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Competition:
Have some lunch with us
The Ulster Orchestra's lunchtime concert series for this season comes
to a close on Wednesday 8 June at Belfast's Ulster Hall with a
performance from Michael McHale on piano, including works by Sullivan,
Mendelssohn and Schumann.
We've got five pairs of
tickets to give away for this lunchtime performance so click on Enter
Competition below to be in with a chance of winning.
Congratulations
to T Ingles, D Bermingham, S Johnston, S Laffey, C Hedgcock and D
Huddleston who each won tickets to the Grand Opera House
in last month's
competition.
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A
dance fit for a queen
An enduring icon of the ancient world. The ultimate modern
woman. Beautiful, sensual and determined; mother, lover and queen
– she was Cleopatra. In a world ruled by men, this courageous and
compulsive woman overturned convention and changed the course of
history. Now, composer Claude-Michel Schönberg (Miss Saigon,
Les Miserables) and the Northern Ballet bring her story to the
stage.
Grand Opera House, Belfast
Wed 11 -
Sat 14 May, 7.30 pm
Thu matinee: 2 pm / Sat matinee: 2.30 pm
£8 -
£32.50
 028 9024 1919
Watch trailer
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Omagh's
Chamber
Enjoy an evening of
versatile sounds and complex emotions with selected works from Bach,
Vivaldi, Grieg, Hummel and Faure. Performed by the Chamber Philharmonic
Europe and award-winning soloists Pawel Zuzanski on violin and
Kirill Gusarov on trumpet.
Strule Arts Centre,
Omagh
Sat 14
May,
8 pm
£18
/ £13 conc
028 8224 7831 |
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Fall
in love again
European Ballet produce a
beautiful performance as the blossoming romance between Swanhilda and
Franz is disrupted by the doll-maker Coppelius and his doll with a
soul, Coppelia.
Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen
Fri 20 May,
8 pm
£14.50
028 6632
5440 More tour
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Shaking
things up
Enrico Caruso was at the height of his fame when he performed Carmen at
the San Francisco Opera House in April 1906, but he woke the following
morning to find his hotel room collapsing around him. Caruso and the
Quake tells the story of his escape from the great earthquake and
features music from Puccini, Rossini, Leoncavallo, Tosti and the song
he introduced to the world, ‘O Sole Mio’.
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Alley Theatre, Strabane
Sat 14 May, 8 pm
£9
028 7138
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Annesley Hall, Newcastle
Sun 15 May, 8 pm
£10/£8 conc
028 4461
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Simply
FAB
Fine Arts Brass, one of
the UK's most distinguished and versatile brass ensembles, brings
Belfast Music Society’s 90th anniversary season to a fitting
finale with a Summer Celebrity Recital including music by Malcolm
Arnold, Wilby, Bach, de Falla and Bernstein.
Belfast Harbour Commissioner's Office
Thu 5 May,
8 pm
£20 /
£5 for under 25s (incl programme and interval refreshment)
028 9024
6609
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Escape
the hustle
Break up the middle of
the week and join the Ulster Orchestra, conductor Stephen Bell and
violinist Tamás Kocsis for a welcome lunchtime opportunity
to hear Mendelssohn's overture The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave),
Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor and Glinka's Kamarinskaya.
Ulster Hall, Belfast
Wed 11 May,
1.05 pm
£5
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Get full
listings for
classical music,
opera
and ballet
events for the
next month.
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In
The News
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Watch
online - On 7 May at 7.30pm, the
Guardian is live-streaming the Aurora Orchestra playing Nico Muhly's
concerto for electric violin, Seeing Is Believing.
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Cultural Olympiad
- Trafalgar Square will be turned into a giant dance stage as
part of plans to get people dancing ahead of the London 2012 Games.
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| Only Mozart could do
it - As Terry
Gilliam's version of Faust opens in London, explore the varied attempts
to set this difficult literary work to music over the years. |
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