Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park is an chamber opera by Jonathan Dove, with a libretto by Alasdair Middleton after a novel by Jane Austen. It was created specifically to be performed in regency ballrooms and heritage spaces. Our semi-immersive production was developed for our inaugural season in 2018, and was revived in 2019, receiving 5-star reviews and completely sold-out audiences. The production was directed by Rebecca Meltzer with Music Director Ashley Beauchamp.
We are in the process of developing a 2020 and 2021 national tour and are looking for interested venues and festival to join.
We are in the process of developing a 2020 and 2021 national tour and are looking for interested venues and festival to join.
★★★★★ | Bachtrack
"Mansfield Park sparkled with wit and ingenuity from start to finish. As intimate opera experiences go, Waterperry Opera Festival's fresh, joy-fuelled Mansfield Park sets a new benchmark of quality, vibrancy and sheer fun. Starting at this level, the bar is set remarkably high for next year's festival."
"Mansfield Park sparkled with wit and ingenuity from start to finish. As intimate opera experiences go, Waterperry Opera Festival's fresh, joy-fuelled Mansfield Park sets a new benchmark of quality, vibrancy and sheer fun. Starting at this level, the bar is set remarkably high for next year's festival."
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Opera Magazine
"Mansfield Park...was a total joy, by turns laugh-out-loud funny and shed-a-tear sad. The packed audience at the first performance give it a well-deserved standing ovation." |
Oxford Daily Info
"Rebecca Meltzer’s sparkling production of Dove’s chamber opera Mansfield Park ran the gamut of every emotion: it moved the audience to tears during the rhapsodic standing ovation, and its two acts were an unbroken joy." |
