Canolfan UCHELDRE Centre

Canolfan UCHELDRE Centre

Courtyard beside the Ucheldre Kitchen
Courtyard beside the Ucheldre Kitchen
Canolfan • UCHELDRE • Centre
Centre for the performing and visual arts in Anglesey, North Wales
 

Diary — Opera

The Ucheldre Centre is an ideal venue for small-scale touring opera, and has hosted several productions by Welsh National Opera and Swansea City Opera, as well as by touring groups of singers.


Music

Jonas Kaufmann: My Vienna

Postponed till Tuesday 1 September 2020

 Tuesday 24 March7pm

Jonas Kaufmann

My Vienna

Jonas Kaufmann My Vienna is a deeply personal tribute by the star tenor to the world-famous melodies from the birthplace of waltz and operetta. Filmed live in the magical setting of the Wiener Konzerthaus, the concert features popular Viennese music from Die Fledermaus and Wienerblut by Johann Strauss and Franz Lehår's the Merry Widow, plus many of the classic songs inspired by the city of Vienna. Jonas Kaufmann performs with the Prague Philharmonia orchestra under the baton of Maestro Jochen Rieder and is joined by the internationally acclaimed soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen.

We would ask all our patrons to please follow the Government's guidlines for hygiene and distancing as we are doing ourselves


1hr 30
£10, £8 concessions/gostyngiadau, £4 children/plant
Broadcast

Met Opera Live Tosca

Postponed until further notice from The Met

Saturday 11 April5.55pm

Met Opera Live

Puccini's Tosca

(postponed until further notice from the ROH)


Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko returns in the title role as the explosive diva in Puccini’s best-loved operatic thriller.

Based in Rome during the Napoleonic wars, this tragic tale of passion, murder, lust and love, set against a famously romantic score, is an enduring classic.

Bertrand de Billy conducts Sir David McVicar’s evocative production, with tenor Brian Jagde as Tosca’s impassioned lover, Cavaradossi, and baritone Michael Volle as the sinister Scarpia.


£10, £8 concessions/gostyngiadau, £4 children/plant
Broadcast

ROH Opera Live:Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
Postponed until further notice from the ROH

 Tuesday 21 April7pm


ROH Opera Live

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (12A)

(postponed until further notice from the ROH)

Two opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully observed re-creation of life in a south Italian village as a travelling theatre visits and emotions erupt.

The award-winning production by Damiano Michieletto presents vividly the fast-moving, shocking events brought about by secret love and uncontrollable jealousy. The music is full of Italianate melody in the great choruses that bring the villagers together in celebration and revelry, alongside the solo arias and tense confrontations that provoke violence and tragedy.

With thrilling singing and intense drama, ‘Cav and Pag’ distils into one wonderful night out, the enduring appeal of Italian opera in its most familiar form.

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA - Pietro Mascagni

Turiddu Yonghoon Lee Santuzza Liudmyla Monastyrska Alfio Dimitri Platanias

Lola Josè Maria Lo Monaco

PAGLIACCI - Ruggero Leoncavallo

Canio Roberto Alagna Tonio Dimitri Platanias Nedda Aleksandra Kurzak

Silvio Bogdan Baciu Beppe Mikeldi Atxalandabaso

Sung in Italian with English surtitles


3hrs
£13, £11 concessions/gostyngiadau, £4 children/plant
Broadcast Met Opera Encore
Maria Stuarda
 Sunday 10 May3pm

Met Opera Encore

Donizetti's Maria Stuarda


Set in 16th Century Britain, Donizetti’s historical drama follows Mary, Queen of Scots and her bitter rivalry with the cousin responsible for imprisoning her, Queen Elizabeth I, and thrills with intense stand-offs and impressive vocal displays.

Soprano Diana Damrau and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton square off as two of history’s most formidable monarchs, with Maurizio Benini conducting.


£10, £8 concessions/gostyngiadau, £4 children/plant
Broadcast ROH Opera Live:
Elektra
 Thursday 18 June7.45pm

ROH Opera Live

Elektra  / Strauss (12A)

Strauss's thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award-winning director Christof Loy. This uncompromising opera, about a daughter intent on bloody revenge and a mother driven to madness, has provoked critics to lively debate and both shocked and excited audiences since its 1909 premiere. Antonio Pappano conducts music that combines violence with moments of exquisite tenderness  in his first Strauss interpretation for The Royal Opera since 2002. The outstanding cast includes Nina Stemme in the title role, and Karita Mattila in her role debut as the haunted queen Klytåmnestra.
2hrs
£10, £8 concessions/gostyngiadau, £4 children/plant
Concert hall
Outdoor sculpture