FULL REVOLUTIONS 6 MINI OPERAS (various) London 2024 Royal College of Music
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: REVOLUTIONS 6 MINI OPERAS
- Composer: various, see program below
- Libretto: various, see program below Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London, UK
- Recorded: June 28, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Royal College of Music
- Conductor: Michael Rosewell
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Bill Bankes-Jones
- Stage Designer: Sarah Jane Booth
- Costume Designer:
- Lighting Designer: Colin Eversdijk
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Royal College of Music
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Once again, Tête à Tête brings our trademark theatrical flair to our sixth collaboration with inspirational composers, singers, instrumentalists and production department of the Royal College of Music, where we’ll create another rollercoaster evening of six short operas.
Inspired by the theme of revolutions, we visit Paris in 1927, Norfolk in the 1970s, louche London of the 1870s, Ukraine 1924, Yekaterinburg 1918 and present-day London, each at a major pivot point in their own history, all conceived and performed with the hottest young talent in opera.
Airtime
Music: Ed Driver
Words: Samir Chadha
1927; the whole of Paris regulates its timepieces by the rhythm of the city’s most regular breather, Philippe N Dulum, until this regularity is disturbed and the city thrown into turmoil…
Church on the Blood
Music and Words: Jasmine Morris
Russia, July 1918; the Romanov family are held captive in Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg. Their lives and those all around them are about to be catapulted into a deadly revolution…
Fanny and Stella’s Last Day Out
Music: Jasper Dommett
Words: Jessica Walker
April 1870, London; Fanny and Stella are gleeful Victorian female impersonators, celebrated for the joy they share – until they are brought to trial and brutally cross-examined…
The Drifterman
Music & Words: Connie Harris
1970s Norfolk; Danny is the only drifterman still fishing in the traditional manner from his small boat. Trapped at sea with his grandson, he is plagued by a sinister presence…
I (Romance)
Music and Words: Alisa Zaika, based on the 1924 novel by Mykola Khvylovy:
1920’s Ukraine under the Bolshevik rule; secret police agent “I” faces the tensions between duty to the state and the conscience of his own human self.
The Anthem
Music: Jasper Eaglesfield
Words: Harry Davies
Monarchy is no more. While Court Composer Nicholas Lear is forced to create a new national anthem, his journalist wife, Imogen, uncovers the nefarious political forces hellbent on the destruction of democracy itself.