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Cinderella Theatre Tickets, Royal Opera House, London
This is a mysterious and magical fantasy world, where the comedy of Cinderella’s pantomime step-sisters – unlucky in looks and love – provides the perfect foil for the developing romance of Cinderella and the Prince. Cinderella is a family event full of the magic of not just of the fairy godmother, but of The Royal Ballet too.
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Book opera ticketsModern Balett Abend Theatre Tickets, Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest
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Book opera ticketsLa Clemenza di Tito Theatre Tickets, Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest
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Book opera ticketsDer Rosenkavalier Theatre Tickets, Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest
The Marschallin, married straight from school to a great nobleman who spends his time hunting, has as her lover the 18-year-old Octavian, Count Rofrano, nicknamed Quinquin. While he is with her she is visited by a boorish country cousin, Baron Ochs von Lerchenau. Octavian disguises himself as a maid. Ochs has come to Vienna to marry a rich and pretty girl, Sophie, the daughter of a newly ennobled commoner, Edler von Faninal. Ochs asks the Marschallin's help in finding a suitable person to perform the indispensable ceremony of presenting to the betrothed girl a silver rose. She assures him that Count Rofrano will accept the duty. Ochs, who meanwhile takes a fancy to the supposed serving maid, is delighted.
Left alone, the Marschallin, who foresees the end of Octavian's love for her, sings a moving lament for passing youth and beauty. In the second act Octavian duly performs the ceremony of the rose, and he and Sophie von Faninal at once fall deeply in love. An altercation occurs with Ochs, whom Octavian wounds in an impromptu duel. Ochs, who is as lecherous as he is cowardly, receives a note of assignation from ‘Mariandel’, the name Octavian used when disguised as a maid. In the third act Ochs falls into a trap set for him by Octavian, who has arranged the rendezvous in an inn of dubious propriety. Octavian attends in disguise as Mariandel, the Baron is frightened out of his wits by opening trapdoors and grinning faces, and his immoral intentions revealed to the Marschallin and Faninal, whom Octavian has summoned. Octavian, casting off his disguise, receives Sophie, and the Marschallin sadly but gracefully accepts the loss of his love.
Opera Tickets from: £51.00 to £51.00
Book opera ticketsL'anima del filosofo Theatre Tickets, Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest
After his patron Prince Nikolaus Esterházy had died in 1790, Haydn travelled to London where he received a commission to write several symphonies. The impresario John Gallini also offered him a contract to write an opera for the King's Theatre but due to a dispute between King George III and the Prince of Wales he was refused permission to stage it. As a result, the score was never completed and some music appears to be missing.
Opera Tickets from: £51.00 to £51.00
Book opera ticketsDavid Lomeli - Tenor Concert Tickets, Státní opery Praha (Prague State Opera), Prague
Performance Info
Times: 7pm
Customer must exchange voucher at: Bohemia Ticket, Na Prikope 16, Prague 1.
Opera Tickets from: £80.55 to £129.99
Book opera ticketsArena di Verona Restaurant Package (3 Course) Packages, Arena di Verona + Restaurant La Greppia package, Verona
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Book opera ticketsCarmen Theatre Tickets, The O2, London
Carmen, the world's most popular opera, will take over The O2 in May 2010 for just three performances and follows on from highly successful and popular classical stagings of Carmina Burana, Andrea Bocelli and the world premiere of Ben Hur Live at the venue.
Directed by David Freeman, founder of The Opera Factory and whose previous credits include Madam Butterfly Tosca and Carmen at the Royal Albert Hall, his production of Bizet's masterpiece comes to The O2 on a grand and spectacular scale. From the very first note to the final tragic chords, this stunning in-the-round production vividly portrays the powerful story of lust, superstition and murder that passionately unravels with fatal consequences.
Carmen is presented by Raymond Gubbay and The O2 and will be performed by a superb cast of over 150 artists, including dancers, acrobats and fire-eaters. The wonderful set and fabulous costumes will bring to life the dusty atmosphere of the town square, the cool night air of the smugglers' mountain hideout and the colourful festivities outside of the bullring in Seville.
Sung in English, Bizet's unforgettable score contains some of opera's finest arias and best loved music. The rousing Song of the Toreador, the beguiling Seguidilla, the tantalising Habanera and the enchanting Flower Song - sensual music that perfectly captures the very essence of Spain. Accompanied by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gareth Hancock, this world class company of singers, musicians and artists will provide an unforgettable production of Bizet's Carmen, staged on an epic scale at The O2.
The principle roles will be shared by Cristina Nassif and Louise Poole (as Carmen) and John Hudson and Philip O'Brien (as Don Jose).
Opera Tickets from: £27.50 to £66.00
Book opera ticketsDie Fledermaus Theatre Tickets, New Wimbledon Theatre, Wimbledon
Dr Falke was once left to wander home, drunk and dressed as a bat, by his friend Gabriel von Eisenstein. To exact his revenge he arranges for Eisenstein to attend an extremely risqué party at the home of the outrageous Russian aristocrat, Pince Orlofsky. There, Eisenstein seduces a mysterious Hungarian countess, who is in fact his own wife in disguise.
This entirely new and saucy production is directed by Jeff Clarke (with his own new translation) and designed by Gabriella Csanyi-Wills - the team that created the company's wonderful recent production of The Mikado.
An evening not to be missed by all fans of opera and lunacy!
Opera Tickets from: £13.75 to £24.00
Book opera ticketsThe Sorcerer Theatre Tickets, Churchill Theatre, Bromley
John Wellington Wells, the celebrated dealer in 'magic and spells', spreads chaos and havoc in an unsuspecting country village when he places a powerful aphrodisiac in the village hall teapot. The resulting revelations are indeed 'marvelous illusion, a terrible surprise!'.
Opera della Luna have earned themselves a matchless reputation, now celebrating 15 years of acclaimed productions of Gilbert and Sullivan, Offenbach and Johann Strauss touring to theatres all over the UK. Their recent production of Die Fledermaus played to sell-out houses and gained rave reviews.
Fun, funky and full of frolics, don’t miss this fresh production of what is probably the most rarely performed of all Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas.
