Performing for the first time at Sadler’s Wells, English Touring Opera presents three comic masterpieces of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Opening English Touring Opera’s spring season is Donizetti’s Don Pasquale – a comedy with zest, cream and an Italian accent – in a new production directed by William Oldroyd, with Dominic Wheeler conducting. Keel Watson plays Don Pasquale, a stubborn, competitive, old bachelor – and in this production a tyrant conductor – who aims to procure a young wife… with disastrous consequences.

One of the most popular, life-affirming of operas, Mozart’s The Marriage Of Figaro takes place on one day in steamy Seville. This elegant, period costume production by James Conway is revived by dancer-director Bernadette Iglich.

English Touring Opera’s hugely successful production of the Britten/Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns, with Michael Rosewell conducting this eerie, highly theatrical score, and a cast led by Jonathan Peter Kenny, Claire Ormshaw and Andrew Slater. In a fairy-haunted wood, lovers’ knots are tangled and strange dreams create monstrous romances.

All productions are performed in English.

Theatregoers younger than five years old will not be admitted to this production.

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