The New London Opera Group returns to the Riverhead Theatre for its final visit with a new production of Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera masterpiece, The Yeomen of the Guard.
 
The courageous Colonel Fairfax is imprisoned in the Tower of London on a false charge and condemned to die. Nobly resigned to his fate, Fairfax hastily marries Elsie, a travelling singer (herself promised in marriage to a jester, Jack Point), to prevent his estate from falling into the hands of his accuser after his execution. But when the Colonel is liberated from his cell by his allies among the Yeomen of the Guard, the fortunes of all who live within the Tower’s grim walls are upturned, with outcomes romantic, comic, and tragic.
 
For this production, the stage of the Louth Riverhead Theatre will be transformed into an Elizabethan playhouse, as the New London Opera Group brings the theatrical past to life.
 
Containing some of the very best music ever composed by Sullivan, with Gilbert’s characteristic wit investigating themes of love, honour, fate and farce, The Yeomen of the Guard promises an evening of song and dance, mirth and melancholy, intrigue and subterfuge. Join us for our “last hurrah” in Louth!