Opera Tickets from: £19.00 to £23.00
Book opera ticketsThe Full Monty Theatre Tickets, Churchill Theatre, Bromley
Released in 1997, The Full Monty stormed the UK Box Office becoming the most successful British screen comedy ever. As a film, The Full Monty won the Evening Standard Award for Best Film.
This adaptation won the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical and received nominations for a staggering nine Tony Awards.
All the characters, laughter and tenderness of the film that the whole world fell in love with are brought vividly to life in this triumphant stage musical.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberg Ltd on behalf of Music Theatre International of New York.
Opera Tickets from: £19.00 to £21.00
Book opera ticketsThe Producers Theatre Tickets, King's Theatre, Glasgow
Max Bialystock, a failed Broadway producer, together with his rather meek accountant, Leo Bloom, decide to stage a Broadway flop. They have come to the conclusion that they can make more money with a failure than they can with a success. So Max and Leo search New York for the worst script they can find. Their foolproof scheme gets complicated when their crass and totally tasteless production turns out to be a huge hit with the public.
Adapted from Mel Brooks' 1968 film by the man himself, this hilarious musical comedy opened on Broadway in 2001 where it won 12 Tony Awards. Featuring new music specially written by Mel Brooks for the Broadway stage, with songs including Springtime for Hitler and When You Got It, Flaunt It, he has created a laugh-a-minute musical comedy which is not to be missed.
Opera Tickets from: £13.75 to £22.00
Book opera ticketsFootloose: The Musical Theatre Tickets, Churchill Theatre, Bromley
There’s just no stopping the music!
Ravensbourne Light Operatic Society returns to the Churchill Theatre with this Broadway and West End smash hit. Footloose The Musical tells the story of city boy Ren who moves to small town America where dancing is banned.
The show is packed full of electrifying dancing and classic eighties hits including: Holding Out For A Hero, Almost Paradise, Let’s Hear It For The Boy and the title track Footloose.
Pulsating with energy this fast paced musical gets audiences on their feet.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberg Ltd on behalf of R&H Theatricals.
Opera Tickets from: £18.00 to £21.00
Book opera ticketsMixed Programme: Dances at a Gathering / The Dream Ticket + Hotel Packages, Royal Opera House + Hotel, London
There’s a strong contrast in the second work of the programme, The Dream: with Shakespeare’s story of a midsummer’s night, Mendelssohn’s delightfully delicate music and Frederick Ashton’s ever-popular choreography. In its magic world of night and within its evocative woodland setting, Oberon and Titania play their games with the unwitting mortals, while the comic confusions of love are aggravated by the mischievous Puck.
Running time: 2hrs 35 minutes | 1 Interval
CREDITS
Music: Frédéric Chopin
Choreography: Jerome Robbins
Lighting: Jennifer Tipton & John B Read
Music: Felix Mendelssohn
Choreography: Frederick Ashton
Designs: David Walker
PERFORMERS
Conductor: Paul Murphy
Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Dances at a Gathering
tba
The Dream
Leanne Benjamin
Alina Cojocaru
Roberta Marquez
Johan Kobborg
Steven McRae
Ivan Putrov
Edward Watson
Opera Tickets from: £37.50 to £37.50
Book opera ticketsCosi Fan Tutte Ticket + Hotel Packages, Royal Opera House + Hotel, London
Opera Tickets from: £46.00 to £46.00
Book opera ticketsThe Gambler Ticket + Hotel Packages, Royal Opera House + Hotel, London
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Book opera ticketsThe Gambler Opera Tickets, Royal Opera House, London
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Book opera ticketsDer Troubadour Opera Tickets, Arena di Verona, Verona
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Book opera ticketsCosi fan tutte Opera Tickets, Royal Opera House, London
Running time: 3 hours 30 minutes | 1 Interval
Sung in Italian with English surtitles
Classical opera meets contemporary style in this ever-popular staging of Mozart’s operatic gem that brings its look – and its relevance – right up to date. But Jonathan Miller’s production for The Royal Opera also focuses on the timeless themes of a drama that sees two men test the loyalties of their girlfriends to breaking point. Part comedy, part tragedy, it is a wry study in love, manipulation and trust. Music by Mozart is in turn poignant and stoic, heartfelt and romantic, and includes several famous arias and ensembles you are sure to remember.
The fine cast bring out all the subtle changes of their circumstances and volatile emotional responses to the power play in which they are caught. A tour de force of opera performance, there is a Covent Garden debut for conductor Julia Jones, and a cast of well-known names for the two couples and their manipulators. A great score, a famous production and wonderful singers: this Season’s Così fan tutte is as much a ‘must see’ for opera lovers as ever.
CREDITS
Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Director
Jonathan Miller
Designer
Jonathan Miller
Lighting
Jonathan Miller
John Charlton
PERFORMERS
Conductor
Julia Jones
Ferrando
Charles Castronovo
Guglielmo
Troy Cook
Don Alfonso
William Shimell
Fiordiligi
Sally Matthews
Dorabella
Nino Surguladze
Despina
Helene Schneiderman
Opera Tickets from: £210.00 to £210.00
Book opera ticketsKaguyahime Theatre Tickets, Opéra Bastille (Bastille Opera), Paris
This artist of pure lines skilfully plays with light and subtly mixes traditional Japanese and Western music to create a fantasy world.
The fluid dance is sometimes languorous and enigmatic, sometimes swept up by the frenetic rhythms of percussion and the rolling of drums, translates moods and emotions.
Jirí Kylián has specially revisited one of his most essential creations for the Paris Opera Ballet and the stage of the Opéra Bastille.
Performance Info
Premiere 11th June @ 7.30pm
June 14th, 18th, 24th, 30th @ 7.30pm
July 2nd, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 13th, 14th, 15th @ 7.30pm
June 27th @ 2.30pm
July 4th, 11th @ 2.30pm
Running Time: 1 hour 40 minutes, includes 1 interval
Customers must exchange voucher at the theatre box office at least 30 minutes prior to the performance.
