Saturday Opera: From Strauss to Puccini

RECORDINGS OF THE WORKS

Georges Bizet: Carmen

The concert plays an excerpt of the work.

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Christiania Torv 1,
0157 Oslo

Saturday Opera: From Strauss to Puccini

Description

Welcome to Lørdagsopera at Gamle Raadhus Scene. We promise high quality and good spirits, high notes, sorrow and drama in the finest operatic style. The singers introduce 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 at 15.00. Unfortunately, drinks from Skyggesiden bar may not be brought up to us. Today's programme Today the audience will hear music from, among others, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, Bizet's Carmen and Puccini's Madama Butterfly. With well-known and beloved arias and duets, amusing operetta numbers and welcome classics, this is a Lørdagsopera you will not want to miss! Performers Renate Ekerhovd, soprano Thea Brix, soprano Christina Jønsi, mezzo-soprano Stefan Ibsen Zlatanos, piano The concert series is supported by Kulturdirektoratet. 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 receive 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, looking down Rådhusgaten towards the Opera House. 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 at several venues in Oslo. By the autumn of 2008, Kulturentusiastene had already begun a collaboration with Kristiania Bar & Kafé in Østbanehallen, where Operanachspiel was established as a regular Saturday offering. The audience flocked to it, but combining the concerts with a busy bar eventually proved demanding. On 7 January 2009 Opera til folket was founded as a continuation of Kulturentusiastene, with the 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 run by Opera til folket. The ambition was to create a regular meeting place where the audience could experience professional opera singers up close in an informal and inclusive atmosphere. When the series moved to Pigalle at 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 leased from Kulturetaten in Oslo kommune. On 6 February 2014 the first Lørdagsopera concert was held on the stage, where the series still has its home. 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 opera and classical music concerts. The vision is to spread an 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, your registration is binding. You MUST then use your ticket. If you do not, unfortunately a fine may follow. There is always a long waiting list, and someone else who would like to go in your place, if you cannot. So please 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 for 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 down the page. Gold Member The Gold Members of Opera til folket 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 on a 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 thereby a season ticket, send us an email at gs@operatilfolket.no and we will help you. Instructions for booking tickets When you have arrived at the TicketCo page, first choose the number of tickets, then press the yellow button that says «BESTILL». Then press «FORTSETT». 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