In November you can catch the company in a wonderful evening at the Mevagissey Jubilee Hall, on Saturday, November 4th, at 7.30. Join Duchy Opera as we circumnavigate the world calling in at famous operatic locations on the way, with arias and choruses from your favourite operas and operettas. Fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ride! Our “Around the World in Eighteen Songs” programme includes many iconic opera favourites, including, from France, Bizet’s Carmen, from America, Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, from Russia, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, and more from the best of Italy and Germany. Doors Open at 7.00pm. Concert Starts at 7.30pm. Tickets in advance : Standard : £15.00 Friends of Duchy Opera : £12.00 (FODO, please Phone 01726 63513 to book ) (Tickets are non-refundable ) Book Online www.crbo.co.uk/whats-on or Phone CRBO on 01726 63513 (9.00am to 8.00pm) |
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Next summer’s big production will be the popular comic operetta
Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II Music Director will be Patrick Bailey. Helston’s Gillian Geer will be our Director Auditions for solo roles will be held on the weekend of 25-26 November. Times and details to be sent later. To register your interest, contact auditions@duchyopera.co.uk. Our season kicks off in October with a “Come and Sing” afternoon. You are welcome to join the chorus for a FREE* afternoon taster session of next year's opera at the Tresillian Village Hall, at 2.30pm on Saturday, October 14th. Everyone is welcome. Cornish composer Russell Pascoe will lead singers through Die Fledermaus’s Champagne Chorus and Ah! What a Feast, as well as some Gilbert & Sullivan numbers. *Donations to Truro Food Bank welcome (CASH or CARD) Enquiries and bookings to: duchy@duchyopera.co.uk
It is with great regret that, due to the coronavirus pandemic, we have to cancel the 2020 performance of "The Elixir of Love". With the ongoing uncertainty of the crisis, and being unable to rehearse safely, it was unfortunately not possible to continue. Due to the overwhelming support, energy and goodwill we have experienced this year we will be postponing "The Elixir of Love" to be performed in September 2021. It is a difficult time all round so please look after each other and keep well.
Watched a great programme last night on BBC4 about the Metropolitan Opera in New York and its history with great insights interspersed with music and interviews. Quite long (108 mins.) but well worth watching.
America's Greatest Opera House: the Story of the Met "Documentary that surveys a remarkable period in the Metropolitan Opera's rich history and a time of great change for New York. Featuring rarely seen archival footage, stills, recent interviews and a soundtrack of extraordinary Met performances, the documentary chronicles the creation of the Met's storeyed home in 1966, which replaced the original 1883 house on Broadway, against a backdrop of the artists, architects and politicians who shaped the cultural life of New York City in the 1950s and 1960s. Among the notable figures in the documentary are famed soprano Leontyne Price, who opened the new Met in 1966 with Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, Rudolf Bing, the Met's imperious general manager who engineered the move from the old house to the new one, Robert Moses, the unstoppable city planner who bulldozed an entire neighbourhood to make room for the Lincoln Center, and Wallace Harrison, whose quest for architectural glory was never fully realised." |
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