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Our 2025 repertoire will include Verdi’s Rigoletto as the centrepiece of the season alongside Simon Butteriss’ interpretation of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld in our secluded and peaceful new venue for 2025, Church Farm.

If Opera Festival 2025

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“Strauss’s perennial classic is slickly realigned”

— The Guardian

“Quite simply the most exciting and immersive experience I have had of opera - visceral, emotional and of the very highest standard. Would rather attend If Opera than La Scala or Covent Garden any day of the week. Highlight of the summer...”

“a performance of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor that is resplendent with fabulous young voices”

— Opera Scene