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4 Events on Monday the 27th of October, 2008
TUTTI IN MASCHERA, Everyone in Disguise
If Opera singers are always talking about themselves, the same might be said of the works they perform: Tutti in maschera is an opera…..about opera!
- Carlo Pedrotti
- IN JOKES AND OUT-TAKES
- (Sung in Italian with English Surtitles)
In this updated telling of Pedrotti’s masterpiece, the action is set in Italy in the aftermath of the Second World War It’s a time when lots of theatrical artists are touring around the devastated countryside of Italy looking for work, hungry for glory and fame—or just plain hungry!—but things are looking up for one particular group of singers: a wealthy foreigner has come to Venice to recruit his own opera company. His criteria for casting the main female roles, however, comes under suspicion, and there’s another problem too: when the entire impoverished company is invited by the unscrupulous impresario to a masked ball at La Fenice (Venice’s famous opera house), how will they come up with the necessary sumptuous costumes?
Book NowIl Signor Bruschino
This hilarious opera exploits the predictable mix of voice-types, featuring young (and not so-young) lovers, implacable guardians and bad tempered fathers, all doing their best to become still more mixed as various cases of mistaken identity are played out against the familiar backdrop of an Italian country and nearby village.
- Gioachino Rossini
- (Sung in Italian with English Surtitles)
Prague Chamber Choir
The Repertoire for the ever popular annual Prague Chamber Choir Recital has not yet been announced. Details will be posted to the website in the coming weeks.
Book NowLunch Time Recitals
The traditional weekday lunchtime appointment remains one of the defining features of the Festival. Individual Festival singers will have the chance to shine in their own piano-accompanied solo numbers, performed (sometimes with the help of an instrument of their own) for a select audience in St. Iberius Church. Prepare for about fifty minutes of pre-prandial bliss.
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"There are two big opera anniversaries this year: 150 years since the birth of Puccini, and
100 years since the death of
Rimsky-Korsakov. We are managing to celebrate both. The choice of Snegurochka to the
main stage gives us an opportunity to introduce audiences to a masterpiece very rarely performed
outside Russia. Two long running themes of the Festival, the
exploration of neglected but worthy opera in English and that of pre-Verdian Italian opera, are
developed this year in the shape
of the Mines of Sulphur and Tutti in
Maschera"
- David Agler - Artistic Director
