I’m told that tickets are now on sale for the 2010 Grimeborn Opera Festival, which will feature an opera that I worked on as librettist. The piece is COCTEAU IN THE UNDERWORLD, composed by Ed Hughes, and it’s being shown as part of a double bill with Philip Glass‘s opera version of Cocteau’s LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES on Friday the 20th and Saturday the 21st of August.
A must-see event for any fans of Cocteau! Or Ed Hughes. Or Philip Glass. Or even of me.
The Festival programme is:
Grimeborn – The Opera Festival
Curated by Andrew Steggall
Monday 9th August and Tuesday 10th August
Britten – THE PRODIGAL SON
Mendelssohn – THE HOMECOMING
Wednesday 11th August and Thursday 12th August
Bernstein – TROUBLE IN TAHITI
Burke & Waterfield – SPILT MILK
Friday 13th August and Saturday 14th August
Britten – THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA
Monday 16th August
Scott & Curtis – VICE
Sunday 15th August and Tuesday 17th August
Rogers – THE RAVEN
Roulston – CROW
D’Heudieres & Evans – POISON GARDEN
Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th August
Moore - THE DIARIES OF ADAM AND EVE
Le Gendre – HOW I WONDER
Campkin & Reynolds – STONE HEART
Friday 20th August and Saturday 21st August
Hughes & Morris – COCTEAU IN THE UNDERWORLD
Glass – LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES
There’s more about the festival as a whole here.