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| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Friday 3-Sep-10 06:30pm |
 Theatr Hafren, NewtownFalstaff - pre production talk |
Mid Wales Opera Nicholas Cleobury, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Bridget Kimak, Set Designer Colin Grenfell, Lighting Designer Lee Bissett, Soprano: Alice Ford Wyn Pencarreg, Baritone: Ford Charles Johnston, Baritone: Falstaff Benjamin Segal, Tenor: Fenton Martene Grimson, Soprano: Nanetta Gaynor Keeble, Contralto: Dame Quickly Catrin Johnsson, Mezzo-soprano: Meg Page Stuart Haycock, Tenor: Bardolph Simon Wilding, Bass: Pistol Ted Schmitz, Tenor: Dr Cajus Mid Wales Opera Chamber Orchestra Simon Chalk, Leader |
| More info... | ||
| Theatr Hafren, Newtown, Llanidloes Road, Newtown SY16 4HU, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 06:30pm Falstaff - pre production talk Mid Wales Opera's acclaimed Autumn tour of Wales and England. Nicholas Cleobury, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Bridget Kimak, Set Designer Colin Grenfell, Lighting Designer Lee Bissett, Soprano: Alice Ford Wyn Pencarreg, Baritone: Ford Charles Johnston, Baritone: Falstaff Benjamin Segal, Tenor: Fenton Martene Grimson, Soprano: Nanetta Gaynor Keeble, Contralto: Dame Quickly Catrin Johnsson, Mezzo-soprano: Meg Page Stuart Haycock, Tenor: Bardolph Simon Wilding, Bass: Pistol Ted Schmitz, Tenor: Dr Cajus Mid Wales Opera Chamber Orchestra Simon Chalk, Leader | ||
| Friday 3-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Carrs Lane Church, Eastside, Birmingham Handel's Joshua |
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| Carrs Lane Church, Eastside, Birmingham, Birmingham B4 7SX, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 07:00pm Handel's Joshua Handel wrote Joshua as part of a series celebrating the defeat
of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. His treatment of the biblical
story of the entry of the wandering Israelites into Canaan
under their leader Joshua, the demolition of Jericho, and the
rout of the scruffy savages who had the misfortune to live
there, was resonant and popular in Georgian London, and,
although we may feel uneasy about its modern equivalence, we
can revel in Handel's most blazingly colourful music, with
trumpets and horns and drums.
Meanwhile Handel concocts a sub-plot telling the story of two young lovers. Though they are but names in the Bible, their love-music provides welcome contrast to the blood-curdling shouts of victory elsewhere: indeed Joshua contains both Handel's grandest and his sweetest music. ensemble 1685 presents the oratorio complete and with historical instruments, in the first production of this piece outside London in modern times, using a specially-prepared edition. Despite the religious origins of the story, Handel conceived this and all his oratorios with the same dramatic intent he used for his earlier operas, as works for a live audience in the theatre, and we hope you enjoy the show. Tickets are £10 and £6 for under 21s. | ||
| Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre The Pirates of Penzance |
Opera Australia |
| More info... | ||
| Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre, Sydney 1225, Australia Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm The Pirates of Penzance Some pirates sail the Caribbean. Some search for buried treasure. Some do all kinds of terrible deeds, but not these ones. Prepare to meet the soppiest, silliest set of pirates that ever were, led by a Pirate King who loves to sing. The inimitable Anthony Warlow dons his cutlass for another voyage as The Pirates of Penzance sails back into town. Gilbert and Sullivan's fifth collaboration has long been high on the list of all-time favourites, but no one could have predicted the runaway success of this production, directed by Stuart Maunder and designed by Roger Kirk. A foot-stomping, wisecracking, feel-good show, it has played to packed houses around the country and beyond and now returns, complete with its crazy cartoons, swashbuckling heroes and dainty heroines, to the place it all began. | ||
| Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Theatr Hafren, Newtown Falstaff |
Mid Wales Opera Nicholas Cleobury, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Bridget Kimak, Set Designer Colin Grenfell, Lighting Designer Lee Bissett, Soprano: Alice Ford Wyn Pencarreg, Baritone: Ford Charles Johnston, Baritone: Falstaff Benjamin Segal, Tenor: Fenton Martene Grimson, Soprano: Nanetta Gaynor Keeble, Contralto: Dame Quickly Catrin Johnsson, Mezzo-soprano: Meg Page Stuart Haycock, Tenor: Bardolph Simon Wilding, Bass: Pistol Ted Schmitz, Tenor: Dr Cajus Mid Wales Opera Chamber Orchestra Simon Chalk, Leader |
| More info... | ||
| Theatr Hafren, Newtown, Llanidloes Road, Newtown SY16 4HU, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm Mid Wales Opera's acclaimed Autumn tour of Wales and England. Nicholas Cleobury, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Bridget Kimak, Set Designer Colin Grenfell, Lighting Designer Lee Bissett, Soprano: Alice Ford Wyn Pencarreg, Baritone: Ford Charles Johnston, Baritone: Falstaff Benjamin Segal, Tenor: Fenton Martene Grimson, Soprano: Nanetta Gaynor Keeble, Contralto: Dame Quickly Catrin Johnsson, Mezzo-soprano: Meg Page Stuart Haycock, Tenor: Bardolph Simon Wilding, Bass: Pistol Ted Schmitz, Tenor: Dr Cajus Mid Wales Opera Chamber Orchestra Simon Chalk, Leader | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 01:00pm |
Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre The Pirates of Penzance |
Opera Australia |
| More info... | ||
| Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre, Sydney 1225, Australia Saturday 4-Sep-10 01:00pm The Pirates of Penzance Some pirates sail the Caribbean. Some search for buried treasure. Some do all kinds of terrible deeds, but not these ones. Prepare to meet the soppiest, silliest set of pirates that ever were, led by a Pirate King who loves to sing. The inimitable Anthony Warlow dons his cutlass for another voyage as The Pirates of Penzance sails back into town. Gilbert and Sullivan's fifth collaboration has long been high on the list of all-time favourites, but no one could have predicted the runaway success of this production, directed by Stuart Maunder and designed by Roger Kirk. A foot-stomping, wisecracking, feel-good show, it has played to packed houses around the country and beyond and now returns, complete with its crazy cartoons, swashbuckling heroes and dainty heroines, to the place it all began. | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 06:30pm |
Theatr Hafren, Newtown Falstaff - pre production talk |
Mid Wales Opera Nicholas Cleobury, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Bridget Kimak, Set Designer Colin Grenfell, Lighting Designer Lee Bissett, Soprano: Alice Ford Wyn Pencarreg, Baritone: Ford Charles Johnston, Baritone: Falstaff Benjamin Segal, Tenor: Fenton Martene Grimson, Soprano: Nanetta Gaynor Keeble, Contralto: Dame Quickly Catrin Johnsson, Mezzo-soprano: Meg Page Stuart Haycock, Tenor: Bardolph Simon Wilding, Bass: Pistol Ted Schmitz, Tenor: Dr Cajus Mid Wales Opera Chamber Orchestra Simon Chalk, Leader |
| More info... | ||
