- To be entertained on a grand scale.
Manitoba Opera productions feature internationally renowned artists, the Manitoba Opera Chorus, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, lavish sets and costumes, and works by the world’s greatest composers which all work together to bring together the grandest stage spectacle ever created.
- Opera is the original multi-media experience.
From its birth in late sixteenth-century Italy, opera was intended to be the art form to end all art forms. Opera combines glorious song with the drama of the theatre, the emotional power of music, and the grace and beauty of dance.
- Opera can take your breath away.
Opera is about the exploration of the heart and soul, about how our deepest desires and longings influence and affect our behaviour and touch the lives of the people around us. Through music, opera reaches us on a level that theatre, which is tied to the spoken word and representative action, can only dream about.
- You already know more opera than you think.
Opera is all around you. It can be found in commercials, cartoons, television, the movies, in the theatre, on YouTube. Here’s just a sample: the music in the classic helicopter scene from Apocalypse Now? Wagner. Opera. The rock musical Rent is based on the classic opera La Bohème; Broadway's Miss Saigon is based on Madama Butterfly. And of course, Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd took a shot at opera in What's Opera, Doc? and Rabbit of Seville.
- It's a great deal!
The cheapest regular adult/student ticket price is $35 in the Second Balcony. At just $10 per person, you save 70% and chances are you'll have better seats.
- Opera deserves another chance.
So, you were forced to attend an opera when you went to school and hated it. That doesn't mean you'll hate all operas. People don't say, "I don't like The Beatles, so I won't like The Rolling Stones."
- Opera singers have the greatest voices in the world.
Opera singers do not use microphones or any form of audio enhancement. They are trained to be able to project their voices over the entire orchestra and reach the very back of the Concert Hall. How many pop singers do you know who can do that?
- You don't need to speak Italian.
Sure, most operas are sung in languages other than English or French, but that doesn't mean you won't know what's happening on stage. English translations called surtitles are projected above the stage and Manitoba Opera provides the plot and other helpful information ahead of time and on its website.
- A dying art form? Au contraire.
Opera is one of the fastest growing of the performing arts with more than 20 million people from all walks of life attending annually. And, audiences are growing younger too. Attendance by Generation X'ers has risen by more than 18% in recent years.
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