Upon entering the The Studio, you’ll meet the ever-positive Cupid: god of love, desire and attraction. Cupid runs a bar, ‘Cupid’s Bow’, where some of opera’s most recognisable, famous and infamous characters come to unwind, share their stories and to sing of falling in love, looking for love and falling out of love.
Meet operatic legends, including the Countess from ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, who over a dry martini tells us of her loveless marriage before performing the stunning ‘Dove Sono’.
Watch Escamillo from ‘Carmen’, the greatest show pony of all time, trying to attract his valentine by taking over the cocktail bar with his karaoke version of ‘The Toreador Song’, while sitting tearily over his stale pale ale.
Cleopatra, the most beautiful woman in the world, jilted on Valentine’s Day, sings of her tears and rage in ‘Piangero’ and Carmen, ever the seductress, takes over the ‘Cupid’s Bow’ with her allure, singing her beloved ‘Habanera’.
See Nemorino from ‘The Elixir of Love’ pining for his love Adina, singing ‘Una Furtiva Lagrima’, with many more fabulous heroes, heroines, crones and clowns who bring to life arias, duets, trios and ensembles from some of the most loved operas and operettas including ‘Carmen’, ‘Cosi fan Tutte’, ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’, ‘Don Giovanni’, ‘Candide’, ‘Pirates of Penzance’, ‘Julius Caesar’ and ‘The Elixir of Love’.
This 90-minute fun-filled pastiche production will take you on an romantic and humorous adventure through comedy, tragedy, love, loss and survival as only opera can – a perfect night out for audiences new and old, especially in Valentine’s Week.
Book now at >> goh.co.uk/whats-on/cupids-bow