| Theatr Hafren, Newtown, Llanidloes Road, Newtown SY16 4HU, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 06:30pm Falstaff - pre production talk Mid Wales Opera's acclaimed Autumn tour of Wales and England. Nicholas Cleobury, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Bridget Kimak, Set Designer Colin Grenfell, Lighting Designer Lee Bissett, Soprano: Alice Ford Wyn Pencarreg, Baritone: Ford Charles Johnston, Baritone: Falstaff Benjamin Segal, Tenor: Fenton Martene Grimson, Soprano: Nanetta Gaynor Keeble, Contralto: Dame Quickly Catrin Johnsson, Mezzo-soprano: Meg Page Stuart Haycock, Tenor: Bardolph Simon Wilding, Bass: Pistol Ted Schmitz, Tenor: Dr Cajus Mid Wales Opera Chamber Orchestra Simon Chalk, Leader | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 06:30pm |
Peacock Theatre, London La bohème |
British Youth Opera |
| More info... | ||
| Peacock Theatre, London, London WC2A 2HT, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 06:30pm From 4-11 September British Youth Opera (BYO) offers the chance to hear the next generation of opera singers in new productions of La bohème and Euridice at Sadler’s Wells’ Peacock Theatre. Each year BYO auditions the best students and recent graduates from the country’s music colleges and selects over 60 of them to take part in its intensive Summer Season. After nearly two months of coaching and rehearsals, the singers take to the stage for a week of performances, when audiences (and casting agents) will be on the look out for the opera stars of the future. Led by a creative team whose operatic credits include English National Opera, the Royal Opera House, New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the Salzburg Festival this year’s productions of La bohème and Euridice provide the perfect vehicles for BYO’s young singers. Puccini’s La bohème is probably the most romantic of all operas and BYO’s production is sure to capture the youthful passion and energy of the young Bohemians at the opera’s heart. BYO singers this year include John Pierce (as Rodolfo, La bohème) who will represent Wales in next year’s Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Past BYO singers have gone on to win international prizes and sing leading roles in opera houses worldwide, from Covent Garden and Glyndebourne to Bayreuth Festival and the Sydney Opera House – this is truly a chance to hear opera’s next generation! Tickets £10 - £36 Opening night VIP tickets available priced £95, including interval drinks and post-show buffet reception with the cast. | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Warwick Road United Reformed Church, Coventry Handel's Joshua |
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| Warwick Road United Reformed Church, Coventry, Warwick Row, Coventry CV1 4DX, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:00pm Handel's Joshua Handel wrote Joshua as part of a series celebrating the defeat
of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. His treatment of the biblical
story of the entry of the wandering Israelites into Canaan
under their leader Joshua, the demolition of Jericho, and the
rout of the scruffy savages who had the misfortune to live
there, was resonant and popular in Georgian London, and,
although we may feel uneasy about its modern equivalence, we
can revel in Handel's most blazingly colourful music, with
trumpets and horns and drums.
Meanwhile Handel concocts a sub-plot telling the story of two young lovers. Though they are but names in the Bible, their love-music provides welcome contrast to the blood-curdling shouts of victory elsewhere: indeed Joshua contains both Handel's grandest and his sweetest music. ensemble 1685 presents the oratorio complete and with historical instruments, in the first production of this piece outside London in modern times, using a specially-prepared edition. Despite the religious origins of the story, Handel conceived this and all his oratorios with the same dramatic intent he used for his earlier operas, as works for a live audience in the theatre, and we hope you enjoy the show. Tickets are £10 and £6 for under 21s. | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:15pm |
Edinburgh Festival Theatre Bliss Edinburgh International Festival |
Opera Australia BBC Symphony Orchestra Peter Coleman-Wright, Baritone: Harry Joy Merlyn Quaife, Soprano: Betty Lorina Gore, Soprano: Honey B Barry Ryan, Baritone: Alex David Corcoran, Tenor: David Taryn Fiebig, Soprano: Lucy Kanen Breen, Tenor: Johnny Elgar Howarth, Director Neil Armfield, Director Kate Champion, Choreography Brian Thomson, Set Designer Alice Babidge, Costume Designer Nigel Levings, Lighting Designer |
| More info...Buy tickets! | ||
| Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh EH8 9FT, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:15pm Bliss (Dean, Brett (b. 1961)) (also written by Amanda Holden, European Premiere) Please note this production contains coarse language and adult themes. It is not recommended for children.‘Harry Joy was to die three times, but it was his first death which was to have the greatest effect on him…’ Peter Carey’s sardonic novel Bliss charts the escapades and misadventures of Harry Joy, an advertising executive who, having survived a near-death experience, gets sucked into a Kafkaesque routine of increasing bizarreness. Is he really in hell? In a place where his wife is constantly unfaithful, his son is a drug dealer and his daughter offers sexual favours to pay for her narcotic needs? Bliss is a much-anticipated new operatic collaboration with all the ingredients for excitement: a score by Brett Dean, surely one of the most innovative composers working today; an enthralling libretto by Amanda Holden; the directorial wit and sparkle of Neil Armfield; the virtuosity of Elgar Howarth and the BBC Symphony Orchestra; and the electrifying stage presence of Peter Coleman-Wright. This opera is based on Peter Carey’s remarkable novel. Bliss (the novel): ‘dazzling comic flair... quirky, irresistible’ Time Out ‘funny, humane and at times profound’ Literary Review Tickets from £14 Supported by Edinburgh International Festival Friends and Patrons Supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria BBC Symphony Orchestra Peter Coleman-Wright, Baritone: Harry Joy Merlyn Quaife, Soprano: Betty Lorina Gore, Soprano: Honey B Barry Ryan, Baritone: Alex David Corcoran, Tenor: David Taryn Fiebig, Soprano: Lucy Kanen Breen, Tenor: Johnny Elgar Howarth, Director Neil Armfield, Director Kate Champion, Choreography Brian Thomson, Set Designer Alice Babidge, Costume Designer Nigel Levings, Lighting Designer | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Theatr Hafren, Newtown Falstaff |
Mid Wales Opera Nicholas Cleobury, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Bridget Kimak, Set Designer Colin Grenfell, Lighting Designer Lee Bissett, Soprano: Alice Ford Wyn Pencarreg, Baritone: Ford Charles Johnston, Baritone: Falstaff Benjamin Segal, Tenor: Fenton Martene Grimson, Soprano: Nanetta Gaynor Keeble, Contralto: Dame Quickly Catrin Johnsson, Mezzo-soprano: Meg Page Stuart Haycock, Tenor: Bardolph Simon Wilding, Bass: Pistol Ted Schmitz, Tenor: Dr Cajus Mid Wales Opera Chamber Orchestra Simon Chalk, Leader |
| More info... | ||
| Theatr Hafren, Newtown, Llanidloes Road, Newtown SY16 4HU, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm Mid Wales Opera's acclaimed Autumn tour of Wales and England. Nicholas Cleobury, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Bridget Kimak, Set Designer Colin Grenfell, Lighting Designer Lee Bissett, Soprano: Alice Ford Wyn Pencarreg, Baritone: Ford Charles Johnston, Baritone: Falstaff Benjamin Segal, Tenor: Fenton Martene Grimson, Soprano: Nanetta Gaynor Keeble, Contralto: Dame Quickly Catrin Johnsson, Mezzo-soprano: Meg Page Stuart Haycock, Tenor: Bardolph Simon Wilding, Bass: Pistol Ted Schmitz, Tenor: Dr Cajus Mid Wales Opera Chamber Orchestra Simon Chalk, Leader | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre The Pirates of Penzance |
