… is getting a text like this: “U wont believe this. I jst got on the bus & the woman sat next to me is reading ur new book! I hadnt even sat down & I blurted out ‘my cousin wrote that!’” The text was from my cousin Zoe, who went on to say that …
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“It’s like Britain’s Got Talent, except all the performers are talented and… there’s no Jedward. Hmmm. Jedward: The Opera, now there’s an idea!” That was how composer – and our compere for the evening – Orlando Gough chose to introduce the first Exposure evening, featuring snapshots of operas in development, which was held last night …
Tomorrow night is the first night of the Royal Opera House’s Exposure show, featuring two alternating programmes of ‘opera snapshots’. I’m very excited because a piece I worked on (as librettist) is included in the programme. An extract of Cocteau in the Underworld, composed by Ed Hughes, will be performed on Wednesday and Friday nights. …
Here. There’s more to come. My thanks to Norm.
I popped into the offices of Faber and Faber this morning, en route to the British Museum, to sign some copies of A Razor Wrapped in Silk for the winners of the competition I ran last week, and one that Nik Perring ran on his blog to go with the article I wrote for him. …