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Music on a Spring Afternoon

18/3/2018

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Spring is on its way! We have something to celebrate!
Please come along to our Spring Concert
Saturday April 7th 2.30pm at Tresillian Village Hall *
Tickets at the door - £5. (under18 free)
Refreshments by Baker Tom - donations welcome.

​*Fairfax Road, Tresillian, Truro, Cornwall, TR2 4AZ
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Merry Wives of Windsor PRE-TOUR ILLUSTRATED TALK

13/3/2018

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"Shakespeare in Opera"
Pre-tour illustrated talk to be given by Paul Drayton
on May 12th 2.30 - 5pm
​Venue: Truro High School ​(Piran Performing Arts Centre)
Cost: £7. Apply for registration HERE
Many composers (not just English ones) have fallen under the spell of Shakespeare.  Berlioz, Gounod and Verdi are perhaps the best-known. 

Paul Drayton will take a closer look at some key scenes in Nicolai's sparkling comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor, Duchy Opera's current production.  This German treatment will be compared with an Italian approach to the same story by Verdi in his final masterpiece Falstaff. 

Doomed love will be represented by Gounod's Romeo et Juliette and magical fantasy by Britten's 1960 opera A Midsummer Night's Dream.  We hope to understand more of the way in which librettists and composers of the 19th / 20th centuries have given Jacobean drama a fresh lease of life on the operatic stage.
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Tickets now on sale for "Merry Wives of Windsor"

2/3/2018

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Tickets are now on sale from
Cornish Riviera Box Office  (website) 

By Phone (01726) 879 500

Or Call in to Tourist Offices
displayed here: 
http://www.crbo.co.uk/index.php

Ticket prices in advance :
Standard : £15.00
Under18s : £7.50
(unnumbered seats)
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Recital cancelled

2/3/2018

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CANCELLATION !

FODO
very much regrets that tomorrow's Recital
in Falmouth
by Toshi Ogita
& William Fairbairn
has been cancelled due to the adverse weather conditions.
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