Events
-
-
Pre-performance talk by Charlotte Valori: Puccini and Tosca
Fisher Theatre 10 Broad Street, Bungay, Suffolk, United KingdomPlease join me in the bar of the Fisher Theatre for a FREE pre-performance talk before the live cinema screening of Puccini's Tosca from the Royal Opera House. I'll be explaining a bit more about Puccini as a man who loved the best he could get - from fast cars to large cigars - and…
FREE -
ROH Live Screening: Puccini’s Tosca
Fisher Theatre 10 Broad Street, Bungay, Suffolk, United KingdomTosca is one of the great evenings of opera, and from its strident opening chords conjures up a world of political instability and menace. Jonathan Kent’s production for The Royal Opera captures the dangerous political turbulence of Rome in 1800. Giacomo Puccini’s dramatic work was a hit with audiences at its 1900 première and it…
£10 – £13 -
Ruddigore, Gilbert & Sullivan: CU G&S Soc
West Road Concert Hall 11 West Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomCambridge University Gilbert and Sullivan Society returns to West Road Concert Hall for the fifth year in a row, this year performing the brilliant Ruddigore. A terrible curse condemns each baronet of Ruddigore to commit one crime per day or perish in inconceivable agony. Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd has gone into hiding to avoid the curse…
£7 – £23 -
The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart: Merry Opera
Beccles Public Hall Smallgate, Beccles, Suffolk, United KingdomMerry Opera are touring their production of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro: Life, liberty and the pursuit of love in the jazz clubs of the 1960s is driving everyone crazy. Figaro loves Susanna, Cherubino loves the Countess, and the Countess loves the Count. The Count is intent on chasing Susanna and on preventing Figaro from marrying…
£9 – £10 -
MET Opera Screening: L’Elisir d’Amore, Donizetti
Cinema City St Andrew's Street, Norwich, Norfolk, United KingdomThe poor country boy Nemorino is in love with Adina, a confident landowner, but she is way out of his league – financially and otherwise. But when he buys a “love potion” from a travelling quack, the results are rather more than he bargained for. Charmingly staged by Bartlett Sher, Donizetti’s beloved masterpiece combines deft…
£10 – £32 -
The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart: Merry Opera
The Corn Hall St Nicholas Street, Diss, Norfolk, United KingdomMerry Opera are touring their production of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro: Life, liberty and the pursuit of love in the jazz clubs of the 1960s is driving everyone crazy. Figaro loves Susanna, Cherubino loves the Countess, and the Countess loves the Count. The Count is intent on chasing Susanna and on preventing Figaro from marrying…
£7 – £15 -
L’Elisir d’Amore, Donizetti, CUOS
West Road Concert Hall 11 West Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomThis year's Cambridge University Opera Society main show brings Donizetti's sparkling comedy L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) to West Road Concert Hall. Sung in Italian (with English surtitles), and with full orchestra and chorus, this stars many of the University's finest singers, including Anna Wagner, Henry Websdale, Olivia Brett, Louis Wilson and James Quilligan, under the…
£8 – £16 -
Norwich Opera Club: AGM and Orfeo, Monteverdi
Assembly House Theatre Street, Norwich, Norfolk, United KingdomTonight's programme: Annual General Meeting of Norwich Opera Club followed by a screening of Monteverdi's Orfeo (DVD presented by Kay Sanderson). 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…
Free – £5 -
MET Opera screening: Puccini’s La bohème
Cinema City St Andrew's Street, Norwich, Norfolk, United KingdomThe world’s most popular opera returns with an exciting young cast in Franco Zeffirelli’s legendary production. Poverty-stricken poet Rodolfo and his artist friends eke out a precarious existence in bohemian Paris, alternately practising their art, laughing, quarrelling, dodging the landlord, and living it up in their local cafe. When Rodolfo meets the delicate Mimì, the…
£10 – £32 -
-
Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart: Trinity College
Trinity College Chapel Trinity Street, Cambridge, United KingdomA concert performance of Mozart’s comic and hugely popular opera Le nozze di Figaro. Director Judith Lebiez and Music Director Mickey Wongsathapornpat.
£5 – £8 -
La traviata, Verdi: Ellen Kent International
King's Lynn Corn Exchange Tuesday Market Place, King's Lynn, Norfolk, 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…
£31.50 – £37.50 -
Norwich Opera Club: Written on Skin, George Benjamin
Assembly House Theatre Street, Norwich, Norfolk, United KingdomTonight's programme: a screening of George Benjamin's Written on Skin (DVD presented by Wilson Graham). 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…
Free – £5 -
MET Opera Screening: Rossini’s Semiramide
Cinema City St Andrew's Street, Norwich, Norfolk, United KingdomAgainst the backdrop of the Hanging Gardens, Semiramide, Queen of Babylon, defies bad omens and supernatural threats in her quest to find a worthy successor to her late husband. But she harbours more than one dark secret, and whoever gains the throne may find that he has lost more than he has won. Based on…
£10 – £32 -
Pre-performance talk by Charlotte Valori: Bizet and Carmen
Fisher Theatre 10 Broad Street, Bungay, Suffolk, United KingdomCome along to the Fisher Theatre bar before their screening of the Royal Opera House's sizzling new production of Carmen, directed by Barrie Kosky, to find me talking briefly about Bizet and his Carmen, packing as many interesting facts into ten minutes as I can... Talk: 1:30pm (free) - Click here to join this event on…
Free -
ROH Encore Screening: Bizet’s Carmen
Fisher Theatre 10 Broad Street, Bungay, Suffolk, United KingdomThe young soldier Don José intends to marry Micaëla, a girl from his home village. But when he meets the sensual and fiercely independent Carmen, he sacrifices everything to be with her. Carmen grows bored of Don José and falls in love with Escamillo. Unable to bear her leaving him, Don José tracks Carmen down and…
£10 – £15