The Company's production of Bizet's Carmen at the Minack Theatre on the cliffs at Porthcurno in JULY 2007 was a sell-out performance.

You can see more photos on the Minack website 

Read what the critics had to say 

...from the West Briton:

Young opera company is first to play at the Minack

Next week is a FIRST for a Cornish opera company when New Cornwall Opera performs Bizet's Carmen at the Minack Theatre on the cliffs at Porthcurno. Tickets for the opera are a complete sell-out, leaving many late bookers disappointed. Audiences will be delighted by this colourful production in which leading soprano Louise Merrifield plays the seductive gipsy girl who captivates every man she meets. Don Jose (played by Matt Eva) sets out as a rather aloof soldier but he quickly succumbs to the taunting temptress. His ravishing "Flower song" displays Matt's beautiful tenor voice: this is his first solo venture into opera after gaining experience and success in leading roles with operatic societies throughout Cornwall (including Mr Bumble in Oliver and Freddie Trumper in Chess). 

Michaela is by contrast a simple country girl whose loyalty and fragility lead to disappointment and heartbreak, and Maria Gay is perfectly cast in the role, acting as a foil to the more brazen characters in the opera.

Excitement attends the scenes at the bullring as the large chorus, augmented by pupils from the Bolitho school and Truro School Prep, greets the arrival of Carmen, now on the arm of her new suitor Escamillo, with the thrilling sound of the famous Toreador song. GaryTucker as Escamillo is all that you might expect of a famous Toreador: handsome, haughty, adored and respected. John Hobbs and Derek Rowse are well-cast as the smuggling desperados who plot and cajole; Laura Nicholas and Simone Hellier, playing the two gipsy girls Mercedes and Frasquita, are charming and delicious, and the four sing an effervescent and breathlessly fast quintet with Carmen as they leave on their next smuggling adventure. 

The climax of the drama arrives in the tragic closing scene when the maddened lover confronts the free-spirited wild girl who has stolen him away from himself.