Opera and Elgar with BBC NOW

The Riverfront, Kingsway, Newport, NP20 1HG
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Sunday 22nd September 15:00 - 17:00

About Opera and Elgar with BBC NOW

Tickets - £13.50, children and students - £7, seniors - £11
Bizet Carmen Overture | Agorawd

Bizet Habanera from | o Carmen

Bizet Chanson Bohème from | o Carmen

Puccini Preludio Sinfonico

Donizetti O mio Fernando from | o La Favourite

Mascagni Intermezzo Cavalleria

Ruperto Chapi Al pensar (Carceleras) from | o Las hijas del Zebedeo

Elgar Enigma Variations

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Nil Venditti conductor | arweinydd

Niamh O’Sullivan mezzo soprano

CHARACTERFUL | PASSIONATE | UNMISTAKABLE ||| LLAWN CYMERIAD| ANGERDDOL | DIGAMSYNIOL

Join BBC NOW and New Generation Artist Niamh O’Sullivan for ‘A Night at the Opera’ this September.

Firecracker conductor Nil Venditti will lead us in this gala of operatic favourites. From Bizet’s iconic and seductive Carmen, to Donizetti’s yearningly romantic O mio Fernando, journeying via Puccini’s dramatically passionate and soaring Preludio Sinfonico and Mascagni’s hymnal Intermezzo Cavalleria there is something for everyone to enjoy.

Similarly to character depiction in opera, a man equally skilled in his ability to depict characters through music is Elgar in his Enigma Variations, so what better to round off the evening. Light-hearted yet noble, these variations are an ingenious collection of musical sketches of his friends and an astute self-portrait; an enigma hidden within the score as each variation is tagged with the initials of the friends’ nicknames.