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Musica Lirica Opera, Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra present:
Carmen Concert

Sunday 16th March 7.00pm 2025

Lytham Methodist Church, 6, Park Street,
Lytham FY8 5LU
Tickets on the door £12, conc. £10.00
under 19s Free

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An Evening of Mozart

Sunday 10th November 2024   7:30pm

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Opera and Song Gala

An International Evening of Popular Opera, Neopolitan Song and Operetta

Sunday 23rd June 2024 7:30pm – White Church Lytham

Tickets on the Door £10 under 19s free

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Cavalleria Rusticana

Sunday 17th March 2024 -7:30pm- Lytham Methodist Church.

Tickets on the door £12.00 conc. £10.00, children free

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Viva Verdi

Sunday 12th November 2023 – 7:30pm – Lytham Methodist Church

Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra perform Opera excerpts by the greatest of vocal composers

Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Ballo in Mashera, etc

Tickets on the door£12, Conc. £10, Children free

Lytham Methodist Church 6, Park Street Lytham FY8 5LU

An Evening of French Opera

Sunday 23 July 2023 – 7:30 – Lytham Methodist Church

Bask in romantic classics which will do nothing to cool the summer heat:

The Barcarolle, from the Tales of Hoffmann

Mon coeur s’ouvre ta voix from Samson and Delilah

The Duet from the Pearl Fishers

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PAGLIACCI

Musica Lirica Opera presents a concert version of Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s PAGLIACCI

Featuring our largest orchestra yet! More than 40 musicians, including two harps, soloists and chorus.

Join us on SUNDAY 12th MARCH at 7:30pm

Lytham Methodist Church

6, Park St, Lytham FY8 5LU

Tickets on the door £12, Concession £10, Children free

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Christmas Concert 2022

Thursday 22nd December 7:30pm

Michael Hall Theatre School, 19, Preston Old Rd, Blackpool FY4 2HF

Musica Lirica choir, orchestra, and singers from MHTS present an evening of Christmas songs and carols. Come and join us to hear some great music and have a sing a long. Refreshments available.

Tickets £5 available on the door. Children Free.

Mother’s Day Concert

Mother’s Day Concert, Lehar’s The Merry Widow at Lytham Methodist Church, 6 Park Street, Lytham on Sunday 27 March at 7:30pm. Tickets on the door £12, concessions £10, children free. We are very excited to get back for the 1st time since Covid. Our concert version of this, the most fizzy of Viennese operettas, will make a welcome feel-good evening and a brilliant Mothers’ Day present.

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An Evening of Great Opera

Sunday 17th November at 7:30pm at the White Church Lytham, tickets on the door. An action packed evening of opera with MLO singers and orchestra plus special Italian guests: Sonia Sciamanna, soprano and Stefano Grassi, tenore.

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Sonia and Stefano

Sonia Sciamanna, was born and raised in Rome, Italy. In  2000 she became interested in classical Opera while singing as a soloist in the polyphonic choir directed by Maestro Antonio Marchetti. Sonia Sciamanna commenced her studies under the guidance of Laura Niculescu soprano, but with the birth of her first child in 2002, they were put aside . It was not until 2012 that she was able resume her studies, under the guidance of Lorraine Nawa Jones soprano, enabling her to to participate in numerous operatic concerts, performed in the nearby regions of Lazio, Umbria and Abruzzo. In 2013 she was selected by composer Maestro Vito Terribile as a soloist to perform in his original composition “I Suoni del Silenzio Coesitenze”  (The co-exsisting Sounds of Silence). The success of this project lead to multiple performances throughout Italy; Promoteca in Campidoglio, Rome , l’Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, l’Auditorium della Concilazione in Rome,Teatro Antico di Taormina, and Teatro Politeama di Palermo. Operatic concerts and TV appearances followed rapidly, given the success of her performances. Currently, Sonia Sciamanna continues to study with soprano Lorraine  Nawa Jones.

Stefano Grassi was born in Rome, Italy and resides in Castelnuovo di Porto in the province of Rome. Initially, Stefano Grassi studied Opera with tenor Massimiliano Drapello, while singing as a soloist with the Santa Maria Assunta polyphonic choir, directed by Maestro Antonio Marchetti. In 2012 Stefano  initiated serious vocal studies with international tenor Angelo Marenzi. After his decease in 2017, he continued his vocal journey, with soprano Lorraine Nawa Jones. Stefano’s great love of classical music, and the Italian lyric tenor repertoire in particular, stems from a family tradition of singers and musicians. His repertoire includes all the most famous lyrical Italian tenor arias, from Tosca, Rigoletto, La Bohème, Butterfly, Il Trovatore, Cavalleria Rusticana, Falstaff, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Gioconda, Macbeth, La Traviata, Simon Boccanegra, and L’Arlesiana. He regularly participates in operatic and sacred music concerts , and performs classical Neapolitan and traditional Roman songs, together with his life partner Sonia Sciamanna.

