June 2024 – Dido and Aeneas & Orfeo ed Euridice
Como returns to an evening of two one act operas in complete contrast to last year’s La Traviata; Orfeo ed Euridice is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de’ CalzabigiThe piece was first performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 5 October 1762. Orfeo ed Euridice is the firstContinue Reading
La Traviata – June 2023
Following our sell out production of La Boheme last year, City of Manchester Opera return with a startling and joyous production of Verdi’s La Traviata. La Traviata survived a notoriously unsuccessful opening night to become one of the best-loved operas the world over. Welcome to an evening of brisk fun,Continue Reading
COMO Summer Concert July 2022
We’ll be performing our summer concert on Saturday 16th of July 2022.Continue Reading
Tickets now available for La Boheme in July
We’re delighted to tell you that tickets for our fully staged production of La Boheme in July 2022 are now available. Puccini’s sublime music, featuring some of his best-known arias, plays out in a love story between a poor poet and an equally poor seamstress in Paris, which inspired theContinue Reading
Recent Award Nominations
COMO is pleased and proud to have received the following nominations for awards from the National Operatic and Dramatic Association, for our production of The Merry Widow in May 2018: DO YOU LOVE SINGING GLORIOUS MUSIC? City of Manchester Opera is recruiting additional Chorus and Soloist Members. All membersContinue Reading
Review: Buxton Festival Fringe 2018: A La Francaise!
It’s bad enough that the French won the World Cup, but to have a whole programme of French Opera and French Song is sort of mean! Well, NO, it’s quite special with all the great melodies and tunes. When you have Gounod, Saint-Saens, Lalo, Delibes, and Offenbach to choose fromContinue Reading
Review: The Merry Widow, May 2018
Author: Kevin Proctor I’ve heard it said that ‘The Merry Widow’ is at its best when performed in intimate, unpretentious venues as opposed to lavish grand opera houses so Hope Mill is a virtuous space for COMO to return to this year for their stripped back interpretation of this illustriousContinue Reading