A week after the show, and we're still collecting all the pics and videos made by our two 'togs (Sam Paul at the performances and Jasmin Cameron at the dress rehearsal), as well as various of our enthusiastic audience members! Not least thanks to a rigorous testing regime, we made…
Francesca Caccini's dramatic works were lavish court productions, showcasing the vast artistic and financial resources of the Medici court in Florence. We would need a Hollywood budget to stage an analogous production complete with flying machines and complicated on-stage transformations, and the university's Student Experience Fund, which has provided the…
Opera in the early 17th century isn't exactly like the standard pieces known to audiences from the 18th to early 20th centuries, where the soprano sings a lengthy aria hitting top C while ostensibly suffocating in a tomb or dying (usually) of consumption! Instead, the singers are actors first, reciting…
The nine horses (and nine riders) participating in the grand Horse Ballet that concludes the opera have been meeting over the past few weeks, and it's all starting to take splendid shape! The horses have been learning to be comfortable near each other, and the riders, to watch like a…
We are delighted to have received a grant to fund costumes for our Alcina early opera project from the Ambache Charitable Trust. The Trust's purpose is 'to widen the circle of people hearing women's music, and to fuel interest in it.’
After the initial postponement of this opera due to…
