THE UK’s premier touring opera company, English Touring Opera, returns to the Everyman Theatre with one of Puccini’s most famous operas Tosca (April 19 and 22) and Gilbert and Sullivan’s Victorian romp Patience.
Puccini’s visceral depiction of love in the midst of a war-torn Rome, Tosca is one of the world’s best-loved operas, brimming with lust, corruption and political intrigue.
When the painter Cavaradossi helps a fugitive escape, he attracts the attention of Scarpia, the malevolent chief of police.
When the firebrand Cavaradossi is imprisoned, Tosca is faced with an impossible choice: submitting to the desires of the sadistic chief of police or letting her lover be executed.
What will Tosca be ready to sacrifice to save her lover from his fate?
Members of the local Beauregard Youth Choir are set to make their stage debut in Tosca. 12 children, aged between eight and 12 years old have been rehearsing in school, with the assistance of English Touring Opera’s education team, for their first role in a national opera tour.
Patience (April 20 and 21) is an all-singing, all-dancing comedy by the masters of British musical theatre, which pokes fun at the eccentric affectations of barely-disguised Victorian celebrities, including Oscar Wilde and his followers.
Willowy poets, sighing maidens, hearty milkmaids and burly officers all become targets of Gilbert and Sullivan’s razor-sharp wit. Expect plenty of tunes and humour as fresh today as it was at the first performance.
- Visit everymantheatre.org.uk for tickets to both shows or call the Box Office on 01242 572573.
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