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Alceste Teaterbilletter, Banqueting House, London

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:35:13 GMT

Alceste by GF Handel presented in a staged performance at the Banqueting House, Palace of Whitehall by English Bach Festival.

Alceste is a work of high quality, the mature creation of a great musical dramatist, but for reasons which remain obscure, the production planned for Covent Garden Theatre was cancelled and the music was never performed in the context for which it had been designed.

Alceste is clearly theatrical music and demands stage presentation. The first ever performance was given by the English Bach Festival at the Banqueting House on the 13th of June 1984, then the following day at the Opéra Royal, Château de Versailles, and later recreated at the Linbury Studio, Covent Garden, to bring the music for the first time to the location, if not the actual theatre, for which it was composed.

Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury
Production by Tom Hawkes
Choreography by Sarah Cremer
Costumes by Terence Emery

'The style and quality of performance are just the reminders needed of the special place this dauntless enterprise still holds in our musical life....' - Max Loppert Financial Times

'The dance event of the month....' - Nicholas Dromgoole' Sunday Telegraph

Pioneers since 1977 as 'guest company' at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the English Bach Festival breathes life to the operas of Purcell, Handel, Lully, Rameau, Gluck and presents them with magnificent costumes, elegant dance and the period instruments for which they were written. It has given the opportunity to see great works outside the usual repertoire, many of them for the first time at the Opera House, including some premieres in our time.

Prague Winter Festival Pakketur, Various Venues + Hotel, Prague

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:44:36 GMT

This exclusive Prague Winter Festival package from includes:

• 3 - 5 nights in a 3* hotel including buffet breakfast
• 3 evening performances
• 2 daytime performances
• A comprehensive festival programme
• Welcome pack including Prague City Guide

Featured composers this year are: Verdi, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Lehar,Strauss, Smetana and Shostakovich

Evening performances include Opera: Othello, Eugene Onegin and Tosca; Ballet is represented by Smetana’a My Country and will feature in Vivat Operetta which also has pieces from the great Operettas, The Land of Smiles, Die Fledermaus, and Countess Maritza.The concert by the Czech Philharmonic is not to be missed.

The daytime programme includes an enjoyable opening ceremony, city tours and tours from Prague to see some more of the Czech Republic, a folk concert with the Hradistan Dulcimer Band, Jazz with the Baroque Jazz Quartet, Black Light Theatre, Bambini di Praga

Other options include fine dining at one of Prague’s famous Gourmet Restaurants and we are planning a Farewell dinner with some nice and lively music

Idomeneo Teaterbilletter, London Coliseum, London

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:03:35 GMT

Mozart's first mature masterpiece took a stock mythological plot and transformed it into a life-and-death drama of real characters confronted by the personal and political consequences of choices made in a time of war. Following her 2009 adaptation of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas which sold-out at the Young Vic, and is also set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, Katie Mitchell brings her unique directorial style to bear on what is now widely seen as Mozart's most deeply felt piece. Full of virtuosic yet often intimately lyrical vocal writing, grand public processions and stirring choruses, Idomeneo is conducted by ENO's Olivier Award-winning Music Director, Edward Gardner. The cast features some of Britain's best, including Paul Nilon, Robert Murray, Sarah Tynan and Emma Bell.
Running time: 3hrs
Idomeneo Paul Nilon; Idamante Robert Murray; Elettra Emma Bell; Ilia Sarah Tynan
Conductor Edward Gardner; Director Katie Mitchell; Set Designers Vicki Mortimer, Alex Eales; Costume Designer Vicki Mortimer; Lighting Designer Paule Constable

The Pearl Fishers Teaterbilletter, London Coliseum, London

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:04:09 GMT

A thrilling tale of friendship tested by love, set on an exotic isle in an eastern sea, Bizet's early masterpiece is a gem of 19th-century French opera, full of fabulous tunes, colourful orchestration and evocative choruses. With Tony Award-winning tenor Alfie Boe as Nadir, ENO's new production is directed by outstanding film-maker Penny Woolcock, following her explosive debut with John Adams's Doctor Atomic at ENO and the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Conducted by rising Scottish podium star Rory Macdonald, who made his own impressive ENO debut last season with Rossini's The Barber of Seville, it offers UK audiences a rare chance to discover what a pearl of a piece Bizet's opera can be.
Running time: 2hrs 30mins
Full cast to be announced
Conductor Rory Macdonald; Director Penny Woolcock; Set Designer Dick Bird; Costume Designer Kevin Pollard; Lighting Designer Jennifer Schriever; Movement Director Andrew Dawson

katya Kabanova Teaterbilletter, London Coliseum, London

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:06:05 GMT

David Alden follows his double Olivier Award-winning production of Janáček's Jenůfa with a new staging of the Czech composer's later lyrical masterpiece, Katya Kabanova. A claustrophobically intense yet heart-rending study of sexual morality within a close-knit community, it was inspired by Janáček's erotic obsession with a younger married woman. Stunning singing actress Patricia Racette makes her ENO debut as the passionate soul trapped in a loveless marriage, with Stuart Skelton (a sensational Peter Grimes in another Alden staging in 2009) as the stranger who offers her a brief hope of happiness. Janáček's most lyrically emotional score is conducted by Mark Wigglesworth with an outstanding cast also featuring Susan Bickley, Clive Bayley, John Graham-Hall, Anna Grevelius and Alfie Boe.
Mar 15, 17, 22, 24 at 7.30 pm | Mar 20, 27 at 6.30pm
Costumes were built by The Dallas Opera Costume Workshop
A co-production with Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Lisbon and Teatr Wielki-Opera Narodowa, Warsaw
Supported by The Friends of ENO

