A Knife at the Opera starring Opera singer, actress and butcher Buddug Verona JamesA hugely entertaining and enjoyable night is in store with this new, funny, feel good show, which combines music, great singing, comedy and mystery. Critics through the ages have often murdered a diva's performance through the power of a pen, but now it's time for the divas to get their revenge!... or is it justice? Join the Welsh Clouseau - Detective Inspector Gethin Gumshoe as he delves into the operatic underworld to find out WHODUNIT! Written and directed by Chris Harris (a comic performer of genius), A Knife At The Opera gently pokes fun at critics, performers, detectives and anyone else who takes themselves too seriously, including the show's principal performer, the critically acclaimed virtuosic mezzo soprano and actress Buddug Verona James. The roles of detective and divas (six prime suspects – Miss Macho, Miss Bagwitch, Miss Baroque, Miss Acrobatics, Miss Diva and Miss Dot Demisemiquaver) are all played by Buddug Verona James, accompanied on the piano by Andrew Wilson-Dickson. The comic story is intertwined with seven arias by Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Bizet, Tom Johnson and Andrew Wilson-Dickson. Buddug's cut it as Orfeo in Canada (for Canada’s Opera Atelier), Lady Capulet in Wales (for Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru) and was top butcher at the Royal Welsh Show 1978, so beware that knife! the splendid Buddug Verona James sounds like a Brancusi’ The New York Times ‘The tremendous Buddug Verona James' singing is ravishing - every demand of the music met with dazzling command’ Financial Times ‘James' powerful mezzo .....performed with total commitment and great vocal and comic skill’ Opera Magazine ‘smoky-voiced and striking’ The Observer ‘a magnificent voice with an androgynous tone’ The Irish Times ‘creamy as cappuccino, each note architecturally faultless’ The Daily Post, Buddug's Diary 9th February WORLD PREMIERE - A Knife at the Opera by Chris Harris (Buddug's new one-woman show with Andrew Wilson-Dickson at the piano) at Theatr Mwldan (Theatr Mwldan/Opera Cocktail co-production, WAC Funded) A Knife at the Opera Irish Tour CCAT Funded 25 February Pavilion, Dun Laoghaire BOX OFFICE 01 231 2929 11 March Tipperary Excel Theatre BOX OFFICE 062 80520 12 March, Civic Theatre, Tallaght BOX OFFICE 01 462 7477 14 March Theatre Royal, Waterford BOX OFFICE 051 874402 15 March Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny BOX OFFICE 056 776 1674 18 March @ 8pm St Donat's Arts Centre @ 8pm, BOX OFFICE 01446 799100, |
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Sunday, February 12, 2006 |
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