The piece is regarded as one of the best examples of the “Bel Canto” style in which the drama is expressed through vocal lines of extraordinary beauty and grandeur that demand exceptional technical control.
Its most famous aria CASTA DIVA has been a showcase for many of opera's most acclaimed sopranos including Giuditta Pasta who created the role, Rosa Ponselle, Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé and Cecilia Bartoli. But the work is also noted for its powerful choral episodes and two magnificent duets for the two sopranos.
The American sit-com FRIENDS which ran from 1994 to 2004 has been a permanent background to our lives ever since it captured the world with its vision of loveable and witty twentysomethings starting their adult lives in Manhattan. It’s repeated across the globe, all the time, on satellite TV channels and is as popular as ever with young viewers.
The Jamie Lloyd Company have announced the next production to join the line-up as part of the next Trafalgar Transformed season at the West End’s Trafalgar Studios - The Maids by Jean Genet will open on the 20 February and run through to the 21 May 2016.
A new musical stage adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds is due to come to the West End in early February 2016.
The multi award-winning production of Lolita Chakrabarti's play Red Velvet is to come to the Garrick Theatre next year as part of the Kenneth Branagh season.