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Welcome to Pavilion Opera, Londons premier touring opera company
Description
Pavilion Opera gave its first performances - of Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" produced by Christopher Newell - during the summer of 1981, in the specially built Pavilion (designed by Francis Johnson, with stained glass windows designed by John Piper) in the garden of Thorpe Tilney Hall, in Lincolnshire.
Twenty six years and one thousand nine hundred and seventy eight performances later, Freddie Stockdale as Founder/Manager and Music Director Peter Bailey in his fifteenth year, continue to present a changing repertoire of popular operas each year in buildings as diverse as the 17thC Mauritshuis in Holland and the atmospheric Mitsui Club in Tokyo.
Over 292 singers have worked with the company since 1981, and this is stage manager Pete Anderson's 8th season with Pavilion, giving a very helpful element of continuity and making it very much a team exercise. This in turn greatly helps to simplify its travelling, whether round the country houses or doing the long haul to Tokyo or Manila.
