English Touring Opera - Spring 23 Tour

English Touring Opera returns to Chester with two operas never before performed by the company, featuring love, comedy and epic tragedy. Both operas are performed on period instruments in partnership with the much-praised Old Street Band. 

Intrigue, politics, romance and lost luggage all play their part in Rossini's great comic opera, Il Viaggio a Reims in a new production directed by Valentina Ceschi, as travellers from all over Europe find themselves stranded at a provincial inn on their way to a great coronation.   

Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia is a tragic masterpiece, led by one of opera's great antiheroines – known to history as one of history's most famous poisoners, Lucrezia is a complex woman in a dangerous situation, a cunning strategist and a loving mother at the same time. Eloise Lally directs this new production.