Opera & Arias

Dates and Venue 25 August @ 8pm, 1 and 8 September 2008 @ 7pm and 1 September @ 1pm | Bard on the Beach Mainstage Tent, Vanier Park

UBC Opera Ensemble | Vancouver Opera Orchestra | Conductor Leslie Dala | Host Christopher Gaze

Reviewer J H Stape

Shorn of its hysterically corny title "A Merrie Evening of Opera," the Bard's excursion into opera -- now "Opera & Arias" -- offers the same enjoyable fare: the young talents of the UBC Opera Ensemble in extracts from the standard repertoire. This season's obvious choice fell on large chunks from Mozart's Don Giovanni, performed in Prague this summer by ensemble members. Full review




 

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