Opera Australia |
| More info... | ||
| Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre, Sydney 1225, Australia Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm The Pirates of Penzance Some pirates sail the Caribbean. Some search for buried treasure. Some do all kinds of terrible deeds, but not these ones. Prepare to meet the soppiest, silliest set of pirates that ever were, led by a Pirate King who loves to sing. The inimitable Anthony Warlow dons his cutlass for another voyage as The Pirates of Penzance sails back into town. Gilbert and Sullivan's fifth collaboration has long been high on the list of all-time favourites, but no one could have predicted the runaway success of this production, directed by Stuart Maunder and designed by Roger Kirk. A foot-stomping, wisecracking, feel-good show, it has played to packed houses around the country and beyond and now returns, complete with its crazy cartoons, swashbuckling heroes and dainty heroines, to the place it all began. | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 08:00pm |
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona Iphigenie auf Tauris |
Barcelona Opera Jan Michael Horstmann, Conductor Pina Bausch, Director Elisabete Matos, Soprano: Iphigénie Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor: Oreste Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Thoas, King of Scythia |
| More info... | ||
| Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Barcelona 08002, Spain Saturday 4-Sep-10 08:00pm Iphigenie auf Tauris Jan Michael Horstmann, Conductor Pina Bausch, Director Elisabete Matos, Soprano: Iphigénie Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor: Oreste Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Thoas, King of Scythia | ||
| Sunday 5-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Teatro La Fenice, Venice La Traviata |
Venice Opera Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Stefano Secco, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Robert Carsen, Director |
| More info... | ||
| Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Venice, Italy Sunday 5-Sep-10 07:00pm Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Stefano Secco, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Robert Carsen, Director | ||
| Sunday 5-Sep-10 08:00pm |
Palacio de la Opera, Coruña Otello |
Miguel Gomez-Martinez, Conductor Giulio Ciabbati, Director Marco Berti, Tenor: Otello Ainhoa Arteta, Soprano: Desdemona Claudio Sgura, Baritone: Iago Francisco Corujo, Tenor: Cassio Elia Todsico, Bass: Lodovico |
| More info... | ||
| Palacio de la Opera, Coruña, Glorieta de América, Coruña 15004, Spain Sunday 5-Sep-10 08:00pm Miguel Gomez-Martinez, Conductor Giulio Ciabbati, Director Marco Berti, Tenor: Otello Ainhoa Arteta, Soprano: Desdemona Claudio Sgura, Baritone: Iago Francisco Corujo, Tenor: Cassio Elia Todsico, Bass: Lodovico | ||
| Sunday 5-Sep-10 08:00pm |
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona Iphigenie auf Tauris |
Barcelona Opera Jan Michael Horstmann, Conductor Pina Bausch, Director Elisabete Matos, Soprano: Iphigénie Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor: Oreste Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Thoas, King of Scythia |
| More info... | ||
| Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Barcelona 08002, Spain Sunday 5-Sep-10 08:00pm Iphigenie auf Tauris Jan Michael Horstmann, Conductor Pina Bausch, Director Elisabete Matos, Soprano: Iphigénie Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor: Oreste Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Thoas, King of Scythia | ||
| Monday 6-Sep-10 01:00pm |
Cadogan Hall, London Proms Chamber Music 8 - Venice: from the streets to the palaces BBC Proms |
Works by Manelli |
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| Cadogan Hall, London, London SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom Monday 6-Sep-10 01:00pm Proms Chamber Music 8 - Venice: from the streets to the palaces As a curtain-raiser to our 400th-anniversary performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 (see Prom 75), the vibrant French ensemble Le Poème Harmonique conjures up the carnivalesque atmosphere of 17th-century Venice, where the streets and palaces provided a cultural melting pot for the popular and artistic styles of the day. Along with one of Monteverdi’s most famous madrigals, the Lamento della ninfa, the programme includes rarely heard music by Francesco Manelli, the first composer to write operas for the paying public as opposed to the privileged court. Works by Manelli, Francesco (1594-1667) | ||
| Monday 6-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Aros Centre, Portree Carmen |
Scottish Opera Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Annie Gill, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Robyn Lyn Evans, Tenor: Don José Nicholas Ransley, Tenor: Don José Michael de Souza, Baritone: Escamillo Francis Church, Baritone: Le Dancaïre Patrick Ashcroft, Tenor: Le Remendado Francisco Javier Borda, Bass: Zuniga Robert Tucker, Baritone: Moralès Claire Watkins, Soprano: Micaela Caroline Macphie, Soprano: Frasquita Katherine Allen, Mezzo-soprano: Mercédès Derek Clark, Conductor Susannah Wapshott, Piano Ashley Dean, Director/Director |
| More info... | ||
| Aros Centre, Portree, Highland, Portree IV51, United Kingdom Monday 6-Sep-10 07:30pm Beautiful gypsies, obsession, intense emotion and some of the liveliest rhythms in opera…it can only be Carmen. This new production is set in 1960s Spain, a country firmly entrenched in General Franco’s right-wing regime. Women are oppressed, the gypsies ghettoised, the country is riddled with poverty, and black-market smuggling is rife. As a woman wanting to break free, the stakes are high for someone like Carmen. An outspoken gypsy with a beautiful face and a fiery temper, she sets her sights on the soldier Don José. His desire leads him to deny his friends and position and he is soon living the life of a smuggler in the desolate mountains of Spain. As his relationship with Carmen disintegrates and she leaves him for another, he sets out to prove his love, but Carmen has seen the future in her tarot cards and it isn’t a happy one. Bizet’s boldly seductive opera has been one of the world’s favourite operas for over a century. From the sultry ‘Habanera’ to the naively passionate ‘Flower Song’ and the rousing ‘Toreador’s Song’, Bizet’s ever-popular music brings out the earthy vitality of his characters. Ashley Dean, director of 2009’s Opera Highlights tour directs a fine ensemble cast. Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Annie Gill, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Robyn Lyn Evans, Tenor: Don José Nicholas Ransley, Tenor: Don José Michael de Souza, Baritone: Escamillo Francis Church, Baritone: Le Dancaïre Patrick Ashcroft, Tenor: Le Remendado Francisco Javier Borda, Bass: Zuniga Robert Tucker, Baritone: Moralès Claire Watkins, Soprano: Micaela Caroline Macphie, Soprano: Frasquita Katherine Allen, Mezzo-soprano: Mercédès Derek Clark, Conductor Susannah Wapshott, Piano Ashley Dean, Director/Director | ||
| Monday 6-Sep-10 08:00pm |
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona Iphigenie auf Tauris |