Opera Tickets from: £100.00 to £100.00
Book opera ticketsBeethoven-Bruckner-Zyklus Concert Tickets, Staatsoper Unter den Linden (State Opera), Berlin
Opera Tickets from: £14.00 to £14.00
Book opera ticketsLa Peri Theatre Tickets, Staatsoper Unter den Linden (State Opera), Berlin
Choreography and Staging: Vladimir Malakhov nach Jean Coralli
Music: Friedrich Burgmüller
Sets and Costumes: Jordi Roig
Conductor: Paul Connelly
Opera Tickets from: £70.00 to £70.00
Book opera ticketsMaria Stuarda Theatre Tickets, Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, Manchester
Two exceptional singers return to Opera North, Sarah Connolly to sing Mary Queen of Scots (Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Autumn 2008) and Antonia Cifrone sings Elizabeth I (Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, Spring 2008). Both will bring charisma and drama to the lead roles of this bel canto opera.
The centrepiece of this opera is the fictional confrontation between Mary Stuart, the Catholic Queen of Scotland, and the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I. The opera builds to the moment of conflict when political, religious and romantic tensions simmer over, resulting in Mary's condemnation and eventual execution. The opera is recognised as one of Donizetti's most persuasive and powerful scores and culminates in an exceptionally affecting final scene.
Antony McDonald is well known at Opera North for his set designs and will make his directorial debut with this production, joined by the widely travelled conductor Guido Johannes Rumstadt.
Sung in Italian with English titles
Lasts approximately 2 hours 30 minutes
Opera Tickets from: £15.96 to £58.71
Book opera ticketsRuddigore Theatre Tickets, Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, Manchester
When mild-mannered Robin Oakapple is revealed as the villainous Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, inheritor of the curse of Ruddigore (he must commit a crime everyday), his romance with the faultlessly virtuous Rose Maybud looks doomed. But his troubles really start when he proves singularly unequal to the task of fulfilling the curse, and his ancestors’ portraits begin to haunt him…
Although still in his thirties, John Wilson already has an enviable reputation as a conductor, arranger and orchestrator, with a special flair for light music. With direction by Jo Davies, whose work spans musical and spoken theatre as well as opera, and sets and costumes by distinguished designer Richard Hudson, the team will ensure that Opera North’s new production supplies a welcome Winter treat.
Sung in English
Lasts approximately 2 hours 30 minutes
Opera Tickets from: £38.19 to £46.74
Book opera ticketsRusalka Theatre Tickets, Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, Manchester
First performed by Opera North in 2003, Olivia Fuchs’ award-winning production returns with many of its original cast, including Irish soprano, Giselle Allen as Rusalka, Susannah Glanville as The Foreign Princess and Richard Angus as The Water Sprite. Internationally acclaimed Richard Berkeley-Steele makes his Opera North debut as The Prince.
Suffused with a haunting score, famed for Rusalka’s poignant ‘Song to the Moon,’ and conducted by Oliver von Dohnanyi, (The Bartered Bride, 1998) Rusalka offers an altogether spell-binding experience.
Sung in English
Lasts approximately 3 hours 15 minutes
Opera Tickets from: £15.96 to £58.71
Book opera ticketsLa bohème Theatre Tickets, Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, Manchester
Opera North’s production, first directed by Phyllida Lloyd, whose stage production and film of the musical Mama Mia! have created global phenomenon, returns to entertain new audiences after almost a decade.
Set in the grimy, tumultuous Paris of the 1950’s, Mimi, a consumptive seamstress and poet, Roldolfo instantly fall in love but are inevitably torn apart by Mimi’s incurable illness.
This story of impossible young love, heartbreak and regret is revived by a cast of the best young international talent, including the French soprano Anne Sophie Duprels (Madama Butterfly 2007), Turkish tenor Bülent Bezduz, Polish baritone Marcin Bronikowski and French bass Frédéric Burreau.
Opera North’s Music Director, Richard Farnes conducts.
Sung in Italian with English titles
Lasts approximately 2 hours 15 minutes
Presented by Opera North.
Opera Tickets from: £15.96 to £58.71
Book opera ticketsCosì fan tutte Theatre Tickets, Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, Manchester
Presented by Opera North.
Conductor Andrew Parrott.
Director Tim Albery.
Sung in English.
‘It’s a triumph…this is one of the most intelligent and beautifully crafted Così’s in years.’ The Sunday Times
‘Aesthetically ravishing.’ The Guardian
‘One of the tiny number of near-flawless accounts of a Mozart opera.’ The Spectator
Opera Tickets from: £15.96 to £58.71
Book opera ticketsTosca Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Teatro alla Scala, Milan.
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Librettist: Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £67.50 to £139.00
Book opera ticketsThe Nose Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Librettist: Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, Alexander Preys and the composer
Sung in Russian with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £67.50 to £139.00
Book opera ticketsLulu Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Alban Berg
Libretto by the composer, adapted from works by Frank Wedekind
Sung in German with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £97.50 to £172.50
Book opera ticketsLa Traviata Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £97.50 to £172.50
Book opera ticketsLa Fille du Régiment Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London; and the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Librettist: Georges Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard
Sung in French with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £67.50 to £139.00
Book opera ticketsLa Bohème Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Giocomo Puccini
Librettist: Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £112.50 to £112.50
Book opera ticketsHamlet Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Ambroise Thomas
Librettist: Michel Carré and Jules Barbier
Sung in French with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £90.00 to £161.50
Book opera ticketsIl barbiere di Siviglia (Der Barbier von Sevilla) Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Librettist: Cesare Sterbini
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £67.50 to £139.00
Book opera ticketsDie Zauberflöte Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Librettist: Emanuel Schikaneder
