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2022-06-24 11:42:00
Hackney EmpireViolet – Anna DennisFelix – Richard BurkhardLaura – Frances GregoryClockkeeper – Andrew MacKenzie-Wicks Jude Christian (director)Maya Shimmin (assistant director)Rosie Elnile (designs)Cécile Trémolières (costumes)Jackie Shemesh (lighting)Adam Sinclair (animation)Jasmin Kent Rodgman (bell sound design)Sound Intermedia (sound design)London SinfoniettaAndrew Gourlay (conductor)Completed in late 2019 and scheduled to premiere in the lost year of 2020, Violet, an excellent new one-act opera by Tom Coult and Alice Birch finally had its first performance earlier this month in Aldeburgh. Jude Christian’s production for Music Theatre Wales has now reached, for one night only, London’s Hackney Empire, under the Royal Opera House umbrella. In a pre-performance talk, Coult recalled his fears during that terrible intervening period that his first opera would prove a white elephant, that it would never be seen, that the companies involved would go bankrupt, and so on. Whilst I am sure it will be no comfort, the greater hunger so many of […]
2022-05-28 08:17:50
Time corkscrews inwards: Tom Coult on clocks, time & humanity in Alice Birch & his opera Violet
[…] 2022 (conducted by Hendrik Haas, and directed by Rahel Thiel). He is also in the middle of being composer in residence with the BBC Philharmonic. The orchestra premiered his Violin Concerto last year (and the work will be performed in London in October by the London Philharmonic Orchestra), and he is writing a second piece for the BBC Philharmonic. Tom Coult & Alice Birch: Violet - director: Jude Christian, designer: Rosie Elnile, costumes: Cécile Trémolières, conductor: Andrew Gourlay, London Sinfonietta - Anna Dennis, Richard Burkhard, Frances Gregory, Andrew Mackenzie Wicks - Aldeburgh Festival (3, 5 June), Cardiff (8 June), Mold (19 June), Hackney Empire (23 June), Buxton Festival (18 June) - details from Tom's website Never miss out on future posts by following us The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to […]
2022-02-21 09:17:29
[…] production of Donizetti's Viva la Diva, directed by Stephen Medcalf, with George Humphreys as Agatha and Jenny Stafford as Prima Donna, Waterperry Opera's production of Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park, directed by Rebecca Meltzer with Sian Griffiths, Milo Harries, Ellie Neate and Sarah Champion, and Tom Coult's new opera Violet which is a co-production by Music Theatre Wales and Britten Pears Arts, presented in association with the London Sinfonietta, directed by Jude Christian, conducted by Andrew Gourlay with Anna Dennis, Richard Burkhard, Frances Gregory and Andrew Mackenzie Wicks. Kate Whitley's oratorio, Our Future In Your Hands, is a festival commission; setting a libretto by Laura Attridge, the work examines concerns about climate change, with a community cast featuring choirs drawn from local schools, and orchestral musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music, led by mentors from the Northern Chamber Orchestra. The Brodsky Quartet and the Manchester Camerata both celebrate their […]
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