Opera Nova based in the Tees Valley in the North East of England performs opera music at a variety of venues throughout the region.

Opera Nova present: On the Town

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Opera Nova are delighted to present a new programme for 2025 featuring solos, ensembles and choruses from favourite operas including Faust, La Traviata, Magic Flute, Pirates of Penzance, Carmen and many more. Whether you are a seasoned opera fan or simply love music of all kinds, you are sure to enjoy an afternoon in the exhilarating world of opera.
 
Devised and conducted by our new Musical Director Benjamin Noble, with Opera Nova Accompanist Lauren Gilbert at the piano, the programme showcases the Opera Nova chorus and soloists.
 
Stokesley Methodist Church
 
Date: Tuesday 8 July 2025
Time: 7.30 pm; doors open 7 pm
Venue: Stokesley Methodist Church, Stokesley, TS9 5AD
Price: £15 Adults; £12 Early Bird (by 26 June); £1 under 18s
 
Tickets: Eventbrite
or email: secretary@operanova.org.uk  mobile: 07795 323985
 

Opera Nova Outreach Project 2025

Opera Day at Chilton Academy, Durham
Opera Day at Lingfield Education Trust, Darlington

Thanks to generous funding from Point North, we are pleased to announce the continuation of our Opera Nova Outreach project, started in 2024. Through Opera Days at Chilton Academy, Durham and for the Lingfield Education Trust, Darlington, we are introducing children and young people to opera and sharing the pleasures and benefits of singing and acting with all age groups. We are also giving short performances in a wider range of venues, such as Darlington Library. If you are interested in hosting an Outreach event, please contact us (contact details below).
 
 
In 2024, Opera Nova in partnership with Great Aycliffe Town Council presented: 

The Merry Widow by Franz Léhar

Opera Day at Woodham Burn Community Primary School

Members of Opera Nova worked with Year 5 pupils, aided by music students from Woodham Academy. All learnt to sing and act short scenes from the light-hearted operetta, The Merry Widow. The workshops followed by a performance on Saturday 29 June with both Woodham Burn and Woodham Academy pupils performing alongside Opera Nova.
 
 
Past performances
 
The Merry Widow by Franz Léhar

Holy Trinity with St Mark Church, Upsall Grove, Stockton-on-Tees Tues 15 Oct 2024 7:30 pm

Stokesley Methodist Church, High Street, Stokesley Tues 9 Jul 2024 7:30 pm
 
 
The concert series ‘Partytime!’ was presented by Opera Nova in Winter/Spring 2024 – a selection of fun choruses and ensembles from opera and operetta, including songs from The Merry Widow which we were preparing to present as our semi-staged production for 2024.

For the spring to autumn 2023 season, Opera Nova presented a programme of Verdi opera with semi­-staged extracts from La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Aida, Falstaff and Otello, with Artistic Director Penny Randall-Davis, Musical Director Marco Romano and accompanist Lauren Gilbert.

audio file: opera-nova-excerpt-from-la-traviata-act-2-finale
 

photo by Alan Clements: Verdi: Love and Loss 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photo gallery: schools performance of Trial by Jury in Middlesbrough Town Hall Courtroom

photo by Alan Clements: Trial by Jury 2019

About Opera Nova

Opera Nova is an amateur company that promotes and stages opera. We aim to provide professional quality entertainment accessible to a wide audience and to develop the talents of local singers of all ages.

Rehearsals are held on Tuesday evenings at 
Holy Trinity with Saint Mark Church, Stockton-on-Tees

contact us:   Sue 07795 323985 or secretary@operanova.org.uk

website comments:   Clive   webmaster@operanova.org.uk

Registered Charity Number:   1138924      Company Number:   05720992

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Next Events

Date Series
Stokesley Methodist Church, High Street, Stokesley, TS9 5AD Tuesday, 8 July 2025 - 7:30pm On the Town