Excerpts from Die Fledermaus (Strauss) and Don Carlos (Verdi) in Centurion Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\nSempre Opera and the Sempre Opera Instrumental Ensemble kick off 2016 on Sunday 28 February\u00a0at 15:00 with a performance of excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos and Die Fledermaus by\u00a0Strauss.<\/p>\n
The first half of the programme is dedicated to well-known arias and ensembles from Don Carlos\u00a0performed by Laetitia du Plessis (soprano), Aukse Trinkunas (mezzo soprano), Chris Mostert\u00a0(tenor), Danie Verster (baritone) and Rex Nigrini (bass baritone). Don Carlos, based on a drama by\u00a0the German, Friedrich Schiller, on the conflict between love, friendship, idealism and responsibility,\u00a0is regarded is as one of Verdi’s darkest works. Well-known arias like Tu che la vanita (soprano), Nel\u00a0giardin del bello (mezzo soprano), Per me guinto (baritone) and the quartet Ah, si \u00a0aledetto,\u00a0sospetto fatale will be heard.<\/p>\n
In the second half of the programme the dark and sombre tone of the first half is replaced with the\u00a0lightness and nimbleness of Die Fledermaus (Strauss). In the early 1870s, when Johann Strauss\u00a0started composing Die Fledermaus he was already famous as the waltz king. This operetta’s\u00a0premi\u00e8re in 1874 was in the midst of the operetta’s Golden Era in Vienna. By 1900, more than 300\u00a0performances were presented just at the Theater an der Wien. The sopranos Deirdr\u00e9 Blignaut-\u00a0Rautenbach and Marina Botha- Spies join the other singers for ever popular arias like the Czardas,\u00a0Adele se audition aria, Prince Orlofski, the duet Trinke liebchen, trinke schnell and ensemble\u00a0Br\u00fcderlein, und Schwesterlein.<\/p>\n
The singers will be accompanied by the Sempre Opera Instrumental Ensemble and pianist Paul\u00a0Ferreira under the baton of Schalk van der Merwe. Tickets for the concert will be at R120 per\u00a0person and can be booked by making an electronic transfer to the Sempre Opera\u2019s bank account.\u00a0Tickets will also be available at the door. For further information please direct enquiries to\u00a0info@sempreopera.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello All, our next performance will be together with the Sempre Opera Instrumental Ensemble, featuring highlights from “die Fledermaus” and “Don Carlos”. Please go to the bookings tab to make a booking, or call Centurion Theatre at\u00a0+27 (0)12 664 8710 or +27 (0)72 245 4390 (Click on the image to see the complete poster) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sempreopera.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sempreopera.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sempreopera.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sempreopera.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sempreopera.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sempreopera.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/www.sempreopera.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sempreopera.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sempreopera.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sempreopera.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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