Sevastopol/Home - T515024610This year it is the turn of minimalist composer Graham Fitkin and Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy to explore opera from unexpected angles. Only in its third year, OperaShots has already gained a name for unusual and imaginative points of departure-quantum physics, football, a doctor who is a dog have been some of the subjects and so far composers and librettists including Natin Sawnhey, Stewart Copeland, Jocelyn Pook and Terry Jones have taken shots at this exciting art form. Neil Hannon's OperaShot, Sevastopol is a new compact chamber opera which follows young writer Leo Tolstoy's journey to the depths of the Crimean war. Tolstoy witnesses the horrors of the first great modern military conflict and through his various encounters with soldiers, sailors, nurses, officers and gunners, matures both as man and artist.Music Neil Hannon (Sevastopol). Music Graham Fitkin (Home). Director John Lloyd-Davies (Sevastopol). Conductor Gerry Cornelius (Sevastopol). Design Emma Bailey (Sevastopol). Costume Emma Bailey (Sevastopol). Lighting Chahine Yavroyan (Sevastopol). Performer Richard Burkhard (Sevastopol). Performer Mike Bracegirdle (Sevastopol). Performer Adrian Clarke (Sevastopol). Performer Christopher Lemmings (Sevastopol). Performer Victoria Simmonds (Sevastopol). Director Jasmin Vardimon (Home). Music Graham Fitkin Band (Home). Design Guy Bar-Amotz (Home - associate designer). Costume Emma Bailey (Home). Performer Luke Borrough (Home). Performer Victoria Couper (Home). Performer Esteban Fourmi (Home). Performer Aoi Nakamura (Home). Performer Melanie Pappenheim (Home). | |
| 20 Apr 12 to 28 Apr 12 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L1357367301 |
The Doctor's Tale - T0551428305The Doctor’s Tale is a tale of a devoted doctor, whose patients love him and who has a wonderful cure rate, but the General Medical Council say he has to stop practising because he's a dog. The patients protest and eventually rescue the doctor from the Dog Pound, where he was due to be put down.Music Anne Dudley. Lyrics Terry Jones. Conductor Tim Murray. Director Terry Jones. Performer Harriet Williams. Performer Sadhbh Dennedy. Performer Carolyn Dobbin. Performer Darren Abrahams. Performer Peter Willcock. Performer Susan Gorton. Performer Jonathan Gunthorpe. Performer Michael Bracegirdle. | |
| 8 Apr 11 to 16 Apr 11 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L604681561 |
The Tell-Tale Heart - T0610950768Stewart Copeland, former drummer and founder of The Police, brings Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic fiction The Tell-Tale Heart to life, revealing the protagonist’s intensity and madness as he is consumed by the frenzied guilt of murdering an old man. The Tell-Tale Heart is perhaps Poe’s most famous short story and was first published in 1843. Copeland is both composer and librettist for this new work.Book by Edgar Allan Poe. Music Stewart Copeland. Conductor Robert Ziegler. Director Jonathan Moore. Performer Richard Suart. Performer Philip Sheffield. Performer Eileen Hulse. Performer Fiona Kimm. Performer Richard Strivens. | |
| 8 Apr 11 to 16 Apr 11 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L0397953803 |
