Past Production History

Academic Year Production Dates

2009/10

Pelleas et Melisande (Debussy) Feb 17–20

2008/9

The Turn of the Screw (Britten) Jun 18–21
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) Feb 19–21

2007/8

Savriti (Holst) Jun 13–14
Don Giovanni (Mozart) Feb 20–23
Les Mamelles de Tiresias (Poulenc) Oct 18–19

2006/7

Three portraits of Nero Jun 15–17
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck) Feb 6–18

2005/6

Venus and Adonis and La Dirindina

Jun 16–17

Shakespeare Deranged

May 4–5

The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)

Feb 22–25

2004/5

The Rakes Progress (Stravinsky) *

Feb 23–24

The Turn of the Screw (Britten) *

Oct 27–28

2003/4

Peter Grimes (Britten)

Mar 5–6

Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) *

Dec 3–6

Chamber Opera Double Premire *

Music for a Friend (Rowland Moseley)

Moses and Pharaoh (James Hewitt)

Nov 7

2002/3

The Rape of Lucretia (Britten)

Feb 20–22

Heavyweight (Ernst Krenek) *

The Hero (Alexander Mosolov) *

Dec 7

The Flying Dutchman (Wagner) *

Nov

2001/2

The She-Devil (Goldoni and Galuppi)

Jul

Machinist Hopkins (Max Brand) *

Nov 18–25

The Turn of the Screw (Britten) *

Nov 15–17

2000/1

Orpheus and Euridice (Gluck) *

Jul 17–28

1999/2000

1998/9

Erwin und Elmire (Anna Amalia) *

Jan 29–30

Orfeo (Monteverdi) *

Oct 20–24

1997/8

Carmen (Bizet) *

Jul 20–25

The Rakes Progress (Stravinsky) *

Feb 2

Riders to the Sea (Fritz Hart) *

Diary of One who Disappeared (Jancek) *

Oct

1996/7

LElisir damore (Donizetti) *

Jan 28–Feb 1

Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti) *

1995/6

Candide (Bernstein)

May 59

Don Giovanni (Mozart) *

Feb 8–18

1994/5

Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) *

Lent

The Spanish Lady (Elgar)

Nov 24–26

1993/4

The Beggars Opera (Britten) *

Feb 16–20

The Rape of Lucretia (Britten)

Nov 18–21?

Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein) *

The Telephone (Menotti) *

Oct 19–23

1992/3

Berenice (Handel) CHOG *

Apr 29

May 12

The Cunning Little Vixen (Jancek)

Feb 15–20?

The Fairy Queen (Purcell)

Nov 14–15?

1991/2

Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni)

Gianni Schicci (Puccini)

Lent/Easter

My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe)

Dec

1990/1

Amadigi (Handel) CHOG

May 3–5

Idomeneo (Mozart) *

Jan 15–19

Owen Wingrave (Britten) *

Nov 30

Dec 1

1989/90

Beatrice and Benedict (Berlioz) *

May 4–6

Guys and Dolls
(Loesser, Sweling and Burrows)

Mar 13–24

Acis and Galatea (Handel) *

Jan 26

1988/9

Carousel (Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Jun

Floridante (Handel) CHOG *

May 4–6

The Soul of Chien-n Leaves her Body
(Colin Huehns) *

Lent/Easter?

Ba-ta-Clan (Offenbach)

Feb

The Barber of Seville (Rossini)

Jan 24–28

Enoch Arden (Tennyson and Strauss) *

Nov 9–10

1987/8

The Soul of Chien-n Leaves her Body
(Colin Huehns) *

Savitry: an episode from the Mahabharata
(Holst) *

Jul 21–23

Oh, Kay (George and Ira Gershwin)

Jun

Orfeo (Monteverdi) *

Jan 26–30

1986/7

The Soldiers Tale (Stravinsky) *

Jun

Flavio (Handel) CHOG *

Apr 30
May 1

The Rape of Lucretia (Britten) *

Mar 11–15

Fidelio (Beethoven) *

Jan 21–24?