Barcelona Opera Jan Michael Horstmann, Conductor Pina Bausch, Director Elisabete Matos, Soprano: Iphigénie Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor: Oreste Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Thoas, King of Scythia |
| More info... | ||
| Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Barcelona 08002, Spain Monday 6-Sep-10 08:00pm Iphigenie auf Tauris Jan Michael Horstmann, Conductor Pina Bausch, Director Elisabete Matos, Soprano: Iphigénie Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor: Oreste Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Thoas, King of Scythia | ||
| Monday 6-Sep-10 10:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 70 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, London, United Kingdom Monday 6-Sep-10 10:00pm Prom 70 French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky and Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux sing arias and duets by two great masters of 18thcentury opera seria, including a rare extract from one of the works that Handel’s London rival Porpora wrote to show off his star pupil, the legendary castrato Farinelli. | ||
| Tuesday 7-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Peacock Theatre, London La bohème |
British Youth Opera |
| More info... | ||
| Peacock Theatre, London, London WC2A 2HT, United Kingdom Tuesday 7-Sep-10 07:00pm From 4-11 September British Youth Opera (BYO) offers the chance to hear the next generation of opera singers in new productions of La bohème and Euridice at Sadler’s Wells’ Peacock Theatre. Each year BYO auditions the best students and recent graduates from the country’s music colleges and selects over 60 of them to take part in its intensive Summer Season. After nearly two months of coaching and rehearsals, the singers take to the stage for a week of performances, when audiences (and casting agents) will be on the look out for the opera stars of the future. Led by a creative team whose operatic credits include English National Opera, the Royal Opera House, New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the Salzburg Festival this year’s productions of La bohème and Euridice provide the perfect vehicles for BYO’s young singers. Puccini’s La bohème is probably the most romantic of all operas and BYO’s production is sure to capture the youthful passion and energy of the young Bohemians at the opera’s heart. BYO singers this year include John Pierce (as Rodolfo, La bohème) who will represent Wales in next year’s Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Past BYO singers have gone on to win international prizes and sing leading roles in opera houses worldwide, from Covent Garden and Glyndebourne to Bayreuth Festival and the Sydney Opera House – this is truly a chance to hear opera’s next generation! Tickets £10 - £36 | ||
| Tuesday 7-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre The Pirates of Penzance |
Opera Australia |
| More info... | ||
| Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre, Sydney 1225, Australia Tuesday 7-Sep-10 07:30pm The Pirates of Penzance Some pirates sail the Caribbean. Some search for buried treasure. Some do all kinds of terrible deeds, but not these ones. Prepare to meet the soppiest, silliest set of pirates that ever were, led by a Pirate King who loves to sing. The inimitable Anthony Warlow dons his cutlass for another voyage as The Pirates of Penzance sails back into town. Gilbert and Sullivan's fifth collaboration has long been high on the list of all-time favourites, but no one could have predicted the runaway success of this production, directed by Stuart Maunder and designed by Roger Kirk. A foot-stomping, wisecracking, feel-good show, it has played to packed houses around the country and beyond and now returns, complete with its crazy cartoons, swashbuckling heroes and dainty heroines, to the place it all began. | ||
| Tuesday 7-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Carmen |
Scottish Opera Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Annie Gill, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Robyn Lyn Evans, Tenor: Don José Nicholas Ransley, Tenor: Don José Michael de Souza, Baritone: Escamillo Francis Church, Baritone: Le Dancaïre Patrick Ashcroft, Tenor: Le Remendado Francisco Javier Borda, Bass: Zuniga Robert Tucker, Baritone: Moralès Claire Watkins, Soprano: Micaela Caroline Macphie, Soprano: Frasquita Katherine Allen, Mezzo-soprano: Mercédès Derek Clark, Conductor Susannah Wapshott, Piano Ashley Dean, Director/Director |
| More info... | ||
| Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow G5 9DS, United Kingdom Tuesday 7-Sep-10 07:30pm Beautiful gypsies, obsession, intense emotion and some of the liveliest rhythms in opera…it can only be Carmen. This new production is set in 1960s Spain, a country firmly entrenched in General Franco’s right-wing regime. Women are oppressed, the gypsies ghettoised, the country is riddled with poverty, and black-market smuggling is rife. As a woman wanting to break free, the stakes are high for someone like Carmen. An outspoken gypsy with a beautiful face and a fiery temper, she sets her sights on the soldier Don José. His desire leads him to deny his friends and position and he is soon living the life of a smuggler in the desolate mountains of Spain. As his relationship with Carmen disintegrates and she leaves him for another, he sets out to prove his love, but Carmen has seen the future in her tarot cards and it isn’t a happy one. Bizet’s boldly seductive opera has been one of the world’s favourite operas for over a century. From the sultry ‘Habanera’ to the naively passionate ‘Flower Song’ and the rousing ‘Toreador’s Song’, Bizet’s ever-popular music brings out the earthy vitality of his characters. Ashley Dean, director of 2009’s Opera Highlights tour directs a fine ensemble cast. Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Annie Gill, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Robyn Lyn Evans, Tenor: Don José Nicholas Ransley, Tenor: Don José Michael de Souza, Baritone: Escamillo Francis Church, Baritone: Le Dancaïre Patrick Ashcroft, Tenor: Le Remendado Francisco Javier Borda, Bass: Zuniga Robert Tucker, Baritone: Moralès Claire Watkins, Soprano: Micaela Caroline Macphie, Soprano: Frasquita Katherine Allen, Mezzo-soprano: Mercédès Derek Clark, Conductor Susannah Wapshott, Piano Ashley Dean, Director/Director | ||
| Wednesday 8-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Peacock Theatre, London Euridice |
British Youth Opera |
| More info... | ||
| Peacock Theatre, London, London WC2A 2HT, United Kingdom Wednesday 8-Sep-10 07:00pm From 4-11 September British Youth Opera (BYO) offers the chance to hear the next generation of opera singers in new productions of La bohème and Euridice at Sadler’s Wells’ Peacock Theatre. Each year BYO auditions the best students and recent graduates from the country’s music colleges and selects over 60 of them to take part in its intensive Summer Season. After nearly two months of coaching and rehearsals, the singers take to the stage for a week of performances, when audiences (and casting agents) will be on the look out for the opera stars of the future. Led by a creative team whose operatic credits include English National Opera, the Royal Opera House, New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the Salzburg Festival this year’s productions of La bohème and Euridice provide the perfect vehicles for BYO’s young singers. Euridice takes the translucent vocal lines of the first ever opera composer, Jacopo Peri, and weaves them into an atmospheric score by Stephen Oliver, one of Britain’s most prolific composers of music for stage and screen. This semi-staged production marks the 60th anniversary of Oliver’s birth (he died in 1992, aged 42) and is performed by a cast of eighteen singers and an onstage ensemble of eight players, creating a remarkable piece of music theatre. BYO singers this year include John Pierce (as Rodolfo, La bohème) who will represent Wales in next year’s Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Past BYO singers have gone on to win international prizes and sing leading roles in opera houses worldwide, from Covent Garden and Glyndebourne to Bayreuth Festival and the Sydney Opera House – this is truly a chance to hear opera’s next generation! Tickets £10 - £36 | ||