 

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The Magic Flute

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The Magic Flute is, in many ways, a pantomime opera and yet features much of Mozart’s most magical music. Musica Lirica teams up with the Michael Hall Theatre School in a lively and fun production which follows the Bird-catcher and the great prince through the mysterious and enchanted world of the Queen of the Night and her rival, the great Sarastro. Be transported to a mystical land of witches and wizards where nothing is quite what it seems.

Grand Theatre Blackpool: Monday 18th June 19:15

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Grand Theatre Lancaster: Sunday 8th July 15:00

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Puccini Gala 2017

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Friday 10th & Saturday 11th November 7.30pm: Thornton Little Theatre.
Fleetwood Rd North Thornton FY5 3SZ       Book Tickets Here
Wednesday 15th November 7.30pm:  St Bede’s Catholic High School.
Talbot Rd, Lytham FY8 4JL  Tickets available in advance (01253 696990) or on the door

Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi is his comic masterpiece and is awash with wit, melody and comic invention.  “O mio babbino caro” (Oh, my beloved daddy) invariably stops the show.  How eternal is the greed surrounding the reading of the last will and testament after the demise of an elderly, rich relative? Meet the chaotic family of Buoso Donati scheming how to change the will in their own favour and finding everything goes spectacularly wrong when they rely on Gianni Schicchi, a local Arthur Daley, to do their dirty work for them.

The second part of our tribute to Puccini will consist of some of the most famous and beloved arias and duets of all time.  Enjoy the romance of the students of La Bohème, the tragedy of Madam Butterfly and the coldness of the princess who vows that None shall sleep (Nessun dorma) until the name of the prince is known.

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Die Fledermaus

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Sunday 20th November 2.30pm          Settle Victoria Hall
Thursday 24th November 7.30pm       Thornton Little Theatre
Friday 25th November 7.30pm            Thornton Little Theatre
Sunday 4th December 2.30pm             Kendal Town Hall
Friday 13th January 7.30pm                Preston Charter Theatre

 

Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Johann Strauss is probably the greatest and most popular operetta in the world.  It perfectly combines bubbling melodies with an hilariously, ridiculous plot.  From the first chords of the famous overture, to the final rendition of “Champagne” the bubbly flows at a hair-raising pace.

Three years previously Gabriel Esenstein dressed as a butterfly went to a fancy dress party along with his friend Dr. Falke, himself dressed as a bat.  In the course of the evening, Falke got extremely drunk and the pair left together.  Instead of seeing his friend tucked up safely in bed, Gabriel deposited him on a bench in the centre of town.  When he awoke the townspeople were already milling around on their way to work and Falke became the laughing-stock of the town.  This work should aptly be called “The Revenge of the Bat”.

Falke organises a wild party at the home of a rich Russian aristocrat. To it he invites Gabriel, who is supposed to be in prison, his wife, disguised as a Hungarian, her maid, who is supposed to be visiting her sick aunt, and the prison governor.

Watch Gabriel get into deeper and deeper trouble.

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Sunday 12th June 2016 Visual Noise Arts Centre, Blackpool

12th June poster7.30pm Tickets available on the door
£8 under 16s free on the door.

Visual Noise Arts Centre, 19, Preston Old Road, Blackpool FY3 9PR

 

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Saturday 2nd April Concert St Michael’s Church, Croston

An evening of Popular Opera and Musical Theatre with members of Musica Lirica Opera accompanied at the piano by Michael Hall Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Arthur Sullivan, Edward German, Franz Lehar, W A Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, etc.

7.30pm tickets on the door

St Michael’s and All Angels, Church Road, Croston, PR26 9HA

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Sunday 3rd April Viennese Concert The White Church, Lytham

Musica Lirica Opera welcomes 2016 with a concert of the ever popular music of old Vienna. The Waltz King, Johan Strauss jr, and Franz Lehar featuring prominently.

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Musica Lirica Concert Series 2016

Members of Musica Lirica Opera perform extracts of opera by Popular Composers accompanied at the piano by Michael Hall: Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, etc. including: Madam Butterfly, La Traviata, The Marriage of Figaro, Il Trovatore, etc

All concerts at £7.30pm tickets on door

 

Saturday 23rd April Victoria Congregational Church, Blackpool

Victoria Congregational Church
42A Newton Drive Blackpool FY3 8BY

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Sunday 24th April The White Church, Lytham

Fairhaven United Reformed Church
22A Clifton Drive
Lytham St Anne’s FY8 1AX

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Thursday 28th April St Wulstan’s, Fleetwood

St Wulstan’s RC Church
Poulton Road
Fleetwood, FY7 7JY

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Saturday 7th May St Andrew’s, Cleveleys

St Andrew’s C of E Church
Rough Lea Road
Thornton/Cleveleys, FY5 1DP

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Sunday 8th May St Michael’s, Grimsargh

St Michael’s C of E Church
Preston Road
Grimsargh
Preston PR2 5SD

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