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Senbla proudly presents three Ellen Kent Productions featuring the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv [ From category News ] [ Article date: 2024-02-07 ] [ From city Woking ] [ Country Anglia ]   Senbla, by arrangement with Opera International, proudly presents three Ellen Kent Productions featuring the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv with international soloists, highly-praised chorus and full orchestra Award-winning producer Ellen Kent returns in Spring 2024 with the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv presenting three stunning classical productions of Puccini`s Madama Butterfly, Bizet`s Carmen and Verdi`s La Traviata. Ellen Kent`s Madama Butterfly, winner of the `BEST OPERA AWARD` by the Liverpool Daily Post Theatre Awards, returns in a new production with exquisite sets including a spectacular Japanese garden and fabulous costumes including antique wedding kimonos from Japan. One of the world`s most popular operas, Puccini`s Madama Butterfly tells the heart-breaking story of the beautiful young Japanese girl who falls in love with an American naval lieutenant – with dramatic results. Highlights include the melodic `Humming Chorus`, the moving aria `One Fine Day` and the unforgettable `Love Duet`. Sung in Italian with English surtitles. Bizet`s masterpiece, Carmen, is an evening of passion, sexual jealousy, death and unforgettable arias. Carmen is the story of the bewitching gypsy girl whose tantalising beauty lures a soldier to desertion and leads to her own murder. The opera includes some of the most evocative and best-loved melodies in opera –The Habanera, The Seguidilla, The Flower Song, The Chanson Bohème and perhaps the best-known baritone aria of all The Toreador`s Song. The stunning set reflects the magnificent architecture of Seville with its Roman and Moorish influences, which includes the main square, the bull ring and the famous tobacco factory. The set was built for Ellen Kent in England by Setup Scenery, who also build sets for the Royal Opera Covent Garden. Sung in French with English surtitles. La Traviata, the tragic tale of searing passion and memorable music, is Verdi`s outstanding interpretation of one of the most popular love stories of the 19th century, La Dame aux Camelias. Based on a true story, it tells of the passionate loves and life of the consumptive courtesan, Violetta. There are many echoes of Verdi`s own life in Traviata and he threw himself into the music. The highlights include the Brindisi, the best-known drinking song in opera, the duet Un Di Felice and Violetta`s haunting aria Addio Del Passato. This magnificent production boasts sumptuous sets and costumes. Sung in Italian with English surtitles. Alike Ellen`s past UK and Ireland opera tours, Ellen personally hand-picks and directs all soloists to create visually beautiful and moving productions. Ellen Kent said `I am delighted to be working with the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv again after the huge success of the spring 2023 tour. I started working with Ukraine in 2000 and have continued these strong relationships ever since, working with the Odessa National Opera for which I was awarded The Golden Fortune Honorary Medal from the President of the Ukraine, as well as the Kharkiv National Opera and for the last couple of years with the brilliant Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv.` Tickets are on sale now! For full tour listings and to book tickets please visit ellenkent.com / senbla.com. Cast is subject to change. TOUR SCHEDULE Wed 10 Jan, Manchester Opera House, La Traviata Thu 11 Jan, Manchester Opera House, Carmen Fri 12 Jan, Manchester Opera House, Madama Butterfly Sat 13 Jan, Liverpool Empire, Carmen Sun 14 Jan, Liverpool Empire, Madama Butterfly Wed 17 Jan, Oxford New Theatre, Carmen Thu 18 Jan, Oxford New Theatre, Madama Butterfly Fri 19 Jan, New Wimbledon Theatre, Carmen Sat 20 Jan, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, Carmen Sun 21 Jan, Cambridge Corn Exchange, Carmen Mon 22 Jan, Richmond Theatre, La Traviata Tue 23 Jan, Richmond Theatre, Carmen Wed 24 Jan, Bromley Churchill Theatre, La Traviata Thu 25 Jan, Bromley Churchill Theatre, Carmen Fri 26 Jan, Bradford, Alhambra Theatre, Madama Butterfly Sat 27 Jan, Bradford, Alhambra Theatre, Carmen Sun 28 Jan, Bradford, Alhambra Theatre, La Traviata Tue 30 Jan, Hull City Hall, Carmen Wed 31 Jan, Hull City Hall, Madama Butterfly Sat 3 Feb, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Madama Butterfly Sun 4 Feb, Ipswich, Regent Theatre, Madama Butterfly Tue 6 Feb, Kings Lynn, Corn Exchange, Madama Butterfly Fri 9 Feb, Woking, New