What's On | ETO – Ottone
Ottone - A white woman stands on stage in front of a gold, red and green mosaic wall, looking to her right in alarm. Her hair is blonde and in a braid curled around her head, and her clothing looks classical.
Ottone - A white woman stands on stage in front of a gold, red and green mosaic wall, looking to her right in alarm. Her hair is blonde and in a braid curled around her head, and her clothing looks classical.
A woman leaning back into a man's arms. She looks unconscious and the man looks anguished.
Photo © Richard Hubert Smith
A singing woman in a dress in golden light stood between two halves of a dome covered in classical artwork
Photo © Richard Hubert Smith
A man dressed in black on the floor as a man with white sleeves stands over him holding a dagger
Photo © Richard Hubert Smith

ETO – Ottone

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English Touring Opera return to Exeter with a celebration of the work of the greatest composer of opera in the UK, George Frideric Handel.

The tale of an emperor and his bride kept apart by court intrigue and the workings of fate, Handel’s rarely-performed Ottone returns in a revival of English Touring Opera’s 2014 production.

Featuring radiant Byzantine-inspired designs by takis, and sung in a translation by Andrew Porter, the production was highly praised by audiences and critics alike. Music comes from ETO’s period instrument partners The Old Street Band, conducted by ETO Music Director Gerry Cornelius.

Sung in English, with English surtitles.

PRE-SHOW TALK 6.30pm

This performance is preceded by a talk and Q&A with the company in the main auditorium.
Tickets are free and can be booked through the link below.
BOOK TICKETS FOR PRE-SHOW TALK

★★★★

“Ottone in its full splendour”

The Times

★★★★★

“This often-overlooked Handel opera receives the performance it deserves”

The Daily Telegraph

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