Blackheath Community Opera

This year Blackheath Halls Community Opera will be presenting a fully-staged version of Orpheus & Eurydice, by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Originally written in 1762, the opera retells the classic Greek myth of Orpheus descending into the underworld in search of his wife, who was killed on their wedding day.

Blackheath Halls Community Opera is a hugely popular annual event, sponsored by Trinity College of Music and Lewisham Council, which brings local schoolchildren and members of various communities in south London together with the (mosty amateur) Blackheath Halls orchestra and a team of professional opera singers, ENO directors and stage professionals. Our first opera, Carmen, saw the Victorian concert hall turned into a Spanish bullring; the second opera, La Boheme, was set in 1960s Paris, with international opera star Mary Plazas singing Mimi.

Tickets cost £15 (£12 conc), and are available from http://www.blackheathhalls.com/events.php. The performances are:

Tue 14 July: 7pm Blackheath Halls, 23 Lee Road, London SE3 9RQ
Thur 15 July: 7pm Blackheath Halls, 23 Lee Road, London SE3 9RQ
Fri 16 July: 7pm Blackheath Halls, 23 Lee Road, London SE3 9RQ
Sun 19 July: 3pm Blackheath Halls, 23 Lee Road, London SE3 9RQ

For more information, please speak to Rose Ballantyne (RBallantyne@tcm.ac.uk). Rose not only project manages the whole opera, she sings in the chorus too!