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Sweet Charity is the story of Charity Hope Valentine, a hopelessly romantic but comically unfortunate dance hall hostess in New York City. After eight years in the business and determined to find love, Charity realises that she cannot meet respectable men in her job. However, her luck may change when she meets insurance actuary Oscar Lindquist, will she finally find true love at last?

With songs such as Summertime, It Ain’t Necessarily So and I Got Plenty of Nuttin', Gershwin created an indisputable masterpiece. Porgy (Musa Ngqungwana) tries to rescue Bess (Laquita Mitchell) from the twin threats of her abusive partner and her drug dealer. Will Porgy’s love be enough to conquer Bess’s demons? The odds are stacked against him, but that won’t stop the noble Porgy from trying...

A bitter father-son rivalry ignites in the Spanish court in the grip of the malign Inquisition when Don Carlo (tenor Leonardo Capalbo) finds that his intended bride, Elisabetta (American Marina Costa-Jackson), has been promised to his father, King Philip II (Clive Bayley). What follows is a meltdown of molten intensity.