Opera

Dorset Chamber Opera was founded in 1990 and gave many successful opera performances for over twenty years. It was a small, non-profit making company, which had at its core a group of professional and semi-professional singers, some of whom have sung with the best opera groups in the country.
It toured Dorset and the South West, performing in country houses, theatres, churches and arts centres.
Fully-staged operas were presented, in costume, usually in English and to a piano accompaniment.

DCO was recognised as a company dedicated to the art of singing and the production of fine, small-scale operatic performances. Its performances raised in excess of £20,000 for charity.

Past Productions
1991 The Marriage of Figaro 1991    Cosi fan Tutte
1992    Suor Angelica 1992    Hansel and Gretel
1993    Don Pasquale 1993    The Marriage of Figaro
1994    The Secret Marriage
1995    The Barber of Seville 1995 Il Seraglio
1996    Cosi fan Tutte 1997    La Traviata
1998    Don Pasquale 1998   G & S Excerpts
1999    The Marriage of Figaro 2000    The Elixir of Love
2000    The Devil’s Trill 2003 Amahl and The Night Visitors
2003 Barber, Boheme, Rusticana, Rigoletto excerpts
2004 Echo and Narcissus 2010    The Cask of Amontillado

The Marriage of Figaro

Cosi Fan Tutte

Hansel and Gretel

Don Pasquale

1993

The Secret Marriage

The Barber of Seville

La Traviata

Gilbert and Sullivan Excerpts

The Elixir of Love

The Devil's Trill

Amahl and the Night Vistors

Joint production with Puddletown Middle School. Following workshops given by Dorset Chamber Opera within the school, the opera was performed with the school choir as chorus and featuring Robbie Bowering's operatic debut in the title role. It was presented twice, once for the school children and once for parents and friends.