Lyrique-en-mer, Festival de Belle-Ile Du 19 Juillet au 15 Août 2008 2008 sera la onzième édition du de Lyrique-en-Mer, Festival de Belle Ile. Outre les deux opéras majeurs donnés à la Citadelle que sont le Barbier de Séville de Rossini et Tosca de Puccini, les quatre églises de Belle Ile accueilleront un concert de musique sacrée avec au programme cette année le …
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Tournée australienne pour « My Fair Lady » : du 15 mai au 4 août 2008, à Melbourne, Sydney et Canberra
MY FAIR LADY – Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Lowe For Henry Higgins, professor of linguistics and confirmed misogynist, transforming a streeturchin into a lady is a trivial task, done to honour a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering. Until, of course, he meets the proud little cockney, Eliza Doolittle, and finds that his raw material might not be so …
En savoir plus »Centre d’Arts de Melbourne : Don Giovanni, W.A. Mozart, from 14 November 2007 to 14 December 2007
Don Giovanni – W.A. Mozart Set in the Spanish Catholic society of the 17th Century, it places the flamboyant freedom-loving seducer in the most morally repressive environment possible, but Don Giovanni’s refusal to repent makes him one of the first great modern anti-heroes. Teddy Tahu Rhodes pulls on his thigh length boots once more to sing the role which he …
En savoir plus »« Les contes d’Hoffmann », Offenbach, from september 11th to december 13th, Sydney
In an artistic coup for our national opera company, Richard Hickox conducts a new production of The Tales of Hoffmann directed by Stuart Maunder and featuring one of Australia’s most exciting artists, Emma Matthews, playing four different roles to create Hoffmann’s ultimate woman. The starry-eyed Hoffmann is entranced by Olympia, seduced by Giulietta and obsessed by fragile Antonia, and when he …
En savoir plus »« The Gondoliers », Gilbert & Sullivan, from september 18th to november 3rd, Sydney
Nothing is sacred when arch satirist, W.S. Gilbert and musical genius, Arthur Sullivan, get to work. So prepare yourself for a deliciously wicked treat, because The Gondoliers is back.Giuseppe and Marco spend their days on the magical waterways of Venice and their nights with their lovely young wives. Life is good. So when a royal delegation from an unknown corner of …
En savoir plus »Opéra de SYDNEY, du 26 juin au 30 août 2007, en vrac : Trouvère, Barbier de Séville et Enlèvement au Sérail
VERDI – Il Trovatore Jul 2007 Tue 3rd to Aug 2007 Sat 4th Il trovatore is set in fifteenth-century Spain but the composer was living through the chaotic Italian politics of the late 1840s. Elke Neidhardt’s production, updated to the Spanish Civil War, demonstrates how opera speaks the language of revolution, whatever the era. Welsh-born tenor Dennis O’Neill is the troubadour Manrico, …
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