The Giants Heart (David Nicholls) *

Les Mammelles de Tirsias (Poulenc) *

Oct 25–29

1985/6

The Giants Heart (David Nicholls) *

Aug

The Magic Flute (Mozart) *

Apr

Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) *

Dec 3–6

1984/5

Zeller (Peter Cowdrey) *

Apr 2–6

Rodelinda (Handel) CHOG *

Mar 5–9

The Turn of the Screw (Britten) *

Feb 5–8

La Traviata (Verdi) *

Nov 13–17

1983/4

Dulcima (Giles Ghanndy) *

The Soldiers Tale (Stravinsky) *

Socrate (Satie) *

Aug 12–25

Bastien und Bastienne (Mozart) *

Jun 20–23

Happy End (Brecht and Weill) *

Jun 19–23

Blake (Andrew Gant) *

Feb 28–29
Mar 2–3

Cosi fan tutte (Mozart)

Feb 15–18

The Lighthouse (Maxwell Davies)

Jan 25–29

The Return of Ulysses (Monteverdi)

Nov 8–12

The Terrorist (Terence Sinclair) *

Oct 11–15?

1982/3

Fidelio (Beethoven) *

The Lighthouse (Maxwell Davies) *

The Terrorist (Terence Sinclair) *

Aug 28–31
Sep 1–10

The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)

Jun 13–15

The Rakes Progress (Stravinsky) *

Mar 15

Curlew River (Britten) *

Jan 18–22

The Fairy Queen (Purcell)

Nov 16–19

The Rape of Lucretia (Britten) *

Oct 25–29

1981/2

Gianni Schicci (Puccini)

Jun 14–16

Nabucco (Verdi) *

Apr 20–24

The Seven Deadly Sins (Weill) *

Lieutenant Kije (Prokofiev) *

Feb 4–6

La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Rossini) *

Nov 26–28

Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss) *

Nov 4

1980/1

Abu Hassan (Weber) *

Jun 12

Stiffelio (Verdi) *

Jan 13–17

Der Freischtz (Weber) *

Nov 14–15

1979/80

The Rape of Lucretia (Britten) *

Aug?

Cosi fan tutte (Mozart) *

Jul 25–Aug 2

The Magic Flute (Mozart) *

Feb 22–24

Pulcinella (Stravinsky) *

Master Peters Puppet Show (De Falla) *

Nov 22

1978/9

1977/8

The Coronation of Poppea (Monteverdi) *

Apr 26–29

1976/7

Fidelio (Beethoven) *

Jan 24–29

1975/6

Don Pasquale (Donizetti) *

Jan 27–31

1974/5

Don Giovanni (Mozart) *

Jan 28–Feb 1

1973/4

I due Foscari (Verdi) *

Jul 24–27

1972/3

Semele (Handel) *

Jul 27–29

1971/2

1970/1

Ariodante (Handel)

Nov

1969/70

The Condemnation of Lukullus (Paul Dessau)

Jan

Venus and Adonis (Blow) *

Michaelmas?

1968/9

La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Rossini)
The Seven Deadly Sins (Weill)

Jul

The Kiss (Smetana)

Feb

1967/8

Iphigenie en Tauride (Gluck)

Feb

Beatrice and Benedict (Berlioz)

Nov

1966/7

Oberon (Weber)

Feb

Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss)

Nov

1965/6

Orpheus and Euridice (Gluck)

Michaelmas?

CUOS Archive

The CUOS archive in the University Library (Cambridge University Archives) has the classmark SOC.XI.

All references given under production/event details [*] are for the suffix only.

The M series is of photographs; P is posters; L is administrative records (as are the rest).

Yearcards from 1981/2 to 1995/6 are contained in E1, although the series is incomplete: no yearcard survives from 1985/6, 1991/2 or 1994/5.

Further documents are to be found in the Rare Books department, as Cambridge Papers J6540 and 219.

Notes

  • If SOC.XI.P18 is from the 1980s, as the catalogue claims, it must be for Wednesday 6 Nov in 1985 (the only one that decade).
  • SOC.XI.P13 is miscatalogued as Happy Hour, it should read Happy End.

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