Organization

Buxton International Festival

Waterperry Opera Festival

Stage director

Rebecca Meltzer

Conductor

Bradley Wood

Costume designer

Jane Black

Repetiteur

George Ireland

Head of Music

Ashley Beauchamp

Singer

Baritone

Phil Wilcox

Sir Thomas Bertram

Contralto

Emily Gray

Lady Bertram

Soprano

Ellie Neate

Maria Bertram

Bass

Milo Harries

Edmund Bertram

Mezzo-soprano

Sarah Champion

Julia Bertram

Eleanor Garside

Aunt Norris

Eleanor Sanderson-Nash

Mary Crawford

Tenor

Robin Bailey

Henry Crawford

Lawrence Thackeray

Mr. Rushworth

Siân Griffiths

Fanny Price

Staff Director

Eleanor Burke

English

Mansfield Park

Buxton

United Kingdom

St John's Church

Mansfield Park Dove

Public

Private

Approved

Waterperry Opera Festival’s period-perfect production of Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park brings Jane Austen’s world to life with delicious wit and beautiful music.

Mansfield Park tells the story of Fanny Price, who is sent at age 10 to live with her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, at his family estate. Jonathan Dove’s operatic treatment of the superb comic novel by Austen was commissioned by Heritage Opera in 2011. Since then it has become a contemporary operatic gem.

Directed by Rebecca Meltzer, this production has received widespread critical-acclaim and sold out runs at Waterperry in 2018 and 2019. Accompanied on the piano, 10 singers perform as an ensemble of loveable characters pulling at our heartstrings and making us laugh-out-loud. Packed full of humour and intimate charm, this opera does not shy away from risqué themes of seduction, love and scandal.

This intimate production brings audiences right into the centre of the action. Perfect for Austen and music lovers alike, be prepared to be whisked away.

Sung in English.

Licensed by arrangement with Peters Edition Limited, London.

Mansfield Park by Dove, From (2022/2022), Directed by Rebecca Meltzer,, Conductor Bradley Wood, St John's Church, Buxton, United Kingdom

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