Opera Class presents: Opera Feeling - A Spectacular Journey through Opera! Join us for an evening of passion, drama and musical excellence!
Free admission, reservation is not required
- Monday 9 December 2024 - The Great Big Opera Show
- Tuesday 10 December 2024 - The Sound of Opera
Experience two unforgettable evenings when 24 talented Opera Class students bring the magic of opera to life! On Monday, enjoy powerful ensembles and solo performances with works from The Sound of Music, Die Fledermaus, West Side Story and more. On Tuesday, the focus is on solos, with masterpieces by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and many others.
Feel the full breadth of human emotions-love, joy, revenge, jealousy and enchantment-in an immersive show featuring the finest operatic moments. Accompanied by pianist Ariadna Ruiz Ruiz and directed by Roger Smeets, each evening promises to be a unique experience.
Come and share our passion for opera-feel, listen and be carried away. Everyone is welcome!
Monday 9 December 2024, 19:00 - The Great Big Opera Show
This evening, 24 students from the opera class present themselves with many large ensembles and some solo numbers. Includes excerpts from and works by:
• The Sound of Music (Rodgers & Hammerstein);
• Laggard Dawn (Ethel Smyth)
• The March of Women (Ethel Smyth)
• Cox and Box (Gilbert & Sullivan)
• West Side Story (Bernstein)
• Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauß)
• Die lustige Witwe (Lehár)
• La belle Hélène (Offenbach)
• Les contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach)
• Roméo et Juliette (Gounod)
• O mon bel inconnu (Hahn)
• Béatrice et Bénédict (Berlioz)
• Lakmé (Delibes)
• Cendrillon (Pauline Viardot)
Musical guidance and piano accompaniment: Ariadna Ruiz Ruiz
Some pieces in a choreography by Anouk Habets
Concept and stage/drama coaching: Roger Smeets
Tuesday 10 December 2024, 19.00 hours - The Sound of Opera
This evening the focus is on solo works/arias. The opera class consists of vocal students from various years of study, Bachelors(second, third and fourth years) as well as Masters (first and second years). Everyone presents at the best of her/his ability at the moment. Among other things, the programme consists of excerpts from:
• Don Giovanni (Mozart)
• Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
• Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart)
• L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti)
• Linda di Chamounix (Donizetti)
• La Sonnambula (Bellini)
• Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)
• Tancredi (Rossini)
• L’esule (Verdi)
• The Enchantress (Herbert)
• If I were you (Heggie)
• La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach)
• Der Freischütz (von Weber)
• Die verkaune Braut (Smetana)
Musical guidance and piano accompaniment: Ariadna Ruiz Ruiz
Stage/drama coaching: Roger Smeets