LA BOHEME at SGC DUNGARVAN for one night only

  Sat March 6th at 7.00

Coming from ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

Pre recorded live in HD

LA BOHÈME – Synopsis

The opera is set in Paris around 1830

Puccini’s best-loved work, with its unforgettable period designs by Julia Trevelyan Oman, comes to the big screen with an outstanding cast. La bohème is one of the most famously melodious and eternally popular
of all operas. The carefree attitude of youth and the harsh realities of life are poignantly contrasted through the tender affair of Mimì and Rodolfo, from the heights of their first meeting through to its tragic end. One of The Royal Opera’s most loved production, brings to life Paris of 1830 in detailed sets and
costumes as we travel with the characters between bare attic, crowded café and a wintery street right on
the city’s edge. La bohème promises an evening of engrossing imagery and stirring drama.

Shane Barton

L’EISIR D’AMORE at SGC DUNDARVAN for one night only

Wed March 24th at 7.00

make fun of his obsessions. Nemorino listens longingly as Adina

reads aloud to her farm-workers the story of Tristan and Isolde

whose love was inflamed by the drinking of a magic potion.

A stranger arrives in the village, Sergeant Belcore, who immediately

begins to flirt with Adina. Nemorino is miserably jealous, and

appalled when Belcore asks Adina to marry him. She neither accepts

Belcore, nor does she absolutely refuse him. Fearful of losing Adina,

Nemorino declares his love for her: kindly but firmly, she turns him

down.

A second stranger now appears – the exotic Doctor Dulcamara,

claiming to have a miraculous cure. Advertising his potion to the

villagers, he makes a killing. Nemorino, believing that the doctor is

heaven-sent, asks him if he stocks Isolde’s love potion. Quick to seize

the opportunity of making extra money, Dulcamara produces the

‘elixir of love’. It will not, he warns, take effect for 24 hours: by the

time Nemorino discovers it is nothing but wine (Bordeaux), the

‘doctor’ will have left the village. Nemorino, who has never drunk

alcohol before, empties the bottle and immediately grows cheerful

and confident. He pretends to be indifferent to Adina, who is piqued,

and to provoke Nemorino she agrees to marry Belcore within six

days. But just at that moment the soldiers arrive with orders from

their commander to leave the village the following morning. Belcore

therefore presses Adina to marry him that very evening. Nemorino is

desperate: by the time the love potion works its magic, Adina will be

married. He pleads with her, but she, showing all the caprice of her

nature, has set her will against him. To the excitement of the whole

village, preparations for the wedding go ahead.

Adina – annoyed by Nemorino’s absence – decides to wait before

putting pen to paper. Nemorino, half out of his mind with the fear of

losing Adina, begs Dulcamara for another dose of the love potion.

Dulcamara will supply the potion only for hard cash. The penniless

Nemorino is thus a sitting target for his rival Belcore, who offers him

money to enlist as a soldier. Nemorino signs up and goes off to town,

the newest member of the regiment.

What Nemorino does not know is that he has just inherited a fortune

thanks to the death of his uncle. But Giannetta has heard the news,

and passes it on to all the women in the village. Suddenly, Nemorino

has become the most eligible local bachelor. He, of course, believes

his popularity is caused by the elixir. Dulcamara also begins to

believe in the magical effects of his own potion.

Adina, fearing that she will lose Nemorino to another woman, is

finally able to acknowledge the strength of her feelings for him; and

in a sophisticated and sympathetic tête-à-tête with Dulcamara

resolves to win him back. Nemorino dares to hope his dream may

come true – he has seen a tell-tale tear in his beloved’s eye. He is

rewarded: Adina, having repaid Belcore the recruitment fee,

confesses to Nemorino that she really does love him. When they hear

of the inheritance, their happiness is complete. Belcore is obliged to

search for women elsewhere, and Doctor Dulcamara, attributing all

this happiness to the power of the elixir, departs in triumph.

SWAN LAKE (TCHAIKOVSKY)IN SGC DUNGARVAN Saturday 16th January @ 7pm

Ballet in HD from The Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Marianela Nuñez & Thiago Soares

Swan Lake is the classic story of love and betrayal. Prince Siegfried falls in love with the Swan Queen, Odette, condemned through the evil magic of magician Von Rothbart to transform into a swan by day. After trickery at a palace ball prevents the Prince marrying his new love and restoring her to her true form, tragedy is the only means left to him finally to break the spell. The ethereal forms of the swans, illuminated by moonlight, the charged solos for the Prince and Odette and her alter-ego Odile, the machinations of Von Rothbart and the colour of a palace ball – all combine with glorious music, here under the expert baton of Boris Gruzin, to make for an evening of inspiration and romance.

Eugene

 ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod)

Opera in HD From Salzburg

 Now Booking

SGC DUNGARVAN 

9^th Jan 10 @ 7pm

With its four duets for the title couple Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette is one of the most

famous love tragedies in opera literature. Stage director Bartlett Sher (winner of this year’s

best director of a musical Tony Award for his revival of South Pacific on Broadway) makes his

European opera debut with this production of Roméo et Juliette at the exceeding ambience of

the Felsenreitschule. Rolando Villazón, one of the leading lyric tenors of our day and has been

acclaimed for performances at leading theatres across the world, acts as Romeo. It’s his first

TV opera performance after his disease. As Juliette acts the young Georgian soprano Nino

Machaizde, who made her La Scala debut in 2006 as Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos under the

baton of Jeffrey Tate. The young French-Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music

director designate of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducts for the first time in

Salzburg.

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (GOUNOD)

Opera in 5 acts

Music: Charles Gounod Libretto Jules Barbier, Michel Carré

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Directed: Bartlett Sher

Cast: Nino Machaidze, soprano Juliette

Rolando Villazòn, tenor Romèo

Mikhail Petrenko, bass Frère Laurent

Russell Braun, baritone Mercutio

Cora Burggraaf, mezzo-soprano Stèphano

Falk Struckmann, bass-baritone Le Comte Capulet

Juna Francisco Gatell, tenor Tybalt

Il Trovatore– Live in HD at SGC DUNGARVAN 22ND DEC @ 7pm
Now Booking www.sgcdungarvan.net

 
Cast Leonora Fiorenza Cedolins

The opera begins with the soldiers of Count Di Luna waiting to apprehend Manrico, a troubadour, who rivals the court for Lady Leonora. Ferrando keeps the men awake by telling the story of a Gypsy women burned at the stake years ago for bewitching Di Luna’s younger brother. Meanwhile in the gardens, Lady Leonora expresses her love for a knight in black armour who is serenading her. As the women enter the palace, Di Luna moves to court Leonora, simultaneously Manrico’s song is heard in the distance. Di Luna and Manrico fight. A messenger brings news that Leonora, thinking Manrico is dead, has planned to enter a convent. Manrico rushes away despite his mother Azucenas plea. Di Luna, waits by the cloister to kidnap Leonora. When she enters with the nuns, he is halted by Manrico, who appears with his men, and the lovers escape. Inside the castle Manrico assures Leonora of his love. As the couple prepare to marry, Manrico is informed Azucena, his mother, and the daughter of the murder of Di Lunas brother has been tied to a stake. He runs to his mothers rescue. Leonora is brought to the foot of Manrico’s prison tower where she voices his love to him. When Di Luna appears Leonora agrees to yield to him but secretly she swallows poison. Leonora rushes in to save Manrico but the poison takes effect and she dies in his arms.

Eugene