New Sussex Opera

FAUST by Charles Gounod

NSO presents a new English version of Gounod’s hellraising opera Faust. Always a popular favourite, it has not been frequently performed in recent years. This intimately-staged production will take you on a whirlwind journey of desire, debauchery, and damnation – with ravishing music for good measure!

NSO is a community based company, founded in Lewes in 1978. After many major productions in the Brighton Festival, it now concentrates on fully staged touring productions, specialising in lesser known works. UK premières have included works by Tchaikovsky, von Einem, Weill, Offenbach and Puccini. Performances are in Sussex and also in Kent, London (in venues such as Bloomsbury Theatre, Britten Theatre, Cadogan Hall) and sometimes further afield e.g. Snape Maltings, Saffron Hall and the Vanbrugh Theatre at Stowe.

Directors have included Sir Nicholas Hytner and Keith Warner. The current Music Director is

Toby Purser, Head of Conducting at the RCM. The orchestra for main productions is St Paul’s Sinfonia, and for smaller scale productions the NSO Chamber Orchestra. 2018 saw a highly praised production of Charles Villiers Stanford’s The Travelling Companion. “One of NSO’s most visionary revivals” – Opera. It was nominated in the Rediscovered Work category of the International Opera Awards. The performance at Saffron Hall was recorded live (released on the SOMM label) – a world première recording. In June, following a dazzling production of Offenbach’s Belle Lurette: “We were engaged and dazzled, seduced and amused.” – Planet Hugill. Visit www.newsussexopera.org

LIVE MUSIC IN HORSHAM 2023 presented by Horsham Music Circle for the 81st Season

SATURDAY 13th MAY

St Mary’s Church 7.30pm

JESS GILLAM ENSEMBLE Music Circle 81st Anniversary Concert

Saxophonist Jess with her group of brilliant musicians promises an explosive concert to inspire audiences to reflect, dance and smile! for TICKETS Phone: 01403 252602

` email: horshammusiccircle@gmail.com www.wegottickets.com/HorshamMusicCircle

A date for your diaries!

THURSDAY 28th SEPTEMBER

82nd Season of HMC concerts opens with SHEKU KANNEH-MASON cello & PLINIO FERNANDES guitar

Tickets on sale from 18th July watch press for details

Concert in association with Loiyangalani Trust & St Mary’s www.horsham-music-circle.org.uk