Sung in German with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £67.50 to £139.00
Book opera ticketsDer Fliegende Holländer Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Richard Wagner
Librettist: the composer
Sung in German with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £90.00 to £161.50
Book opera ticketsCarmen Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Georges Bizet
Librettist: Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Sung in French with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £139.00 to £139.00
Book opera ticketsAttila Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Librettist: Temistocle Solera
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £67.50 to £172.50
Book opera ticketsArmida Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Librettist: Giovanni Schmidt
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £97.50 to £172.50
Book opera ticketsAriadne auf Naxos Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Richard Strauss
Librettist: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Sung in German with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Karita Mattila as Tosca
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £67.50 to £139.00
Book opera ticketsAida Opera Tickets, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Librettist: Antonio Ghislanzoni
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish
Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera
Opera Tickets from: £97.50 to £172.50
Book opera ticketsSiddharta Theatre Tickets, Opéra Bastille (Bastille Opera), Paris
Performance Times
* Premiere 18th March at 7.30pm
* March 20th,23th,27th,29th,31st, April 1st,2nd,6th,7th,9th at 7.30pm
* Matinees on April 4th & 11th at 2.30pm
Running Time: 1hr 40mins
Opera Tickets from: £100.00 to £100.00
Book opera ticketsLa Somnambule Theatre Tickets, Opéra Bastille (Bastille Opera), Paris
Performance Times
*Premiere Jan 25th : 7.30pm
*Jan 28th, Feb 6th, 9th, 12th 15th 18th 23rd @ 7.30pm
*Jan 31st Feb 21st @ 2.30pm
Running Time: 2hrs 40mins with 1 interval
Opera Tickets from: £200.00 to £200.00
Book opera ticketsLa Walkyrie Theatre Tickets, Opéra Bastille (Bastille Opera), Paris
Performance Times
6pm & 2pm
Opera Tickets from: £210.00 to £210.00
Book opera ticketsDas Rheingold Theatre Tickets, Opéra Bastille (Bastille Opera), Paris
Performance Times
Performances begin at 2.30pm or 7.30pm
Running Time: 2 hours 20 mins
Opera Tickets from: £210.00 to £210.00
Book opera ticketsBilly Budd Theatre Tickets, Opéra Bastille (Bastille Opera), Paris
Performances
Performances begin at 7.30pmRunning Time: 3hr 8 mins
Opera Tickets from: £163.00 to £163.00
Book opera ticketsLa Dame Du Lac Opera Tickets, Opera Garnier, Paris
Petit/Ratmanski/Petipa
La Dame de pique
Musique Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski (Symphonie n° 6)
Chorégraphie, livret et arrangement musical Roland Petit
Décors Jean-Michel Wilmotte
Costumes Luisa Spinatelli
Lumières Marion Hewlett
Jeu de cartes
Musique Igor Stravinsky
Chorégraphie Alexei Ratmanski
Décors et costumes Igor Chapurin
Lumières Damir Ismagilov
La Bayadère (acte III, les Ombres)
Musique Ludwig Minkus
Chorégraphie Marius Petipa
adaptée par Olga Iordan et Fedor Lopukhov
Décors et costumes d’après les maquettes originales de 1877 Times:
Première: 11th Jan 2008 @ 7.30pm
12th Jan 2008 @ 8pm
13th Jan 2008 @ 2.30pm
Opera Tickets from: £200.00 to £200.00
Book opera ticketsLa Bayadere Opera Tickets, Opera Garnier, Paris
LIVRET DE MARIUS PETIPA ET SERGUEI KHOUDEKOV
Ballet dune virtuosit tourdissante, La Bayadre est une envotante fresque orientale. Les dcors et costumes enchanteurs donnent tout leur clat cette production qui entrane vers une Inde de songe et de mystre.
Ludwig Minkus Musique
John Lanchbery Ralisation
Rudolf Noureev Chorgraphie et mise en scne daprs Marius Petipa (Opra national de Paris, 1992)
Ezio Frigerio Dcors
Franca Squarciapino Costumes
Vinicio Cheli Lumires
Les toiles, les Premiers Danseurs et le Corps de Ballet
Orchestre Colonne
Kevin Rhodes Direction musicale
Times:
Premire May 17 at 19H30
May 18,19,20,21,22,25,26,27,28,31, June 1,2 at 19H30
May 29 AT 14H30 AND 20H00
Opera Tickets from: £105.00 to £105.00
Book opera ticketsLa Petite Danseuse De Degas Theatre Tickets, Opera Garnier, Paris
SUJET DE PATRICE BART ET DE MARTINE KAHANE
Le chorgraphe et matre de Ballet de lOpra Patrice Bart plonge dans le pass de lOpra et redonne vie la clbre statuette de Degas. Des studios de rptitions au Cabaret du Chat Noir, le ballet voque tout le parfum dune poque et les coulisses dun thtre plein de vie.
Denis Levaillant Musique
Patrice Bart Chorgraphie et mise en scne (Opra national de Paris, 2003)
Ezio Toffolutti Dcors
Sylvie Skinazi Costumes
Marion Hewlett Lumires
Les toiles, les Premiers Danseurs et le Corps de Ballet
Orchestre de lOpra national de Paris
Koen Kessels Direction musicale
Times:
Premire JUNE 26 at 19H30
PERFORMANCES ON JUNE 29,JULY 1,3,6,8,9,12,13 AT 19H30
PERFORMANCE ON JULY 4,11 AT 14H30
Opera Tickets from: £105.00 to £105.00
Book opera ticketsLa bohème Theatre Tickets, Theatre Royal Glasgow, Glasgow
Young artists, living and working in stark studio apartments, turn loft spaces into art galleries. When Rodolfo sees Mimi for the first time, they fall hopelessly in love - but the course of true love rarely runs smoothly. Encompassing dramatic passion and the pain of being young, poor and in love, Puccini’s whirling melodic score moves from revelry to romance as it carries the story toward its tragic conclusion.
Young Irish soprano Celine Byrne and French tenor Avi Klemberg, make their Scottish Opera débuts. Nadine Livingstone (who also takes the title role in this season’s Kátya Kabanová) sings Musetta. Scottish Opera Music Director Francesco Corti conducts.
Scottish Opera
La bohème
Giacomo Puccini
Sung in Italian with English supertitles
Revival of 2004 production
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Book opera ticketsThe Adventures of Mr Broucek Theatre Tickets, Theatre Royal Glasgow, Glasgow
The beer-fuelled Mr Broucek’s adventures take him through space and time: first to the moon and then to the middle of the revolution in 15th-century Prague. By turns funny, surreal, tender and thrilling, the opera is full of wonderful portraits and parodies - of artists, poets, soldiers, and the ordinary people of Janácek’s homeland.
The music is just as varied as Broucek’s adventures, from the extra-terrestrial sounds of the moon music, to the gorgeous orchestral interlude which transforms the action from the moon to Prague. Bagpipes and an organ add an edge to the stirringly patriotic Hussite hymns and celebrations, sung by a 40 strong chorus.
