Forthcoming Performances >>
12 June 2012
Gala Recital with Dame Felicity Lott
26 July 2012
Summer Season Preview Concert
(Details to be announced)
8, 11 & 14 September 2012
The Bartered Bride
12 & 15 September 2012
A Night at the Chinese Opera
18 November 2012
25th Anniversary Concert
(Details to be announced)
Past Performances >>
14 March 2012
Gala Concert, The Queen's Chapel
5 December 2011
Friends' Christmas Concert
24 November 2011
Masterclass with Sir Mark Elder
3, 6 & 9 September 2011
Le nozze di Figaro
7 & 10 September 2011
The Rape of Lucretia
4 August 2011
Summer Season Preview Concert
24 May 2011
Gala Recital with Sir Thomas Allen
29 November 2010
Masterclass with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
8 & 11 September 2010
Euridice
4, 7 & 10 September 2010
La bohème
September 1987 - September 2009
Past Productions
4 - 11 September 2010 Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street EC1R 4TN [map]
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa
Sung in Italian with English surtitles
Running time approx. 165' including two intervals
Saturday 4 September, 6.30pm
Opening night VIP tickets available, priced £95, including interval drinks and post-show buffet reception with the cast.
Tuesday 7 September, 7.00pm
Free pre-show talk, 5.45pm
Friday 10 September, 7.00pm
Free pre-show talk, 5.45pm
Puccini's La bohème is the most archetypally romantic of operas, its tale of love and death among a group of struggling young artists providing a perfect vehicle for the energetic, youthful performances which continually delight British Youth Opera audiences.
- Peter Robinson conductor
- Stephen Barlow director
- Yannis Thavoris designer
- DavidHowe lighting designer
- Mandy Demetriou movement director
- in association with Southbank Sinfonia
Music and translation by Stephen Oliver
Sung in English
Running time approx. 130' including one interval
Wednesday 8 September, 7.00pm
Free pre-show talk, 6.15pm
Saturday 11 September, 7.00pm
Free pre-show talk, 5.45pm
Based on the Orpheus myth that fascinated renaissance artists and musicians, Euridice weaves the translucent 16th-century vocal writing of the first ever opera composer, Jacopo Peri, into a distinctively modern opera by Stephen Oliver.
Marking the 60th anniversary of Oliver's birth, this new semi-staged production is performed with a cast of eighteen singers and an on stage ensemble of eight players, creating an enthralling piece of theatre combining old with new, ideally suited to a cast of young singers.
- Christopher Moulds conductor
- Stuart Barker director
- David Howe lighting designer
- in association with Southbank Sinfonia
Tickets: £10 - £36
(ticket price includes free printed programme)
Buy tickets for one opera and save 50% on the other.
Book online: www.sadlerswells.com (£1.50 transaction charge)
Book by phone: 0844 412 4322 (£2.20 transaction charge, open 24 hours)
Book in person: Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street WC2A 2HT or Sadler's Wells Ticket Office, Rosebery Avenue EC1R 4TN
For more than 20 years, British Youth Opera has been training the next generation of professional opera singers. Each year, BYO's performances at the Peacock Theatre are a chance for audiences to see and hear some of the leading singers of their generation, in casts selected by audition from the among the best students and recent graduates of the country's music colleges.
Past BYO singers have gone on to perform leading roles in major opera houses worldwide, from Covent Garden to the Sydney Opera House - see them here first!
Read more about the process behind BYO's Summer Season performances
