We are delighted to announce our next concert, Shakespeare at the Opera.

• 25 October 2025 at 3:00pm - Village Centre, Hurstpierpoint

Tickets will be available from 1st September

We are excited to announce that online booking for our next production, Verdi's King for a Day (Un Giorno di Regno) is now open.

Please use the Tickets menu option to make your booking.

Telephone booking will be open from 7th April.

We are delighted to announce our next production, Verdi's King for a Day.

• 17 May 2025 at 7:30pm - King Edward's Hall, Lindfield
• 18 May 2025 at 6:00pm - Civic Centre, Uckfield
• 24 May 2025 at 7:30pm - The Steyning Centre, Steyning
• 25 May 2025 at 6:00pm - Village Centre, Hurstpierpoint

Tickets will be on sale soon!

We are delighted to announce our next event, a celebration of the life and work of Giacomo Puccini.

• Sunday 29th September, 6:00pm at Hurstpierpoint Village Centre

To purchase tickets, please click here to be taken to the Hurst Festival web page.

Heber Opera will be taking part in the Hurst Festival with a concert celebrating "Puccini's World".

From 1893, when Puccini's Manon Lescaut was first performed (a week before Verdi's last opera, Falstaff) he came to international acclaim with La Boheme, Tosca, and Madam Butterfly - culminating in his final work, the unfinished masterpiece: Turandot. This was in 1924.

100 years on it is easy to see how he became the natural successor to Verdi. However, in succeeding The Master, it turns out he was to become the Last Master of Italian Opera - for, though much imitated, he has never been equalled, and music has travelled in very different directions since.

The Performance is at 6pm on 29 September in Hurstpierpoint Village Centre.

Our soloists Veronica Brooks and Matt Connolly will be celebrating Puccini during the Brighton Fringe Festival. Please come along and support them!

Please follow this link for tickets

We’ve had a busy time at Heber Opera since our last email. We were delighted and privileged to be invited to sing in the Music Room at Brighton Pavilion for a Christmas concert (jointly with Brighton Chamber Choir) and also to entertain the diners at two of the Pavilion’s Christmas banquets. We were also very happy to have been invited back to the Bluebell Railway to provide carol singing for the Golden Arrow Christmas Dining trains.

It was lovely to be back singing again in the evocative surroundings of Horsted Keynes station.

Plans for 2024 Our plans for this year are still in flux. You can see from the photos elsewhere on this page that last year’s Tales of Hoffmann was a tremendous achievement and was hugely enjoyed by everyone who attended but it has left our finances a little strained!

We will be concentrating on fundraising performances this year – we aren’t planning another fully staged performance until 2025 - but we are counting on our supporters to continue to come along to concerts and other events that we have planned.

We are aiming to present a couple of ‘gala’-type concerts in the spring and autumn and we intend to hold more of our popular ‘Afternoon tea’ concerts. We can already announce the date of our very popular fundraising craft fair in Hurstpierpoint Village Centre which is on 23 November 2024.

Planning is underway for all these projects so watch this space for further information and dates when these become available.

Better still, why not join our mailing list so that you can be the first to hear about our events [link to: http://heberopera.co.uk/mailing]

In addition, we would love to hear any suggestions you might have for additional fundraising activities, or venues or organisations that might like to book Heber Opera for events.

Meanwhile, for anyone who might have been thinking of joining Heber Opera, there will be opportunities for taster sessions throughout the year. If you would like to learn more about what it takes to sing in opera, please contact Michael Withers (michael@heberopera.co.uk).