Opera New Hampshire -

Opera New Hampshire's 2010-2011 Season

Puccini's
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
4:00PM

The Palace Theatre
80 Hanover Street
Manchester, NH 03101

Madama Butterfly is the love story of the Japanese geisha who loved her American sailor too well. Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton marries the fragile bride for dalliance, only to leave Japan and return with his American wife to claim his love-child. Giacomo Puccini paints the tragedy in his magnificent melodies and bittersweet arias that inescapably sweep the ingenuous Cio-Cio-San to suicide. In Italian with English supertitles.

Puccini's
TURANDOT
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Sunday, March 6, 2011
4:00PM

The Palace Theatre
80 Hanover Street
Manchester, NH 03101

In Ancient China, Princess Turandot has built a wall of impossible riddles around her heart to keep suitors away. Countless courtiers have failed to solve the three riddles and have been put to death as the mysterious Prince Calàf arrives determined to win her love, or die trying. The legendary fable plays out in spectacular settings with the famous aria "Nessun dorma,” colorful choruses and pageantry in Puccini's final masterpiece. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

PRELUDE TALKS
There will be an Opera Prelude, an introduction to each opera with recorded samples, presented one hour prior to the performance.

Performed by
Teatro Lirico D’Europa Now in its 10th season, Teatro Lirico d’Europa, the European touring company formed in 1988 by Bulgarian opera singer, Giorgio Lalov, has completed more than 3,000 performances worldwide.

Ticket Information
Prices: $35-$75
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