A top performance
Saturday 10 September |
Camera Obscura,
The Hamilton Civic Choir and Orchestra often combined for performances, and this programme comes from 1951 when the groups performed Faust by Charles Francois Gounod. The performance was held on 11 June 1951 at the Embassy Theatre. The opera was first performed in Paris in 1859 and is in five acts, telling the story of Faust, who is given the elixir of youth by Mephistopheles, a malevolent spirit and falls in love with a young woman, Marguerite. More recently, the same production was performed by New Zealand Opera in 2006 and is frequently performed by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
