Posts Tagged ‘Opera Theater’
Yule Tide Songs and Carols
Yule Tide Concert For All Celebrate the magic of the holiday season, as well as our 40th anniversary year, when Opera Theater of Connecticut presents the enchanting melodies of our Yule Tide Songs and Carols concert, a heartwarming event for the whole family, designed to capture the spirit of togetherness and joy. This year, accompanied…
Read MoreDie Fledermaus
Thursday August 7 at 7:30PM, Saturday August 9, and Sunday August 10, 2025, both at 3:00PM Opera Theater of Connecticut marks its milestone 40th anniversary with a landmark season featuring Johann Strauss II’s sparkling masterpiece, Die Fledermaus. Taking the stage on August 7, 9, and 10, 2025, at the Andrews Memorial Theater, 54 East Main…
Read MoreLearn More About the Opera at OPERA TALK
OPERA TALK Opera Theater features Opera Talk, an informal, informative talk about the evening’s opera and composer by Artistic Director Alan Mann, starting an hour and a half before each performance, in the theater itself. Mann is known as a regional and international speaker on opera and its origins and development. Opera enthusiasts and newcomers alike…
Read MoreWine, Women, and Song 2025
Join us on Sunday, June 22, 2025, starting at 5:00PM, of one of our most popular events, Wine, Women, and Song. Celebrate them in a lovely concert of arias, duets, and ensembles dedicated to the appreciation of wine, women, and, certainly, love! Combine this with an entertaining wine tasting and you have an unforgettable event.This event has grown to become…
Read MoreOpera Talk—Puccini: The People’s Composer
On December 14, 2024, at the Henry Carter Hill Library, in Clinton, CT, join Mann and other opera fans and those just curious, for an Opera Talk about the renowned composer Giacomo Puccini, in commemoration of the centennial of his passing. This free Opera Talk will be in the Henry Carter Hull Library’s Community Room on Saturday December 14 at…
Read MoreOpera Talk—Verdi: The Opera Composer Who Revolutionized Opera and Unified a Nation
On Saturday, November 9, 2024, 11:00 AM at the Essex Library, Mann will talk about Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi was a leading Italian composer of opera in the 19th century, noted for operas such as Rigoletto (1851), Il trovatore (1853), La traviata (1853), Don Carlos (1867), Aida (1871), Otello (1887), and Falstaff (1893) and for his Requiem Mass (1874). Mann will illuminate the artistic and musical imagination of this profound man whose vision not…
Read MoreHansel and Gretel 2024
Sunday, December 15, 2024 Back by popular demand, on December 15th, 2024 at 2 p.m. at the Andrews Memorial Theater, 54 East Main St., Clinton, Opera Theater of Connecticut will present its acclaimed reduced version of Hansel and Gretel. The opera is sung in English, accompanied by piano and features a children’s chorus and dancing angels.…
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