Find us on Facebook and Twitter:
Cambridge University Opera Society
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • About
    • Committee
    • Hall of Fame
    • Your show
  • EVENTS
    • Upcoming events
    • Past productions
  • NEWS
  • MEDIA
    • Gallery
    • Artwork
  • CONTACT

​Recent Productions

Information on our most recent productions (2014-) can be found on our website, especially in our News and Gallery pages, where you can find reviews and photos dating back several years. Please see below for our complete list of shows.

​List of Past Productions

2019/2020
​

2018/2019
​CUOS Shorts (student composers & librettists)
La Cenerentola (Rossini)
​The Last Hotel (Donnacha Dennehy)
Il signor Bruschino at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
The Twin Brothers (Schubert)
​Carmen (Bizet)
​Il signor Bruschino (Rossini)
Lent
Lent
​Michaelmas

​Summer Holiday
​Easter
​Lent
Michaelmas
​2017/2018​
Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein)
L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti)
Savitri (Holst)
Radamisto (Handel)
Easter
Lent
Michaelmas
​Michaelmas

2016/2017​
​A Dinner Engagement (Berkeley)
Easter
The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky)
Lent
The Descent of Orpheus to the Underworld (Charpentier)
Michaelmas
2015/2016​
​Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
Easter
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten)
Lent
Short stories: 3 student operas
- The Nightingale and the Rose (Bertie Baigent)
- A Good Man is Hard to Find (Stephen Bick)

