Category: Music Theatre

2018 / Mahogany Opera Music: Laurence Osborn Text: Theo Merz A mother and a son, a son and a mother. Things had to be this way and couldn’t be another. Leon dreams of changing the world with his radical philosophy but the explosive, suffocating, mutually destructive relationship he has with his mother leaves little time…

2016-17 / Mahogany Opera Music, words and visuals Dominic Robertson Rebecca Bottone, Charles Rice, Julien van Mellaerts, Bryan Benner, Katherine Tinker Designer Kitty Callister Video Ed Borgnis Folkestone Fringe Profound Sound / High Tide Festival Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall / mac Birmingham / The Cube Bristol / Norwich Arts Centre / The Yard London / Sound…

2015 / Mahogany Opera Group music Emily Hall text Sjon vocals Sofia Jernberg & Finnur Bjarnason harp Ruth Wall/Helen Sharp electro-magnetic harp John-Paul Gandy lighting Dan Large sound build and design David Sheppard & Jonathan Green Borealis Festival & Bergen National Opera / Kulturhuset Stockholm / Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall / Winchester Discovery Centre / Spitalfields…

2014 / Mahogany Opera Group by HK Gruber conductor Geoffrey Paterson designer Mamoru Iriguchi lighting Cis O’Boyle Gillian Keith, Jessica Walker, Andrew Dickinson, Charles Rice, Sion Goronwy CHROMA orchestra Hull Truck / Norfolk & Norwich Festival / Linbury Studio ROH / Buxton Festival / Bregenz Festival more details here  

2014 / Mahogany Opera Group Three week research and development festival workshopping seven operas Two short films here  

2013 / Mahogany Hermitage St Petersburg, Aldeburgh Festival, Buxton Festival, City of London Festival by Britten musical director Roger Vignoles designer Kitty Callister James Gilchrist, Rodney Earl Clarke, Lukas Jakobski, John McMunn, Samuel Evans Aurora Orchestra  

2012 / The Opera Group by Birtwistle musical director Paul Wingfield designer Anna Jones  

2011 / Glyndebourne by Julian Philips words by Simon Christmas music director Geoffrey Paterson designer Kitty Callister Gabriela Istoc, Andrew Dickinson, Alexander Hargreaves  

2010 / Glyndebourne by Stravinsky conductor Leo McFall designer Kitty Callister lighting Andy May Andrew Dickinson, Charles Rice, Anthony Gregory, David Shaw, Charlotte Stephenson, Aoife O’Sullivan, Natalia Brzezinska, John-Owen Miley-Read  

2009 & 2012 / Glyndebourne by Julian Philips words by Edward Kemp conductor Leo McFall/Gareth Hancock designer Kitty Callister Michael Wallace, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Gabriela Istoc, Andrew Dickinson