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Opera Prize
Saturday 4th February
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Tickets: £30, £25
Doors Open: 6.00pm
Performance starts: 7.00pm
Interval: 70 minute supper interval – pre-order supper, canapé baskets or bring your own food.
Clonter’s 2012 season starts with the excitement of the Opera Prize, the only opportunity for the nominated singers, from the leading UK conservatoires, to go head to head competing for a prize of £2,000.
The winner will be chosen by a judging panel of experts from the world of opera, but you too can have your say and vote for your favourite singer on the night, with the audience vote winner taking home a magnum of champagne. The singers are already winners to reach the Opera Prize, so why not join us for a night of opera, tension and fabulous singing.
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Platform Concerts for Young Choirs (ages 8-12)
Thursday 8th & Thursday 15th March
Tickets: £5 (free for participants & teachers)
Doors Open: 5.00pm (choir rehearsals start 5.20pm)
Performance starts: 6.00pm
Interval: None
Dress code (for Performers): One or two-tone colour of your choice.
These concerts aim to provide fledgling choirs (minimum 20) and schools taking part in Clonter Performance Projects an opportunity to develop their performance skills in a non-competitive and supportive environment. Choirs as invited to sing two songs from memory on stage either with keyboard or CD accompaniment.
Other schools will be performing short musical pieces which they have created during a 4 week Performance Project.
If you know of a junior choir who would like to take part please email education@clonteropera.com or call 07947 837580
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Sing For Clonter -
Mozart Requiem
Saturday 10th March
Tickets: £10 & £20 Students £5
Doors Open: 9.30am Rehearsals start 10.00am and end 4.30pm
Performance starts: 6.30pm
Post performance: Optional supper or bring you own food.
Application forms and additional info can be downloaded in PDF or Microsoft Word format.
Additional information leaflet can be downloaded in PDF format.
Alternatively call 07947 837580 for further information.
You don’t need to be able to sight read or be experienced to SING FOR CLONTER – Just able to sing in tune, follow a basic score. Enjoy the wonderful experience of singing in a large choir with soloists Robyn Lyn Evans, Marta Fontanals- Simmons, Eloise Routledge, Andrew Mc Taggart, accompanied by Christopher Cromar, members of the Clonter Sinfonia and conducted by Philip Sunderland. Philip’s great enthusiasm and previous experience as chorus master of Opera North will give us the best possible introduction to Mozart’s choral masterpiece
Here are the three ways to Join in & Sing for Clonter on Saturday 10 March:-
1. Learn, rehearse and sing Mozart’s Requiem all day and perform in an evening performance with soloists and members of the Clonter Sinfonia.
2. If you already know this work and don’t want to spend all day rehearsing it, just come and perform in the Evening performance.
3. If your Saturday nights are all booked up why not enjoy learning this glorious work at Clonter on 10 March and sing it through with members of the orchestra and soloists before the end of the day at 4.30pm
Places need to be booked in advance.
ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT WILL SUPPORT THE WORK OF CLONTER FARM MUSIC TRUST providing training and performance opportunities for emerging professional singers and delivering an educational & community outreach programme to 2000 children & students of all ages. |
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Great Expectations
Performed by the Baroque Theatre Company
Friday 23rd & Saturday 24th March
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Tickets: £18 (£16 concessions for Seniors & Students)
Doors Open: 6.30pm
Performance starts: 7.30pm
Interval: (30 minute interval; no table bookings)
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth, Clonter welcomes Baroque Theatre Company for their first
visit to the theatre.
This adaptation, by Hugh Leonard, of Dickens’s well loved novel, sees young Phillip Pirrip, known as “Pip”, first help the escaped convict Abel Magwitch, and then have the eccentric Miss Havisham take him under her wing. These two events will affect the rest of young Pip’s life.
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Tea with Flossie Malavialle
Wednesday 4th April
Tickets: £16 (carers free of charge)
Doors Open: 3.00pm
Performance: 3.30-5.00pm
Afternoon tea and folk music with singer songwriter Flossie Malavialle and guitarist Paul Donnelly. What a lovely way to spend the afternoon!
Please call the Box Office to reserve seats.
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Folk@Clonter presents
Colum Sands plus Eilidh Grant
Saturday 21st April
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Tickets: £18
Doors Open: 6.00pm
Performance starts: 7.30pm
Interval: 20 minute interval; pre-performance supper available to pre-order or bring your own food.
By popular request, legendary Irish bard, Colum Sands, returns to Clonter with his eloquent music and witty tales. To be joined by award winning Scottish singer songwriter Eilidh Grant and her band.
“An unforgettable, wonderful performer. I've just seen him play to 2500 people in the Australian National Folk Festival’s biggest venue and make everyone feel as if they were sitting in his lounge room. He’s warm, witty, moving and funny.” Steve Barnes Director Fairbridge Folk Festival
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Masterclasses
Wed 16th & Thurs 17th May
Masterclass Tickets: £10 (free for Friends and Students)
Doors Open: 1.30pm
Masterclass duration: 2.00-4.00pm
Interval: None
With Michael McCaffery directing and Paul Wingfield at the piano. Two of the Masterclass sessions will be open to the general public.
