A BIT of culture could be just the ticket for the new year, and a Maidenhead arts centre is aiming to make it as easy as possible to tune in.
Norden Farm has teamed up with the Royal Opera House for a special programme featuring shows streamed live from London. Tickets for all screenings are £15.
Puccini’s operatic thriller Royal Opera House Live: Tosca features drama, passion and fabulous music. Encore screenings are on Friday, January 14, at 2pm, and Wednesday, January 19, at 7pm.
Jonathan Kent’s production captures the dangerous political turbulence of Rome in 1800. Into the romantic world of an idealistic painter Cavaradossi and his sensuous lover Tosca, comes the malevolence of Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police, with fatal results.
Tosca is one of the most widely performed operas – with its gripping plot and glorious music.
Royal Opera House Live: Rigoletto is screened live from the Royal Opera House on Thursday, March 10, at 7.15pm. An encore screening is shown the next day, at 2pm.
Director of The Royal Opera Oliver Mears directs his first work for the Company. He brings Verdi’s masterpiece into the modern world, pitting power against innocence, beauty against ugliness.
Rigoletto is court jester to the libertine Duke of Mantua. He is cursed by the father of one of the Duke’s victims for his irreverent laughter. When the Duke seduces Rigoletto’s daughter Gilda, it seems the curse is taking effect.
Tickets are available from the Box Office on 01628 788997 or online at www.nordenfarm.org
