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La traviata: Verdi, Ellen Kent International
Norwich Theatre Royal Theatre Street, Norwich, United KingdomEllen Kent International bring a lavish touring production of La traviata to East Anglia, with international soloists, chorus and full orchestra. Performed with sumptuous sets and costumes, the opera is sung in Italian with English surtitles. A tragic tale of searing passion and memorable music, La traviata is Verdi’s outstanding interpretation of one of the…
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Madama Butterfly, Puccini: Ellen Kent International
Norwich Theatre Royal Theatre Street, Norwich, United KingdomEllen Kent International bring a lavish touring production of Madama Butterfly to East Anglia, with international soloists, chorus and full orchestra. Performed with sumptuous sets and costumes, the opera is sung in Italian with English surtitles. Back by overwhelming public demand, this award winning opera returns with exquisite sets including a spectacular Japanese garden and fabulous costumes…
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Norwich Opera Club: Rigoletto, Verdi
Assembly House Theatre Street, Norwich, Norfolk, United KingdomTonight's programme: a screening of Verdi's Rigoletto (DVD presented by Roger Everett). Norwich Opera Club is a sociable, informal gathering of opera enthusiasts. The Club doesn't produce performances, so you don't need to be able to sing. You may want to learn more, you may want to share your expertise or you may simply want to…
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Madama Butterfly, Puccini: Ellen Kent International
Regent Theatre St Helens Street, Ipswich, SuffolkEllen Kent International bring a lavish touring production of Madama Butterfly to East Anglia, with international soloists, chorus and full orchestra. Performed with sumptuous sets and costumes, the opera is sung in Italian with English surtitles. Back by overwhelming public demand, this award winning opera returns with exquisite sets including a spectacular Japanese garden and fabulous costumes…
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Handel’s Messiah: Bristol Old Vic
Cinema City St Andrew's Street, Norwich, Norfolk, United KingdomInspired by Handel’s profound religious masterpiece, this acclaimed Bristol Old Vic production provides a rare chance to experience a powerfully dramatic account of Messiah and to rediscover the intense spirituality of its many well-known arias and choruses. Described by the critics as an ‘astonishingly beautiful’ (The Stage), ‘direct and impactful interpretation’ (The Times), this dramatised…
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MET Opera Screening: Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Cinema City St Andrew's Street, Norwich, Norfolk, United KingdomGoaded by their cynical friend Don Alfonso, soldiers Ferrando and Guglielmo decide to test their fiancées’ fidelity. Pretending to leave with their regiment, they return in disguise and pay court to each other’s lover. Will the young women succumb to the charms of these two handsome ‘foreigners’? A co-production with English National Opera, this clever…
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Rodelinda, Handel: Cambridge Handel Opera Company
The Great Hall The Leys School, CambridgeCambridge Handel Opera Company (CHOC) celebrates the fusion of music and the stage with performances that are not just ‘historically informed’, but ‘historically inspired’. Led from the harpsichord by Artistic Director Julian Perkins, the company combines period instrumentalists from the ensemble Sounds Baroque with advanced students. The cast brings together young professional solo singers for what promises to be…
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Pre-performance talk by Charlotte Valori: Verdi and Macbeth
Fisher Theatre 10 Broad Street, Bungay, Suffolk, United KingdomCome along to the Fisher Theatre bar before their screening of the Royal Opera House’s production of Macbeth, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, and you will find me talking about Verdi and his Macbeths - yes, there were two - and why this dark, Shakespearian tale of Scottish murder so utterly captivated the Italian composer for much…
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ROH Live Screening: Verdi’s Macbeth
Fisher Theatre 10 Broad Street, Bungay, Suffolk, United KingdomThe warrior Macbeth fights on the side of the King of Scotland – but when a coven of witches prophesy that he shall become king himself, a ruthless ambition drives Macbeth and his wife to horrific acts. Murder makes Macbeth king, and intrigue and butchery are the hallmarks of his brief, doomed reign. The witches make…
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Norwich Opera Club: Götterdämmerung, Wagner (Part One)
Assembly House Theatre Street, Norwich, Norfolk, United KingdomTonight's programme: a screening of the first part of Wagner's Götterdämmerung (DVD presented by John Newby); the second half will be presented on 19 April due to time constrictions. Norwich Opera Club is a sociable, informal gathering of opera enthusiasts. The Club doesn't produce performances, so you don't need to be able to sing. You may want…
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Jane Eyre – The Musical, Norfolk Youth Music Theatre
Norwich Playhouse 42-58 St Georges Street, Norwich, Norfolk, United KingdomThe award winning Norfolk Youth Music Theatre bring Charlotte Bronte's great love story to life with singing to lift your heart. This beloved tale of secrets and the lies that secrets create, of unimaginable hope and unspoken passion, reminds us what it is to fall deeply, truly and completely in love. An amateur production. Music…
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The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart: English Touring Opera
Snape Maltings Concert Hall Snape, Suffolk, United KingdomEnglish Touring Opera presents an energetic new production of one of the world’s most beloved operas, Mozart’s classic comedy The Marriage of Figaro. During the course of one eventful day, Figaro and Susanna must overcome every obstacle put in their way by Count Almaviva and his cronies before they can finally be united as man and…
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Shackleton’s Cat, English Touring Opera
Britten Studio Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk, United KingdomShackleton’s Cat returns in 2018, as part of ETO’s award-winning strand of operas for young people. The opera features nine performers, including singers and players, and tells the story of the voyage and destruction of the Endurance 100 years ago, and the subsequent tale of survival against all odds. The story itself begins in 2015,…
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MET Opera Screening: Verdi’s Luisa Miller
Cinema City St Andrew's Street, Norwich, Norfolk, United KingdomPlácido Domingo adds yet another chapter to his legendary Met career with this rarely performed Verdi gem, a heart-wrenching tragedy based on Friedrich Schiller’s novel Intrigue and Love. The young maiden Luisa loves Rodolfo, unaware that he is actually the son of the local lord. An unscrupulous rival for her affections tells her father of…
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Il Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi, Puccini: English Touring Opera
Snape Maltings Concert Hall Snape, Suffolk, United KingdomPuccini’s one-act operas Il tabarro and Gianni Schicchi could hardly be more different: one is a moody romance ending in a grotesque murder on a barge in Paris, and the other is a sparkling comedy about a family inheritance in Florence. First performed in 2011 to great critical acclaim, this double bill shows Puccini at his finest as a…
£8 – £35