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The Secret Marriage

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Neglected today, The Secret Marriage was in its time more popular even than Mozart’s comedies. The fifty-third opera of Domenico Cimarosa (in his time celebrated from Naples to St. Petersburg), when the Emperor Leopold heard it during its first run in Vienna he demanded it be repeated in full that same evening.

It was a huge success and had well over 100 outings in its first year alone, reaching every European capital in the next few years. Not so much looking back to Mozart, Cimarosa’s wit and style prefigure Rossini, born three weeks after the opera’s premiere – this household sitcom was written almost 25 years before The Barber of Seville.

In HGO’s production the opera, with its nimble score, buzzes from the start with effervescent energy. Cimarosa’s score elicits a huge range of colour, and ensembles and arias abound for the very busy cast of six: an extraordinary variety ranging from deft patter and raucous argument to glorious lyricism, all in perfect balance.

HGO’s pacy staging recognises that this is at heart pure musical theatre: sometimes subtle, sometimes slapstick, but always with an steady and compelling connection to the unfolding story.

Directed by Sinéad O’Neill
Music Director Chris Hopkins
With the HGO Orchestra

Carolina: Emily Wenman
Elisetta: Rachel Duckett
Fidalma: Anne Reilly
Paolino: Ross Wilson
Count Robinson: Thomas Coltman
Geronimo: Javier Vilarino

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Duration: 2h 30m (incl. 20m interval)
Age guidance: 5–100

Concessions 16th and 17th only
Student tickets first 5 performances only

This is an external production and is not represented by Jacksons Lane. Tickets are sold through an external seller and are not processed by Jacksons Lane's Box Office.

https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/whats-on/the-secret-marriage

Earlier Event: November 20
The Secret Marriage
Later Event: November 24
The Secret Marriage