DATES
January 4, 5 and 6 | 8:30 PM
January 7 | 3:00 PM
LOCATION
Stadsschouwburg de Harmonie
Leeuwarden
De Harmonie Theater in Leeuwarden has existed for 150 years and Opera Spanga for 35 years!
We celebrate that together!
We will play four times in January, in the Harmonie Madam Scrooge by the Friesland-based writer Irma Achten and the Frisian composer Tjalling Wijnstra.
The most miserly person in history returns to Friesland!
Rudolf Nammensma | Leeuwarder Courant, December 27, 2022
DATES
January 4, 5 and 6 | 8:30 PM
January 7 | 3:00 PM
LOCATION
Stadsschouwburg de Harmonie
Leeuwarden
DATES
July 13, 20, 23, 25, 27 and 30
August 1 and 3
START
8:30 PM
LOCATION
Lindedijk 11
8482 KS Spanga
Gemeente Weststellingwerf, Friesland
MORE INFORMATION FOLLOWS
Next summer we will play, in collaboration with the Rosa Ensemble, one of Giuseppe Verdi's last masterpieces Otello, based on Shakespeare's bestseller.
The premiere takes place on July 13, you can buy your tickets now!
Last summer we played eight sold-out performances of Tjaikovsky's Onegin. We look back on a successful summer, despite storm Polly and the endless rain. Of course, we could never have created this beautiful product without our host Geert, the artistic and production team, the beautiful soloists, the small but powerful choir, the beautiful orchestra led by our musical director Tjalling Wijnstra and the strong dancers of Ivgy&Greben. Thank you all for coming, despite the mud ballet!
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.