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Dialogues des Carmélites

If you enjoy Beethoven’s Fidelio or Puccini’s Tosca then you will surely enjoy this rare opportunity to experience Poulenc’s Dialogues …

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Wagner Journal

The programme book for the enterprising Saffron Opera Group’s Fliegender Holländer includes a piece by chorus member Caroline Galwey, imagining the …

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Jim Pritchard – Seen & Heard International

Conductor Michael Thorne wrote in the programme how Wagner – is supposedly to have – changed the location of the …

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Katie Barnes

Saffron Opera Group’s 2025 opera in concert was another foray into Wagner, their first Der Fliegende Holländer, and it was …

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Press release: Der fliegende Holländer

Internationally acclaimed cast in Wagner’s tempestuous tale of doomed love.

Edward Christian-Hare

Since its inaugural performance of Die Meistersinger in 2014, the Saffron Opera Group (SOG) has presented eight of Wagner’s ten canonical operas in rural Essex.