An Evening Worth Remembering...

The Opera Company of North Carolina is proud to present our 2008 Opera Ball on May 2. The evening will begin at 6:30 with a silent auction and cocktails, and continue until midnight with dinner, a live auction, and dancing to music, provided by The Embers.

Tickets are $200 per person and the RSVP deadline is April 25. Be sure to reserve your seat or table now!

Opera News

N&O Lucia Review - 2/4/2008

Roy Dicks expresses pleasure

Classical Voices Lucia Review - 2/4/2008

Martha A. Fawbush raves

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Va, pensiero - Favorite Italian Arias

Verdi, Rossini, Bellini, and Other Famous Italian Composers

April 5, 2008 at 7:30pm

Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh

For those new to opera, this evening is a showcase of opera's greatest hits. For our veteran audience, it is a nostalgic sampling of their favorite opera experiences. "Va, pensiero", the famous chorus from Verdi's Nabucco, literally means "Fly, thoughts", an appropriate title for an inspirational evening. Francesco Maria Colombo, our La Bohème maestro, returns from Italy to narrate, conduct, and express the heart-felt meaning of his favorite arias.
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Madama Butterfly

Giacomo Puccini

May 30, 2008 at 7:30pm and June 1, 2008 at 3:00pm

Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh

We conclude our journey through Italian Opera with the world's most famous opera, Puccini's Madama Butterfly, written approximately 70 years after Lucia and 120 years after Figaro. This intense drama is grand opera at its finest, and will be staged in Memorial Auditorium with the high quality for which the Opera Company of North Carolina is known well. This will truly be a weekend to remember!
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Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

September 27, 28, 29, 2007 at 8:00pm
Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh

Fittingly, our journey through Italian Opera begins with the master, Mozart, his most famous piece, Le Nozze di Figaro, and opera's most famous overture. A collaboration with the NC Symphony, these semi-staged performances showcase the music and the voices. You saw Part I of the story with The Barber of Seville in May '06, now see Part II with the orchestra on stage, just as Mozart did in his day.

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Lucia di Lammermoor

Gaetano Donizetti

January 17, 19, 2008 at 7:30pm and January 20 at 3:00pm
Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh

Donizetti was a key player in the development of opera, and Lucia di Lammermoor was his crowning achievement. Written 50 years after Figaro, Lucia is the epitome of the Bel Canto (Beautiful Singing) style. The true beauty and drama of this work must be experienced in an intimate setting, and OCNC breaks from tradition to deliver it in the comfortable confines of Fletcher. Seating will be limited so act quickly!

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