Name: Beauty and the Beast
Start: 2023-11-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-12-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Mamdani Opera Centre

Organization

Calgary Opera

Béarla

Beauty and the Beast

Calgary

Canada

Mamdani Opera Centre

Beauty and the Beast by Vittorio Giannini. Artwork by Shauna Hartsook

Public

Approved

Beauty lives a simple life with her father and two sisters. When Father must leave on a business trip, the sisters demand he returns with expensive gifts for them. Beauty asks instead for a single rose. He fulfills this request and it leads to trouble for the family and the betrothal of Beauty to an unattractive and unsophisticated man. 

Beauty and the Beast is a timeless story about valuing kindness and character over superficial traits like physical beauty and social refinement. Vittorio Giannini composed this one-act opera in 1938, basing it on the classic fairy tale. It delighted radio audiences then and now provides a charming entry point for children into the world of opera.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )