Beach Theatre - Fall 2008 Special Events Calendar

Fall 2008 BTF Special Events September 25, 7pm

IL BARBIERE di SIVIGLIA

(The Barber of Seville) Rossini completed all the music for Il Barbiere di Siviglia in less than three weeks. This Opera Buffa, hated at its first performance only to become a hit within a week, is one of the most performed operas worldwide, and certainly Rossinis most famous and beloved one. It features numerous Arias that have reached such a status of fame to sound familiar to anyones ears. Performed by the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

October 2, 7pm - RETURN ENGAGEMENT

Bolshoi Ballet’s BOLT

Music Dimitri Shostakovich Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky Starring Anastasia Yatsenko and Andre  Merkuriev Shostakovichs second ballet Bolt brings together serious and popular music and dance. The first performance of Bolt in April 1931 at the Leningrad State Academy Theater of Opera and Ballet was also its last. The ballet was forbidden for 30 years.

October 23, 7pm

Bellini’s NORMA

Performed at Teatro Comunale, Bologna. At 30, Bellini wrote Norma. It became his greatest achievement and is now regarded as an example of the supreme height of the Bel Canto tradition. The title role is generally considered one of the most difficult in the soprano repertoire and includes the famous Aria, Casta Diva. “In her debut as Norma, Dessì won the game… her Norma is vocally convincing and emotionally very touching.” -(Opera Chic)

October 30, 7pm RETURN ENGAGEMENT

MEDITERRANEA

A production of Teatro alla Scala. Music W.A. Mozart, G.Ligeti, G.P. da Palestrina and music from the Mediterranean area Choreography Mauro Bigonzetti  Starring Massimo Murru Mediterranea focuses on the gestures and the moves in a refined balance between lyricism and pure energy. “A hit with the public, Mediterranea was acclaimed by critics for its power” - Dance Magazine

November 6, 7pm

OTELLO Performed at Salzburg Festival 2008 Verdi’s last tragic opera, Otello, like Shakespeare’s

play, is a shattering psychological drama. The new production for the Salzburg Festival is directed by Stephen Langridge, who in 2006 attracted attention with his production of Offenbach’s Bluebeard in Bregenz. Riccardo Muti, one of the best Verdi conductors of our time, is returning to Salzburg. Spanish baritone Carlos Álvarez stars as Jago and tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko as Otello.

November 20, 7pm

ROMEO et JULIETTE

Performed at Salzburg Festival 2008. With its four duets for the title couple Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette is one of the most famous love tragedies in opera literature. Stage director Bartlett Sher (winner of this year’s best director of a musical Tony Award for his revival of South Pacific on Broadway) makes his European opera debut with this production of Roméo et Juliette at the exceeding ambience of the Felsenreitschule.

December 4, 7pm

DON GIOVANNI

Performed at Salzburg Festival 2008. Don Giovanni, probably Mozart’s most famous opera, is the opening production of the Festival in 2008. Following his successful production of Le nozze di Figaro in Salzburg, German stage director Claus Guth is preparing his second Da Ponte opera. In the title role British baritone Christopher Maltman, Winner of the Lieder Prize at the 1997 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition will be making his first appearance in Salzburg in an opera .

December 11, 7pm RETURN ENGAGEMENT

Bolshoi Ballet’s THE PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER

The Pharaoh’s Daughter was created by Marius Petipa in 1862 for the Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg. The ballet was immensely popular with the public and adored by the ballerinas. After the composer, Pugni, in a fit of anger, destroyed the piano score, Petipa began to stage the ballet without music; the music was added later. Petipa was convinced that music existed just for dancing and dancing, for ballerinas.

December 21, 26, 27, 28 - 1pm & 7pm each day (Special: children 12 and under $15)

HANSEL und GRETEL

Glyndebourne (United Kingdom) is presenting Englebert Humperdinck’s (1854-1921) Hänsel and Gretel for the first time in the 2008 Festival. This magical world of fairy-tale actually began life as a commission from the composer’s sister, Adelheid Wette, who had adapted the original Grimm tale into a play for her own children. Humperdinck originally produced four songs for her, but the operatic potential of the fable was clear. Perfect holiday fun for children of all ages.

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