Celebrating over 20 years of music-making
Richmond Opera, based in West London, presents one fully-staged opera and one major concert a year, along with a variety of smaller informal events including members’ concerts and one-off performances. We are an inclusive community group which welcomes amateurs and aspiring professionals. We are led by professionals and our members include singers, dancers and orchestral players as well as those involved in back-stage production.
We aim for the highest musical and performance standards, holding internal and external auditions for key solo singing roles although, whenever possible, we cast existing members in solo roles. Anyone is welcome to join the chorus and also be considered for solo roles.
Our Musical Director is Lindsay Bramley, a professional conductor and opera singer.
Next Opera production – Handel’s Susanna
At the St Mary’s University Theatre, Twickenham, TW1 4SX
Friday 17 April 2026 at 7.30 pm
Saturday 18 April 2026 at 7.30 pm
Sunday 19 April 2026 at 2.30 pm
Tickets: £24; £12.00 for under 18s
Book online
Tel: 0333 666 3366
From our director Patricia Gómez:
To emphasise that Susanna’s story is as relevant today as it was in biblical times, I’m borrowing a narrative device used in The Hours. This is a book that got adapted into a movie with Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep, plus an opera produced by The Met – all wonderful. It tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf as she writes Mrs. Dalloway whilst dealing with depression, an American housewife who finds solace in reading Mrs. Dalloway and a contemporary woman in New York City with circumstances similar to Mrs. Dalloway’s.
In our case, we will not only be telling the biblical story of Susanna in its biblical setting, but also the stories of two other women: one novice who is reading Susanna’s story from the Bible, and another woman in modern times who suffers a situation of abuse from a partner.
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