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Top opera productions
REVIEW: COSI FAN TUTTE
Rosemary Branch Theatre
BARTERED BRIDE
St Andrew’s Church
IT’S a big week for amateur opera companies this week as two present their first productions of 2007.
On Friday, the Mozart favourite Cosi Fan Tutte opens at the Rosemary Branch Theatre, produced by the Minotaur Music Theatre company, who always put a good show together having previously appeared with a Puccini double-bill and Mozart’s Don Giovanni. There are five performances.
And on Tuesday, the Brent Opera Company present Smetana’s Bartered Bride, a satisfyingly unusual choice for an amateur company to perform.
Bedrich Smetana wrote eight operas in total and The Bartered Bride was first performed in 1863 and was, perhaps, his most popular such work, full of Czech folk music infused dance numbers and enjoyable arias.
There are four performances of the opera, at St Andrew’s Church, in Finchley Road.
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