Bizet’s Carmen: Repertoire for 2012 Halifax Summer Opera Workshop
The second of our three programmes for the 2012 Workshop will be Bizet’s Carmen. Bizet once wrote in a letter: ‘I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil and the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note’. His opera Carmen wholeheartedly embraces this credo. […]
Midsummer Night’s Dream by Britten: Repertoire for 2012 Halifax Summer Opera Workshop
One of the three programmes to be presented at HSOW in 2012 will be Benjamin Britten’s great opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which premiered in 1960. In August 1959, Britten decided to compose a full-evening opera for the reopening of the refurbished Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh in June 1960. As this left no time for […]
