TWO special opera performances will help raise funds for children’s charities.
Taking place in Henley, they will be given by Diva Opera.
The company’s casts include singers who work at the major opera houses, and the operas are performed in stunning period costumes.
There are subtitles for both operas.
Over the past 26 years, the company has produced more than 50 different operas and over 2,000 performances in festivals, theatres and for charities across the world.
On Saturday, September 17, they will perform Puccini’s Tosca, and Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, on Saturday, September 24.
Performances take place in The Great Barn at Manor Farm, Fingest, near Henley, and people can bring picnics to enjoy in the interval.
The charities to benefit from the performances are Action Medical Research for Children and Child Bereavement UK.
Action Medical Research for Children is a leading UK-wide charity which funds vital medical research.
In the past 70 years, their research has helped to beat polio in the UK, fight meningitis, prevent stillbirths and develop antenatal ultrasound scanning in pregnancy.
Child Bereavement UK supports children and young people up to the age of 25, when someone important to them has died or is not expected to live, and parents and the wider family when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying.
Organiser Sylvia Crowther said: “We’re so pleased to be hosting Diva Opera again this year. The performances are a wonderful opportunity to enjoy first-class opera while supporting two very worthy causes.”
Tickets cost £90 and £105 and include a reserved seat in the Great Barn and a picnic table for the interval.
For more details, log on to: www.fingestgreatbarnopera.co.uk/booking/