Victoria Theatre, Carmen Sat 10 Feb, Woking, New Victoria Theatre, Madama Butterfly Sun 11 Feb, High Wycombe, Swan Theatre, Madama Butterfly Wed 14 Feb, Birmingham, Alexandra Theatre, Carmen Thu 15 Feb, Reading Hexagon Theatre, Madama Butterfly Fri 16 Feb, Torquay, Princess Theatre, Madama Butterfly Sun 18 Feb, Malvern Festival Theatre, Madama Butterfly Tue 20 Feb, Swansea Grand Theatre, Madama Butterfly Wed 21 Feb, Bath Forum, Madama Butterfly Thu 22 Feb, Sheffield City Hall, Madama Butterfly Sun 25 Feb, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Madama Butterfly Mon 26 Feb, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Carmen Thu 29 Feb, Blackpool, Grand Theatre, Carmen Sat 2 Mar, Stoke, Regent Theatre, Madama Butterfly Wed 6 Mar, Dublin, The Helix, Carmen Thu 7 Mar, Dublin, The Helix, Madama Butterfly Fri 8 Mar, Limerick, University Concert Hall, Carmen Sat 9 Mar, Limerick, University Concert Hall, Madama Butterfly Sun 10 Mar, Kilarney, Gleneagle INEC Arena, Madama Butterfly Wed 13 Mar, Edinburgh Playhouse, Carmen Thu 14 Mar, Edinburgh Playhouse, Madama Butterfly Fri 15 Mar, High Wycombe, Swan Theatre, Carmen Sun 17 Mar, Basingstoke, The Anvil, Madama Butterfly Mon 18 Mar, Richmond Theatre, Madama Butterfly Tue 19 Mar, Portsmouth, Kings Theatre, Madama Butterfly Thu 21 Mar, Darlington Hippodrome, La Traviata Fri 22 Mar, Darlington Hippodrome, Madama Butterfly Sat 23 Mar, Blackpool, Grand Theatre, Madama Butterfly Sun 24 Mar, Sheffield City Hall, Carmen Wed 27 Mar, Southend, Cliffs Pavilion, Carmen Thu 28 Mar, Dartford, Orchard Theatre, Madama Butterfly Tue 2 Apr, Cardiff New Theatre, Carmen Wed 3 Apr, Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion, Carmen Thu 4 Apr, Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion, Madama Butterfly Fri 5 Apr, Ipswich, Regent Theatre, Carmen Sat 6 Apr, Lowestoft, Marina Theatre, Madama Butterfly Sun 7 Apr, Cambridge, Corn Exchange, Madama Butterfly Tue 9 Apr, Stoke, Regent Theatre, Carmen Wed 10 Apr, Leicester, De Montfort Hall, Carmen Thu 11 Apr, Leicester, De Montfort Hall, Madama Butterfly Fri 12 Apr, Wolverhampton, Grand Theatre, Carmen Sat 13 Apr, Wolverhampton, Grand Theatre, Madama Butterfly Sun 14 Apr, Malvern Festival Theatre, Carmen Mon 15 Apr, Cardiff New Theatre, Madama Butterfly Tue 16 Apr, Swansea Grand Theatre, Carmen Wed 17 Apr, Torquay, Princess Theatre, Carmen Fri 19 Apr, Sunderland Empire, Carmen Sat 20 Apr, Sunderland Empire, Madama Butterfly Sun 21 Apr, Birmingham, Alexandra Theatre, Madama Butterfly Tue 23 Apr, Dartford, Orchard Theatre, Carmen Wed 24 Apr, Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre, Carmen Thu 25 Apr, Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre, Madama Butterfly Fri 26 Apr, York, Grand Opera House, Carmen Sat 27 Apr, York, Grand Opera House, Madama Butterfly Sun 28 Apr, Aylesbury, Waterside Theatre, Madama Butterfly Mon 29 Apr, Kings Lynn, Corn Exchange, La Traviata Tue 30 Apr, Portsmouth, Kings Theatre, Carmen Wed 1 May, Bournemouth Pavilion, Carmen Thu 2 May, Bournemouth Pavilion, Madama Butterfly Fri 3 May, Brighton Theatre Royal, Carmen Sat 4 May, Brighton Theatre Royal, Madama Butterfly Sun 5 May, Southend, Cliffs Pavilion, Madama Butterfly Tue 7 May, Reading Hexagon Theatre, Carmen Wed 8 May, Basingstoke, The Anvil, Carmen Ellen Kent Biog `Since 2002, we have always been committed to touring with Ukrainian Opera companies and giving them the highest profile throughout the UK. We have taken the Ukrainian National Operas of Odessa and Kharkiv many times to the Royal Albert Hall and to many important venues in the UK such as the Manchester Opera House. Most recently, we toured the Ukrainian Opera and Ballet Theatre Kyiv in the UK and Ireland in Spring 2022 which was a huge success, and the Ukrainian National Anthem was proudly played after every performance`. – Ellen Kent The award-winning producer Ellen Kent is one of the top opera producers in the UK and has been the biggest supplier of opera and ballet in the UK and Ireland for thirty years. Since 1992, Ellen has created a niche market for the best of traditional opera and ballet from Eastern Europe. She was the first producer to put out a major tour of foreign opera on the British theatre circuit and she dominated the ballet market in the UK for many years. To celebrate her long love affair with the many operas which she now personally directs, in Spring 2024, Ellen is bringing her audiences three brand new productions: Madama Butterfly, Carmen and La Traviata. Her patrons are the actress, Dame Judi Dench, and the acclaimed artist Ralph Steadman. Since 1983 Ellen Kent has achieved huge success with her theatre, ballet and opera productions. Ellen