Abbotsbury Music Festival The Impressario & Pagliacci

‘The Impresario’ the Garden Opera company will be transformed into a riotous troupe of travelling players who take you on a giddy ride through the parallel worlds of comedy and tragedy. Our vagabonds will introduce themselves through performing Mozart’s hilarious pastiche ‘The Impresario’. This is the opera world stripped bare, with its pretentions, sky rocketing egos and blind optimism laid out for all to see. A hilarious ‘casting couch’ comedy teeming with outlandish characters and sexual innuendo. After the hilarity of Mozart at his most playful we enter the inner world of the players in ‘I Pagliacci’. The veneer of performance is stripped away from our group of travelling clowns and the spotlight turns on their own lives. Leoncavallo's masterpiece is one of the most popular standards of operatic repertoire and a splendid example of the ‘verisimo’ operatic style that is perfectly suited to Garden Opera’s intimate and highly unique approach. A story about what might lie behind the clown’s smile and a tour de force of love, jealousy and disaster that will thrill audiences in a total theatrical experience. Featuring the stunning tenor aria Vesti la giubba, and packed with visual delights and inventive staging this promises to be one of Garden Opera’s most exciting outings to date. We’re delighted to welcome back Saffron van Zwanenberg who directed last year’s Traviata with the Perrier award winning Frank Watson providing the libretto for ‘The Impresario’.
Abbotsbury Music is bringing opera again to The Electric Palace, Bridport on 18th October with The New Garden Opera’s ' Clowns - The Impresario & Pagliaci’.
Doors open 6.30.pm. Show starts 7.30 p.m.
Tickets from Bridport TIC 01308 424901