| Wednesday 8-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Teatro La Fenice, Venice La Traviata |
Venice Opera Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Stefano Secco, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Robert Carsen, Director |
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| Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Venice, Italy Wednesday 8-Sep-10 07:00pm Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Stefano Secco, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Robert Carsen, Director | ||
| Wednesday 8-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre The Pirates of Penzance |
Opera Australia |
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| Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre, Sydney 1225, Australia Wednesday 8-Sep-10 07:30pm The Pirates of Penzance Some pirates sail the Caribbean. Some search for buried treasure. Some do all kinds of terrible deeds, but not these ones. Prepare to meet the soppiest, silliest set of pirates that ever were, led by a Pirate King who loves to sing. The inimitable Anthony Warlow dons his cutlass for another voyage as The Pirates of Penzance sails back into town. Gilbert and Sullivan's fifth collaboration has long been high on the list of all-time favourites, but no one could have predicted the runaway success of this production, directed by Stuart Maunder and designed by Roger Kirk. A foot-stomping, wisecracking, feel-good show, it has played to packed houses around the country and beyond and now returns, complete with its crazy cartoons, swashbuckling heroes and dainty heroines, to the place it all began. | ||
| Thursday 9-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Carmen |
Scottish Opera Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Annie Gill, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Robyn Lyn Evans, Tenor: Don José Nicholas Ransley, Tenor: Don José Michael de Souza, Baritone: Escamillo Francis Church, Baritone: Le Dancaïre Patrick Ashcroft, Tenor: Le Remendado Francisco Javier Borda, Bass: Zuniga Robert Tucker, Baritone: Moralès Claire Watkins, Soprano: Micaela Caroline Macphie, Soprano: Frasquita Katherine Allen, Mezzo-soprano: Mercédès Derek Clark, Conductor Susannah Wapshott, Piano Ashley Dean, Director/Director |
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| Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow G5 9DS, United Kingdom Thursday 9-Sep-10 07:30pm Beautiful gypsies, obsession, intense emotion and some of the liveliest rhythms in opera…it can only be Carmen. This new production is set in 1960s Spain, a country firmly entrenched in General Franco’s right-wing regime. Women are oppressed, the gypsies ghettoised, the country is riddled with poverty, and black-market smuggling is rife. As a woman wanting to break free, the stakes are high for someone like Carmen. An outspoken gypsy with a beautiful face and a fiery temper, she sets her sights on the soldier Don José. His desire leads him to deny his friends and position and he is soon living the life of a smuggler in the desolate mountains of Spain. As his relationship with Carmen disintegrates and she leaves him for another, he sets out to prove his love, but Carmen has seen the future in her tarot cards and it isn’t a happy one. Bizet’s boldly seductive opera has been one of the world’s favourite operas for over a century. From the sultry ‘Habanera’ to the naively passionate ‘Flower Song’ and the rousing ‘Toreador’s Song’, Bizet’s ever-popular music brings out the earthy vitality of his characters. Ashley Dean, director of 2009’s Opera Highlights tour directs a fine ensemble cast. Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Annie Gill, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Robyn Lyn Evans, Tenor: Don José Nicholas Ransley, Tenor: Don José Michael de Souza, Baritone: Escamillo Francis Church, Baritone: Le Dancaïre Patrick Ashcroft, Tenor: Le Remendado Francisco Javier Borda, Bass: Zuniga Robert Tucker, Baritone: Moralès Claire Watkins, Soprano: Micaela Caroline Macphie, Soprano: Frasquita Katherine Allen, Mezzo-soprano: Mercédès Derek Clark, Conductor Susannah Wapshott, Piano Ashley Dean, Director/Director | ||
| Thursday 9-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Opéra Bastille, Paris Der Fliegende Höllander |
Opéra de Paris Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris Choeurs de l'Opéra National de Paris Peter Schneider, Conductor Willy Decker, Director Matti Salminen, Bass: Daland Adrianne Pieczonka, Soprano: Senta Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor: Erik Bernard Richter, Tenor: The Steersman James Morris, Bass-baritone: Dutchman |
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| Opéra Bastille, Paris, 120 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France Thursday 9-Sep-10 07:30pm Der Fliegende Höllander Halfway through its new Ring cycle, the Paris Opera will resound to the music of a young Wagner still wrapped in the mists of German Romanticism, between Schubert and Weber. Crossing the North Sea from Riga to London on board the Thetis in 1839, amid the howling wind and the crashing waves, Wagner heard the sailors tell the legend of the cursed sea-captain. The story, also told by Heinrich Heine, is recounted by Senta on her first appearance: rounding a dangerous cape during a storm and refusing to give up, the Dutchman defies Satan and is condemned to roam the seas for evermore unless a woman is willing to give up her life for him. In a troubling confusion of legend and real life, the Dutchman suddenly stands before Senta and stretches out his hand to her... The storm raging outside is perhaps less powerful than the one that shakes the heart. Recounting the impossibility of living and of redemption, Der fliegende Holländer is above all, and before Götterdämmerung, an opera about wished-for apocalypse.Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris Choeurs de l'Opéra National de Paris Peter Schneider, Conductor Willy Decker, Director Matti Salminen, Bass: Daland Adrianne Pieczonka, Soprano: Senta Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor: Erik Bernard Richter, Tenor: The Steersman James Morris, Bass-baritone: Dutchman | ||
| Thursday 9-Sep-10 08:00pm |
Opéra de Lyon Porgy and Bess |
Opéra de Lyon Eddins, William, Conductor José Montalvo, Director Derrick Lawrence, Baritone: Porgy Janice Chandler-Eteme, Soprano: Bess Timothy Robert Blevins, Baritone: Crown Ronald Samm, Tenor: Sportin’ Life LaVerne Williams, Mezzo-soprano: Maria Magali Léger, Soprano: Clara |
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| Opéra de Lyon, 69001 Lyon, France Thursday 9-Sep-10 08:00pm Eddins, William, Conductor José Montalvo, Director Derrick Lawrence, Baritone: Porgy Janice Chandler-Eteme, Soprano: Bess Timothy Robert Blevins, Baritone: Crown Ronald Samm, Tenor: Sportin’ Life LaVerne Williams, Mezzo-soprano: Maria Magali Léger, Soprano: Clara | ||
