Bude and Falmouth both produced fantastic audiences for us and the feedback was encouraging!

"Congratulations to Duchy Opera. An excellent performance in Falmouth last night. A most enjoyable evening"

"Congratulations to Duchy Opera for Die Fledermaus, a brilliant production, well done, great fun!"

Please come along and see us at Newquay (Wednesday) or Truro (Thursday)

There was a very informative interview on Thursday on the Tiffany Truscott show on Radio Cornwall, featuring Paul Drayton, Helen Tiplady and Cheryl Brendish. They shared insights into our Die Fledermaus production which opens today at Bude. You can now "Listen Again" at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p030n4dg#play (start listening at about 29 mins 20 secs into the programme - lasts 10 minutes)

Not long now to our first performance of our original and quirky operetta “Die Fledermaus”. I hope that by now you will have noticed our publicity on posters, in the local paper and on social media.
If all this has passed you by, here is a brief look at what’s in store.
(and if you are already suffering from information overload, please feel free to re-cycle this email!)
Could I please encourage you to support this local production, brought to you by a cast totally drawn from Cornwall?
It will be a fun performance with the beautiful music of Johann Strauss setting your toes tapping.

Radio interview with Director Helen Tiplady about her setting for Duchy Opera's 2015 production of Die Fledermaus. Electric Radio Show on Source FM, www.thesourcefm.co.uk presented by Keith Sparrow.
(complete with Helen's children in the background as she was talking to Keith on the phone!)

LISTEN HERE

The Electric Radio Show added 3 new photos.

Well worth listening to this show! Great music guaranteed and all you will need to know about Duchy Opera's forthcoming Die Fledermaus production!....and the show is hosted by Keith Sparrow, Assistant Director Extraordinaire (Die Fledermaus) and also THE BAT!

Keith writes: "On tomorrow's Electric Radio Show I'll be joined by talkaholic comedian Claire Rowley, fresh from a recent stand-up show at Edinburgh Fringe; plus the brilliant Helen Tiplady will be on to talk about her upcoming directorial debut with Duchy Opera's 'Die Fledermaus'; plus I'll be playing tracks from the great new Cornwall Calling cd from Easy Action Records".

11am -1pm on www.thesourcefm.co.uk. 961.FM

 Recycling Strauss By Cornish Guardian  |  Posted: September 02, 2015

"Duchy Opera: definitely not rubbish..." (Lee Trewhela)

A RECYCLING centre is not the first place you think of as the setting for an opera, but then the Cornish company Duchy Opera has never shied away from trying unusual ideas.

Cast members paid a visit to the United Downs household waste recycling centre as part of their preparations for their production of Strauss' famous 1874 operetta Die Fledermaus.

Inspired by the original plot where a variety of flamboyant characters disguise and reinvent themselves at a ball, director Helen Tiplady has taken the traditional Viennese setting of the opera and re-set it in a recycling centre, where the cast get to forage among all manner of colourful objects to remodel themselves at a riotous party.

Helen is well-known for her work with Cscape dance and HFC Youth Dance. She said: "I like the trend of up-cycling and reusing retro things, making use of things other people throw away. It seemed a good fit for Die Fledermaus, where the characters all disguise themselves and take on new personalities. In this show they do that via discarded and recycled goods, and have a lot of laughs in the process.

Read more: http://www.cornishguardian.co.uk/Recycling-Strauss/story-27714853-detail/story.html#ixzz3kbPt1XXf