"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
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.
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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