has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds in sponsorship over her esteemed career, and has been awarded 12 separate British Government Business Sponsorship Incentive Scheme (BSIS) awards from 1987–1996. She has also been awarded a large sponsorship grant for the tour of the Romanian National Opera in 1996, and has won awards in two consecutive years from SFX (Live nation) for breaking all opera box office records in the history of the Manchester Opera House. Ellen was also one of the first businesses to gain a grant from the National Lottery. Her first opera was `Nabucco` with the Romanian National Opera staged to an audience of 7, 000 at Rochester Castle. Ellen brought the critically-acclaimed Moldovan National Opera to large SFX venues throughout the UK, including sell-out performances of more than 7, 000 people at the Royal Albert Hall. In 1998 Ellen Kent was nominated for the Manchester Evening News Opera Award for the production of Turandot by the Latvian National Opera and in 1998, Opera & Ballet International were nominated for the Opera of the Year Award. In 1991, she became the first British producer to receive an Arts Council grant to tour a foreign company in the UK. The autumn 1999 programme started with a highly successful major ballet tour of Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, followed by a major sell-out tour of Nabucco and The Marriage of Figaro. In autumn 2000, Ellen was presented with an award from Apollo/SFX Management, which is one of the biggest owners of entertainment venues in the UK and America. She achieved the award for breaking all opera box office records in the history of the Manchester Opera House. In 2001, Ellen`s national tour of Apollo/SFX venues including the London Apollo, with the famous Bolshoi Ballet`s Nutcracker directed by the acclaimed Yuri Grigorovich, broke all box office records for ballet in the SFX major regional theatres. In 2002, Ellen Kent and Opera and Ballet International launched the Ukrainian National Opera Odessa with a summer tour of the UK with La Traviata and The Barber of Seville. La Traviata which received a standing ovation at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall on the company`s premier tour of the UK. As a thank you for introducing the Ukrainian Opera to the UK, in 2005, Ellen Kent was awarded The Golden Fortune Honorary Medal by the Ukrainian president Vladimir Yushchenko. The prestigious `Golden Fortune Award` was awarded by the President of Ukrainian for Ellen`s pioneering work with the Ukrainian National Opera of Odessa. Past winners include Sofi Loren, Margaret Beckett, and Pope Giovanni Paolo II. Ellen Kent has also been awarded a medal from the president of Moldova for the `Best contribution to the arts in Moldova` linked to her support and investment in the Chisinau National Ballet and the Chisinau National Opera. The award ceremony was part of the 60th anniversary celebrations for the arts council of Moldova and Ellen has been selected as the person who has made the most important contribution to the arts in their history. Ellen became the very first British citizen to be honoured with this award. March 2004 saw Ellen branch out into the Middle Eastern audience becoming the first British Producer to perform Carmen in the Gulf in front of an audience with the Emir of Qatar in Doha and 4, 000 Royal Guests. Ellen went on to open the Beiteddine Festival in Lebanon later that year with her production of Turandot. In 2006, Ellen Kent`s opera production of `Madama Butterfly` with the Ukrainian National Opera won the title of `Best Opera Award` in the highly regarded Liverpool Daily Post Theatre Awards. Ellen has herself also been nominated twice as `European Women of the Year.` In 2008 Ellen continued her love of outdoor opera launching her new company `Ellen Kent & Amphitheatre Productions` at Leeds Castle in Kent, with an arena production of Carmen to an audience of 12, 000. From her first opera in Rochester Castle, Ellen has devoted every minute of her life to ensuring her public get the best opera and ballet productions. She has successfully filled theatres throughout Britain and Ireland, regularly playing prestigious venues including The Royal Albert Hall, Manchester Opera House, Liverpool Empire Theatre, Edinburgh Playhouse, and the Oxford New Theatre. Throughout Ellen`s illustrious career, millions of people have enjoyed her shows. In 2019, Ellen was approached by Ollie Rosenblatt, the MD of Senbla Ltd (which has recently been acquired by Sony Music Masterworks), leading promoters of large-scale arena productions, to continue opera touring in the UK and Ireland under their banner.

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