If the predictions are correct then 2025 is going to be a beautiful summer, which means it will be just perfect for gathering family and friends, spreading picnic blankets on the lawns and enjoying some enchanting and captivating opera at one of our glorious country house venues, Layer Marney Tower or Kelvedon Hall.
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin
17,19, 21 June | The Essex Summer Opera Festival at Layer Marney Tower
28 June | Kelvedon Hall
Brand new for this year, and receiving its premiere performance at The Essex Summer Opera Festival at Layer Marney Tower, is a production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin directed by Dominic Dromgoole, who was formerly Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe.
A stunning exploration of life, death, love, and pride in pre-revolutionary Russia, the opera will be performed in period costume with a dazzling new English translation.
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Donizetti The Elixir of Love
20, 22 June | The Essex Summer Opera Festival at Layer Marney Tower
29 June | Kelvedon Hall
On the bill alongside this Eugene Onegin is a revival of our summer 2023 hit production of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love.
With all the zip and joie de vivre of the original, director Guido Martin-Brandis has relocated this riotous tale of lovers and luck-chasing liars to a 1950’s seaside, with a mischievous English translation.
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Wild Arts at Opera Holland Park
Can’t make it to Layer Marney Tower or Kelvedon Hall? Or maybe you just want to see our fabulous productions again. We’re taking both shows to London’s Opera Holland Park this August and tickets are on sale now.
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Roman River Spring Concerts
Chamber music in venues around Colchester
After a sold out concert at the end of March, we’re looking foward to the next concerts in our chamber music series.
- Wednesday 23 April, 7.30pmThe Old Library, ColchesterInternational star harpsichordist Nathaniel Mander performs Bach’s iconic Goldberg Variations.
- Thursday 22 May, 7.30pmThe Minories, ColchesterClarinettist and Classic FM “Rising Star” Jonathan Leibovitz plays rhapsodies and sonatas by Debussy, Denisov, Brahms, and Poulenc accompanied by pianist Jo HavlatDuring this concert we will also give an artist spotlight to Young Royal Academy student, Hassan Marzban, on the recorder with pieces including French medieval dance music arranged by himself and accompanied by fellow student Matthew Gearing on percussion. Hassan has already performed as a soloist with the London Mozart Players, among others, and is the winner of the Croydon Performing Arts Festival 2024.
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Roman River Festival 2025 on sale soon.
Our 25th Anniversary season, jam packed with chamber concerts mixing the traditional and the quirky, goes on sale to the general public on 6th May. Or become a Friend of Wild Arts today and make sure you secure the seats you want when Friends’ priority booking opens on Tuesday 22 April with general booking opening on Tuesday 6 May.