| Thursday 9-Sep-10 08:00pm |
De Munt | La Monnaie: Grand Hall, Brussels Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne |
Opéra de la Monnaie Patrick Davin, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Dörte Lyssewski, Voice: Yvonne Paul Gay, Baritone: Le Roi Ignace Mireille Delunsch, Soprano: La Reine Marguerite Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| De Munt | La Monnaie: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Thursday 9-Sep-10 08:00pm Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne Patrick Davin, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Dörte Lyssewski, Voice: Yvonne Paul Gay, Baritone: Le Roi Ignace Mireille Delunsch, Soprano: La Reine Marguerite Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Friday 10-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam Les Vêpres Siciliennes |
De Nederlandse Opera Paolo Carignani, Conductor Christof Loy, Director Emily Magee, Soprano: Hélène Livia Ághová, Contralto: Ninette Burkhard Fritz, Tenor: Henri Alexander Marco-Buhrmester, Baritone: Guy de Montfort |
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| Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Waterlooplein 22, Amsterdam, Netherlands Friday 10-Sep-10 07:00pm Paolo Carignani, Conductor Christof Loy, Director Emily Magee, Soprano: Hélène Livia Ághová, Contralto: Ninette Burkhard Fritz, Tenor: Henri Alexander Marco-Buhrmester, Baritone: Guy de Montfort | ||
| Friday 10-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Peacock Theatre, London La bohème |
British Youth Opera |
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| Peacock Theatre, London, London WC2A 2HT, United Kingdom Friday 10-Sep-10 07:00pm From 4-11 September British Youth Opera (BYO) offers the chance to hear the next generation of opera singers in new productions of La bohème and Euridice at Sadler’s Wells’ Peacock Theatre. Each year BYO auditions the best students and recent graduates from the country’s music colleges and selects over 60 of them to take part in its intensive Summer Season. After nearly two months of coaching and rehearsals, the singers take to the stage for a week of performances, when audiences (and casting agents) will be on the look out for the opera stars of the future. Led by a creative team whose operatic credits include English National Opera, the Royal Opera House, New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the Salzburg Festival this year’s productions of La bohème and Euridice provide the perfect vehicles for BYO’s young singers. Puccini’s La bohème is probably the most romantic of all operas and BYO’s production is sure to capture the youthful passion and energy of the young Bohemians at the opera’s heart. BYO singers this year include John Pierce (as Rodolfo, La bohème) who will represent Wales in next year’s Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Past BYO singers have gone on to win international prizes and sing leading roles in opera houses worldwide, from Covent Garden and Glyndebourne to Bayreuth Festival and the Sydney Opera House – this is truly a chance to hear opera’s next generation! Tickets £10 - £36 | ||
| Friday 10-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Teatro La Fenice, Venice La Traviata |
Venice Opera Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Stefano Secco, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Robert Carsen, Director |
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| Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Venice, Italy Friday 10-Sep-10 07:00pm Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Stefano Secco, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Robert Carsen, Director | ||
| Friday 10-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Così fan Tutte |
Royal Opera Thomas Hengelbrock, Conductor Jonathan Miller, Director Pavol Breslik, Tenor: Ferrando Stéphane Degout, Bass: Guglielmo Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone: Don Alfonso Maria Bengtsson, Soprano: Fiordiligi Jurgita Adamonyte, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Rebecca Evans, Soprano: Despina |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Friday 10-Sep-10 07:00pm Thomas Hengelbrock, Conductor Jonathan Miller, Director Pavol Breslik, Tenor: Ferrando Stéphane Degout, Bass: Guglielmo Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone: Don Alfonso Maria Bengtsson, Soprano: Fiordiligi Jurgita Adamonyte, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Rebecca Evans, Soprano: Despina | ||
| Friday 10-Sep-10 07:30pm |
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Classic Concertos |
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| St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, London, United Kingdom Friday 10-Sep-10 07:30pm Classic Concertos | ||
| Friday 10-Sep-10 07:30pm |
St Mary's RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Edinburgh B Minor Mass - JS Bach |
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| St Mary's RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Edinburgh, 61-63 York Place, Edinburgh EH1 3JD, United Kingdom Friday 10-Sep-10 07:30pm B Minor Mass - JS Bach Sponsored by Sir Tom and Lady Farmer Dunedin Consort receives generous support from Creative Scotland  Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), Mass in B minor, BWV232 (Breikopf & Hartel Edition, Edited by Joshua Rifkin) | ||
| Friday 10-Sep-10 07:30pm |
St Cuthbert's Church, London Musica Transalpina: Eighteenth-Century Italian Masters in Britain |
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| St Cuthbert's Church, London, 50 Philbeach Gardens, London, United Kingdom, London SW5 9EB, United Kingdom Friday 10-Sep-10 07:30pm Musica Transalpina: Eighteenth-Century Italian Masters in Britain Tickets available at the door: £14 (£10 concessions);
'excellent musicianship' -- Gramophone;
'engaging, entertaining…an enormous amount of atmosphere and character'-- Opera News
Price type: Low cost: 50% at £10 or less | ||
| Friday 10-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre The Pirates of Penzance |
Opera Australia |
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| Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre, Sydney 1225, Australia Friday 10-Sep-10 07:30pm The Pirates of Penzance Some pirates sail the Caribbean. Some search for buried treasure. Some do all kinds of terrible deeds, but not these ones. Prepare to meet the soppiest, silliest set of pirates that ever were, led by a Pirate King who loves to sing. The inimitable Anthony Warlow dons his cutlass for another voyage as The Pirates of Penzance sails back into town. Gilbert and Sullivan's fifth collaboration has long been high on the list of all-time favourites, but no one could have predicted the runaway success of this production, directed by Stuart Maunder and designed by Roger Kirk. A foot-stomping, wisecracking, feel-good show, it has played to packed houses around the country and beyond and now returns, complete with its crazy cartoons, swashbuckling heroes and dainty heroines, to the place it all began. | ||
| Friday 10-Sep-10 08:00pm |
Opéra de Lyon Porgy and Bess |
Opéra de Lyon Eddins, William, Conductor José Montalvo, Director Derrick Lawrence, Baritone: Porgy Janice Chandler-Eteme, Soprano: Bess Timothy Robert Blevins, Baritone: Crown Ronald Samm, Tenor: Sportin’ Life LaVerne Williams, Mezzo-soprano: Maria Magali Léger, Soprano: Clara |
