Saturday Opera: Eugene Onegin (excerpts)

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Christiania Torv 1,
0157 Oslo

Saturday Opera: Eugene Onegin (excerpts)

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Welcome to Saturday Opera at Gamle Raadhus Scene. We promise high quality and good spirits, high notes, sorrow and drama in the best operatic style. The singers present what they sing themselves. There will be well-known and beloved arias and duets, and sometimes there will be a theme running through the performance or an excerpt from an opera. Doors open at 14.30. We recommend a visit to Skyggesiden bar before or after the performance. You can come and reserve a seat with us when the doors open at 14.30 and go back down to the bar and come up again at 15.00. Unfortunately it is not permitted to bring drinks from Skyggesiden bar up to us. Today's programme Excerpts from the famous opera Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. More text to come. Performers Eugene Onegin: Mattis Holthe Møll Austreim Tatiana: Solvi Skogstad Lensky: Jonathan Bjørnseth Olga: Lizaveta Hai Piano: Olesya Tutova The plot The sisters Tatiana and Olga live in the countryside. One day Olga's fiancé, Lensky, comes to visit with a friend of his from the big city. The friend is Eugene Onegin, and from the moment Tatiana sees him her life is turned upside down. Tatiana is overwhelmed with love, and decides to write a letter to Onegin to reveal her feelings for him. It is not simple. Should she really do this, and how should she begin? It becomes an inner struggle that eventually results in a brand new love letter. After receiving the letter, Onegin comes to visit. He rejects her, and in the same breath gives her a patronising lesson about life. Tatiana is crushed. Tatiana celebrates her birthday. There is a party, fun, singing and dancing. Certain events take place that trigger jealousy and anger. So much so that Lensky challenges Onegin to a duel. It ends with Onegin shooting and killing his friend Lensky. Several years later. After seeing Tatiana with her husband, Prince Gremin, Onegin realises that he made a great mistake in rejecting Tatiana. He realises that he actually loves her and writes a letter to her. Tatiana reads the letter from Onegin and he comes to see her. With a heavy heart she explains that she is not willing to leave her husband and her duties for his sake. Onegin resists and tries to convince her. It is futile. Tatiana rejects him. She leaves, and Onegin is left standing alone. The concert series is supported by the Arts Council Norway. Tickets To be sure of a ticket, we recommend buying it through TicketCo. If it is sold out on TicketCo, you can get in touch by text message on the same day, as we occasionally get cancellations. Send a text message to 95 23 24 01. Approx. 50 seats are already reserved by our Gold Members, who come every Saturday. Read more about Gold Membership at the bottom of the page. Address Gamle Raadhus Scene, Christiania torv 1 The orange house on your right when you stand with your back to the statue of HANSKEN on Christiania torv and look down Rådhusgaten towards the Opera. Right next to Rådhusgata 30. Our door is red and has brass handles. A little history The story of Lørdagsopera began as early as 2002, when Kulturentusiastene started an opera pub at Dockside on Aker Brygge. The concept quickly became popular and developed through concerts on several stages in Oslo. By the autumn of 2008 Kulturentusiastene had begun a collaboration with Kristiania Bar & Kafé in Østbanehallen, where Operanachspiel was established as a regular Saturday offering. The audience flocked in, but it gradually proved demanding to combine the concerts with a busy venue. On 7 January 2009 Opera til folket was founded as a continuation of Kulturentusiastene, with a clear aim of making opera accessible to a broad audience. In the spring of 2010 the concept was therefore developed further into a dedicated Saturday initiative under Opera til folket. The ambition was to create a regular meeting place where audiences could experience professional opera singers up close in an informal and inclusive atmosphere. When the series moved to Pigalle in Grønland in the autumn of 2013, it was given the name Lørdagsopera. That same autumn Opera til folket took over the running of Gamle Raadhus Scene, which is rented from the Oslo Municipality Agency for Cultural Affairs. On 6 February 2014 the first Lørdagsopera concert was held on the stage, where the series is still based. Today Lørdagsopera is the flagship of Opera til folket and one of Norway's longest-running regular opera series. Every spring and autumn the audience is invited to weekly concerts from February to April and from September to November. PublikUng PublikUng is an organisation that lowers the threshold for young people to go to the opera and to concerts of classical music. The vision is to spread interest in these art forms and make them more accessible to those between 18 and 30. PublikUng now has just under 2000 members and it costs only kr 50,- to become a member. The only rule is that if you have received a free or very cheap ticket to a concert/performance, the registration is binding. You MUST then use your ticket. If you do not, unfortunately a fine is likely. There is always a long waiting list and someone else who wants to go in your place if you cannot. Please therefore let us know if you are not going to use your ticket after all. You can also give it to a friend. Sign up via publikung.no Become a member of Opera til folket Membership has a one-off price of kr 250,- and gives you, among other things, discounted tickets on most tickets at Gamle Raadhus Scene! When you sign up you will be sent an email with payment information. Go to the front page of Opera til folket and sign up. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. Gold Member Opera til folket's Gold Members come to Lørdagsopera every Saturday. They have a permanent seat with their name on it and have become part of our opera family. If you buy a season ticket, you save a good deal of money. If you cannot come one Saturday, you can send a friend in your place so that the seat does not stand empty. If you are interested in buying Gold Membership and thus a season ticket, send us an email at gs@operatilfolket.no and we will help you. Instructions for booking tickets Once you have reached the TicketCo page, first choose the number of tickets, then press the yellow button that says “BESTILL” (ORDER). Then press “FORTSETT” (CONTINUE). You now come to a very simple registration (register only one name for all the tickets, and you will save a lot of time). Finally you come to a payment page, where you need Bank-ID to pay. If for some reason you are unable to book tickets via TicketCo, you can send an email to: info@operatilfolket.no