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, …
His wife was next door when he was killed. A blow to the head; bloody marble bust nearby. Neighbours heard Mahler 8. The Mahler was nothing new. He used it to block out the voices. In point of fact, it was just the one voice he wanted blocked, his wife’s. He found it took …
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 …
His wife was next door when he was killed. A blow to the head; bloody marble bust nearby. Neighbours heard Mahler 8.
The carpenter and the potter had an explosive relationship; fatally so after he gave her one of his old aprons. The coroner’s enquiry delivered a verdict of death by misadventure. But there were those who were not so sure. They first met at the Old Biscuit Factory, a building converted in the nineties into …