As part of the #ClassicalWeekend #SheffieldCityOpera is performing a reduced version of Jules Massenet Cinderella. Come along an enjoy a great (short) opera!
25th October 2015 – 1pm – Sheffield Cathedral
Tickets available on the door.
Cast
Musical Director and Pianist- Robert Webb
Cinderella (Lucette) – Sarah Richards
Cinderella’s Stepmother (Mme de la Haltiere) – Rachel Abbott
Cinderella’s Stepsisters (Noemie and Dorothee) – Fiona Constantine & Alexandra Robinson
Cinderella’s Father (Pandolfe) – Mike Willis
Prince Charming Rebecca Lambert
The King – Jeremy Craven
The Fairy Godmother – Lorraine Webb
Chorus
Anne Bailey, Celia Lock, Helen Mathers, Marjorie Skidmore, Brenda Wingfield, Lynda Glover, Jean Hulley, Ruth Speare, Christine Warren, Helen Wickett, Barry Dines, Jeremy Craven, David Tomkins
Please note, the number of seats are limited – so don’t delay.
Sheffield City Opera Presents -Cinderella
Library Theatre, Tudor Square, Sheffield S1 1XZ
Music by Jules Massenet
English version by Jeremy Sams
Performed by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited
**For Health and Safety reasons, the Library Theatre cannot accommodate wheelchairs.**
Cast
Principals
Cinderella: Sarah Richards
Madame de la Haltière (stepmother of Cinderella): Rachel Abbott
Prince Charming: Rebecca Lambert
The Fairy: Lorraine webb
Dorothée, stepsister of Cinderella: Rosie Thickett
Noémie, stepsister of Cinderella: Fiona Constantine
Pandolfe, Cinderella’s father: Jak Laight
The King: Michael Willis
Sarah Richards
Cinderella
Rachel Abbott
Madame de la Haltière (stepmother of Cinderella)
Rebecca Lambert
Prince Charming
Lorriane Webb
The Fairy Godmother
Rosie Thickett
Dorothée, stepsister of Cinderella
Fiona Constantine
Noémie, stepsister of Cinderella
Jak Laight
Pandolfe, Cinderella’s father
Michael Willis
The King
Directors
Musical Director: Robert Webb
Artistic Director: Kay Guccione
Kay Guccione – Artist director
Robert Webb – Musical Director
The story…
Cinderella lives in a grey world. As she stares into the ashes she cannot let herself dream like other girls. Upstairs it’s a riot of screaming colour as the stepsisters try on ball gowns. Their mother gushes as servants run in and out like ants. Comedy piles on comedy as the trio make some truly astonishing style choices.
Enter Fairy Godmother : Cinderella shall go to the ball. For Cinderella’s gown she borrows from the stars, the sun, the moon and a rainbow brushed with snow. Soon Cinderella unfurls into the being she truly is.
At the ball, dazzling days open up for Cinderella and the Prince. Each awakens in the other what otherwise could not be. Then, Cinderella in her haste loses her glass slipper – a slipper made of dreams. Without her dreams, Cinderella is lost. So is Prince Charming.
Enter once more the Fairy Godmother. As she raises her wand, her tender voice soars to the stars as she bids the pair ‘sleep, dream, believe…’
Massenet’s music underscores the action with wit, drama, and at times, sheer beauty – music that invites you to dream.
This concert features some of the greatest love-moments in opera and musical theatre – the rhapsodic love theme from Tchaikovsky’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’; the passionate ‘Habanera’ from George Bizet’s ‘Carmen’; the love-bombing duet from Puccini’s ‘La Boheme’. Plus we have favourites from musical theatre – the unforgettable songs of Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, Cole Porter and Leonard Bernstein.
There’s also fun and froth galore in Donizetti’s ‘Elixir of Love’ – a world of True Romance comics. The fun continues with the Catalogue Song from Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ as a servant runs through a list of his master’s conquests as long as your arm.
They are some of opera’s biggest wish pieces, the ones that rend your your heart : the brooding, blistering choruses of a threatened people in Verdi’s ‘Nabucco’; the birth of love and its attendant seeds of destruction in the Love Duet from Puccini’s ‘La Boheme’; the crackling tensions of the quartet from Verdi’s Rigoletto’; the transcendent beauty of reconciliation in the Finale of Mozart’s ‘Marriage of Figaro’.
Strong characters, driving drama, it’s music to die for…
Tickets: £10 per person
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If you like to join our chorus and sing with us in the concerts, see our programme, soloist and other ensembles are being organised this month. Come along and find out more.
