Will Reynolds at Metta Theatre sent me through a clip of the video sequence he and Poppy Burton-Morgan produced for the recent performance of Cocteau in the Underworld at the Linbury Theatre. I thought I’d share them: Loren O’Dair as Eurydice. Eurydice again, with burning candle and book. “Eternal Orpheus, more voice than man…” …
I have a piece on the difference between writing crime novels and librettos over on the faber blog, the thought fox. For more about the opera here. More about my latest crime novel here.
… 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. …