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Handel’s Messiah: Bristol Old Vic
Handel’s Messiah: Bristol Old Vic
Inspired 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
MET Opera Screening: Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Goaded 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
Cambridge 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…
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Pre-performance talk by Charlotte Valori: Verdi and Macbeth
Pre-performance talk by Charlotte Valori: Verdi and Macbeth
Come 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…
ROH Live Screening: Verdi’s Macbeth
ROH Live Screening: Verdi’s Macbeth
The 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)
Norwich Opera Club: Götterdämmerung, Wagner (Part One)
Tonight'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
The 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
English 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…
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Shackleton’s Cat, English Touring Opera
Shackleton’s Cat, English Touring Opera
Shackleton’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,…
MET Opera Screening: Verdi’s Luisa Miller
MET Opera Screening: Verdi’s Luisa Miller
Plácido 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…
Il Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi, Puccini: English Touring Opera
Il Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi, Puccini: English Touring Opera
Puccini’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…
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MET Opera: Massenet’s Cendrillon
MET Opera: Massenet’s Cendrillon
A fairy godmother, a glass slipper, an opulent ball, an enchanted forest, and a Prince Charming who loves her – did all that really happen, or was it just a dream? Long-suffering Cendrillon lives a life of drudgery with her good-natured father and his imperious wife, until fate, romance, and a touch of fairy magic…
The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart: English Touring Opera
The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart: English Touring Opera
With a pre-show talk at 6:30pm: (booking essential on 01223 503333). Opera at 7:30pm. English 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…
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Il Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi, Puccini: English Touring Opera
Puccini’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…
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Norwich Opera Club: Götterdämmerung, Wagner (Part Two)
Norwich Opera Club: Götterdämmerung, Wagner (Part Two)
Tonight's programme: a screening of the second part of Wagner's Götterdämmerung (DVD presented by John Newby); the first half will have been already presented on 5 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…
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The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart: English Touring Opera
English 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…
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Shackleton’s Cat, English Touring Opera
Shackleton’s Cat, English Touring Opera
Shackleton’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,…
Shackleton’s Cat, English Touring Opera
Shackleton’s Cat, English Touring Opera
Shackleton’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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Family Jam: Everybody Sing!
Family Jam: Everybody Sing!
Everybody sing! If you’ve got a voice, you can make music and in this song-packed afternoon for the whole family, the aim is to help you let it all pour out. Workshop leader Jessie Maryon Davies has worked with singers from the Royal Opera House to Goldfrapp. She knows that absolutely anyone can sing –…
Family Jam: Everybody Sing!
Family Jam: Everybody Sing!
Everybody sing! If you’ve got a voice, you can make music and in this song-packed afternoon for the whole family, the aim is to help you let it all pour out. Workshop leader Jessie Maryon Davies has worked with singers from the Royal Opera House to Goldfrapp. She knows that absolutely anyone can sing –…