Ticket sales for our opera feature film The Other has started! There are ten screenings, including three matinees (these start at 3 p.m.). You can also directly order tickets for dinner or lunch.
The Other can be seen from 17 to 25 October in Spanga.
You may be wondering whether Opera Spanga's performances will continue this summer. Government measures prohibit all events until June 1. Our performances are scheduled from August 19, so we assume that they will continue as usual. We are fully preparing for WAKE UP!
Naturally, the safety of our employees and our public is paramount. That is why we keep a close eye on developments surrounding the coronavirus. As these change daily, we are not going to make any decisions about continuing for the time being - unless we are overtaken by a new reality before. We ask for your understanding of this situation.
Finally, we wish everyone strength and good health.
The premiere of Pagliacci & Il Tabarro on Thursday, July 25 was a (tropical) party. On Monday, July 29, reviews appeared in Trouw, Volkskrant and NRC and in the weekend we already read raving reviews in Theaterkrant and Leeuwarder Courant / Dagblad van het Noorden.
Theaterkrant wrote: "Opera Spanga remains exciting, even when it comes to two melodramas that are actually not that exciting anymore, but that seem to be able to say a lot about people and their problems in this combination."
NRC: "The audience was allowed to sigh under the oppressive warmth, in the excavated orchestra pit and on stage the play continued to sparkle with energy."
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.