John Fulljames directs a superb cast including English tenor John Graham Hall and Scottish contralto Frances McCafferty, making her Scottish Opera débuts, alongside celebrated Scottish baritone Donald Maxwell.
Scottish Opera
The Adventures of Mr Broucek
Leoš Janácek
Production supported by The Alexander Gibson Circle
Sung in English with English supertitles
A new co-production with Opera North
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Book opera ticketsDie Fledermaus Programme Items, Castleward Opera, Strangford
This beautifully produced programme for Castleward Opera's 2009 summer season is available for pre-purchase and will be available for collection on the day of your performance. We're sorry, but this item is only available to Castleward Opera 2009 ticket holders.
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Book opera ticketsTosca Theatre Tickets, Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes
The world of opera singer Floria Tosca is about to be turned upside down. She is suspicious of her lover Mario’s fidelity. Little does she realize that he is at the centre of a struggle that will lead to tragedy. Soon she herself will become the object of Scarpia’s insatiable lust and she will be forced to ask what she has done to deserve this.
Once decried as a 'shabby little shocker', Tosca has become one of the best-loved of all operas. The combination of its fast paced plot, high tension and the poignancy of the great arias Vissi d’arte and E lucevan le stelle ensure that Tosca never fails to enthrall. Michael Blakemore’s period set production Welsh National Opera of this pulsating thriller promises to set your emotions on a knife-edge.
Cast includes Alwyn Mellor as Floria Tosca, Geraint Dodd as Cavaradossi, Robert Hayward as Scarpia.
Sung in Italian with surtitles in English.
Co-production with the State Opera of South Australia.
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Book opera ticketsCarmen Theatre Tickets, Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes
Bizet’s most famous creation is full to the brim with instantly recognizable music and paints a mesmerizing picture of a Spain teeming with fascinating characters. Carmen herself is one of the most charismatic and hard to resist characters in opera. For a century and a half audiences the world over have fallen in love with her. Patricia Bardon returns to this production as Carmen with Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones reprising the role of Don José.
Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser’s production for distils Bizet’s masterpiece right down to its essence.
Cast includes Patricia Bardon as Carmen, Gwyn Hughes Jones as Don José, David Soar as Escamillo, Sarah-Jane Davies as Micaëla, Henry Waddington as Zuniga, Joanne Boag as Frasquita and Carolyn Dobbin as Mercedes.
Sung in French with surtitles in English.
Co-production with Scottish Opera.
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Book opera ticketsAbduction from the Seraglio Theatre Tickets, Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes
The joyous overture suggests a boisterous sense of fun, which is carried right through to the final curtain with stratospheric arias and blissful ensembles along the way. BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize winner Andrew Kennedy performs the role of Belmonte.
James Robinson’s stylish production for Welsh National Opera is irresistibly entertaining, setting the opera on the Orient Express of the 1920s en route from Paris to Istanbul.
Cast includes Andrew Kennedy as Belmonte, Lisette Oropesa as Constanze, Petros Magoulas as Osmin, Claire Ormshaw as Blonde and Wynne Evans as Pedrillo.
Sung in German with surtitles in English.
A co-production of Houston Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Colorado, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Minnesota Opera and Opera Pacific.
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Book opera ticketsTurandot Theatre Tickets, Arena di Verona, Verona
Turandot is a Persian word and name meaning "the daughter of Turan", Turan being the region of Central Asia which used to be a part of Persian Empire.
It is an oriental fairytale of disguised identities, riddles, ritual executions and of course powerful, triumphant love. Besides its great tenor aria Nessun dorma, the music ranges from the exotic and portentous as the moon rises at the start, through the grandeur and mysticism of Turandots riddles, to the tragic beauty of the servant girl Lis appeals to and final sacrifice for her beloved master, Prince Calaf.
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Book opera ticketsThe Phantom of the Opera Theatre Tickets, Her Majesty's Theatre, London
The combination of opulent sets and costumes, and fabulous special effects creates a theatrical experience not to be missed. Now entering its 24th year in London’s West End.
“Remains the most exciting musical in London” - Daily Mail
Duration: [2hr 30m]
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Book opera ticketsHommage A Jerome Robbins Theatre Tickets, Opera Garnier, Paris
The Palais Garnier is celebrating his life achievements this September with evenings of four ballets with the Corps de Ballet and the Orchestra de l'Opéra National de Paris.
Times:
• Premiere April 21st at 7.30pm
• April 23rd,24th,27th,28th & 30th at 7.30pm
• May 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th at 7.30pm
• May 2nd at 2.30pm
Running Time: 2hrs 20 mins
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Book opera ticketsLa Petite Renarde Rusee Opera Tickets, Opéra Bastille (Bastille Opera), Paris
Performance Times
* Premiere June 25th at 7.30pm
* Performances on June 28th, July 1st, 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th @ 9.30pm
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Book opera ticketsXerxes Theatre Tickets, Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest
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Book opera ticketsEugene Onegin Opera Tickets, Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest
Act I.
Eugene Onegin has been called from a wild life of pleasure to his sick uncle, of whose property he takes possession after the uncle's sudden death. He has brought with him from the big city a profound satiety of all enjoyments and a deep contempt for the society of mankind in his solitary country seat. Here, however, he forms a friendship for a young fanatic, the poet Lenski.
Through him he is introduced to Larina, a woman who owns an estate. Her two daughters, Olga and Tatiana, correspond to the double nature of their mother, whose youth was a period of sentimentality in which she allowed herself to be affected like others by Richardson's novels, raved over Grandison, and followed the wild adventures of Lovelace with anxious thrills.
Life later had made her rational, altogether too rational and insipid. Olga now has become a cheerful, superficial, pleasureful silly young girl; Tatiana, a dreamer whose melancholy is increasing through reading books which her mother had once used. Lenski is betrothed to Olga. Tatiana recognizes at her first sight of Onegin the realization of her dreams. Her heart goes out to meet him and in her enthusiasm she reveals all her feelings in a letter to him. Onegin is deeply stirred by this love; a feeling of confidence in mankind that he had not known for such a long time awakens in him.
