Quick opera in London post
Nov. 16th, 2011 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovingbothLonger comments about both 'soon', but I recommend both Castor and Pollux and Eugene Onegin at ENO.
You can now do the former for a tenner: £10 upper or dress circle tickets and £20 stalls tickets for performances on Sat 19 Nov, Thur 24 Nov and Thur 1 Dec 2011. Pick the seats you want on eno.org, and enter the code CASTOROFFER at the checkout. There's a £1.55 booking fee per transaction, but you can book multiple seats in one go. An optional donation of £3.50 will be automatically added - untick the box to opt out.
It's in English, modern dress, simple set, beautifully sung. It includes naked people :) but is not necessarily the best intro to opera if you've never seen one / only seen say Gilbert and Sullivan.
The latter may be available at the tkts booth in Leicester Square on the day: typically £25 for dress circle or stalls. If not, you can do day seats for £19. If you like musicals with plots, you'll like this one: Tchaikovsky can do great themes and there is some wonderful singing. About my only complaint is that they could hold off dropping the curtain at the end of each scene.
You can now do the former for a tenner: £10 upper or dress circle tickets and £20 stalls tickets for performances on Sat 19 Nov, Thur 24 Nov and Thur 1 Dec 2011. Pick the seats you want on eno.org, and enter the code CASTOROFFER at the checkout. There's a £1.55 booking fee per transaction, but you can book multiple seats in one go. An optional donation of £3.50 will be automatically added - untick the box to opt out.
It's in English, modern dress, simple set, beautifully sung. It includes naked people :) but is not necessarily the best intro to opera if you've never seen one / only seen say Gilbert and Sullivan.
The latter may be available at the tkts booth in Leicester Square on the day: typically £25 for dress circle or stalls. If not, you can do day seats for £19. If you like musicals with plots, you'll like this one: Tchaikovsky can do great themes and there is some wonderful singing. About my only complaint is that they could hold off dropping the curtain at the end of each scene.