Amaze Me!

Archive Listings for Amaze Me!

Opera: L'enfant et les sortileges/Ballet: Petrushka - T0787642706 Company Opera North. Conductor Emmanuel Plasson. Director Nigel Lowery. Director Amir Hosseinpour. Design Nigel Lowery. Lighting Mimi Jordan Sherin. Choreographer Amir Housseinpour. Performer Claire Wild (The Child). Performer Fiona Kimm (His mother/Chinese Cup/Dragonfly). Performer Christine Buffle (Fire/Nightingale). Performer Jeni Bern (Princess). Performer Richard Burkhard (The Grandfather Clock/Tom Cat). Performer Richard Angas (The Armchair/A Tree). Performer Ann Taylor (The Squirrel/Female Cat). Performer Philip Sheffield (The Tea Pot/Tree Frog/Arithmetic). Performer Rachel Taylor (Louis XV Chair/Owl). Performer Oriola Islamay (Petrushka). Performer E.J. Boyle (Petrushka). Performer Peter Crome (Petrushka). Performer Lauriane Delteil (Petrushka). Performer Natalie Anne Hewitt (Petrushka). Performer Luis Ramirez (Petrushka).
4 Jul 02 to 5 Jul 02	Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V570 listing details L01205735444
27 Jun 02 to 28 Jun 02	Theatre Royal, Nottingham :: V458 listing details L0108625673
24 May 02 to 1 Jun 02	Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds :: V975 listing details L1119210624

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Opera or Operetta :: L'enfant et les sortileges - A little boy, spoiled and badly behaved, is locked into a room to finish his lessons. One by one the household objects come to life and start to rebuke him. The boy is amazed, frightened and finally, sorry, for his earlier cruel actions. Ravel is in his element, mixing sustained lyricism with 1930s jazz, comic parody with the most beautiful pictorial storytelling. Petrusha - Set in a dream-like, folk Russia, the original story of Petrushka takes place in St Petersburg at the annual Fair. A puppet-master presents his tale of a dancing girl and her two admirers, the lowly Petrushka and a dashing Moor.

Music	Ravel
Music	Stravinsky