The NBR New Zealand Opera has announced its 2012 Season, revealing an exciting and diverse programme for audiences.
Two operas will be staged in 2012 with main-stage productions in Auckland – a new production of Verdi’s much-loved Rigoletto, and Smetana’s comic masterpiece The Bartered Bride.
Rigoletto
Opera doesn’t get more melodramatic than Rigoletto, Verdi’s heart-breaking tale of love and deception. Rigoletto is also a firm favourite with audiences, and amid a flow of glorious melody features one of opera’s most recognisable arias, “La donna è mobile”.
The Bartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana’s dream to establish a Czech national opera was realised with The Bartered Bride, his second opera, and the first Czech opera to become a worldwide hit. An effervescent, comic look at Bohemian life, The Bartered Bride is a tale of true love prevailing despite the best efforts of a scheming marriage broker and a couple of social-climbing parents.
