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ETO - A COMPANY HISTORY
Image: ETO's Spring 2007 Production of Eugene Onegin - photo: Pattison
- English Touring Opera started as Opera 80 - a touring
company
founded in 1979 to bring high quality opera to areas of England that
normally would not have access to opera productions.
- In 1992 the company changed its name to English
Touring Opera.
- For the past 25 years English Touring Opera has
travelled the
length and breadth of England forming important relationships with
communities through touring productions, education and outreach
projects and local community involvement.
- In its first 25 years, English Touring Opera has
presented
some of the country's leading principal singers including: Sarah
Connolly, Mary Plazas, Paul Nilon Alison Hagley, Susan Gritton and
Jonathan Veira. ETO has also shown the work of such groundbreaking
directors as Richard Jones, Robert Carsen and Stephen Pimlott. The ETO
orchestra has been lead by such guest conductors as Ivor Bolton and
David Parry.
- In 2005 ETO was nominated for a South Bank Award for
James Conway's Spring 2005 production of Donizetti's Mary Queen of Scots.
- In Autumn 2006 - English Touring Opera mounted an acclaimed
baroque opera festival which brought 5 baroque operas and over 40
different community and outreach events to 15 different locations.
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