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Coming up

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Three things on the calendar this coming week.  Tuesday 22nd sees the first free noon concert of the season in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre.  As custom seems to dictate it’s the Ensemble Studio performing.  The full programme is here.  It’s also the first gig with Claire Morley in charge.

screenshot-2015-06-19-21-42-15Friday 25th  and Saturday 26th, Friends of Gravity (who curiously do not include our cats) are presenting an intriguing looking version of Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins.  The show is at 8pm at St. Bartholomew’s Church on Dundas Street East.  Tickets and details.

Also on Saturday, Metro Youth Opera have a season launch party/fundraiser at Opera Bob’s (a watering hole owned and operated by bass Robert Pomakov)  It’s at 5pm.  Details and tickets.

It’s starting to get busy again.

Much Ado

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11160680_986649388020560_2336906169017147576_nI really wasn’t at all familiar with Berlioz’ Béatrice at Bénédict before last night’s opening of a production by Metro Youth Opera at the Daniels Spectrum.  All I knew was that it had something to so with Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and a reputation for being rather tedious.  For the record it’s basically the Shakespeare play shorn of all the darker elements; no Don John, no fake funeral, resulting in a RomCom in which the title characters, after much verbal sparring,  are finally brought to admit that they are in love and get married along with Claudio and Héro.  Further compressed a little (Somarone is axed) for this production it runs a pleasingly untedious two hours or so.

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Béatrice and Bénédict

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BetBHere’s another listing I missed in the chaos of moving back into the Kitten Kondo.  Metro Youth Opera have a run of three performances of Berlioz’s Béatrice and Bénédict at the Daniels Spectrum (Aki Studio).  The shows are on April 24th and 25th at 7.30pm and the 26th at 2.30pm.  Alison Wong directs with Natasha Fransblow as Music Director.  The cast includes Simone McIntosh as Béatrice and Asitha Tennekoon (Paris in the recent GGS La belle Hélène) as Bénédict.  Full details and tickets are available here.