Opera New Hampshire Presents Verdi's AIDA
MANCHESTER, NH: Opera
New Hampshire presents Giuseppe Verdi’s "Aida" on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009, at 2
p.m. performed by the renowned Teatro Lirico D’Europa at the Palace Theatre, 80
Hanover Street. “Last year we introduced an afternoon opera and received
positive feedback from our audience. With Aida, we hope that the popular story
and Sunday afternoon performance, will encourage families to come out and enjoy
this visually exciting production and powerful music,” Opera New Hampshire
President Rich Bojko said. “This is a great performance to introduce your
children to opera.”
Teatro Lirico D’Europa, founded by Bulgarian singer and impresario Giorgio Lalov,
and brought to Manchester by Jenny Kelly Productions, features soloists selected
from auditions in Moscow, New York, St. Petersburg, and Prague. “Aida” will be
sung in Italian with English surtitles. Tickets are available through the Palace
Theatre box office at (603) 668-5588.
With the backdrop of ancient Egypt, “Aida,” the grandest of Giuseppe Verdi’s
operas, swirls around the clash of honor and betrayal among enemies and friends,
parents and daughters, and kings and subjects. An epic love triangle is quelled
only when Aida, a slave princess at the center of the storm of passion, is
entombed alive with her enemy lover.
“Aida” opened in Cairo on December 1871 with great applause and continues to be
one of the most performed operas in the U.S. Its story was brought to life
recently in the 1998 broadway musical of the same name, written by Elton John
and Tim Rice.
There will be an Opera Prelude, an introduction to the opera “Aida” with
recorded samples, presented by Manuel Marquez-Sterling on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009,
from 2 to 4pm at the Mara Auditorium (in Webster Hall) on the campus of Southern
New Hampshire University, 2500 North River Road, Manchester. For directions, go
to https://www.snhu.edu/212.asp
Individual ticket prices are $75 for premier orchestra, boxes and first balcony;
$65 for the balance of orchestra, boxes and first balcony; $55 for balcony rows
A-F and $40 for balcony rows G-K. Student tickets are $75 for premier orchestra,
boxes and first balcony; $50 for the balance of orchestra, boxes and first
balcony; $20 for balcony rows A-F and $10 for balcony rows G-K. Student rush
tickets will be offered one hour before the performance at a cost of $10.
Crucial to the continuing success of Opera New Hampshire is the support of the
corporate sector, trusts and foundations. This season’s sponsors include the
McIninch Foundation, Hitchiner Manufacturing, Norwin S. and Elizabeth N. Bean
Foundation, Northeast Delta Dental, Muriel R. and Edward M. Broad Charitable
Trust and the Waldo and Alice Ayer Foundation.
Founded in 1963, Opera New Hampshire presents professionally produced operas
each year at the historic Palace Theatre in downtown Manchester and supports an
educational program for several thousand New Hampshire school children annually.
Opera Preludes, talks on the operas, are presented the Sunday afternoon before
each opera at Southern New Hampshire University.
Visit Opera New Hampshire on the Web at
www.OperaNH.org.
