Gilbert and Sullivan Harrogate Additional Events

INTERNATIONAL OPERA STAR  DONALD MAXWELL IN CONCERT

Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond

Sunday 16th August, 7.30 pm
Tickets: £20 or with return bus transfers from Harrogate: £30

Donald Maxwell has established himself as one of the Festival’s favourite performers and in addition this year we welcome him in a new role, as director of the National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company’s new production of Patience.  This will certainly be a memorable evening in a memorable venue. 

Donald is a former member of Scottish Opera and Welsh National Opera, and has sung leading roles with all the major British opera companies and with international companies including the Metropolitan Opera, New York, La Scala, Milan, Vienna State Opera and Paris Opéra.


The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond is Britain's most complete Georgian playhouse, built by the actor-manager Samuel Butler in 1788. The theatre is a typical eighteenth-century country playhouse and keeps alive an important period of English theatre architecture. No other playhouse can offer such authenticity, and few other theatres can offer such intimacy. A capacity today of 214 places is arranged in rectangular form: sunken pit, boxes on three sides and a small gallery above. The furthest seat is only 10.7m from the stage, whose proscenium width is 4.72m with a depth of 6.4m to the back wall. Performers and theatregoers are in the closest proximity in this enchanting 'courtyard' theatre, the proportions of which have been emulated many times worldwide in the late twentieth century

Tickets available from - http://gsfestivals.org/content/sunday-16th-aug-donald-maxwell-concert-richmond-theatre