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| Address: | OperaUpClose
221 The Pill Box 115 Coventry Road London E2 6GG 
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Web: | www.operaupclose.com  |
Tel: | +44 20 3176 7823 |
| Name | Title/Function | Robin Norton-Hale** | Artistic Director | Amy Novadnieks | Producer | Helen McKeown | Administrator |
** main contact
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All year round |
London and touring |
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OperaUpClose was founded in October 2009 to produce La Bohème. Following sold-out runs in various venues, winning the 2011 Olivier Award for Best Opera Production and the Whatsonstage.com Best Off-West End Production Award, OperaUpClose became the resident company at the King’s Head Theatre in Islington, London. OperaUpClose are an associate company of Soho Theatre, with whom they have co-produced four productions.
The company produces contemporary opera as well as new versions of the classics. OperaUpClose are building a UK and international touring reputation, co-producing with companies including the Belgrade Theatre Coventry and Malmo Opera House, visiting venues including the Bristol Tobacco Factory and festivals including Ravenna, Italy. In 2012 the company launched Flourish, an annual competition to find new chamber operas. It aims to provide a platform for emerging and established composers and librettists, and to raise awareness of the wealth of contemporary opera being written. The finalists’ work is produced in showcase format and the winning opera is given a full production the following year.
OperaUpClose are leading an artistic revolution –The Sunday Times
A masterstoke –The Guardian
Opera with the gloves off –Whatsonstage
Madly brilliant –The Times
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
11 May: Colchester, Mercury theatre
Mozart: The Magic Flute
12 May: Coventry, Belgrade Theatre 
Opera Cocktail
27 Jun: Oxford, TBC
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
17 Jul: Harrogate Theatre 
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- 2018 - |
Mozart: The Magic Flute 
Crawley, The Hawth: 13 Jan
Winchester, Theatre Royal: 22 Feb
London, Artsdepot: 10 Mar
Doncaster, Cast: 14, 15 Mar
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Shrewsbury, Theatre Severn: 8 Feb
Opera Cocktail
Lincoln Performing Arts Centre: 17 Feb
Greenwich, Cutty Sark: 23 Mar
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Bizet: Carmen
Lancaster, Grand Theatre: 24 Jan
Oldham, The Coliseum: 25 Jan
Puccini: La Boheme
Birmingham, mac birmingham: 9 Feb
Salisbury Playhouse: 3 Jun
Hertford Theatre: 29 Jun
Folkstone, Quarterhouse: 1 Jul
Derby Theatre: 7 Jul
St Andrews, The Byre Theatre: 13, 14 Jul
Opera Cocktail
Bury St Edmunds, Theatre Royal: 17 Feb
Wimbourne, Tivoli theatre: 13 Apr
Redbridge, Drama Centre: 28 Apr
Tewkesbury, The Roses Theatre: 5 May
Didcot, The Cornerstone: 6 May
Gravesend, The Woodville: 19 May
Frome, Cooper Hall: 2 Dec
Anthony Young: Ulla's Odyssey
London, Artsdepot: 19 Feb
Milton Keynes, The Stables: 22 Mar
Coventry, Belgrade Theatre: 28m, 29m, 29, 30m, 30 Mar
Greenwich Theatre: 30m, 30 Apr
Birmingham, mac Birmingham: 7m, 7 May
Stroud, The Cotswold Playhouse: 9 Jul
Verdi: La traviata
Doncaster, Cast: 8, 9 Mar
Exeter, Northcott Theatre: 7, 8 Apr
Aldborough, St, Andrew's Church: 22 Jun
Poulenc: La Voix Humaine 
London, Kings Place: 2, 10, 16 Jul, 6, 20 Aug
South Woodford, Redbridge Drama Centre: 10 Nov
Puccini: La Bohème
Bishop Stortford, The Rhodes: 2 Sep
Mozart: The Magic Flute 
London, Soho Theatre: 6, 7, 8, 9m, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21m, 21, 22, 23m, 23, 25, 27m, 27, 28m, 28, 29, 30m, 30 Sep, 2, 3, 4, 5m, 5, 6, 7m, 7 Oct
Mansfield, Palace Theatre: 15 Oct
Southampton, Nuffield Theatre: 17 Oct
Halifax, Square Chapel: 21 Oct
Bromley, Churchill Theatre: 31 Oct
Harrogate Theatre: 4 Nov
Wycombe Swan: 8 Nov
Malvern, Forum Theatre: 11 Nov
London, LPAC: 24 Nov
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin 
London, Arcola Theatre: 22, 23, 24, 25m, 27, 28, 29, 30 Nov, 1, 2m, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9m, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16m, 18, 19, 20m, 20, 21, 22, 23 Dec
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Bizet: Carmen
Coventry, Belgrade Theatre: 19 Jan
Oxford, Playhouse: 20 Jan
Shrewsbury, Theatre Severn: 31 Jan
Bury St Edmunds, Theatre Royal: 23, 24 Feb
London, Artsdepot: 27 Feb
Salisbury Playhouse: 4, 5m Jun
Puccini: La Bohème
Guildford, G-Live: 3 Feb
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: 19 Feb
Cilgerran, Rhosygilwen: 23 Apr
London, Greenwich, Cutty Sark: 12 Nov
Anthony Young: Ulla's Odyssey
Oxford, The North Wall Arts Centre: 12m, 12 Feb
Cambridge, The Junction: 13m, 13 Nov
Music Oft Hath Such a Charm 
London, Broadgate Circle: 13m Apr
Oxford, The North Wall Arts Centre: 15 Apr
Cheltenham, Bacon Theatre: 18 Nov
Opera Cocktail
Stamford, Arts Centre: 11 Jun
Nottingham, Lakeside Arts Centre: 4 Nov
Rossini: The Barber of Seville
Hertford Theatre: 30 Jun
Verdi: La traviata
Deal, St George's Church: 9 Jul
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