THREE singers and an accordionist of the Opera Cocktail ensemble from Southampton-based OperaUpClose come to Devon on 20th November and Dorset on Friday 4th and 5th December with their sparkling “jukebox” rom com.

Like a classic cocktail – and West End hit jukebox musicals – it is heady and fun blend of favourite flavours, blended to bring happiness and laughter.

The show, Opera Cocktail is about four friends trying to make sense of life and love and wondering … perhaps it is finally time to grow up? Told through brilliantly evocative music, it includes favourite arias from Carmen, La Traviata and The Elixir of Love, sung in sparkling English by some of the UK’s most exciting young artists.

Opera UpClose, which is based at Southampton’s Mayflower theatre, continues the winter tour of OperaCocktail with Devon’s Villages in Action, at Cornwood village hall near Ivybridge, on Friday 20th November.the Mayflower Studio on Tuesday 1st December, followed by the two Artsreach dates at the Mowlem Theatre at Swanage on Friday 4th and Chetnole village hall on Saturday 5th.

The tour is followed by performances on board the Cunard Transatlantic cruise from Southampton to New York, from 12th to 19th December.