The NCPA presents SOI’s Ninth Celebrity Season!

September 21 - 30, 2010

To be held exclusively at the NCPA, from September 21 to September 30, 2010, the Ninth Celebrity Season of the SOI will has a line-up of five fabulous performances including two performances of Tosca, and two evenings of an Andrew Lloyd Webber Gala, that will include excerpts from the composer’s most popular Musicals: Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard and Evita. The Gala will also feature Webber’s Requiem. Acclaimed conductor Anna Randine Overby will be the SOI’s first woman Guest Conductor for all the performances of Tosca and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Gala. The season begins with a Chamber Music Concert on September 21.

Tosca is a court singer in love with a painter. Scarpia is the evil police chief, who manipulates circumstances and makes the ‘indecent proposal’ to Tosca. It’s a tale of lust, betrayal, murder and passion, against a plot that comes from the pages of a French novelist, but reeks of a Bollywood drama. The production will be sung in Italian. A surtitle machine will help audiences to follow a line-by-line translation projected in English. Tosca will be performed on September 28 and September 30, at 7.00 PM at Jamshed Bhabha Theatre.

Conductor Anna Randine Overby, who has conducted more than 80 operas in her long career, will assemble an extraordinary cast of 90 people to come to Mumbai and present a “full-scale opera only for Mumbai”.

To balance the classical Tosca will be the Andrew Lloyd Webber Gala. According to SOI Music Director Marat Bisengaliev, the Gala will prove to be a popular evening with the Mumbai audience. The Gala will feature excerpts from Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Evita and a complete performance of the Requiem, and will be held on September 23 and September 24, at 7 pm at the Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, NCPA. Lloyd Webber is one of the most successful composers in history with several of his musicals having run for more than a decade both in the West End in London and on Broadway in New York. The Phantom of the Opera is a musical phenomenon that has played all over the world, and has been one of the longest running shows on Broadway. The performance will include excerpts such as ‘Phantom Of The Opera’, ‘All I Ask Of You’ ‘Angel Of Music’, ‘The Music Of The Night’ and ‘Think Of Me’. Sunset Boulevard, based on the movie by the same name, will feature ‘With One Look’ and ‘As If We Never Said Goodbye’. In Evita, witness the rise and fall of Argentina’s first lady, Eva Peron, as depicted in this sung-through musical featuring the songs ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’, ‘I’d Be Surprisingly Good’ and ‘You Must Love Me’.

See the full Season programme here
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