But he knows himself too well. He knows that every faculty as a husband is departing from him. And now he considers it his duty not to disappoint this maiden soul, to be frank. He refuses her love. He takes the blame on himself, but he would not have been the worldly wise man if his superiority to the simple country child had not been emphasized chiefly on this account. But Tatiana only listens to the refusal, she is very unhappy. Onegin remains her ideal, who now will be still more solitary, in spite of it.
Act II.
Tatiana's name-day is being celebrated with a big hall. Onegin goes there on Lenski's invitation. The stupid company with their narrow views about him vex him so much that he seeks to revenge himself on Lenski for it, for which he begins courting Olga. Lenski takes the jest in earnest; it comes to a quarrel between the friends Lenski rushes out and sends Onegin a challenge. Social considerations force Onegin to accept the challenge; a dueling fanatic landlord, Saretsky stirs Lenski's anger so severely that a reconciliation is not possible.
This part in Pushkin's work is the keenest satire, an extraordinarily efficacious mockery of the whole subject of dueling. There is derision on Onegin's side, too, for he chooses as his second his coachman Gillot. But the duel was terribly in earnest; Lenski falls, shot through by his opponent's bullet. (This scene recalls a sad experience of the poet himself; for he himself fell in a duel by the bullet of a supercilious courtier, Georg Anth's-Heckeren, who died in Alsace in 1895).
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Book opera ticketsLa Bayadére Theatre Tickets, Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest
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Book opera ticketsAnna Karenina Opera Tickets, Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest
She is emotionally torn between her husband, the civil servant Karenin, and her love, the charming Vronsky. With her husband she lives a proper and ethical life, a life where she enjoys the highest social regard, and a life - most importantly - with her dearest infant son. But it is also a life without any passion, a life where she is hardly more than a piece of furniture to her husband. Passion is the domain of Vronsky, but while her emotions may circumvent the social conventions - a rather daring proposition at the time - the question is whether her passionate love of Vronsky can circumvent her being a mother. Shchedrin's score is penetrating in a dramatic expression of feelings. For Tolstoy's characters do not only act out; they contemplate, question and reflect as much… The score which ideally taps into the dramatic atmosphere, renders brilliant musical characterizations and manifests emotional intensity has proved an excellent score and guide of inspiration for the creative team.
In 1975, the ballet was first seen in Lithuania. The Bolshoi's production was put on at the LNOBT stage by the same creative team including choreographers Maya Plisetskaya, Natalia Ryzhenko and Viktor Smirnov-Golovanov and designer Valery Levental. The cast was led by a Lithuanian conductor, Jonas Aleksa. One of the most innovative productions of the day, Anna Karenina fascinated the audiences with the dance of Maya Plisetskaya and Lithuanian ballet stars such like Nina Antonova and Svetlana Masaniova (Anna), Vytautas Kudzma and Raimundas Minderis (Vronsky), Voldemaras Chlebinskas and Jonas Katakinas (Karenin).
Anna Karenina returns to the LNOBT in a version created for the Royal Danish Ballet by a young choreographer Alexei Ratmansky and designer Mikael Melbye. The performers of the leading roles include Egle Spokaite, Miki Hamanaka, Nerijus Juska, Aurimas Paulauskas, Vytautas Kudzma and Evardas Smalakys.
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2009 Season - Times to be announced
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Book opera ticketsMixed Programme: New Watkins / Rushes – Fragments of a Lost Story / Infra Theatre Tickets, Royal Opera House, London
Running time: 2 hours 35 minutes | 2 Intervals
One world premiere, two revivals: three cutting-edge works from The Royal Ballet. Rising talent Jonathan Watkins makes his first work for the main stage. In an optimistic strike against the modern threat of conformity, Watkins’s new ballet explores how the differences between individuals can combine to create a harmonious unity. The first revival of Kim Brandstrup’s Rushes – Fragments of a Lost Story is an engrossing contrast as it explores differing memories of an eternal love triangle. The virtuoso choreography of Wayne McGregor’s Infra is set against an LED backdrop of pedestrians by Julian Opie to reveal the depths of real relationships beneath a stark surface. McGregor’s extraordinary demands of his dancers make a fine outlet for the brilliance of the Royal Ballet dancers, and his collaboration with Opie and music by Max Richter make a great climax to an especially exciting evening of dance.
CREDITS
NEW WATKINS
Music
Graham Fitkin
Choreography
Jonathan Watkins
Set Design
Simon Daw
Costume designs
Vicki Mortimer
Lighting design
Neil Austin
RUSHES
Music
Sergei Prokofiev
Michael Berkeley
Choreography
Kim Brandstrup
Designs
Richard Hudson
Lighting design
Jean Kalman
Video design
Dick Straker
INFRA
Music
Max Richter
Choreography
Wayne McGregor
Set designs
Julian Opie
Costume designs
Moritz Junge
Lighting design
Lucy Carter
Sound design
Chris Ekers
PERFORMERS
NEW WATKINS
Conductor
Barry Wordsworth
Performers
tbc
RUSHES
Conductor
Daniel Capps
Performers
Alina Cojocaru
Leanne Benjamin
Tamara Rojo
Laura Morera
Thomas Whitehead
Carlos Acosta
INFRA
Performers
Leanne Benjamin
Lauren Cuthbertson
Mara Galeazzi
Marianela Nuñez
Edward Watson
Eric Underwood
Melissa Hamilton
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Book opera ticketsLa Cenerentola Theatre Tickets, Semperoper, Dresden
La Cenerentola/Askungen
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the fairy tale Cinderella. The opera was first performed in Rome's Teatro Valle on 25 January 1817.
Rossini composed La Cenerentola when he was 25 years old, following the success of The Barber of Seville the year before. La Cenerentola, which he completed in a period of three weeks, is considered to have some of his finest writing for solo voice and ensembles. Rossini saved some time by reusing an overture from La gazzetta and part of an aria from The Barber of Seville and by enlisting a collaborator, Luca Agolini, who wrote the secco recitatives and three numbers (Alidoro's "Vasto teatro e il mondo", Clorida's "Sventurata!" and the chorus "Ah, della bella incognita.") The facsimile edition of the autograph has a different aria for Alidoro, "Fa silencio; odi un rumore"; this seems to have been added by an anonymous hand for a 1818 production. For a 1820 revival in Rome Rossini wrote a bravura replacement, "La del ciel nel l'arcanno profondo". The light, energetic overture has been in the standard repertoire since its premiere as La Cenerentola.
