By Cal
Link: https://www.rwcmd.ac.uk/events/coram-boy
Available until: 9th May 2021
Coram Boy appears to be incomplete, with only Part 1 featuring as part of this performance. But it’s a great opera and it’s free to watch so if you listen to it now, you’ll know if you like it and if you ever do get the opportunity to watch the full opera, you’ll know it’s worth paying for.
By Megan
Link: https://bristololdvic.org.uk/whats-on/messiah
Available until: If you buy a
Season Pass you’ll have access until 28th February. Or you can rent
it for 48 hours.
I love the Messiah. My mum
sang it at the Royal Albert Hall and my uncle sang it at the Barbican but I
didn’t go because I wasn’t born yet. It is a really beautiful piece of music by
George Frideric Handel and this production is especially magical.
The Messiah isn’t a
theatrical work. It is an oratorio which is written for a choir and four
soloists – a soprano, a contralto or mezzo-soprano (or sometimes a counter
tenor), a tenor and a bass or baritone, though sometimes there are extra
soloists like having a counter tenor as well as a contralto. Something else
that sometimes happens is that a boy treble will sing some of the soprano music
and that happened in the Bristol Old Vic’s production.
By Tommy
Link: https://stream.roh.org.uk/products/ariodante-in-concert £10
Available until:
Sunday 20th December 2020
How wonderful to see a full live opera at the Royal Opera
House once more! Of course, it was not possible to see this opera in person and
might not have been as fully satisfying experience for them as it was for their
online audience, but I really hope they were able to find some enjoyment in
their excellent performances of this beautiful opera and to know that it was
very much appreciated by those of us who are missing opera.
