Surrey Opera

Surrey Opera is a semi-professional English opera company based in Croydon, providing opera in Surrey, Sussex and Kent. The company offers opportunity to emerging professional opera singers, providing the opportunity to work with professional directors, musicians, designers and the Surrey Opera Chorus. Alumni of Surrey Opera include known singers Peter Sidhom, Russell Smythe, Susan Gritton and David Soar. While opera forms the majority of its repertoire, the company also performs operettas, musicals and soirées.

The company premiered the rediscovered Samuel Coleridge-Taylor opera Thelma in 2012,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] and in 2017 staged the world premiere of The Life To Come,[8][9] by Louis Mander and Stephen Fry.

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  8. ^ White, Michael (September 2017). "Coming to Life". Opera Now. Rhinegold Publishing Ltd.: 51.
  9. ^ "Surrey Opera to perform world premiere of Fry's latest work". Inside Croydon. 28 July 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.