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Domenico Cimarosa
Il Matrimonio Segreto
(The Secret Marriage)
Tickets £30
Finger food in the interval (included in the cost of the ticket)
Saturday 10th June 2017 7:30pm
Sunday 25th June 2017 5:30pm
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An 18th-century Italian comic opera by Domenico Cimarosa. You can hear the influence of Mozart in the music. Filled with comic intrigues and confusions, the story is about following your heart, and makes a perfect summer opera filled with special Pop-up Opera humour, sparkle and fun. Its premiere was the occasion of the longest encore in operatic history; Leopold II was so delighted that he ordered supper served to the company and the entire opera repeated immediately after!
Englebert Humperdink
Hansel & Gretel
Tickets £30
Finger food in the interval (included in the cost of the ticket)
Saturday 11th November 2017 6:30pm
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Composed by Englebert Humperdink in 1893 and based on the Fairy Tale by the Grimm brothers. Magical and dark, this is perhaps the most popular operatic fairy tale of them all. Brother and sister Hansel & Gretel are drawn into the idyllic yet dangerous world of the forest, where they encounter the Sandman, the Dew Fairy and, most frightening of all, the Witch.
In the dizzying excitement of the Witch’s Ride and the serene beauty of the children’s evening prayer, Humperdinck’s music magically evokes the contrasting worlds of the story. A story that will enchant and thrill, a wintry delight.
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