Opera Makers
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About this event:
- Category:
- New Music | Opera
- Event type:
- Booking required | In-person
- Admission:
- £10 (£5 concessions) +bkg fee
- Location:
- Milton Court Studio Theatre
Digital Programme
You can access the digital programme for the production here:
Guildhall School Digital Programmes
You will also be able to access the Digital Programme by using your mobile phone to scan a QR code posted at the entrance to the Silk Street Theatre. Free Wi-Fi will be available at the venue. Please note that there will be no printed programmes provided.
If you wish to print a copy at home, you will also find a print-friendly version at the link above. Please note that this version is not intended for viewing on a mobile device during the performance, and does not include biographies or supplemental materials. Please access the Digital Programme for that purpose.
Event Information
Performed by singers and repetiteurs from the first year of the Guildhall Opera Course, Opera Makers features new works written by composers and librettists on Guildhall’s MA in Opera Making & Writing alongside a selection of opera scenes by French composers Ravel and Poulenc.
The three new operas being premiered in this production are Lantern Fish by composer Luka Venter and librettist David Bottomley; Lost Property by composer Anna Disley-Simpson and librettist Olivia Bell; and Reborns by composer Elif Nur Karlidag and librettist Stanley Lawson.
Please note these operas contain themes of death, suicide, abuse, mental illness, bereavement and animal cruelty. Haze and flashing lights will be used.
Approximate running time: 2 hours 40 minutes, including a 20-minute interval.
Cast & Creative team
Will Kerley director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Liam Bunster designer
Edie Bailey assistant director
Michael Rose assistant conductor
Lantern Fish
Luka Venter composer
David Bottomley librettist
Maria Shana Moron-Caravel
Ulric Alaric Green
Isabel Ana Carmen Balestra
Robert Jonah Halton
Quicksilver Yolisa Ngwexana
BlueRay Emyr Jones
Alistair Burton répétiteur
Lost Property
Anna Disley-Simpson composer
Olivia Bell librettist
Traveller Holly Brown
Attendant Steven van der Linden
Father Jacob Harrison
Yongqiu Yuan répétiteur
Reborns
Elif Nur Karlidag composer
Stanley Lawson librettist
Artist Rachel Roper
Client Vladyslava Yakovenko
Partner Joseph Chalmers
Aleksandra Myslek repetiteur
Poulenc Les Mamelles de Tirésias
Thérèse Ana Balestra
Le mari Alaric Green
Aleksandra Myslek répétiteur
Poulenc La dame de Monte Carlo
Holly Brown soprano
Michael Rose répétiteur
Poulenc La voix humaine
Vladyslava Yakovenko soprano
Alistair Burton répétiteur
Ulysses
Luka Venter composer
David Bottomley librettist
Ulysses Alaric Green
Ravel L’enfant et le sortilèges (Princess Scene)
L’enfant Shana Moron-Caravel
La Princesse Yolisa Ngwexana
Yongqiu Yuan répétiteur
Ravel L’enfant et le sortilèges (Final Scene)
L’enfant Shana Moron-Caravel
Holly Brown
Ana Balestra
Joseph Chalmers
Alaric Green
Jonah Halton
Jacob Harrison
Emyr Jones
Steven van der Linden
Yolisa Ngwexana
Rachel Roper
Vladyslava Yakovenko
Alistair Burton répétiteur
Pre-show performance, 6 & 7 July
Thursday 6 July & Friday 7 July
6.15pm - 6.45pm
Milton Court Studio Theatre Foyer (level -2)
Ahead of the first two Opera Makers performances, we offer the chance to hear short works for solo voice by some of our featured Opera Makers composers and librettists, plus music for voice and piano by Poulenc.
Anna Disney-Simpson / Olivia Bell The Queue
Gabriella Noble mezzo-soprano
Francis Poulenc / Paul Eluard Four songs from Le travail du peintre
Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Joan Miró, Jacques Villon
Alaric Green baritone
Michael Rose piano
Elif Nur Karlidag / Stanley Lawson Far from the City
Eliran Kadussi countertenor
Francis Poulenc / Maurice Carème La courte paille
Ana-Carmen Balestra soprano
Aleksandra Myslek piano
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
