{"id":810,"date":"2026-01-16T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:07:23","slug":"plans-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"Plans for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I will be performing the role of Jupiter in Offenbach&#8217;s &#8220;Orpheus In The Underworld&#8221; for Kentish Opera at the STAG Theatre in Sevenoaks 23 to 25 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in the year, I will be playing Colonel Petkoff in &#8220;The Chocolate Soldier&#8221; by Oscar Straus with Opera della luna at Wiltons Music Hall in London from June 23-27.<br>Additional performances at IF opera (Church Farm, Wingfield) on August 11, 13, 14.<br>The operetta is based on Bernard Shaw&#8217;s play &#8220;Arms And The Man&#8221;. This production will be the first to use Shaw&#8217;s dialogue and character names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Chocolate Soldier 2026\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Hh9ibLFHDs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In between &#8220;Chocolate Soldier&#8221; dates, I will be performing Lillas Pastia in Bizet&#8217;s &#8220;Carmen&#8221; with Devon Opera at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter on July 24 &amp; 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will add more information about all three productions closer to the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be performing the role of Jupiter in Offenbach&#8217;s &#8220;Orpheus In The Underworld&#8221; for Kentish Opera at the STAG Theatre in Sevenoaks 23 to 25 April. Later in the year, I will be playing Colonel Petkoff in &#8220;The Chocolate Soldier&#8221; by Oscar Straus with Opera della luna at Wiltons Music Hall in London from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}