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Verdi’s masterpiece on Wyvern stage Are you looking for an

OPERATIC performances are often
restricted to theatres in London or Eye Test at Home?
Bristol, or perhaps a live broadcast
to a cinema, but on Tuesday 3 March
the Russian State Ballet and Opera Do you have difficulties getting to your
House performs Verdi’s best-loved local optician? Then why not let us visit
opera Rigoletto at the Wyvern. you at home for your eye test?
It’s a tragic tale of misunderstand- • Free NHS test *
ing, revenge and sacrifice, sung FREE
in Italian with English surtitles • NHS vouchers accepted Eye Test
performed to the accompaniment of Russian State Ballet & Opera House • Flexible appointments
a large live orchestra. said watching performances live *Call us or visit website for further details
The work is based on a play by is a stunning experience. “Opera
Victor Hugo, ‘Le Roi s‘amuse’, has been able to take advantage
written by Giuseppe Verdi and his of the high-tech revolution in www.visionvisit.co.uk 01793 232 588
librettist Francesco Maria Piave, to home entertainment, television and
fulfil a contract for a new opera to cinema and more and more people
be produced at the Teatro La Fenice are discovering it. We are dedicated
in Venice during the 1850-1851 to presenting full and positive new
season. productions in regional theatres.
The story revolves around the “We want to give the opportunity
hunchbacked court jester, Rigoletto, to audiences to experience these
his beautiful much-loved daughter classics at a fraction of the cost
Gilda (whom he had kept secret they would pay in big cities, give
from the Court) and the womanis- them great pleasure and inspire
ing Duke of Mantua he serves. them to want more. Opera lovers
The drama of tension and menace the world over have taken Rigoletto
in a plot involving abduction, to their hearts, and you are bound
seduction and a hired assassin to be drawn in and immersed in the
is matched by a succession of atmosphere that this production
stunning and recognisable tunes, radiates. It will be an unforgettable
including the famous ‘La donna è experience for all.”
mobile.’ See the advert below for booking
Alexej Ignatow, producer of The details.

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