R. N. Morris » Ed Hughes http://rogernmorris.co.uk The website of crime writer R.N. Morris Wed, 16 May 2012 18:54:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cocteau in the Underworld http://rogernmorris.co.uk/cocteau-in-the-underworld/ http://rogernmorris.co.uk/cocteau-in-the-underworld/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:50:15 +0000 Roger http://rogernmorris.co.uk/?p=593 After years of planning and hoping, with many frustrations along the way, Cocteau in the Underworld – the opera composed by Ed Hughes with a libretto by me – received its first full-length performance this weekend in two sold out performances, as part of the Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre.

Many thanks to our brilliant director Poppy Burton Morgan and Will Reynolds the genius of design, lighting and projection. Thanks also to our amazing pianist Richard Casey and to Carlos Del Cueto, the conductor and musical director. Thanks to Heather Doole who produced for Metta Theatre and to Liz Webb who produced for the New Music Players, and to Emily Jenkins, the assistant director. But most of all, thanks to our incredibly talented and committed cast:
Cocteau (baritone): Andrew McIntosh
Princess (mezzo): Lucy Williams
Orpheus (tenor): Peter Kirk
Eurydice (soprano): Emily Phillips
Raymond (counter-tenor): Ben Williamson
Eurydice (video artist): Loren O’Dair.

The picture above shows Andrew McIntosh as Cocteau and Peter Kirk as Orpheus. You can view some more photos from rehearsals here. We’re hoping to produce a touring production in 2011, with a fully scored instrumentation.

]]> http://rogernmorris.co.uk/cocteau-in-the-underworld/feed/ 1 A trailer for Cocteau in the Underworld. http://rogernmorris.co.uk/a-trailer-for-cocteau-in-the-underworld/ http://rogernmorris.co.uk/a-trailer-for-cocteau-in-the-underworld/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:45:36 +0000 Roger http://rogernmorris.co.uk/?p=585

cocteau in the underworld trailer from william reynolds on Vimeo.

William Reynolds, designer and video maker for the forthcoming Grimeborn Festival production of Cocteau in the Underworld, has put together a fabulous trailer for the opera which is now available for viewing on vimeo.

For anyone who’s interested in knowing a bit more about CITU, here’s an article written by the show’s producer, Heather Doole, running in The List.

Cocteau in the Underworld, music by Ed Hughes, words by me, will be performed in a double bill with Philip Glass’s opera of Cocteau’s Les Enfants Terribles, in this year’s Grimeborn Festival on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 August.

Director is Poppy Burton-Morgan, with design and video by William Reynolds.

]]> http://rogernmorris.co.uk/a-trailer-for-cocteau-in-the-underworld/feed/ 0 Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre. http://rogernmorris.co.uk/grimeborn-festival-at-the-arcola-theatre/ http://rogernmorris.co.uk/grimeborn-festival-at-the-arcola-theatre/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:12:40 +0000 Roger http://rogernmorris.co.uk/?p=569 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.

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Baritone Owen Gilhooly in the 2009 Brighton Festival Production of Cocteau in The Underworld

 

Exposure is a programme of semi-staged performances of works currently in development with ROH2. I’m very excited to announce that Cocteau in the Underworld, the opera I’ve written with the composer Ed Hughes, will be included in the next Exposure evenings. (If you’re wondering, I wrote the words!) Basically, a ten minute extract will be performed, along with extracts from other operas in development. One of the other treats (or should that be tweats?) lined up is Twitterdammerung, an opera created around twitter tweets!

The event will be held from April 14 to April 17 at the Linbury Studio Theatre inside the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As far as I know, we have slots on the first and last nights.

I’m very exciting about the production of our excerpts, which will include some entirely new mixed-media content.

Tickets are £10. I’ll post more details when I have it!

 

 

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