Lyrique-en-mer,
Festival de Belle-Ile

Du 19 Juillet
au 15 Août 2008

2008 sera la onzième édition du de Lyrique-en-Mer, Festival de Belle Ile.

Outre les deux opéras majeurs donnés à la Citadelle que sont le Barbier de Séville de Rossini et Tosca de Puccini, les quatre églises de Belle Ile accueilleront un concert de musique sacrée avec au programme cette année le Requiem Allemand de Brahms. Enfin, les concerts-cocktails et les masterclasses sont devenus une tradition et attirent de nombreux fidèles.

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MY FAIR LADY - Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Lowe

For Henry Higgins, professor of linguistics and confirmed misogynist, transforming a streeturchin into a lady is a trivial task, done to honour a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering. Until, of course, he meets the proud little cockney, Eliza Doolittle, and finds that his raw material might not be so easy to mould. Lerner and Loewe’s exuberant adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion was always destined to be a smash hit.

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Don Giovanni - W.A. Mozart Set in the Spanish Catholic society of the 17th Century, it places the flamboyant freedom-loving seducer in the most morally repressive environment possible, but Don Giovanni’s refusal to repent makes him one of the first great modern anti-heroes.

Teddy Tahu Rhodes pulls on his thigh length boots once more to sing the role which he has made his own. Joining him is John Pringle as his jaded sidekick Leporello, Kate Ladner as Donna Anna and Fiona Janes as feisty Donna Elvira. Tiffany Speight is Zerlina to Richard Anderson’s Masetto and, as the Commendatore, fellow New Zealander Jud Arthur will stop Teddy Tahu Rhodes in his tracks. To conduct this masterpiece, Opera Australia welcomes Hungarian Imre Palló, making his debut with the company.

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Nothing is sacred when arch satirist, W.S. Gilbert and musical genius, Arthur Sullivan, get to work. So prepare yourself for a deliciously wicked treat, because The Gondoliers is back.Giuseppe and Marco spend their days on the magical waterways of Venice and their nights with their lovely young wives. Life is good.

So when a royal delegation from an unknown corner of Spain arrives with important news, the gondoliers’ response is somewhat mixed. Reg Livermore, Judi Connelli and John Bolton Wood brought the house down in Melbourne last year and now this top comic team is bound for Sydney. With them come Antoinette Halloran and Taryn Fiebig, Kanen Breen and Robert Bertram, and Opera Australia’s ebullient chorus, who will break into song at every opportunity!

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