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Fully staged – new English translation by Paul Featherstone

St Paul’s Sinfonia, New Sussex Opera Chorus
Conductor Toby Purser, Director Paul Higgins, Designer Mollie Cheek,
Lighting Designer James Harvey, Dramaturg Benjamin Poore

Conrad Anthony Flaum, Hélène Sky Ingram, Spiridion Arshak Kuzikyan,
Rosa Lucy Farrimond, Bénédict Harun Tekin, Circé-Fiametta Namiko Gahier-Ogawa

All performances at 4 pm. For booking information click here

New Sussex Opera follows The Dragon of Wantley with another exciting discovery. NSO’s same team has created the UK première production of The Silver Bell (Le Timbre d’argent) by Saint-Saëns, in a newly commissioned English translation.

A poor, tormented artist, consumed with passion and ambition, is given a silver bell that will provide all his heart desires. But in this story from the librettists behind Faust and The Tales of Hoffmann things could never be so simple. It is fantastical and compelling tale, illuminated by a sumptuous and sensual score: NSO presents an unmissable first chance to discover this masterpiece by Saint-Saëns, one of the greatest composers of his time.

“Jaw-droppingly stupendous”

Christopher Morley (Midlands Classical Music Making)

See the details, reviews and photographs of our production here

“One of the UK’s most enterprising small opera companies, New Sussex Opera constantly surprises with its ambition and the quality of its fully staged productions.” Opera Now September 2018

“New Sussex Opera continues to set the pace in terms of unfamiliar operas, imaginatively staged.” Classical Source

“I have been in awe of the courageous adventurousness of your work over many decades.” Simon Banks, author of “Opera: the autobiography of the Western World”.

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