Princess Ida
Wednesday 5th November -
Saturday 8th November 2025
Evenings 7:30pm & Saturday matinee 2:30pm
- Main Stage Production
Two rival kings attempt to settle their differences by betrothing their infant children to one another.
Twenty years on, and the time has come for Ida’s and Hilarion’s official engagement.
Ida has given
backword, however, and set up an academic community of women in Castle Adamant, which has
sworn to renounce all men.
The opera follows Hilarion’s plan to get her back, despite the attentions of Ida’s three belligerent
brothers and the tendency of his companions to give away their disguises.
We meet Ida, the
“Mighty Maiden with a Mission” and share the brothers’ delight for the “Rum-tum-tum of the
Military Drum” before finding out whether in the end nothing is “Above the Sway of Love”.
Sullivan’s music is enhanced with the accompaniment of a 15-piece orchestra.