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| Opéra de Lyon, 69001 Lyon, France Friday 10-Sep-10 08:00pm Eddins, William, Conductor José Montalvo, Director Derrick Lawrence, Baritone: Porgy Janice Chandler-Eteme, Soprano: Bess Timothy Robert Blevins, Baritone: Crown Ronald Samm, Tenor: Sportin’ Life LaVerne Williams, Mezzo-soprano: Maria Magali Léger, Soprano: Clara | ||
| Friday 10-Sep-10 08:00pm |
De Munt | La Monnaie: Grand Hall, Brussels Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne |
Opéra de la Monnaie Patrick Davin, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Dörte Lyssewski, Voice: Yvonne Paul Gay, Baritone: Le Roi Ignace Mireille Delunsch, Soprano: La Reine Marguerite Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| De Munt | La Monnaie: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Friday 10-Sep-10 08:00pm Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne Patrick Davin, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Dörte Lyssewski, Voice: Yvonne Paul Gay, Baritone: Le Roi Ignace Mireille Delunsch, Soprano: La Reine Marguerite Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Saturday 11-Sep-10 03:00pm |
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Manon |
Royal Opera Antonio Pappano, Conductor Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Laurent Pelly, Director Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Manon Matthew Polenzani, Tenor: Le Chevalier Des Grieux Russell Braun, Baritone: Lescaut Christof Fischesser, Bass: Le Comte Des Grieux |
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| Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan Saturday 11-Sep-10 03:00pm Antonio Pappano, Conductor Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Laurent Pelly, Director Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Manon Matthew Polenzani, Tenor: Le Chevalier Des Grieux Russell Braun, Baritone: Lescaut Christof Fischesser, Bass: Le Comte Des Grieux | ||
| Saturday 11-Sep-10 03:30pm |
Teatro La Fenice, Venice La Traviata |
Venice Opera Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Stefano Secco, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Robert Carsen, Director |
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| Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Venice, Italy Saturday 11-Sep-10 03:30pm Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Stefano Secco, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Robert Carsen, Director | ||
| Saturday 11-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Peacock Theatre, London Euridice |
British Youth Opera |
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| Peacock Theatre, London, London WC2A 2HT, United Kingdom Saturday 11-Sep-10 07:00pm From 4-11 September British Youth Opera (BYO) offers the chance to hear the next generation of opera singers in new productions of La bohème and Euridice at Sadler’s Wells’ Peacock Theatre. Each year BYO auditions the best students and recent graduates from the country’s music colleges and selects over 60 of them to take part in its intensive Summer Season. After nearly two months of coaching and rehearsals, the singers take to the stage for a week of performances, when audiences (and casting agents) will be on the look out for the opera stars of the future. Led by a creative team whose operatic credits include English National Opera, the Royal Opera House, New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the Salzburg Festival this year’s productions of La bohème and Euridice provide the perfect vehicles for BYO’s young singers. Euridice takes the translucent vocal lines of the first ever opera composer, Jacopo Peri, and weaves them into an atmospheric score by Stephen Oliver, one of Britain’s most prolific composers of music for stage and screen. This semi-staged production marks the 60th anniversary of Oliver’s birth (he died in 1992, aged 42) and is performed by a cast of eighteen singers and an onstage ensemble of eight players, creating a remarkable piece of music theatre. BYO singers this year include John Pierce (as Rodolfo, La bohème) who will represent Wales in next year’s Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Past BYO singers have gone on to win international prizes and sing leading roles in opera houses worldwide, from Covent Garden and Glyndebourne to Bayreuth Festival and the Sydney Opera House – this is truly a chance to hear opera’s next generation! Tickets £10 - £36 | ||
| Saturday 11-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris) L'Italiana in Algeri |
Opéra de Paris Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris Choeurs de l'Opéra National de Paris Maurizio Benini, Conductor Andrei Serban, Director Marco Vinco, Bass: Mustafà Jaël Azzaretti, Soprano: Elvira Cornelia Oncioiu, Soprano: Zulma Riccardo Novaro, Baritone: Haly Lawrence Brownlee, Tenor: Lindoro Vivica Genaux, Mezzo-soprano: Isabella Alessandro Corbelli, Bass: Taddeo |
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| Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris), 75009 Paris, France Saturday 11-Sep-10 07:30pm One of Rossini's most exquisite scores, penned when the composer was only 21 years old, this is a comic opera of pristine charm and humour, full of twinkling, sparkling music and characters who seem freshly minted. The lovely Isabella embarks for Algiers to seek her beloved Lindoro, taken prisoner by the tyrant Mustafà. But the boat founders and the adventure begins... There are pirates, a harem, eunuchs, a palace by the sea, the whole wonderful panoply of oriental exotica still fashionable in the early 19th century. There is also the brilliant and virtuoso bel canto of which Rossini had the secret. And above all there is that zaniness he so cleverly injects into his theatre, as the machine he himself has made suddenly goes haywire, like the extravagant first act finale where the ensemble degenerates into a hubbub of onomatopoeia. Vivica Genaux leads the dance in Andrei Serban's joyous production. Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris Choeurs de l'Opéra National de Paris Maurizio Benini, Conductor Andrei Serban, Director Marco Vinco, Bass: Mustafà Jaël Azzaretti, Soprano: Elvira Cornelia Oncioiu, Soprano: Zulma Riccardo Novaro, Baritone: Haly Lawrence Brownlee, Tenor: Lindoro Vivica Genaux, Mezzo-soprano: Isabella Alessandro Corbelli, Bass: Taddeo | ||
| Saturday 11-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Carmen |
Scottish Opera Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Annie Gill, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Robyn Lyn Evans, Tenor: Don José Nicholas Ransley, Tenor: Don José Michael de Souza, Baritone: Escamillo Francis Church, Baritone: Le Dancaïre Patrick Ashcroft, Tenor: Le Remendado Francisco Javier Borda, Bass: Zuniga Robert Tucker, Baritone: Moralès Claire Watkins, Soprano: Micaela Caroline Macphie, Soprano: Frasquita Katherine Allen, Mezzo-soprano: Mercédès Derek Clark, Conductor Susannah Wapshott, Piano Ashley Dean, Director/Director |
