Event Dime

Full circle: Blackheath Halls Community Opera celebrates 20 years with a return 'Carmen', the opera that launched the company

When:

July 10, 2026 · 8:39 AM

Where:

Britten’s

Source:

Planet Hugill: Terrific and intensely atmospheric: the String Quartet No. 1 and Piano Quintet by Olli Mustonen from the Engegård Quartet and the composer on LAWO Classics

Twenty years ago, Blackheath Halls launched an ambitious annual community opera project with a production of Bizet's Carmen. This September, the project returns to the opera that started it all, celebrating two decades of creativity, collaboration and community. The company has never been one to shy away from a challenge. Last year they presented Gluck's rarely staged Iphigenia in Tauris [see my review ] and other works have included Bernstein's Candide [see my review ], Blow's Venus and Adonis