FULL The hedge, the world, and everything (Jo Ballard) London 2023 Jane Spurr, Annemarie O Donnell, Joanna Tagney, Yvette Cowley, Pema Wainwright
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The hedge, the world, and everything
- Composer: Ballard Jo, Jane Spurr
- Libretto: Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: The Cockpit, London, UK
- Recorded: August 31, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Jo Ballard, Jane Spurr, Annemarie O Donnell, Joanna Tagney, Yvette Cowley, Pema Wainwright
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: MyNewOpera
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The project, The hedge the world and everything, is a time based installation Folk Opera, set to a dreamy other worldly soundscape.
A Cornish hedge is sung into being and wild things are experienced through a sentient beauty, in contrast to the mechanised world and all its desires. The rich, ancient, contained world of the hedge is brought alive by the singing group Wild The Flower. A film compliments the piece.
Music & Songs:
Flowery edge.
Lyrics: Jo Ballard & Meister Eckhert
Arranged & composed: by Jo Ballard
Hear Yea
Lyrics & composition: Jo Ballard
Hal an Tow
Traditional Cornish.
Lyrics & composition: Jo Ballard
I am the Gardener
Lyrics: Jane Spurr
Composer: Jo Ballard
Birth of Hedge
Soundscape: Jon Tye.
Lyrics sourced from the rattlin bog, Old Traditional Folk song.
Excerpts from The Prisoner’s Herbal by Nicole Rose
I am sky
Soundscape: Jon Tye
Lyrical monologue, Jane Spurr.
So Graceful in its Demise
Composer: Colin Seddon & Jane Spurr
Lyrical monologue: Jane Spurr
Arrangement and additional composition: Jo Ballard
The White Rose
Cornish Traditional
Arrangement & composition: Jo Ballard
Soundscape: Jon Tye
Statements
Performers’ own words
Music: Jo Ballard
Produced by: Colin Seddon
When I was the Forest
Poem: Meister Eckhert
Arranged & composed: Jo Ballard
Wassail
Traditional Folk song
Musical Arrangement: Jo Ballard