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2022-09-17 11:30:43
Grand Opera House, Belfast; Royal Opera House; Bold Tendencies, LondonNI Opera’s excellent new Verdi production went straight to the heart, while Royal Opera’s Strauss revival failed to ignite. Plus, the next star Kanneh-Mason…As the streets cleared and Belfast returned to normal after the King’s visit on Tuesday, some who had sung at the memorial service in St Anne’s Cathedral had other pressing duties: a performance of Verdi’s
2022-05-03 08:09:16
Northern Ireland Opera returns to Belfast's restored Grand Opera House for new production of Verdi's La Traviata
Grand Opera House, Belfast Northern Ireland Opera is returning to Belfast's Grand Opera House for the first time since the theatre was restored when Cameron Menzies, Northern Ireland Opera's artistic director, directs his fourth production for the company, Verdi's La Traviata in September 2022. Following on from the company's highly successful production of Puccini's La Boheme last year, conducted by Rebecca Lang, Lang returns to conduct La Traviata with the Ulster Orchestra in the pit. The cast includes Siobhan Stagg who will be making her role debut as Violetta, and the choreography will be by Isabel Baquero. Full details of cast and creatives will be announced shortly.Belfast's Grand Opera House opened in 1895, designed by Frank Matcham. During 2020/21 the theatre's auditorium underwent a major restoration whilst the foyers and public spaces were re-imagined and the theatre's technical infrastructure upgraded. The production debuts on 10 September 2022 with performances until […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-01-07 20:03:00
The Ballet World In Degas’s Paintings Was A Mean, Sordid Place
“In Paris, its success was almost entirely predicated on lecherous social contracts. Sex work was a part of a ballerina’s reality, and the city’s Grand Opera House, the Palais Garnier, was designed with this in mind. A luxuriously appointed room located behind the stage, called the foyer de la danse, was a place where the […]
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2019-08-29 05:13:46
Norway has designs for Shanghai’s Grand Opera House
We reported last month on the completion of a new opera house at the Shanghai Conservatoire. The city is now...
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