STARS of Heritage Opera sing ravishing operatic music in a brand new gala concert at Carnegie Hall this month. A Passion for Opera takes you on a fabulous tour of the operatic and musical theatre world, including music by Mozart, Bizet, Gounod, Verdi, Gershwin, Puccini, Gilbert and Sullivan, Rossini, and Rogers and Hammerstein.

The singers are all Heritage Opera regulars, each one a professional soloist: baritone Thomas Eaglen, tenor Nicholas Sales, mezzo soprano Wendy Sharrock and soprano Sarah Helsby Hughes, accompanied by Maestro Andrew Nicklin on piano, with the Heritage Opera Strings.

The programme will include excerpts from favourite operas and musicals; Rigoletto, La Traviata, Madame Butterfly, Carmen, The Barber of Seville, The Pearl Fishers, Die Zauberflöte, Showboat, Oklahoma, Porgy and Bess, The Mikado and many more.

Baritone, Thomas Eaglen, has made a quite remarkable recovery from having a brain tumour removed only last year.

Tom was due to sing in English Touring Opera’s spring season productions in 2013 but had to cancel all work commitments after being taken ill at home and then rushed to hospital following severe neurological symptoms.

He had the operation and made a speedy recovery to get back on the stage and singing superbly.

Thomas kept fans up to date with his blog which charted his treatment from the dark early days through to the brightness of his full recovery.

Wendy Sharrock is a versitile Mezzo-Soprano performer and vocal coach, based in Morecambe, Lancashire.

She trained at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music. She has sung in many operatic and musical shows for audiences up and down the UK.

Wendy also has a deep faith-based interest in writing and performing Christian Music and regularly leads worship at church.

A Passion for Opera, Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, 29th August at 7.30pm