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Slepe Green Barn

A private family barn used for occasional, charitable, fund-raising events. Can seat an audience of up to 65.

21/03/2025

Spring / summer Bluffers' Lunch dates are announced - the next, this 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝟐𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 when festival technical director, James Smith, will give us a fascinating insight into what is required to get our opera productions on stage - from initial scribbles on paper, to what you enjoy on opening night. The lecture will concentrate on the staging for this year's festival alongside highlights of previous seasons.
Future dates also for sale April to June with a raft of fascinating speakers.
£35 per person 11:30-15:30 including lunch with wine. Box office: https://tickets.dorsetopera.com/sales/events/other-events/bluffers-lunches

14/05/2024

Have you ever wondered about the composing process of an opera? At next week's Bluffers' Lunch, composer Paul Carr joins us to talk about composing Under The Greenwood Tree. Based on Thomas Hardy's charming novel, it was newly commissioned by Dorset Opera Festival to celebrate their 50th anniversary and premieres this July. Box office: dorsetopera.com

27/02/2024

Giacomo Puccini died 100 years ago this year. To mark the occasion, this summer we are producing one of his most-loved operas, Madama Butterfly. Last week, at one of our lunch lectures, Adrian Thorpe spoke about Puccini's interesting (rather romantically complicated) life - and his composition themes - political and sexual intrigue, blood-and-guts sexual jealousy, modern Japan, legendary China, Italian family arguments and even how to cheat at poker (some of the audience delighted to discover The Girl of the Golden West, La Fanciulla del West (1910) - a good old fashioned spaghetti western set in California during the gold rush). Puccini wrote in verismo style, down-to-earth realism - and regardless of how remote from everyday life his subjects are, they are believable, which makes his operas all the more moving.

📽️ So Puccini died in 1924 - film was a thing by then - so we went off to see if there was any real footage of the great man. There is. Enjoy!... https://youtu.be/PPcn-HdjfP8?si=l5UtZfRYh7w7tDnl

Dorset Opera Festival July 22-27 at Bryanston near Blandford Forum
Box office: Currently priority booking. General booking opens 26th March.
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30/01/2024

Some of our favourite days of the year are Dorset Opera Festival's Bluffers' Lunch lectures that we host here.

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