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 …
Katie Barnes
Saffron Opera Group’s 2025 opera in concert was another foray into Wagner, their first Der Fliegende Holländer, and it was …
Francis Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
Sun 13th September 2026 @ 2:30pm –
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.
Peter Reed – Opera Magazine
Ten years ago Saffron Opera group made its debut at Saffron Hall with Wagner’s comedy of aesthetics
Katie Barnes
Saffron Opera Group celebrated its tenth anniversary with the opera that got them started, Die Meistersinger.
Paul Sheehan
Die Meistersinger – Hans Schwarz
Jim Pritchard – Seen and Heard International
Saffron Opera Group’s Meistersinger for its 10th anniversary was a triumph over adversity
Flora Willson – The Guardian
The ambitious Saffron Opera Group’s concert performance of Wagner’s opera had lost its leading man …