>March Events / Art & Theatre / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Music / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk February 18, 2017
Are opera companies tribute bands playing to a diminishing audience?
How to balance originality with tradition?
Merry Opera tries to tackle this with its opera revue
Eat, Drink, Love!
Coming to Beccles Public Hall on
Saturday 4 March at
7.30pm to 10pm
(doors open at 7pm)
Merry Opera has performed at the Hall before with its fabulous productions of Kiss me, Figaro!, The Barber of Seville and La bohéme.
Matthew Quirk, Director, was asked why an opera revue rather than a well-known favourite? Surely it’s a bit of a risk to do a show that people won’t recognise?
‘It’s always a risk, but as our Trustees say: ‘We cannot be a tribute band playing old favourites to a diminishing audience. We have to widen the audience for opera and give everyone a good night out’.
The director of this show, John Ramster, directed the Barber of Seville for us and wrote and directed our previous revue, Kiss me, Figaro! , which ran in London for 3 weeks before touring the south, so we have some experience to draw on.
As for this production: Eat, Drink, Love! is a musical celebration of human appetites – for drink, for food and even for each other, spiced with a dash of Merry Opera sauciness. With favourite operatic pieces, lesser known gems and deliciously delightful 1920s cabaret songs, we bring musical (and other) jokes to connoisseurs while helping newbies discover the beauty of classical music and live performance.
Buried among the lust, jealousy, comedy, murder and other manias found in the plots of opera there are many moments when food and drink take centre stage. As John Ramster says: ‘If music be the food of love, play on, and if music be the love of food then play on as well!’ We hope the audience will go home afterwards feeling warm and satisfied’.
Tickets: £10, concessions £9
01502 770060 / Box Office is open from 10am to 3pm. Monday to Saturday.
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Saturday 18 Feb: A Night of Professional Wrestling from WAW at 7.30pm
Saturday 28 Feb: Kent DuChaine & Leadbessie for a Delta BLUES Night with local support band, Owl & Wolves.
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