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Book opera ticketsThe Phantom of the Opera Theatre Tickets, Majestic Theatre, New York
Running Time: Two hours and 30 minutes with one 15-minute intermission
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Book opera ticketsAida Theatre Tickets, Státní opery Praha (Prague State Opera), Prague
Customer must exchange voucher at: Bohemia Ticket, Na Prikope 16, Prague 1.
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Book opera ticketsThe Phantom of the Opera Ticket + Hotel Packages, Her Majesty's Theatre + Hotel, London
Lloyd Webber's romantic musical is based on Gaston Leroux's gothic novel of life beneath the stage of the Paris Opera House. A mysterious masked man falls in love with Christine, a singer who inspires The Music of the Night.
Running Time: [2hr 30m]
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Book opera ticketsSatyagraha Theatre Tickets, London Coliseum, London
Performed in Sanskrit with English surtitles
Original production supported by The 20/20 Group
A collaboration with Improbable
A co-production with The Metropolitan Opera, New York
9 performances. Running time: 3hrs 15mins
M. K. Gandhi Alan Oke; Miss Schlesen Elena Xanthoudakis; Mrs Naidoo Janis Kelly; Kasturbai Stephanie Marshall; Mrs Alexander Anne Mason; Mr Kallenbach Ashley Holland; Prince Arjuna Robert Poulton; Lord Krishna/Parsi Rustomji James Gower
Director Phelim McDermott; Associate Director/Designer Julian Crouch; Revival Director David Kneuss; Costume Designer Kevin Pollard; Lighting Designer Paule Constable; Video Designers Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer for Fifty Nine Productions
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Sung in Sunskrit.
No English surtitles.
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Book opera ticketsCarmen Theatre Tickets, Staatsoper Unter den Linden (State Opera), Berlin
The opera premiered at the Opéra Comique of Paris on 3 March 1875, denounced by critics as "immoral" and "superficial".
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Book opera ticketsCarmen Theatre Tickets, Arena di Verona, Verona
Micala appears seeking Jos, her fianc, but is accosted by the impudent soldiers who desire her company, causing her to run away. As Jos approaches with the new guard, he and the soldiers are imitated by the street-children ("Avec la garde montante").
The cigarette girls emerge from the factory, greeted by their men ("La cloche a sonn"). Carmen appears, and all the men ask her when she will love them ("Quand je vous aimerai?"). She replies that she loves the man that does not love her in the famous Habanera. ("L'amour est un oiseau rebelle"). When asked to choose a lover, she throws a flower in front of Jos ("Carmen! sur tes pas, nous nous pressons tous!"). Jos is temporarily transfixed until Micala brings him a letter and kiss from his mother ("Parle-moi de ma mre!").
Jos longingly thinks of his home. As soon as she leaves, screams are heard from the factory and the women run out, singing chaotically ("Au secours! Au secours!"). Don Jos and his superior, Zuniga find that Carmen has been fighting with another woman, and slashed her face with a knife.
Zuniga attempts to interrogate Carmen who impudently sings a folk song, ignoring him ("Tra la la"). Zuniga instructs Jos to arrest her, and escort her to the gaol. Carmen seduces Jos with a Seguidilla ("Prs des remparts de Sville"), and convinces Jos to let her escape. Jos is arrested for letting Carmen escape.
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Book opera ticketsMadame Butterfly Opera Tickets, Arena di Verona, Verona
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Book opera ticketsAida Theatre Tickets, Arena di Verona, Verona
Verdi endowed the story of the Ethiopian princess Aida, imprisoned as a slave at the court of Egyptian pharaohs and living out her tragic amorous relationship to an Egyptian chieftain, with fervent music. He created a musical drama full of fairy-tale fantasy yet at the same time realistically convincing. Aida became one of the most renowned opera works ever.
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Book opera ticketsMacbeth Theatre Tickets, Semperoper, Dresden
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Book opera ticketsLes Contes d'Hoffman Theatre Tickets, Opéra Bastille (Bastille Opera), Paris
Prologue
A tavern in Nuremberg. The Muse appears and reveals to the audience her purpose to draw Hoffmann's attention to herself, and to make him abjure all other loves, so he can be devoted fully to her : poetry. She takes the appearance of Hoffmann's closest friend, Niklausse. The prima donna Stella, currently performing Mozart's Don Giovanni sends a letter to Hoffmann, requesting a meeting in her dressing room after the performance. The letter, and the key to the room, is intercepted by the Councillor Lindorf, who is the first incarnation of evil; Hoffmann's Nemesis. Lindorf intends to replace Hoffmann at the rendezvous. In the tavern students are waiting for Hoffmann. He finally arrives and entertain them with the legend of Kleinzach the dwarf, and his coaxed by Lindorf into telling the audience about his life's three great loves.
Act One
Hoffmann's first love is Olympia, an automaton created by the scientist Spalanzani. Coppélius, Olympia's co-maker and this act's evil incarnation, sells Hoffmann magic glasses which make Olympia appear as a real woman. Hoffmann is tricked into believing his affections are returned, to the bemusement of Niklausse, who subtly tries to warn his friend. While dancing with Olympia, Hoffmann falls on the ground and his glasses break. At the same time, Coppélius appears and tears Olympia apart, in retaliation for having been tricked out of his just dues by Spalanzani. In the middle of the crowd laughing at him, Hoffmann realizes that he was in love with an automaton.
Act Two
After a long search, Hoffmann finds the house where Crespel and his daughter Antonia are hiding. Hoffmann and Antonia loved each other, but were separated when Crespel decided to hide his daughter from Hoffmann. Antonia has inherited her mother's talent and voice, but her father forbids her to sing because of the mysterious illness from which she is suffering. He also forbids her to see Hoffmann, who is encouraging Antonia in her musical career, and is therefore a danger for her without his knowing it. But when Crespel leaves his house, Hoffmann takes advantage of the occasion to sneak into the house, and the lovers are re-united. When Crespel comes back, he receives the visit of Dr Miracle (this act's evil incarnation), who forces Crespel to let him heal Antonia. Still in the house, Hoffmann listens to the conversation and learns that Antonia may die if she sings too much. He returns to her room to make her promise to give up her artistic dreams. Antonia reluctantly accepts her lover's will. Once she is alone, Dr Miracle enters Antonia's room and try to persuade her to sing and to follow her mother's path to glory, stating that Hoffmann is sacrificing her to his brutishness and loves her only for her beauty. Having some mystic powers, he raises a vision of Antonia's dead mother and induces her to sing to death. Crespel arrives just in time to witness his daughter's last breath. Hoffmann enters the room and Crespel wants to kill him, thinking that he is responsible for his daughter's death. Nicklausse saves his friend from the old man's vengeance.