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| Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow G5 9DS, United Kingdom Saturday 11-Sep-10 07:30pm Beautiful gypsies, obsession, intense emotion and some of the liveliest rhythms in opera…it can only be Carmen. This new production is set in 1960s Spain, a country firmly entrenched in General Franco’s right-wing regime. Women are oppressed, the gypsies ghettoised, the country is riddled with poverty, and black-market smuggling is rife. As a woman wanting to break free, the stakes are high for someone like Carmen. An outspoken gypsy with a beautiful face and a fiery temper, she sets her sights on the soldier Don José. His desire leads him to deny his friends and position and he is soon living the life of a smuggler in the desolate mountains of Spain. As his relationship with Carmen disintegrates and she leaves him for another, he sets out to prove his love, but Carmen has seen the future in her tarot cards and it isn’t a happy one. Bizet’s boldly seductive opera has been one of the world’s favourite operas for over a century. From the sultry ‘Habanera’ to the naively passionate ‘Flower Song’ and the rousing ‘Toreador’s Song’, Bizet’s ever-popular music brings out the earthy vitality of his characters. Ashley Dean, director of 2009’s Opera Highlights tour directs a fine ensemble cast. Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Annie Gill, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Robyn Lyn Evans, Tenor: Don José Nicholas Ransley, Tenor: Don José Michael de Souza, Baritone: Escamillo Francis Church, Baritone: Le Dancaïre Patrick Ashcroft, Tenor: Le Remendado Francisco Javier Borda, Bass: Zuniga Robert Tucker, Baritone: Moralès Claire Watkins, Soprano: Micaela Caroline Macphie, Soprano: Frasquita Katherine Allen, Mezzo-soprano: Mercédès Derek Clark, Conductor Susannah Wapshott, Piano Ashley Dean, Director/Director | ||
| Saturday 11-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre The Pirates of Penzance |
Opera Australia |
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| Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre, Sydney 1225, Australia Saturday 11-Sep-10 07:30pm The Pirates of Penzance Some pirates sail the Caribbean. Some search for buried treasure. Some do all kinds of terrible deeds, but not these ones. Prepare to meet the soppiest, silliest set of pirates that ever were, led by a Pirate King who loves to sing. The inimitable Anthony Warlow dons his cutlass for another voyage as The Pirates of Penzance sails back into town. Gilbert and Sullivan's fifth collaboration has long been high on the list of all-time favourites, but no one could have predicted the runaway success of this production, directed by Stuart Maunder and designed by Roger Kirk. A foot-stomping, wisecracking, feel-good show, it has played to packed houses around the country and beyond and now returns, complete with its crazy cartoons, swashbuckling heroes and dainty heroines, to the place it all began. | ||
| Sunday 12-Sep-10 03:00pm |
Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama La Traviata |
Royal Opera Antonio Pappano, Conductor Richard Eyre, Director Ermonela Jaho, Soprano: Violetta Valéry James Valenti, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden |
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| Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan Sunday 12-Sep-10 03:00pm Antonio Pappano, Conductor Richard Eyre, Director Ermonela Jaho, Soprano: Violetta Valéry James Valenti, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | ||
| Sunday 12-Sep-10 03:00pm |
De Munt | La Monnaie: Grand Hall, Brussels Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne |
Opéra de la Monnaie Patrick Davin, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Dörte Lyssewski, Voice: Yvonne Paul Gay, Baritone: Le Roi Ignace Mireille Delunsch, Soprano: La Reine Marguerite Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| De Munt | La Monnaie: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Sunday 12-Sep-10 03:00pm Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne Patrick Davin, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Dörte Lyssewski, Voice: Yvonne Paul Gay, Baritone: Le Roi Ignace Mireille Delunsch, Soprano: La Reine Marguerite Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Sunday 12-Sep-10 03:30pm |
Teatro La Fenice, Venice La Traviata |
Venice Opera Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Stefano Secco, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Robert Carsen, Director |
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| Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Venice, Italy Sunday 12-Sep-10 03:30pm Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Stefano Secco, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Robert Carsen, Director | ||
| Sunday 12-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Don Pasquale |
Royal Opera Evelino Pidò, Conductor Jonathan Miller, Director Barry Banks, Tenor: Ernesto Paola Gavanelli, Baritone: Don Pasquale Jacques Imbrailo, Bass: Dr. Malatesta Iride Martínez, Soprano: Norina |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Sunday 12-Sep-10 07:00pm Evelino Pidò, Conductor Jonathan Miller, Director Barry Banks, Tenor: Ernesto Paola Gavanelli, Baritone: Don Pasquale Jacques Imbrailo, Bass: Dr. Malatesta Iride Martínez, Soprano: Norina | ||
| Sunday 12-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Carmen |
Scottish Opera Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Annie Gill, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Robyn Lyn Evans, Tenor: Don José Nicholas Ransley, Tenor: Don José Michael de Souza, Baritone: Escamillo Francis Church, Baritone: Le Dancaïre Patrick Ashcroft, Tenor: Le Remendado Francisco Javier Borda, Bass: Zuniga Robert Tucker, Baritone: Moralès Claire Watkins, Soprano: Micaela Caroline Macphie, Soprano: Frasquita Katherine Allen, Mezzo-soprano: Mercédès Derek Clark, Conductor Susannah Wapshott, Piano Ashley Dean, Director/Director |
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| Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow G5 9DS, United Kingdom Sunday 12-Sep-10 07:30pm Beautiful gypsies, obsession, intense emotion and some of the liveliest rhythms in opera…it can only be Carmen. This new production is set in 1960s Spain, a country firmly entrenched in General Franco’s right-wing regime. Women are oppressed, the gypsies ghettoised, the country is riddled with poverty, and black-market smuggling is rife. As a woman wanting to break free, the stakes are high for someone like Carmen. An outspoken gypsy with a beautiful face and a fiery temper, she sets her sights on the soldier Don José. His desire leads him to deny his friends and position and he is soon living the life of a smuggler in the desolate mountains of Spain. As his relationship with Carmen disintegrates and she leaves him for another, he sets out to prove his love, but Carmen has seen the future in her tarot cards and it isn’t a happy one. Bizet’s boldly seductive opera has been one of the world’s favourite operas for over a century. From the sultry ‘Habanera’ to the naively passionate ‘Flower Song’ and the rousing ‘Toreador’s Song’, Bizet’s ever-popular music brings out the earthy vitality of his characters. Ashley Dean, director of 2009’s Opera Highlights tour directs a fine ensemble cast. Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Annie Gill, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Robyn Lyn Evans, Tenor: Don José Nicholas Ransley, Tenor: Don José Michael de Souza, Baritone: Escamillo Francis Church, Baritone: Le Dancaïre Patrick Ashcroft, Tenor: Le Remendado Francisco Javier Borda, Bass: Zuniga Robert Tucker, Baritone: Moralès Claire Watkins, Soprano: Micaela Caroline Macphie, Soprano: Frasquita Katherine Allen, Mezzo-soprano: Mercédès Derek Clark, Conductor Susannah Wapshott, Piano Ashley Dean, Director/Director | ||
