Kent Opera

Kent Opera was a British opera company in the period 1969-1989. Based in Ashford, England the Company presented its productions in several centres mainly in the southern part of England. These included The Orchard Theatre, Dartford, the Assembly Halls, Tunbridge Wells, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, Kings Theatre, Southsea, Theatre Royal Norwich, the Derngate, Northampton. Operas were performed in English usually with new translations of the libretto, mainly by professor Michael Irwin but also by both Norman Platt and Anne Riddler. The orchestra was at first the Midland Sinfonia, though after two years the company employed its own orchestra.

Kent Opera

Kent Opera was a British opera company in the period 1969-1989. Based in Ashford, England the Company presented its productions in several centres mainly in the southern part of England. These included The Orchard Theatre, Dartford, the Assembly Halls, Tunbridge Wells, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, Kings Theatre, Southsea, Theatre Royal Norwich, the Derngate, Northampton. Operas were performed in English usually with new translations of the libretto, mainly by professor Michael Irwin but also by both Norman Platt and Anne Riddler. The orchestra was at first the Midland Sinfonia, though after two years the company employed its own orchestra.