Open-air Opera set for Stafford Festival Shakespeare return

Summer is only round the corner and tickets are selling fast for this year’s Stafford Festival Shakespeare production of Macbeth, which will feature an open-air performance of a celebrated opera for the second year running.

Following last year’s performance of The Magic Flute at Stafford Castle, Heritage Opera – Northwest England’s professional touring opera company – will return to Stafford Festival Shakespeare with a heady mix of love, lust and murder in Bizet's classic opera, Carmen.

Experience melody after wonderful melody, as 1920s Seville comes to life in a vividly intimate chamber version of this classic story.

'The Habanera', 'Flower Song' and 'The Toreador's Song' are among the world's best-loved tunes. Together with the passionate drama of the fateful love triangle between Carmen, the wild gypsy girl, Don José, the brooding, obsessive soldier and Escamillo, the strutting Toreador, they make this the perfect evening for beginners and opera aficionados alike.

The world's most popular opera is presented by a fully professional cast, a local children’s chorus,

and supported by a 6-piece chamber orchestra.

Heritage Opera have been touring since 2006, and are delighted to be making their return to Stafford Castle in 2018.

Carmen will be performed at Stafford Castle on Sunday 1st July at 6.30pm. Tickets are priced at £22.50, with a concession price of £20.50 for over 60s, and for full time students, children and the unwaged at £5.50.

Full information can be obtained from the box office on 01785 619080 or by visiting the new website, www.staffordgatehousetheatre.co.uk