Opera On The Run

Set to the music of Mozart and with a champagne sparkling new libretto ‘The Perfect Picnic’ is a wonderfully light hearted entertainment combining elements of theatre and opera to produce a quintessentially English tale of love and misunderstanding at a summer’s Opera Gala in the park.

Newly redundant accountant David Sterling and his long suffering girlfriend Sarah Primrose mysteriously receive tickets to an opera gala at which, it transpires, David’s ex-wife and rising opera star, Rachel, is performing.

When Rachel’s new boyfriend, flamboyant celebrity TV designer Michael de Haughton-Tours, lays eyes on Sarah his attention is transferred immediately from the stage to the stalls where she is sitting. It is during the Picnic interval however that events unfold offering more drama than the opera itself.