Following the great success of last year’s event, Wentworth Castle Gardens is delighted to welcome back the Chorus and Principals of Sheffield City Opera for another ‘picnic’ concert on the South Lawn.
The programme will include numbers from a number of popular composers whose works have graced both the stages of the West End and Broadway, and the silver screen.
Just like last year, bring along your family and friends for an evening of wonderful musical entertainment – and don’t forget the picnic! Grounds open for picnics from 5.30pm and the performance will begin at 6.30pm.
Please dress for the weather-the concert will go ahead except under extreme weather conditions. The concert area will not be open until 5.30pm. Normal Garden admission applies if you wish to visit the garden before this time.
Sheffield City Opera are performing a fantastic concert of “Midsummer Music” at St Margaret’s Church, Swinton. Featuring music from Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, Dido and Aeneas, Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Sound of Music, Oliver, Fiddler on the Roof and more.
Location: St Margaret’s Church, Swinton. Date : Saturday 12th July – 7:30pm start
Book Online here or Telephone: 07547 230632
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Sheffield City Opera are performing a fantastic concerts of “Midsummer Music” at St Luke’s Church, Lodge Moor, Sheffield. Featuring music from Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, Dido and Aeneas, Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Sound of Music, Oliver, Fiddler on the Roof and more.
Location: St Luke’s Church, Lodge Moor, Sheffield. Date : Saturday 21st June – 7:30pm start
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Sheffield City Opera are performing a fantastic set concert of “Midsummer Music” in Dronfield on June 7th. Featuring music from Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, Dido and Aeneas, Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Sound of Music, Oliver, Fiddler on the Roof and more.
Location: Dronfield Civic Hall, Dronfield Date: Saturday 7th June – 7:30pm start (Doors from 7pm)
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Sheffield City Opera & Sheffield Symphony Orchestra are joining together to produce a fantastic concert of Carmen on Saturday 29th March 2014.
This concert will feature a full sized orchestra – a rare treat, as this hardly ever happens outside of productions at the great opera houses.
Carmen has a suite of well know songs such as the Habanera and the Toreador Song and we have a brilliant set of principals with Heather Ireson playing Carmen, Nick Hardy as Don José, Nigel Rothery as Escamillo, and Chloe Saywell as Frasquita. The music director is Gavin Usher with artistic direction from Gareth Lloyd and, of course, the excellent chorus to provide the back drop to this most passionate of operas!
Carmen is one of the most popular operas in the world and we are delighted to welcome you to the Victoria Hall for our concert version of this passionate and tragic story.
Our cast of principal singers includes three new faces. Heather Ireson is the beguiling Carmen, Nick Hardy plays the love-struck Don José and Daniel Sumner has stepped up as Morales, Corporal of Dragoons. All three have busy schedules and we are very grateful for their time and contributions.
Lorraine Webb plays the principal role of Micaëla – you may remember Lorraine as the Queen of the Night in our 2011 production of The Magic Flute. We are also very pleased to welcome back Chloe Saywell as Frasquita – Chloe appeared as Margarita in SCO’s Faust in 2012. Frasquita’s companion, Mercedes, is played by our own Rebecca Lambert who featured strongly in our last production, as did Nigel Rothery who is the dashing toreador, Escamillo.
Our Artistic Director for the concert is Gareth Lloyd. Gareth is a multi-talented tenor who also sings in the role of the smuggler, Le Remendado. His smuggling companion in the opera, Le Dancaïre, is played by Mike Willis. Finally, Jeremy Craven sings the commanding role of Zuniga who is Lieutenant of Dragoons.
A special thank you goes to Robert Webb, Musical Director of SCO, for his enthusiasm and enduring patience in helping to prepare the chorus for this performance.
Ever wanted to sing Toreador Song in a full chorus with a full orchestra in the context of a full concert production Bizet’s Carmen ?
Sheffield City Opera & Sheffield Symphony Orchestra are joining together to produce a fantastic concert of Carmen on Saturday 29th March 2014.
This concert will feature a full sized orchestra – a rare treat, as this hardly ever happens outside of productions at the great opera houses. The concert will be semi staged with simple costumes for the Chorus.
We would be thrilled to have you join our chorus for this production.
You do not need to audition. Reading music is a strong advantage, but we do NOT require you to be able to sight-sing.
We start rehearsing on 8th January – 7:30pm – 10pm at Wesley Hall, Crookes.
