Have your pound coins ready for 7.30pm, first questions at 7.45pm. Come and be in with the chance of winning a £50 bar tab! We’ll even give you 10% off your food bill if you book a table. Ring us on 020 8341 0510 to reserve.
Exciting young opera troupe Pop-up Opera bring their production, La Serva Padrona & Rita to The Bull, Highgate on Tuesday 18th of June at 7.30pm
La Serva Padrona & Rita
Two one-act operas take place on the same stage, their scenes and stories intertwined. One mute servant appears in both, tying the two tales together.
A scene of commotion arises when the dominating Rita and her timid husband Peppe receive an unexpected visit from Rita’s first husband Gaspar. Each believing the other to have died, Gaspar unknowingly arrives seeking Rita’s death certificate so he can remarry. Peppe sees it as an opportunity to escape, as Gaspar is still Rita’s legal husband. The two men agree to a game, the winner of which will have to stay with Rita. Each of them tries to lose, but Gaspar cunningly manipulates Rita and Peppe to fall in love again.
Meanwhile, wealthy old bachelor Uberto is kept under the thumb of his maid Serpina.
He enlists his manservant Vespone to help him get rid of Serpina by finding him a wife. Serpina convinces Vespone to trick Uberto into marrying her. Their elaborate plan works and by the time Uberto has agreed to marry Serpina he realises he has loved her all along.
“Pop-Up Opera aim to take opera out to the ‘hesitant, as well as to dedicated opera lovers’. I confess to having been hesitant, but I’m suddenly in danger of becoming dedicated.” Everything Theatre
“…a completely fresh approach to a traditionally fusty genre. It’s frenetic, light-hearted and engaging.”
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“Basically, book tickets now. If only because some of these voices may be stars in ten years’ time, and you can say you saw them first, singing out of a window onto Dean Street.” The Public Reviews
“If any group can make opera converts, this one can.” Broadway Baby
“If you want an entertaining evening, this is the opera to see.” British Theatre Guide
“Talent-packed” The Evening Standard
Watch our 3 minute taster video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQoVPR-ZFs
Visit our website www.popupopera.co.uk
The Bull will be serving its full food menu, before, during and after the performance.Tickets are £25 each
Have your pound coins ready for 7.30pm, first questions at 7.45pm. Come and be in with the chance of winning a £50 bar tab! We’ll even give you 10% off your food bill if you book a table. Ring us on 020 8341 0510 to reserve.
We meet once a month, each time at a different pub, in Highgate. This month, June, it’s The Bull with its friendly atmosphere and on site microbrewery. It’s always a pleasure comparing the beers so lets see which is our favourite this time.
Everyone welcome, it’s a chance to meet old friends as well as new people over a drink.
LAUDERDALE SUZUKI MUSIC: SING WITH PATTY Sun 12 Feb, 2.30–3pm | Free A free singing session for children under 5 years old. Patty will teach songs with hand movements, chime bars and percussion instruments. These classes provide an excellent foundation for learning an instrument.
the rose and the bulbul
a promenade performance
TWO PERFORMANCES AT MIDDAY AND 3PM
Coke Studio artist Arieb Azhar joins dancers and musicians to celebrate the unity amidst diversity expressed through the symbols of the rose and the bulbul (nightingale). The performance will take place on the Tea Lawn at Lauderdale House and Waterlow Park. The Rose and the Bulbul is co-produced by Kadam/Pulse and Luton Culture with the support of Grants for the Arts, Amal and Cockayne and London Communities Foundation.
The Rose and the Bulbul is a family-friendly performance with professional and community-based performers that taps into the love affair that humans have with creating gardens. It will be dedicated to the memory of MP Jo Cox: “We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us”.
The performance of dance, music and spoken word was inspired by the ideas that shaped the gardens at Stockwood Park, Luton. The title ‘Rose and Bulbul’ is derived from the significance of the rose as the symbol of beauty and perfection both in Persian literature and equally important in the English heritage as a Tudor emblem. The bulbul is the Indian equivalent of the nightingale which represents the woods and wilderness beyond the cultivated garden.
Storytellers, dancers and musicians will create an experience to bring alive the space of the garden and the audience will meet the Rose and the Bulbul, who come truly to understand their present only through a journey into each other’s past. Statues become dancers as the audiences are led in succession through a Mughal garden, a European walled garden and finally into open grounds, celebrating the synthesis of Islamic, Christian, Pagan and Hindu traditions. The Rose and the Bulbul is above all a story of love and acceptance.
The performance brings together the talent of outstanding young actor-writer Kamal Kaan (‘While the Water Weeps Next to the Water’, BBC Radio ‘Headline Ballads’ 2016); director Sita Thomas (Shakespearean scholar, Milkshake presenter and Bollywood dancer) and the popular choreographer-dancer Kali Chandrasegaram.