In the summer of 2019 Opera Spanga will be celebrating its 30th year. For this special anniversary we will be presenting a double-bill met Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (The Clowns, 1892) and Puccini’s Il Tabarro (The Overcoat, 1918). Female infidelity plays a central part In both operas. The characters Nedda (Pagliacci) and Giorgetta (Il Tabarro) are not driven by lust, but by the urgent need to reinvent themselves.

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In a retrospective view of 2018 in the newspaper Dagblad van het Noorden, reviewer Rudolf Nammensma calls our Aidaa cultural highlight.

"Corina van Eijk applies humor, relieves the heaviness of the love drama and repeatedly surprises us, without doing violence to the plot and without allowing situations to occur which are at odds with Verdi’s music." 

2018 was a great and fully European year for Opera Spanga and the artistic team, with no fewer than nine performances outside the Netherlands:

• The wonderful open-air theater Piazza Teatru Rjal in Valletta was full to the brim every evening during performances of Opera Spanga's Aida (Giuseppe Verdi).
• In conjunction with Valetta 2018 European Cultural Capital, Opera Spanga's artistic team also produced Corto Maltese, a ballad of the salty sea (Monique Krüs) in Teatru Manoel.
• Anne&Zef (Monique Krüs) was performed by two very young talented Albanian singers in four theaters in Albania and Kosovo.

The Leeuwarder Courant published a nice piece about our performances in Malta (in Dutch).

Our production of Aida was filmed in Spanga. Our artistic team has been too busy to be able to produce a well-edited version. Hopefully it will be available in January of 2019. We will keep you informed about this in our newsletter.

For our performances of Pagliacci & Il Tabarro you will again be able to book an arrangement, including, among other things, two nights in a hotel, dinner and a kayak trip through the environs of Spanga. You will be staying in the atmospheric Golden Tulip Hotel Tjaarda in Oranjewoud. You can book for 239 Euros via Hotel Tjaarda.

Tuesday evening, July 24th saw the premiere of Aida. The NRC, the Volkskrant and Theaterkrant all awarded the production four stars, and the Leeuwarder Courant even five stars: “ Van Eijk keeps the scene calm and well-ordered. She carefully metes out her outstanding inventions. It is all-in excellent balance.”