DATES
July 24, 27, 29 and 31
August 3, 5 and 7
START
8:15 pm
LOCATION
Lindedijk 11
NL-8482 KS Spanga
Gemeente Weststellingwerf, Friesland
The Netherlands
Opera Spanga brings Carmen to its new location at 11 Lindedijk in Spanga.
24, 27, 29, 31 July and 3, 5, 7 August at 8:15 pm
Featuring: Itzel Medecigo as Carmen, Eric Reddet as Don José, Aylin Sezer as Micaëla, David Visser as Escamillo, Jop van Gennip as Le Dancaïre, Kyle Bejnerowicz as Morales, Fred Turner as Lillas Pastia, etc.
Carmen is one of the most popular operas in the world. Now seen in a new direction by Corina van Eijk. read more
Due to success, the film can be seen until spring.
DATES
July 24, 27, 29 and 31
August 3, 5 and 7
START
8:15 pm
LOCATION
Lindedijk 11
NL-8482 KS Spanga
Gemeente Weststellingwerf, Friesland
The Netherlands
IN YOUR OWN LIVING ROOM
Due to success, the film can be seen until spring.
On the brink of the year of 75 Years of Freedom and at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic, the municipality of Weststellingwerf and Stichting Spanga het Verona van Weststellingwerf offer all residents of Fryslân the opportunity to see the opera film The Other. This film, Opera Spanga's fifth opera film, can be seen via a link that will be opened from the Christmas holidays. During this special time, it gives the inhabitants of all of Friesland the opportunity to look at a new cultural product on their own couch, in their own living room.
The campaign image for WAKE UP! (2020) is by Nikki Pelaez. We are proud that Nikki Pelaez wants to connect her work to our new production.
Check out her beautiful work on her website.
NRC, Theaterkrant, Leeuwarder Courant and Place de l'Opera, among others, reviewed The Other.
“The opera plays very cinematically with flashbacks, mutual deception and with dreams of Friesland as a safe place and even fragments of Frisian in the libretto. Filming opera is a laborious endeavor: the theatricality of a stage performance quickly clashes with the more intimate character of film. The Others has found a very good compromise.” (Leeuwarder Courant)
In collaboration with the municipality of Weststellingwerf, the book Opera in het weiland was made, about 30 years of Opera Spanga. Journalist Kasper Jansen sketches a picture of developments in the past 30 years, in conversations with Corina van Eijk and a few loyal employees, such as Klara Uleman and Ali Veenhouwer. The book is illustrated with the most beautiful photos of various productions.
The book (Dutch) can be ordered by e-mail via info@operaspanga.nl. The price of the book is € 15 (excl. shipping costs).
Since 1989 the foundation known as Spanga, the Verona of Weststellingwerf (OPERA SPANGA) has been producing its own unique brand of opera in the Frisian hamlet of Spanga.
It is committed to the goal of invigorating the art of opera and taking it off the pedestal it occupies in culture land and putting it where it belongs - in peoples’ hearts.