Durham Opera Ensemble and Durham University Palatinate Orchestra present a showcase concert including overtures, arias, duets and choruses from your favourite operas in the magical Great Hall of Durham Castle!

'Singers from the award-winning Durham Opera Ensemble accompanied by Durham University Palatinate Orchestra’s Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Sutch, invite you to a night at the opera in Durham Castle’s spectacular Great Hall.

The music includes a dazzling array of arias, duets and quartets from world-renowned operas composed by the likes of Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Bizet and others. The cast also come together to sing some of the great choruses from the operatic repertory. Opening each half of the concert, the Palatinate Orchestra play Rossini’s ‘Barber of Seville Overture’ and ‘March of the Toreadors’ from Carmen.

£12 Standard

£10 Concession

£7 Performing Arts Members

This event takes place in Castle Great Hall, Durham Castle, DH1 3RW.

The event will last 105 minutes with a short interval, and doors will open 30 minutes before the concert begins.

Returning to London after wrongful imprisonment, a barber hell-bent on revenge sets out to enact his own justice with a clean-cut shave.

DULOG presents the legendary tale of ‘Sweeney Todd’, a grippingly gothic Sondheim musical that’ll tip you to the edge of your seat. Upon returning to London fifteen years after his wrongful exile, the reinvented Sweeney Todd takes up his old barber shop above Mrs Lovett’s pie shop. Faced with revelations of his past, the two work together to add a deadly secret ingredient to her pies.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International. All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI www.mtishows.co.uk.

Content Warnings: Sexual violence, murder, cannibalism.

£10 Standard

£9 Concession

£8 Performing Arts Members

This even takes place at the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, 40 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3ET.

This event will begin at 7.30pm and last approximately 165 minutes. Doors will open 30 minutes before the start of the performance.

Join Durham University Choral Society for their inaugural performance of the season, bringing the reverence of Vaughan Williams' "Dona Nobis Pacem" and the radiance of Poulenc's "Gloria" to the stage of Newcastle Cathedral alongside a 60-piece orchestra.

'Durham University Choral Society, described as possessing "a warm and finely balanced" sound (The Guardian, 2024), join forces with the players of Durham University's leading Orchestras to bring a vibrant programme of choral and symphonic music to Newcastle Cathedral.

Conducted by Tim Burke (Chorus Director for Royal Northern Sinfonia Chorus and Musical Director of Tête à Tête Opera), our evening of music begins with the rousing "Gloria" by Francis Poulenc, a radiant work by the French 20th century composer that spreads joyous praise with a modern twist.  Our second half takes the audience on an extended journey influenced by the First World War from Vaughan Williams' perspective, with a choral-symphonic work entitled "Dona Nobis Pacem" (give us peace).  With introspective slower movements and the haunting fanfares of "Beat! Beat! Drums" Williams brings these tragic memories to life and depicts the light of peace emerging through the darkness.

With an evening of joyous, emotionally resonant music in the beautiful surroundings of Newcastle Cathedral, this event is not one to miss.

£17 Standard

£14 Concession

£12 Durham University Students and Staff

£10 Performing Arts Members

This concert takes place at Newcastle Cathedral, St. Nicholas Sq, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1PF.

The concert will begin at 7.45pm and last until approximately 9.15pm. Doors will open 45 minutes before the start time.