Past Shows by Opera Minima

"New Year Party"

A light-hearted evening to start the new year.

Entertainment by soprano Susan Jiwey, mezzo Susan Moore, soprano and pianist Caroline Trutz, tenor Patrick Ashcroft and baritone James Gilbert.

The evening starts with a workshop performance of "What a Trial!", an adaptation by Susan Moore of the G & S opera "Trial by Jury" with Minima principals, and chorus and small roles sung by members of GE Ladies Choir,Songbirds of Market Harborough, MH Operatic Society, Uppingham CS and Corby Male Voice Choir.

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"Hansel and Gretel"

Humperdinck's powerful take on the grim Grimm tale, given the OM treatment.

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"Opera Souffle"

Opera Soufflé

Recipe:
Take a saucy serenade, a swirl of salome and some scurrilous sorcery
Stir in several freshly squeezed sweet songs and a sliver of salieri
Mix in a scoop of satan and a seductive sprinkling of scorching sensuality and bake until sizzling
Season with syncopation, serve on a bed of saltarello and garnish with a sprig of summertime.

Et violà! The perfect Opera Soufflé

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"Luggage astray"

Rossini's comedy of lost luggage

An engaged couple who have never met, a girl escaping from a stalker, a penniless traveller with his eye on the main chance and several cases of mistaken identity.

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"Rainforest by Martin Read and Philip Sealey"

“Rainforest" by Martin Read and Philip Sealey is an inspiring, engrossing and thought-provoking – and highly topical – opera set in the Brazilian rainforest.

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"Mainly Mozart"

By popular request, another all Mozart programme.

Please note change of date

Scenes from "Le Nozze di Figaro", "Cosi fan tutte" and "Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail".

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"Trial by Jury"

Gilbert and Sullivan’s battle of the sexes is a community opera, with Minima professionals in the main roles and members of the local community as chorus and in small roles.

Angelina sues her ex for breach of promise. It’s a trial by jury in an English court, but is this jury truly impartial? And what about the judge? And does the Usher manage to keep control as behaviour of the members of the public gets somewhat out of hand?
“Trial” is part of a double bill with “Divas!”, our take on Mozart’s “The Impresario”

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"The Impresario"

This new version of "The Impresario" is part of a double bill with “Trial by Jury”.

"Divas!" is our own take on Mozart’s battle of the divas,brought up to date with new and topical spoken dialogue. Two sopranos each declares that she is the prima donna and performs her most impressive aria to persuade the impresario to offer her the lead in his next opera. Our divas choose their own flashy arias and there are plenty of sparks flying.

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" Don Carlo in love"

Tracing Verdi's version of the story of Elisabetta and Carlo from their fateful first meeting, her marriage to his father, King Philip of Spain, and her final retreat into a convent.

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"The Bear"

"The Bear" is a witty one-act opera – or “extravaganza” as the composer dubbed it – by William Walton. It is based on one of Chekhov’s “vaudevilles” and is a sparkling and humorous tale about a pretty widow and her late husband’s boorish creditor.

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