Spring 2024 Programme |
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Wednesday 1pm April 17th |
Merry Widow – Franz Lehar with Yvonne Kenny, Bo SkovhusSan Francisco Opera, Chorus and Ballet, a truly spectacular production. |
188m |
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Wednesday 1pm May 15th |
Nabucco – Verdi with Juan Pons, Wendy WhiteMetropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus , Conductor James Levine |
142m |
Wednesday 17th April 2024 at 1.00pm
THE MERRY WIDOW – Lehar
Lotfi Mansouri’s spectacular last production as General Director of The San Francisco Opera with Yvonne Kenny making her debut in the title role, new dialogue specially commissioned from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Wendy Wasserstein and an original ballet to set the scene Chez Maxime bringing fresh insight into Lehár’s classic operetta.
“Recorded live in San Fransisco in December 2001, this is about as lavish a production of Franz Lehárs adorable operetta as you are ever likely to see…soprano Yvonne Kenny is perfectly cast in the title role.” (Classic FM)
Wednesday 20th March 2024 at 1.00pm
TANNHÄUSER – Richard Wagner
from the Bayreuth Festival
“Tannhauser”
You may think that all operas composed by Wilhelm Richard Wagner are difficult and are long. But, this opera, “Tannhauser,” is one of the easiest operas of Wagner’s. You can understand that music and story. Wagner often deals with some issues such as love, death, salvation in his operas. You can also understand these general ideas of Wagner’s.
The music in this opera is easy, and you may know some famous melodies. This opera’s overture especially consists of many kinds of motif in this opera. If you listen to the overture many times, you can understand Wagner’s music more easily.
Synopsis click here;-
Wednesday 21st Febuary 2024 at 1.00pm
Turandot – Puccini. with Marton, Domingo, Mitchell
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli’s sumptuous production of Puccini’s final opera has been a Met favourite ever since its 1987 premiere run, captured in this telecast. James Levine brings out all the color and drama of the composer’s most ambitious score, leading a stellar cast:
Plácido Domingo is Calàf, the unknown prince, Eva Marton sings the title role of the icy princess, Leona Mitchell is Liù, the innocent slave girl, and Paul Plishka plays Timur, Calàf’s father. Veteran tenor Hugues Cuénod, at 85, sings the ancient Emperor Altoum, in his Met debut.
Wednesday 17th January 2024 at 1.00pm
IOLANTHE – Gilbert and Sullivan
or The Peer and the Peri
is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen operatic collaborations by Gilbert and Sullivan. In the opera, the fairy Iolanthe has been banished from fairyland because she married a mortal; this is forbidden by fairy law. Her son, Strephon, is an Arcadian shepherd who wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. All the members of the House of Peers also want to marry Phyllis. When Phyllis sees Strephon hugging a young woman (not knowing that it is his mother – immortal fairies all appear young), she assumes the worst and sets off a climactic confrontation between the peers and the fairies. The opera satirises many aspects of British government, law and society. The confrontation between the fairies and the peers is a version of one of Gilbert’s favourite themes: a tranquil civilisation of women is disrupted by a male-dominated world through the discovery of mortal love.
Last Updated on March 21, 2024