- The Snow Child (Owain Park) ​
Lent
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Michaelmas
Jephtha (Handel)
Michaelmas
2014/2015​
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Easter
Candide (Bernstein)
Lent
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
Lent
Semele (Handel)
Michaelmas
Albert Herring (Britten)
Michaelmas
Mary of Egypt (Tavener)
Michaelmas
2013/2014​
​Tobias and the Angel (Jonathan Dove)
Easter
Curlew River (Britten)
Lent
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Lent
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Michaelmas
2012/2013​
​The Fairy Queen (Purcell)
Michaelmas
The Cunning Little Vixen (Janáček) 
Lent
2011/2012​
​Die Fledermaus (Strauss)
Lent
2010/2011​
​La Serva Padrona (Pergolesi)
Easter
The Bear (Walton)
Easter
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Lent
The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky)
Lent
2009/2010​
​Pelleas et Melisande (Debussy)
Lent
2008/2009​
​The Turn of the Screw (Britten)
Easter
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
Lent
2007/2008​
​Savitri (Holst)
Easter
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Lent
Les Mamelles de Tiresias (Poulenc)
Michaelmas
2006/2007​
Three portraits of Nero
Easter
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
Lent
2005/2006​
​Venus and Adonis and La Dirindina
Easter
Shakespeare Deranged
Easter
 The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Lent
2004/2005​
The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky)
Lent
The Turn of the Screw (Britten)
Michaelmas
2002/2003​
​The Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
Lent
Heavyweight (Ernst Krenek)
The Hero (Alexander Mosolov)
Michaelmas
The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
Michaelmas
2001/2002
​The She-Devil (Goldoni and Galuppi)
Easter
Machinist Hopkins (Max Brand)
Michaelmas
The Turn of the Screw (Britten)
Michaelmas
2000/2001​
​Orpheus and Euridice (Gluck)
Summer
1999/2000
1998/1999
Erwin and Elmire (Anna Amalia)
Lent
Orfeo (Monteverdi)
Michaelmas
1997/1998
​Carmen (Bizet)
Summer
The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky)
Lent
Riders to the Sea (Fritz Hart)
Diary of One who Disappeared (Janáček)
Michaelmas
1996/1997
L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti)
Lent
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)
1995/1996
Candide (Bernstein)
Easter
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Lent
1994/1995
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
Lent
The Spanish Lady (Elgar)
Michaelmas
1993/1994​
​The Beggar's Opera (Britten)
Lent
The Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
Michaelmas
Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein)
The Telephone (Menotti)
Michaelmas
1992/1993
​Berenice (Handel)
Easter
The Cunning Little Vixen (Janáček)
Lent
The Fairy Queen (Purcell)
Michaelmas
1991/1992
Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni)
Gianni Schicci (Puccini)
Lent/Easter
My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe)
Michaelmas
1990/1991
Amadigi (Handel)
Easter
Idomeneo (Mozart)
Lent
Owen Wingrave (Britten)
Michaelmas
1990/1991
Beatrice and Benedict (Berlioz)
Easter
Guys and Dolls (Loesser, Sweling and Burrows)
Lent
Acis and Galatea (Handel)
Lent
1989/1990
​Carousel (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Easter
Floridante (Handel)
Easter
The Soul of Chien-n Leaves her Body (Colin Huehns)
Lent/Easter
Ba-ta-Clan (Offenbach)
Lent
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
Lent
Enoch Arden (Tennyson and Strauss)
1987/1988
​The Soul of Chien-n Leaves her Body (Colin Huehns)
Savitry: an episode from the Mahabharata (Holst)
Summer
Oh, Kay (George and Ira Gershwin)
Easter
Orfeo (Monteverdi)
Lent
1986/1987
The Soldiers Tale (Stravinsky)
Easter
Flavio (Handel)
Easter
The Rape of Lucretia (Lent)
Lent
Fidelio (Beethoven)
Lent
The Giant's Heart (David Nicholls)
Les Mammelles de Tirsias (Poulenc)
Michaelmas
1985/1986
The Giant's Heart (David Nicholls)
Summer
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Lent
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
Michaelmas
1984/1985
​Zeller (Peter Cowdrey)
Lent
Rodelinda (Handel)
Lent
The Turn of the Screw (Britten)
Lent
La Traviata (Verdi)
Michaelmas
1983/1984
Dulcima (Giles Ghanndy)
The Soldiers Tale (Stravinsky)
Socrate (Satie)
Summer
Bastien and Bastienne (Mozart)
Easter
Happy End (Brecht and Weill)
Easter
Blake (Andrew Gant)
Lent
Cosi fan tutte (Mozart)
Lent
The Lighthouse (Maxwell Davies)
Lent
The Return of Ulysses (Monteverdi)
Michaelmas
The Terrorist (Terence Sinclair)
Michaelmas
1982/1983
Fidelio (Beethoven)
Summer
The Lighthouse (Maxwell Davies)
Easter
The Terrorist (Terence Sinclair)
The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
Easter
The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky)
Lent
Curlew River (Britten)
Lent
The Fairy Queen (Purcell)
Michaelmas
The Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
Michaelmas
1981/1982
Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
Easter
Nabucco (Verdi)
Easter
The Seven Deadly Sins (Weill)
Lent
Lieutenant Kije (Prokofiev)
La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Rossini)
Michaelmas
Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss)
Michaelmas
1980/1981
Abu Hassan (Weber)
Easter
Stiffelio (Verdi)
Lent
Der Freischutz (Weber)
Michaelmas
1979/1980
The Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
Summer
Cosi fan tutte (Mozart)
Summer
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Lent
Pulcinella (Stravinsky)
Michaelmas
Master Peter's Puppet Show (De Falla)
1978/1979
1977/1978
​The Coronation of Poppea (Monteverdi)
Easter
1976/1977
​Fidelio (Beethoven)
Lent
1975/1976
​Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
Lent
1974/1975
​Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Lent
1973/1974
​I due Foscari (Verdi)
Summer
1972/1973
​Semele (Handel)
Summer
1971/1972
1972/1973
​Ariodante (Handel)
Michaelmas
1969/1970
The Condemnation of Lukullus (Paul Dessau)
Lent
Venus and Adonis (Blow)
Michaelmas?
1968/1969
La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Rossini)
Summer
The Seven Deadly Sins (Weill)
The Kiss (Smetana)
Lent
1967/1968
Iphigenie en Tauride (Gluck)
Lent
Beatrice and Benedict (Berlioz)
Michaelmas
1966/1967
Oberon (Weber)
Lent
Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss)
Michaelmas
1965/1966
Orpheus and Euridice (Gluck)
Michaelmas?
We are always interested to hear from those who participated in our early shows - please get in touch with us if you have any information about these productions you would like to share!
Senior President ​Dame Fiona Reynolds
Junior President Anna Ryan
Webmaster Beatrix Swanson Scott
Artwork Patrick Dunachie
Picture
president.cuos@gmail.com | Email
@CambridgeUniversityOperaSociety | Facebook
@CamUniOperaSoc | Twitter
@CambridgeUniversity_Opera | Instagram