Main House, Music

Ukrainian National Opera Presents: Carmen

Following their spectacular debut last year the Dnipro Opera from Ukraine returns with three classic productions featuring an impressive cast and live orchestra of over 30 musicians.

Carmen

Thu 22 February 7:30pm

Carmen tells the story of the downfall of Don Jose, a naïve soldier who falls head over heels with Carmen, a seductive, free-spirited femme fatale.

The infatuated Don Jose abandons his childhood sweetheart and neglects his military duties, only to lose the fickle Carmen to the glamorous toreador Escamillo. Love, treachery, passion and betrayal, Carmen has it all.

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La Boheme

Fri 23 February 7:30pm

Puccini's passionate story of love at first sight set in Bohemian, 19th century Paris among the students and up and coming artists.
La Boheme is the tragic tale of the love between Mimi and Rodolfo the freewheeling poet. When poverty and ill health take their toll on Mimi a hars reality sets in and the couple soon realise that love cannot conquer all.

Madama Butterfly

Sat 24 February 7:30pm

No opera can match the tragedy and sorrow of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

Set in Japan at the turn of the last century, it is the story of a doomed love affair between an American naval officer and his young Japanese bride whose self-sacrifice and defiance of her family leads to tragedy. This touching tale of innocent love crushed between two utterly different cultures resonates as strongly as ever in today’s world.