Sep 26 2026 to Sep 27 2026 5 p.m.

Price: Rs 280 onwards (Rs 280 gallery to Rs 499 VIP). Seats chosen on a seating plan when booking. Book/Buy

Where

St. Kuriakose Elias Auditorium, Christ University

WJJ4+R96 Christ University 2 Block-4 Christ, DHARMARAM COLLEGE, Bhavani Nagar, S.G. Palya, Bengaluru 560029

Special Instructions

Seats are numbered: choose yours on the seating plan when booking. The auditorium is in Block IV of the Central Campus; allow a few minutes to walk in from the Hosur Road gate. Performance begins at 5:00 p.m. sharp and runs about one hour with no interval

Event Description

A live comic opera in English, one hour, no interval. Two performances only: Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September, 5 p.m., KE Auditorium, CHRIST University, Hosur Road.

Gianni Schicchi is Puccini's only comedy. A wealthy man dies and leaves his whole fortune to a monastery. His relatives, gathered around the bed and appalled, send for a man who might be able to do something about it. What follows is the most expensive performance any of them will ever give. This is Western classical music, the European operatic tradition, staged as theatre: singers acting out a story in costume, on a set, under stage lighting, joined by a small group of dancers. It is also the opera that gave the world "O mio babbino caro", a soprano aria many people know from films and advertisements without knowing where it came from. The production is set in the present day and sung in English, so there are no surtitles to read.

Sixteen performers, students of CHRIST (Deemed to be University), are on stage, and for most of them this is a first opera.

A good first opera: short, funny, in English, and no homework required. Come with friends, a date or your parents. Tickets from Rs 280. Choose your seat on a plan of the hall before you pay.

Venue: KE Auditorium (Kuriakose Elias Auditorium), Block IV, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Central Campus, Hosur Road, Bengaluru 560029. Near Dairy Circle, close to Koramangala and BTM Layout.