Musically charming and dreamlike, this cross between an opera and a musical re-creates the great myth of the American frontier – peopled by a giant, singing geese and cats, dancing Swedes, lumberjacks, and good and bad cooks. The score is brilliantly inventive, mixing elements of blues, folk songs and hymns in a witty and irreverent response to the American Dream.
Sung in English.
www.englishtouringopera.org.uk
Tickets: A £33 B £30 C £24 D £19
Concs: £2 discount
Student Standby: £8
Pre-Show Talk: 6.30pm Fri 16 May in the Council Chamber,...
Probably the world's favourite opera, The Magic Flute tells the enchanting story of a young prince and princess on a dreamlike journey in pursuit of love. Great comedy, spectacular costumes and memorable tunes mean this is the opera to charm children and captivate anyone going to the opera for the first time.
Sung in English.
www.englishtouringopera.org.uk
Tickets: A £33 B £30 C £24 D £19
Concs: £2 discount#
Student Standby: £8
Pre-Show Talks: Wed 14 & Thurs 15 May - 6.30pm in the Council Chamber, Northcote House
Marking the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, Birdsong is the hit, critically acclaimed stage show based on the world famous novel by Sebastian Faulks.
In pre-war France, a young Englishman Stephen Wraysford embarks on a passionate and dangerous affair with the beautiful Isabelle Azaire that turns their world upside down.
As the war breaks out over the idyll of his former life, Stephen must lead his men through the carnage of the Battle of the Somme and through the sprawling...
The South West Branch of the RAF Police Association are calling for new members.
They meet every two months at The Hunting Lodge near Ivybridge on the first Wednesday of alternate months at 11.30am. Meetings are followed by lunch.
The next meeting is taking place on Wednesday 4 June.
Several members also take part in the Cenotaph parade on Remembrance Sunday in London, joining several dozen others from all over the country, with one or two travelling across the pond. Members also attend parades, when their standard is carried, and always meet for Christmas lunch....
The Skin Angels have recently visited Maynard school in Exeter, as part of their tour of schools and colleges in Devon.
Children and teachers received a presentation which included expert advice on year round sun protection and problematic skin conditions from the campaigning beauty therapists, who are based at Purity Boutique Spa on Cathedral Green.
The Skin Angels are on a mission to raise awareness of the importance of protecting skin from the sun, even during the autumn and winter months and aim to arm young people with knowledge about looking after their skin to...
Bus passengers in Devon are among the happiest in the country according to a new survey which ranks Devon high for overall satisfaction.
Of the 800 plus Devon people who took part in the national survey by Passenger Focus, a record 90 per cent recorded their satisfaction overall, which includes 95 per cent of passengers with a disability.
Value for money, punctuality, bus and bus stop cleanliness all score well, with satisfaction levels higher in most cases to last year’s figures.
But it’s passengers’ satisfaction about their bus drivers that Devon County Council...
Exeter-based Chartered financial planners Shipman Financial Planning have been recognised as best in their field by a prestigious business magazine read across the world.
Shipman - based off Southernhay, Exeter - has been voted Client Choice winner of the 2014 Corporate Intl Magazine Global Award: Family Business Advisory Firm of the Year in England.
The award is given to companies who, as well as being successful over the past 12 months, have also shown ‘excellence not only in expertise but in service.’
Corporate Intl magazine has 350,000 subscribers in 150...
For its 14th Choral Pilgrimage The Sixteen and Harry Christophers revisit the golden age of renaissance polyphony with a stunning programme of music by English composers John Sheppard, Richard Davy and William Mundy.
Mundy’s monumental work Vox patris caelestis, the text of which comes from the Song of Songs, can be considered as the culmination of the great antiphon tradition, while Sheppard's musical style contains all the grandness of English harmonic invention. This year’s programme includes Sheppard’s glorious seven-part work Libera nos as well as his sublime Gaude, gaude...
The AA has warned that part night street lighting schemes plans like the one recently adopted in Exeter may be putting motorists at greater risk of accidents.
The breakdown recovery group claims that, while night time road accidents have fallen in recent years this fall is significantly less on unlit urban roads.
Overall, from 2007 to 2012, AA report a 19.6% reduction in road accidents along town and city roads where street lights were on shrank to 8.8% where drivers, cyclists, bikers and pedestrians travelled in darkness.
