Surrey Opera

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Surrey Opera is a semi-professional English opera company based in Croydon, providing opera in Surrey, Sussex and Kent. The company offers opportunity to emerging professional opera singers, providing the opportunity to work with professional directors, musicians, designers and the Surrey Opera Chorus. Alumni of Surrey Opera include known singers Peter Sidhom, Russell Smythe, Susan Gritton and David Soar. While opera forms the majority of its repertoire, the company also performs operettas, musicals and soirées.

The company premiered the rediscovered Samuel Coleridge-Taylor opera Thelma in 2012,{{cite journal|first=John|last=Allison|title=Thelma, Surrey Opera at the Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, February 11|journal=Opera|date=April 2012|volume=63|issue=4|pages=470–1|publisher=Cabbell Publishing Ltd.}}{{cite journal|first=Jonathan|last=Butcher|title=Meeting 'Thelma'|journal=Opera|date=February 2012|volume=63|issue=2|pages=142–146|publisher=Cabbell Publishing Ltd.}}{{cite news|first=Anna|last=Picard|title=The Tales of Hoffmann, Coliseum, London Thelma, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon London Sinfonietta, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/the-tales-of-hoffmann-coliseum-london-thelma-ashcroft-theatre-croydon-london-sinfonietta-queen-7166316.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/the-tales-of-hoffmann-coliseum-london-thelma-ashcroft-theatre-croydon-london-sinfonietta-queen-7166316.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|accessdate=5 September 2017|work=The Independent}}{{cite news|first=Fiona|last=Maddocks|title=The Tales of Hoffmann; Thelma; Nash Ensemble – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/feb/19/tales-hoffmann-thelma-nash-review|accessdate=5 September 2017|work=The Observer}}{{cite news|first=Andrew|last=Clements|title=Thelma - review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/feb/10/thelma-review|accessdate=5 September 2017|work=The Guardian}}{{cite news|first=George|last=Hall|title=Thelma review at Ashcroft Croydon|url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/2012/thelma-review-at-ashcroft-croydon/|accessdate=5 September 2017|work=The Stage}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2012/feb/07/thelma-samuel-coleridge-taylor-s-operatic-magnum-opus-rediscovered-in-croydon|title=Thelma: an opera world premiere|last=Service|first=Tom|date=7 February 2012|work=The Guardian|access-date=2 September 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} and in 2017 staged the world premiere of The Life To Come,{{cite journal|first=Michael|last=White|title=Coming to Life|journal=Opera Now|date=September 2017|page=51|publisher=Rhinegold Publishing Ltd.}}{{Cite web|url=https://insidecroydon.com/2017/07/28/surrey-opera-to-perform-world-premiere-of-frys-latest-work/|title=Surrey Opera to perform world premiere of Fry’s latest work|date=28 July 2017|website=Inside Croydon|access-date=2 September 2017}} by Louis Mander and Stephen Fry.