing body of historical and general information on specific operas at OperaGlass
• There are several excellent pages on specific operas at the Classical Music site

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