Spring 2024 Programme Wednesday 1pm April 17th Merry Widow – Franz Lehar with Yvonne Kenny, Bo Skovhus San Francisco Opera, Chorus and Ballet, a truly spectacular production. 188m Wednesday 1pm May 15th Nabucco – Verdi with Juan Pons, Wendy White Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus , Conductor James Levine 142m Wednesday 17th April 2024 at 1.00pm THE… Read More »
Wednesday 20th December 2023 at 1.00pm Cinderella by Alma Deutscher Performed by the Opera San Jose in 2017 In this engaging version of the fairytale, Cinderella’s father is manager of a ‘little opera house at the edge of town’ who, after the death of his wife, marries an ‘ageing prima donna’. When he dies, Cinderella’s stepmother takes over… Read More »
Wednesday 21st December 2022 Christopher Wheeldon’s lively Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland transports audiences to the riotous world of Lewis Carroll’s characters, including a tap-dancing Mad Hatter and a comically wicked Queen of Hearts. Bob Crowley’s ingenious mixture of traditional and innovative stagecraft together with the pace and colour of Joby Talbot’s score make Alice a gloriously vibrant experience. Packed with clever choreography… Read More »
Wednesday 16th November 2022 Les Pecheurs De Perles – Bizet The Pearl Fishers “The spontaneous rapturous standing ovation from what looked like the entire audience at the end of this superb production says it all. “ A pearl-diving village in the Far East. As the villagers prepare for their dive, they sing of their fear of the sea.… Read More »
Opera Appreciation Group Winter 2021/22 Programme length Wednesday October 20th 1:15pm Tales of Hoffman—Offenbach A superb recording with Opera National de Lyon from 1993. It features a cast of top singers with the choir and orchestra of the Opera National directed by Kent Nagano 120 mins Wednesday November 17th 1:15pm Don Giovanni—Mozart (Zurich Opera) This is a… Read More »
December 18th 2019 Madame Butterfly – Puccini A Film by Frederic Mitterrano The story of a young geisha who falls madly in love with an american captain that travels all around the world collecting hearts. November 20th 2019 at 1:30pm Rigoletto—Verdi Domingo. Cotrubas. Levine. A brilliant performance despite it taking place as long ago as 1977. A comparatively… Read More »
December 19th 2018 at 1:30pm Porgy and Bess – Gershwin Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Damon Evans, Cynthia Clarey Orchestra: Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle “This is the most complete video that I have found anywhere that has “most” of the songs from the original score in their orginal form as written musically.… Read More »