>February Events / Art & Theatre / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk February 11, 2015
The Merry Opera Company returns to East Anglia
The Barber of Seville
Hot on the heels of last year’s Kiss me, Figaro! which garnered 5 star reviews and sent our audiences home both smiling and moved, Merry Opera is delighted to present Rossini’s Barber of Seville, a classic which fizzes with musical brilliance, bold humour and famous tunes.
Join us to follow the escapades of the quick witted and irrepressible Figaro as he untangles the fortunes of a beautiful and feisty but imprisoned heiress, her greedy and lecherous guardian and the love-struck but always inventive Count Almaviva.
Given the ‘Merry Opera treatment’ a large shaving brush is really a chair, a giant hair tonic bottle provides Rosina’s balcony and prison, and a plethora of fashionable moustaches and stylish frocks invigorate Rossini’s great masterpiece of comic opera to delight both connoisseurs and opera newcomers.
Previous reviewers have said:
- ‘This is opera for people who don’t like opera, but more interestingly it’s also opera for those that love it’. The New Statesman
- ‘A great evening out, with a terrific cast of talented young singers.‘ David Mellor, Mail on Sunday
Director: John Ramster
Music Director & pianist: Stephen Hose
Assistant Director / Stage Manager: Hannah Noone
Set Design: Louis Carver
Costume Design: Michelle Bradbury
Lighting Design: Derek Carlyle
Cast: René Bloice-Sanders as Figaro, Oliver Brignall as the Notary (u/s Count Almaviva), Dario Dugandžić as Ambrogio/Fiorello (u/s Basilio), Helen Évora as Rosina, Christopher Faulkner as An Officer (u/s Bartolo)Lawrence Olsworth-Peter as Count Almaviva, Amy J Payne as Berta (U/s Rosina), Matthew Quirk as Basilio, Daniel Roddick as Bartolo and James Williams as Ambrogio/Fiorello (u/s Figaro)
Produced by: The Merry Opera Company
Press & PR: Katherine Ives of Trilby Productions
Website: www.merryopera.co.uk
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Fri 20 Feb
Beccles Public Hall and Theatre, Suffolk at 7.30pm
Smallgate, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9AD
Price: £10 (£9 concs)
Box Office: 01502 770 060
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Sat 21 Feb
St George’s Theatre, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk at 7.30pm
King’s Street, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR20 2PG
Price: £16 (£14 concs; £45 family)
Box Office: 01493 331 484
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