6 performances. Running time: 1hr 40mins
Katerina Kabanova Patricia Racette; Marfa Kabanicha Susan Bickley; Varvara Anna Grevelius; Boris Grigoryevich Stuart Skelton; Vanya Kudrjas Alfie Boe; Tikhon Ivanich Kabanov John Graham-Hall; Dikoy Clive Bayley; Kuligin William Robert Allenby
Conductor Mark Wigglesworth; Director David Alden; Set Designer Charles Edwards; Costume Designer Jon Morrell; Lighting Designer Adam Silverman

The Elixir of Love Teaterbilletter, London Coliseum, London

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:06:05 GMT

The most often performed opera in Italy for two decades after its premiere, Donizetti's The Elixir of Love is still the most popular operatic ‘rom com' of all. Jonathan Miller's staging affectionately relocates the action from 19th century rural Italy to small-town ‘50s America. One of today's highest-flying young lyric tenors, John Tessier made a sensational ENO debut in the 2008 revival of Rossini's The Barber of Seville; he now returns as Nemorino, the lovesick young mechanic who believes that a travelling salesman (played by comic maestro Andrew Shore) really can cure his broken heart. With The Elixir of Love running alongside Lucia di Lammermoor, ENO audiences have a rare chance to relish both the comic and tragic sides of Donizetti's operatic genius.
Scenery and costumes provided by New York City Opera and originally created for the Royal Swedish Opera

9 performances. Running time: 2hrs 25mins
Adina Sarah Tynan; Nemorino John Tessier; Dulcamara Andrew Shore; Belcore David Kempster; Giannetta Julia Sporsén Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado;
Director Jonathan Miller; Designer Isabella Bywater; Lighting Designer Hans Åke Sjöquist; Translation Kelley Rourke

Tosca Teaterbilletter, London Coliseum, London

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:03:43 GMT

Among the great dramatic sopranos of our time, Catherine Malfitano made an unforgettable ENO debut in 2006 as the tortured Kostelnicka in David Alden's Olivier Award-winning production of Jenůfa. Famed as one of the foremost Toscas of recent decades, she now returns to direct Puccini's ever popular opera with rising star Amanda Echalaz – already heralded as ‘the leading Tosca of her generation' (The Independent) — making her ENO debut in the role that Ms Malfitano once made her own. With one Tosca on stage and another behind the scenes, a radical new design approach and the proven Puccinian passion of Edward Gardner, ENO's Olivier Award-winning Music Director, in the pit, this new production promises to be a thrilling new take on Puccini's most powerfully theatrical opera.
Running time: 2hrs 30mins
Tosca Amanda Echalaz; Cavaradossi Julian Gavin; Scarpia Anthony Michaels-Moore; Angelotti Pauls Putninš; Sacristan Jonathan Veira; Spoletta Christopher Turner; Sciarrone James Gower
Conductor Edward Gardner; Director Catherine Malfitano; Set Designer Frank Philip Schlössmann; Costume Designer Gideon Davey; Lighting Designer David Jacques

Cinderella Teaterbilletter, London Coliseum, London

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:02:45 GMT

English National Ballet's Cinderella tells everyone's favourite rags-to-riches story. Cinderella is tormented by her spiteful stepsisters and would do anything to attend the Prince's glamorous ball. Rejected, upset and alone, Cinderella's Fairy Godmother intervenes and transforms her into a glittering Princess who shall go to the ball.

Prokofiev's uplifting score played by English National Ballet's symphony orchestra together with David Walker's sumptuous costumes and sets conjure up the fairy tale world of Cinderella perfectly.

"This award-winning three-act ballet was the first full-length creation from Michael Corder. Interestingly, in this production of Cinderella, the step-sisters are not played by men but women on pointe to take advantage of the great music for their solos. The fact they are no longer purely comedic roles also highlights the plight of Cinderella much more"

The Gambler Teaterbilletter, Royal Opera House, London

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:04:34 GMT

This is the first time that The Royal Opera will be performing Prokofiev’s opera based on Dostoyevsky’s novel of addiction. Sung in David Pountney’s English translation, this new production brings together Music Director Antonio Pappano, charismatic director Richard Jones and designer Antony McDonald.

Der Troubadour Teaterbilletter, Arena di Verona, Verona

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:05:00 GMT

Der Troubadour (Il trovatore) an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

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