Events

Giuseppe Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra

Verdi’s searing political drama is a classic love triangle set against a backdrop of the intense power struggle among scheming nobles and commoners in 14th century Genoa. The great elder statesman Simon Boccanegra is one the towering figures of 19th century opera, and the touching relationship that is rekindled between him and his long-lost daughter Amelia inspired some of Verdi’s most fervent and dramatic music.

Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow

Do men and women really understand each other? The answer, according to this witty work with its lush, tuneful score is – don’t bet on it!

The Children's Bookshow tour 2006: Poetry Matters brings the exuberant poet and performer Val Bloom to the Bloomsbury.

Val's a prolific writer who's been published in over eighty adult and children's anthologies. Her children's poetry books include Whoop an' Shout and Fruits and she's also edited a multicultural anthology One River, Many Creek, all of which are published by MacMillan.. She's performed extensively throughout Britain and the Caribbean in theatres, festivals, universities and schools.