Booking not available on-line for the Masterclasses, please call the Box Office to reserve seats.
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Spring Opera Gala
Saturday 19th May
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Tickets: £32
Doors Open: 6.00pm
Performance starts: 7.00pm
Interval: 70 minute supper interval; pre-order supper, canapé baskets or bring your own food.
Michael McCaffery returns to direct the Spring Opera Gala, after his successes with Rigoletto and La Cenerentola.
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Liane Carroll & Trio with Steve Rubie
In association with the 606 Club
Saturday 16th June
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Tickets: £25
Doors Open: 6.00pm
Performance starts: 7.30pm
Interval: 20 minute interval - pre-performance supper available to pre-order or bring your own food.
“Some musicians are talented, some brilliant, and a few just seem to be made out of music”, so The Observer describes jazz singer, pianist and composer Liane Carroll. Hear her deeply soulful voice for yourself and see if you agree.
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Opera Novice Night
Thursday 19th July
Tickets: £15
Doors Open: 6.00pm
Director’s Talk: 6.30pm
Performance starts: 7.00pm
Interval: 30 minute interval
Never been to an opera?
Then why not attend our Opera Novice Night on the evening of our Hansel & Gretel dress rehearsal on Thursday 19 July.
This is a magical opera inspiring for newcomers of all ages and seasoned opera goers alike.
The evening starts with a pre-performance talk by the Director at 6.30pm, he will provide you with an insight into opera, before the performance at 7pm. This is a magical opera inspiring for newcomers of all ages and seasoned opera goers alike. There will be a 30 minute interval. Licensed bar available – no dining options.
Booking not available on-line, please call the Box Office to reserve seats.
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Hansel & Gretel
Humperdinck
Sung in English with Orchestra.
This is a magical opera inspiring for newcomers of all ages and seasoned opera goers alike.
This opera was inspired by the classic Grimm Brother’s fairy tale of a young brother and sister threatened by a witch. Engelburt Humperdinck’s masterpiece is admired for its “richly tuneful score” and folk inspired themes, one of the most famous being the Evening prayer from act 2. This was the first opera to be broadcast from the Royal Opera House and is much more than just a fairy tale.
Musical Director/Conductor - Clive Timms
Director - Martin Lloyd-Evans
Designer - Eleanor Wdowski
Sung in English with Orchestra.
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Cheshire Performances |
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Saturday 21st July
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Tickets: £57, £47, £32
Doors Open: 6.00pm
Performance starts: 7.00pm
Interval: 30 minute interval - pre-performance supper available; pre-order supper, canapé baskets or bring your own food
Tuesday 24th July
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Tickets: £45, £40, £30
Doors Open: 6.00pm
Performance starts: 7.00pm
Interval: 30 minute interval - pre-performance supper available; pre-order supper, canapé baskets or bring your own food
Thursday 26th July
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Tickets: £57, £47, £32
Doors Open: 6.00pm
Performance starts: 7.00pm
Interval: 70 minute supper interval – pre-order supper, canapé baskets or bring your own food
Saturday 28th July
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Tickets: £67, £57, £42
Doors Open: 6.00pm
Performance starts: 7.00pm
Interval: 70 minute supper interval – pre-order supper, canapé baskets or bring
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Andrew Brunt Art Lecture
“The Englishness of
English Art”
Wednesday 31st Oct
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Tickets: £28 or £26.50 for two
Doors Open: 10.00am
Lecture: 10.30am-2.30pm
Lunch: 12 noon (ploughman’s lunch & a drink included in lecture price)
We explore what characteristics of our art, if any, are specifically English. We ask “Does crossing the Channel have a peculiar effect on aesthetic ideas?” and try to find answers from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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Opera Gala
Saturday 10th November
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Tickets: £42, £37, £32
Doors Open: 6.00pm
Performance starts: 7.00pm
Interval: 70 minute supper interval – pre-order supper, canapé baskets or bring your own food.
The Opera Gala is now established as an operatic prelude to Christmas with a mixture of well loved opera arias and duets.
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An Evening of Brel & Piaf
Saturday 24th November
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Tickets: £18
Doors Open: 6.00pm
Performance starts: 7.30pm
Interval: 20 minute interval - pre-performance supper available to pre-order or bring your own food.
An evening of Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, by Flossie Malavialle. Flossie will be singing classics such as Padam Padam, Je Ne Regrette Rien, La Vie en Rose, Milord and many, many more.
“A show that both Piaf and Flossie fans shouldn't miss for the world” – ‘Flossie Sings Piaf’
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Gospel @ Clonter
Saturday 01st December
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Tickets: £30, £25
Doors Open: 6.00pm
Performance starts: 7.00pm
Interval:70 minute supper interval - pre-performance supper available for parties of 10 or more if required; pre-order supper, canapé baskets or bring your own food.
The London Adventist Chorale continues to spread Christmas cheer as they return for this annual festive celebration. This is always an inspiring evening of spirituals, traditional hymns, contemporary gospel music and carols for the audience to join in with.
Conducted by the talented artist and composer, Ken Burton, the Chorale has an international reputation, featuring regularly on radio and television and have developed a loyal following amongst the Clonter audience.
Christmas wouldn’t be the same without them!
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