Youngsters join Russian State Opera at York and Newcastle
THE highly-acclaimed Russian State Opera returns to Yorkshire, on Wednesday, September 28, and Tyne and Wear on Saturday, October 1, as part of a UK-wide tour with a new production of Bizet’s Carmen, and will be including ten local children in each performance.
Producer, Alexej Ignatow says: Our long-term project is to try hard to involve more local choirs, and to integrate them in our future productions. For opera, English surtitles make it easy to follow the story as you listen to the performance sung in its original language."
Stagecoach Theatre Arts Company youngsters from the York area Abby Botterhill, Hattie Laud, Emma Stephenson, Millie Davidson, Amelia Hodgson, Harriet Goodman, Isabella Meek, Millie Tindall, Clara Alsop-Wood and Eloise Adamson will be on stage at the city's Barbican. In Newcastle, the Stagecoach children Emily Clements, Emily Megoran, Emily Crapper, Luci Lant, Theo Parry, James Styles, Lucy Sanderson, Sarika Riffert, Lola McLean and Iona Manon Brooks are lined up to perform.
"We are thrilled to have our students involved in Carmen with this wonderful company. It is a performance experience which offers challenges along with introducing them to the love and joy of the world of opera. Performance experiences such as this will be treasured by them forever," says one of the Stagecoach principals.
Carmen tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by Carmen, free-spirited femme fatale.
York, Barbican Theatre Box Office: 0844-854-2757 and for Newcastle's Tyne Theatre & Opera House 0844-2491-000.
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