Act Three
Venice. Hoffmann falls in love with the courtesan Giulietta and thinks his affections are returned. But Giulietta is seducing Hoffmann under the orders of Captain Dapertutto, who promised to give her a diamond if she filches Hoffmann's reflection from a mirror. Schlemil (see Peter Schlemihl for the literary antecedant), a previous victim of Giulietta and Dapertutto (he gave Giulietta his shadow) wants to save Hoffmann from his foolish passion for the courtesan by killing him. He challenges the poet to a duel, but is killed. Niklausse wants to take Hoffmann away from Venice and goes looking for horses. Meanwhile, Hoffmann meets Giulietta and cannot resist her: he gives her his reflection, only to be abandoned by the courtesan, to Dapertutto's great pleasure. Hoffmann tells the evil man that his friend Niklausse will come and save him. Dapertutto prepares a poison to get rid of Niklausse, but Giulietta drinks it by mistake and drops dead in the arms of the poet.
Epilogue
The tavern in Nuremberg. Hoffmann, drunk, swears he will never ever love again, and explains that Olympia, Antonia, and Giulietta are three facets of a same person, Stella, representing respectively the young girl's, the musician's and the courtesan's side of the prima donna. When Hoffmann says he doesn't want to love anymore, Niklausse reveals himself as the Muse and reclaims Hoffmann : "Be reborn a poet! I love you, Hoffmann! Be mine!" The magic of poetry reaches Hoffmann's limb : "Beloved Muse, I am yours". At this moment, Stella, who is tired of waiting for Hoffmann to come to her rendezvous, enters the tavern and finds Hoffmann drunk. The poet tells her to leave ("Farewell, I will not follow you, phantom, spectre of the past"), and Lindorf, who was waiting in the shadow, comes forth. Niklausse explains to Stella that Hoffmann does not love her anymore, but that the councillor Lindorf is waiting for her. Some students enter the room for more drinking, while Stella and Lindorf leave together.
The Barcarolle
The most famous piece from the opera is the "Barcarolle" which is performed in the third act. This has been incorporated into many movies including Life Is Beautiful.
DURATION:
3h 40 min
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Book opera ticketsTosca Theatre Tickets, Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest
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Book opera ticketsDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master Singers of Nuremberg) Theatre Tickets, Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest
The story takes place in Nuremberg during the middle of the 16th century. At the time, Nuremberg was an Imperial Free City, and one of the centers of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. The story revolves around the real-life guild of Meistersinger (Master Singers), an association of amateur poets and musicians, mostly from the middle class and often master craftsmen in their main professions.
The Meistersingers developed a craftsmanlike approach to music-making, with an intricate system of rules for composing and performing songs. The work draws much of its charm from its faithful depiction of the Nuremberg of the era and the traditions of the Meistersinger guild. One of the main characters, the cobbler-poet Hans Sachs, is based on an actual historical figure: Hans Sachs (1494 — 1576), the most famous of the historical Meistersingers. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg occupies a unique place in Wagner's oeuvre.
It is the only comedy among his mature operas, and the only one centered on a historically well-defined time and place rather than a mythical or legendary setting. It is the only mature Wagner opera to be based on an entirely original story, devised by Wagner himself. It incorporates many of the operatic conventions that Wagner had railed against in his essays on the theory of opera: rhymed verse, arias, choruses, a ballet, and even a quintet (the celebrated Meistersinger Quintet).
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Book opera ticketsLe nozze di Figaro Theatre Tickets, Staatsoper Unter den Linden (State Opera), Berlin
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Book opera ticketsThe Phantom of The Opera Theatre Tickets, Venetian Theatre, Las Vegas
PHANTOM - The Las Vegas Spectacular is an all-new 95–minute production that includes every song from the original and reunites Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hal Prince and others from the show’s original creative team. This lavish production was named the “#1 show in Las Vegas” by the Las Vegas Review Journal and continues to thrill audiences night after night.
From the moment you enter the magnificent $40 million custom-built theatre, you are in the storied Paris Opera House and part of The Phantom's world and all its signature songs, lyrics, costumes, and more. With spectacular sets, new illusions and a breathtaking chandelier experience unlike anything you have ever seen, PHANTOM is a can't-miss experience that promises surprises that will astound new audiences and loyal PHANTOM fans alike, and it’s only at The Venetian. Get your tickets today!
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Book opera ticketsSalome Concert Tickets, Staatsoper Unter den Linden (State Opera), Berlin
A banquet is held in the palace. Salome, daughter of Herod’s second wife Herodias from her first marriage, flees the celebrations. When she hears the prophet’s voice, she longs to see him. She wheedles the captain Narraboth into disobeying the tetrarch’s orders and fetching the prisoner out of the cistern in which he is imprisoned. She is fascinated by Jokanaan’s stance, which seems like the antithesis of the mode of life of her own surroundings. But she knows only one way to identify with the new: that of taking sexual possession. Jokanaan refuses her advances.
Searching for Salome, Herod arrives in the courtyard with Herodias and his entourage. He asks Salome to dance for him, swearing to give her whatever she wants. After the dance, Salome demands the head of Jokanaan. The tetrarch, aghast at the prospect of execution, offers her jewels and other treasures, but finally has to fulfill his oath and her desire. The executioner brings Salome Jokanaan’s head. Salome’s bloody revenge is followed by her realization that, with Jokanaan’s death, she has destroyed herself. Herod gives the order to kill Salome.
Performances Times
* 9th Oct 09 - 8pm
* 23rd Oct 09 - 8pm
* 10th Apr 10 - 6pm
* 17th Apr 10 - 8pm
* 23rd Apr 10 - 8pm
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