Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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DDC Latest info....
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LIVE OPERA ON THE BIG SCREEN
A live opera event is coming to the Big Screen in Dover Market Square on Tuesday (8 June) from 6.45pm - when Gareth Malone from BBC's The Choir will lead the BP Summer Big Screens Carmen Sing Along live from Trafalgar Square. Participants from fourteen locations across the UK, including Dover, can sing The Toreador Song from Carmen and be part of what The Royal Opera House has described as one of the biggest opera sing alongs it has ever conducted, (a free copy of the words can be found at
www.roh.org.uk/bpbigscreens).
The Royal Opera's Carmen will be beamed live from Covent Garden from 7pm. For more information, please log onto
www.dover.gov.uk
Lovely! I will try to be home in time for that.
Should be a huge turnout. Hopefully all security and health and safety matters are covered. How much was it? £32k?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the important thing is that we can watch opera for free in town.
i love her chat show, she interviewed sarah ferguson on it last week.
I'm looking forward to a production of Götterdämmerung at Whitfield next year!
Though, to be fair, the last time I looked in on the Council Chamber the inhabitants looked less like those in Valhalla and a lot more like those in the Chalmun's Cantina.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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lost me there bob, far too intellectual.
i seem to remember that valhalla was heaven for the vikings, the rest went over my head.
Brian Dixon
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should keep the drunks and the rampaging vikings on the move.
Howard, the former is the home of the Gods, the latter is the name of the bar in Star Wars.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Did anyone attend this event in Market Sq. It slipped off my radar I have to admit, but wonder if anyone was there and can tell us how it went...did they lay out chairs and tables for the proposed picnics?
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Ah...no sooner had I asked the question above and in pops this press release below from Andy Steele at DDC...
LIVE OPERA ON THE BIG SCREEN
A live opera event on the Big Screen in Dover Market Square yesterday (8 June) has been welcomed as a success after around 150 people came along to enjoy The Royal Opera House's performance of Carmen - with people travelling from various parts of Kent for the special broadcast.
The event began with Gareth Malone from BBC's The Choir leading the BP Summer Big Screens Carmen Sing Along live from Trafalgar Square. Participants from fourteen locations across the UK, including Dover, were able to join in with The Toreador Song from Carmen, and be part of what The Royal Opera House described as one of the biggest opera sing alongs it has ever conducted. The Royal Opera's Carmen was then beamed live from Covent Garden from 7pm.
For more information on the Big Screen in Dover, please log onto
www.dover.gov.uk
I suspect that it's only time before Dourborne becomes the new Glyndeborne!
Damn, I missed it! I wanted to go down and cheer on Don Jose'. I'd got my Spanish flag, maracas, case of San Miguel and bullhorn, already to create some atmosphere.
Perhaps next time eh?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Went to the Market Square Tuesday evening about 7.30 and there were quite a few people sitting watching Carmen. They had brought their own seats and there was no area fenced off for "important" people.
Nigel was there - a bit of a culture-vulture and some people from DDC.
Not sure about 150 people, but certainly enough I think to say it was a success.
I'm sure more would have been there if it had been a milder/warmer evening. None of the cafe's were open; I'm sure Dickens could have made a killing had they stayed open.
Roger
Ah, and there we have it Roger. The entrepeneurial spirit lives on, just not in Dover.
And what's all this about "fenced off seating for important people"? That is absolutely disgraceful. No wonder folks bang on about class differences. Well, if I venture to that place when there is an event and there is fenced-off seating for "Important People", there will be an embarrassing scene. I've never heard the like, on, I'm blooming angry.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Sid,
Some important people share a bus with you my good man !!
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We went along to treat ourselves to a touch of 'operatic culture' in Market Square on tuesday evening, there were approximately 80 plus people in attendance enjoying the occasion all seated, lapping up the atmosphere. It was nice to experience The Royal Opera's Carmen beamed direct from Trafalgar Square to the big screen in Dover, Fifi loved it as well. A Big Well Done to the organizers
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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It's about using opportunities, if the screen is there and known to be showing a popular even and up to 150 people around, you would have thought one of the cafe's would have looked at the business opportunities to make a little dosh.
shame realy
Keith agreed.
Sue, yep it was good to see you the other day and I liked the summery outfit, very nice indeed.
But, if we can share a bus why do we need seperate seating in Market Square? Is it a way fro the 'knobs' to show off perhaps? It's not like a major DDC/DTC event where you have "dignitaries" after all, it's just a night at the opera, in this instance, minus the Dover Branch of the Don Jose' Supportrs Club, aka me!
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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Maybe the coffee outlets will learn from this I do hope so.
