Exeter Opera Group Presents: Bizet's Carmen
The performance is sponsored by East Devon Music
Director - Nick Lawrence & Iryna Ilyntska
Music Director - Stephen Moseley
Piano - Richard Lucas & Tim Laurence-Othen
Flute - Suzanne De Lozey
Trumpet _ Harry Stampwell
Tickets: General Admission (21+) £15. Students (16 -21) £12. Children 12-16 £8
All tickets include a £2 booking fee
Carmen
Exeter Opera Group performs Bizet’s tale of a free-spirited woman and
her passionate and destructive love affair with a soldier.
Exeter Opera Group is performing
Bizet’s Carmen on Saturday 6th June 2026 at The
Beehive, Honiton.
First staged in 1875, Carmen is one of the most frequently performed operas in the classical
canon. Set in southern Spain, it recounts the downfall of Don José, a soldier
seduced by the fiery Carmen.
In the Exeter Opera Group
production, which is performed in French with narration in English, Carmen will
be played by Iryna Ilnytska and Don José by Robert Felstead and Thomas
Wood.
Supporting roles will be
performed by players including Nick Young, Ian Spackman, John Burgoyne, Lee
Andreae and Anna Townhill.
Richard Lucas and Tim
Laurence-Othen will accompany on piano and Suzanne De Lozey on flute.
The production is directed by
Iryna Ilnytska, Nick Lawrence and Lucy Corley.
About
Exeter Opera Group:
Exeter Opera Group, comprised of 25 singers from across
Devon, gave its first performance in August 2024 with a staging of
Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice.
The
group has since performed works by Mozart, Rossini and Camille Saint-Saëns at venues including Exeter Library and St Nicholas Priory.
In
January last year it staged Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas and in July gave a fairy-tale themed concert for children.
Exeter
Opera Group was founded by Iryna Ilnytska, a mezzo-soprano from Ukraine, who began studying music aged eight before
performing at Kyiv Opera Studio in her teens.
In the
UK, she has worked with companies including Red Earth Opera, Staircase Opera and Opera in a
Box, and has
performed with the Stella Maris Trio at venues in Devon and Oxfordshire.
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