SUMMER CAMP 2025

Adventures with Hansel & Gretel

A Magical Week of Music, Drama & Fun for 8 – 13 year olds

Join Hansel and Gretel on a summer adventure into the enchanted forest!
Explore Humperdinck’s beautiful opera through singing, dancing, drama, and arts & crafts.
Take part in the witch’s obstacle course, Gretel’s games, and Hansel’s treasure hunt.
At the end of the week, perform your own version of the opera on stage for family and friends!

Q: What is Opera?
A: “It is the human story, told in the most incredible way, set to the most amazing music.”

Join Oxford Opera every Saturday during term time in the heart of the city at The Old Fire Station for the Oxford Opera Youth Company. We offer TWO age-specific groups allowing everyone to explore their own creativity, learn new skills and make new friends.

Led by our expert team of facilitators the weekly sessions look at the wide range of skills that go into making opera – storytelling, singing, stagecraft, movement, composition, and even stage combat! This is a brand new and unique opportunity to get to know this fabulous art form from all angles! You will learn well-loved opera repertoire, but also explore creating new and exciting pieces as a group.

The course will also include visits from specially invited professional guests who will bring their experience and wisdom to their session – showcasing and focusing on a wide range of different skills throughout the year.

There will also be a minimum of two different performance opportunities throughout the year for everyone in the Company – including the possibility of joining the professional cast of Oxford Operas’ fully staged production of TOSCA at The Oxford Playhouse, in March 2025.

Oxford’s own Award-winning Opera Company is back at the Playhouse with one of the greatest operas ever written. TOSCA.
A nation State under the grip of a corrupt military junta. Love; Lust; Corruption; Betrayal; Justice and Redemption all come together in this epic opera by Puccini.
Oxford Opera’s new production takes an exciting new look at this classic opera as Tosca and Cavaradossi fight for love and freedom under the shadow of the oppressor Scarpia.
Under the leadership of Music Director John Warner, the Oxford Opera Orchestra will bring the full orchestral magic that is Puccini’s masterpiece.
Directed by Katie Blackwell. Sung in English in a new translation by Christopher Cowell. 

Marlena Devoe as Tosca (soprano)

Sam Furness as her lover Cavaradossi (tenor)

Philip Rhodes as Scarpia (bass-baritone)

World class opera for everyone – with the City at its heart. 

Tosca Puccini
28th & 29th  March 2025
Oxford Playhouse