As part of Heritage Opera’s 20th Anniversary Season, we are delighted to revive Jonathan Dove’s acclaimed chamber opera Mansfield Park, a work that holds a special place in our history.
Originally commissioned by Heritage Opera in 2011, this elegant adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel has become one of the most successful chamber operas of recent decades. Fifteen years after its première, we are proud to bring this remarkable work to a new generation of audiences in a brand-new production.
Intimate, witty and emotionally compelling, Mansfield Park is perfectly suited to theatres, festivals, country houses and historic venues, combining exceptional music with timeless storytelling.
The production opens with a special charity gala performance before embarking on its wider tour, and we are now taking bookings for venues throughout the 20th Anniversary Season and beyond!
If you are interested in presenting Mansfield Park, we would be delighted to hear from you.
The opera performance starts at 6:45pm to conclude at approximately 10:00 pm with a 60 minute interval at about 8pm.
You are invited to bring your own picnic to eat in the delightful gardens of Bourne House, which will be open from 4.30pm. Picnics can be eaten either before the performance or during the interval, or both. However, for the sake of the musicians, the event will run to time, so please bear this in mind.
Tables and chairs can be provided for your exclusive use for the picnics at a cost of £50 for a table with up to 10 chairs, or £60 for a larger table with up to 12 chairs. If you are not coming as part of a party, you can join an unreserved table at £10 per head. Please indicate your requirements on the application form and add the charge to your payment—by cheque or BACS.
Alternatively, you can bring your own picnic equipment and easily find space in the extensive garden to set yourself up.
There is ample car parking just across the lane opposite the house. In the event of wet weather, picnics can be eaten in cars or in the performance marquee. You are advised to bring umbrellas, warm clothing and rugs etc. The performance itself will take place in the marquee.
Numbers at the performance are limited, and you are encouraged to make an early application. You are very welcome to come singly, to bring friends or a party of any size.
Eleanor is a British stage director and choreographer who works across opera and musical theatre. She graduated with a first in Music from King’s College London, and a distinction for her MMus in Vocal Performance at Trinity Laban. She was the Junior Fellow Assistant Director for Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 2024-25.
Passionate about the interplay of text, music, and movement, Eleanor leverages her vocal and dance background to empower performers to embody their characters. She regularly works with young singers in conservatoire training, nurturing their talent and cultivating their artistry and stagecraft.
Recent highlights include assisting Mark Ravenhill on Regents Opera’s production of Salome, directing two European Premieres – Jake Heggie’s If I Were You, and Gregory Spears’ and Greg Pierce’s opera Fellow Travelers – and Robert Ward’s The Crucible, all for UCOpera, assistant director for Scottish Opera’s double bill: Trial by Jury / A Matter of Misconduct, assistant director for Guildhall’s Opera Makers and Die Fledermaus, working as assistant director for The Ring Cycle and for Don Giovanni with Regents Opera, and working as assistant director for the revival of Oliver Mears’ Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House.
Henry Reavey is a repetiteur and conductor from Macclesfield and was a 2025-26 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio. In his time at NOS he collaborated with English National Opera, Opera North, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera on performances of opera scenes, as well as playing for many recitals including a performance at Wigmore Hall. This summer he was a repetiteur for L’Orfeo at Glyndebourne Opera Festival and also stepped in to play for Tosca and Il Turco in Italia rehearsals. Henry regularly works as a repetiteur for Chelsea Opera Group, including Cavalleria Rusticana, Silvano, Macbeth, La Straniera, and Le Roi d’Ys. He has previously collaborated with Heritage Opera on a production of Amahl and the Night Visitors for a private event and fundraiser performance.
Henry graduated from Opera Studies as a repetiteur at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2025. In his second year he specialised in conducting, and was the assistant conductor and chorus master for Die Fledermaus and Dido and Aeneas. Henry previously completed an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma as a repetiteur at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, graduating with distinction. He received multiple awards including the Anthony Cross Memorial Prize for outstanding contribution to the APD course, the Edward Brooks Lieder Accompanist’s Prize, the Gordon Clinton Prize for accompanying English song, and the John Ireland Prize. Henry also graduated with a distinction in a Master’s degree in piano performance at RBC and holds a first class undergraduate music degree from the University of Birmingham.
André Bertoncini is a Brazilian collaborative pianist specialising in opera and chamber music. He completed his Master of Arts in Piano Accompaniment with Distinction (DipRAM) at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Michael Dussek and James Baillieu. André trained as a Young Artist Répétiteur at the National Opera Studio (NOS), London in 2025/26.
In 2024, he worked as répétiteur for Die Zauberflöte at the Nevill Holt Festival. André made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2023 with the Academy Song Circle. André was awarded the Accompanist Prize at the Bampton Young Singer Competition.
Before moving to the UK, André was a full-time Assistant Collaborative Pianist at UEM (State University of Maringá), accompanying and coaching vocal and instrumental students in classes and performances as well as teaching piano. He was involved in extracurricular activities through the University’s outreach project, PIN, offering the same kind of musical support and guidance to students from the wider community. André acted as accompanist and répétiteur for FEMUSC (Music Festival of Santa Catarina). He holds a Bachelor’s degree from UNESPAR/EMBAP (Brazil), where he studied in the class of Russian pianist Olga Kiun with support from the Dieuwertje Meijer Project.
Welsh tenor, William Branston, is a graduate from Trinity Laban Conservatoire (London, UK) and the International Opera Academy (Ghent, Belgium).
He combines work as a freelance soloist with chorus work at La Monnaie/De Munt in Brussles and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp. He is also a fixed member of the Flemish Radio Choir and regularly tours across the EU with the ensemble.
His opera credits include: Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with Kempens Symfonisch Orkest; Don José in Bizet’s Carmen, and George Davis in Uhry/Weill’s LoveMusik with the International Opera Academy; Roméo in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Arcadian Opera; First Priest & Armed Man in The Magic Flute with Waterperry Opera; Borachio in Stanford’s Much Ado About Nothing with the Northern Opera Group; Rodolfo in La Bohème with Paisley Opera; Tebaldo in I Capuleti e I Montecchi with Opera Holloway; Acis in Acis and Galatea with Hurn Court Opera; and, Male Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with Trinity Laban Opera.
William also created the role of Dani in the world première of Frank Nuyts’s chamber opera Cambio Madre Por Moto with Muziektheater Transparant and the Asko|Schönberg ensemble for the Gent Festival, which was broadcast on Klara in October 2023.
