Opera gold
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Opera Gold is an amateur opera company attached to Goldsmiths College
, London, UK. It draws most of its cast from college members past and present. Singers from outside the college are occasionally also invited to take part.
Opera Gold was formed in 2004 by Nan Christie, who directs and produces. The 2009 production will be Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.
The company has also staged productions of John Blow
's Venus and Adonis (2004); Henry Purcell
's Dido and Aeneas (2005); Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (2006); Bizet's Carmen
(2007); and Britten's Peter Grimes
(2008).
Opera Gold website
Goldsmiths College
Goldsmiths, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom which specialises in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute...
, London, UK. It draws most of its cast from college members past and present. Singers from outside the college are occasionally also invited to take part.
Opera Gold was formed in 2004 by Nan Christie, who directs and produces. The 2009 production will be Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.
The company has also staged productions of John Blow
John Blow
John Blow was an English Baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669. His pupils included William Croft, Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell. In 1685 he was named a private musician to James II. His only stage composition, Venus and Adonis John Blow (baptised 23 February...
's Venus and Adonis (2004); Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music...
's Dido and Aeneas (2005); Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (2006); Bizet's Carmen
Carmen
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...
(2007); and Britten's Peter Grimes
Peter Grimes
Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the Peter Grimes section of George Crabbe's poem The Borough...
(2008).
Opera Gold website