2017 Winter Programme
1. Pizza Verdi -Gary Nadeau
When a seemingly routine pizza delivery escalates into a tense operatic game of cat-and-mouse, we soon realize that perhaps there's more to this story than first meets the eye. Giuseppe Verdi provides the soundtrack to this quintessential New York tale.
2. Connection Lost ( The Tinder Opera) - Scott Joiner and Adam Taylor
A wonderfully modern operatic tale of a newly single man’s first steps into the unfamiliar and fickle world of Tinder dating.
3. Incendio - Karen Ackerman and Miguel Seabra Lopes
Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes' mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert's steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.
4. Ruby- Emma Allen
Ruby is an animated self-portrait by British artist Emma Allen. It explores the idea of rebirth and illustrates the transfer of energy from one incarnation to another. Allen's short animation is framed with the musical beauty of the human song.
5. Kai- Stefano Buro
Site specific animation inspired by Japanese Kabuki and the myths surrounding mount Daisen.
6. Something Blue - Scott Joiner and Adam Taylor
An unsound modern love story that exposes everything that's totally bizarre about reality dating & marriage shows.
7. MeTube 1: August sings Carmen Habenara- Daniel Moshel
George Bizet’s Habanera from “Carmen” has been reinterpreted for MeTube and enhanced with electronic sounds. Behind the cross-over of musical styles are director Daniel Moshel as well as opera and oratorio tenor August Schram.
8. MeTube 2 : August sings Carmina Burana: Daniel Moshel
After Elfie and her nerdy son August successfully proved themselves on their home webcam in Metube1, the odd pair venture onto the street to present the biggest, boldest, and sexiest operatic flash mob the internet has ever witnessed.
9. Women Are Fickle - Francesca Levi
Experimental snap shot of a drunken Elvis in a kebab shop in South London boasting about his drunken conquests, framed with the sounds Rigeletto's of La Donna Mobile.
10. The Farewell - Fu Bo
It is April 5th, 1975 in Jiayi, Taiwan, where the bleak dark night is haunted by the white terror. Veteran of the Nationalist Part(KMT), Wenkai, lives alone in a military dependent village and in a delusional stateseeks to reconnect with the Chinese mainland through the sounds of Bejing Opera on a broken radio.
11. Beyond -Eugene Mclosky
This short film includes quotes from Der Freischütz by Weber. The implied presence and landscape is unearthly and supernatural, the updated hidden dark power includes technology.
12. Una Furtiva Lagrima- Carlo Vogele
The last journey of a fish as it sings its own requiem, from its sale at the fish market all the way into the frying pan.
13. My Cadence (Mera Aalaap)- music is the language of my life- Natraaj Maharshi
A musical journey of a ghazal singer Swara, who describes her tale of choosing the path towards her dream unaware of the misleading ride of vices in the urban chaos that clutches her, drowning her into desolation away from her Taanpura (instrument) and her real self. In this phase of destruction, she only realizes to be reborn for her love that she discovers in no human.
1.. 3 Sisters- Leo Chen
2.. Heritage Quarters - A New Vision for an Urban Landscape – Mecury Opera - Darcia Paranda
3.. Essential Tremors- Jaret Martino
4.. Tutti gli Uomini hanno un Prezzo - Andrea Filardi
5. Houseboat - Lynn Dennison
6. And the stars were shining- Gabrielle Esposisto
7. Let our men dance – Hiwa Aminnejad
8. Farwell- Fo Bu
9. Nevicata - Giacomono Catalda
10. Rusalka- Francesca Levi
Official 2018 Selection
Someone Like Me (The Facebook Opera) :Adam Taylor Nathan Fletcher
Aria: Deb Either
Diva: Adam Csoka Keller
Cygnus: Laura Spark
Romance : Giorgi Tkemaladze
Follow Me Down Again: Monique van Kerkhof
The battle of Sohrab and Gordafarid: Mohamad Alamdar
In Limbo: Othniel Smith
Lions Nanny Journey: JunQing DuanMu
Lady Of The House : Brad Schaffer
Ewan Golder: Watch
Blas Payri : Circumvolutions 2
Blas Payri: Despedida
1. Mareta - Blas Payri
2. Easy For Some- Niamh Sauter-Cooke
3. Coffee: An Opera -Edward Loupe
4. It- Giorgos Efthimiou
5. L’eraclito Amaroso- Ryan Rivard & Elyse Anne Kakacek
6. Turandot: A dream in the land of Giacomo Puccini- Giacomo Pellegrini
7. Rhiannon, a summer ballad- Martin Zillner
8. When Bach Meets Elvis - Nadav Amir Himmel
9. Work In Progress- Cristina Grosan
Presenting our wonderful 2020 Selection
Mabelle Sawan: A Birds Waltz. Based on the love triangle in Act II of La Bohème, Marcello the kingfisher is on a quest to win the affections of the beautiful and flirtatious Musetta, but she has her eye on a much older and wealthier bird
Adam Taylor: Rumpspringawakaning. With the help of a failed Broadway actress, a wide-eyed Amish teen sings his way to adulthood on his Rumspringa through New York City.
Peter Sieben: A Day in June - a song cycle in 5 portraitsA traveller is, just before leaving for a new journey, first travelling into his inner world. Trying to find his dream, he's being confronted with an illusion. A Day in June is a new short film opera composed by Marion von Tilzer, that also includes painted portraits and poetry. The project has been inspired by a poem by the Portuguese writer/poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), that is also included in the music.
Helen Jung: The Silent Fall. The Silent Fall is inspired by the iconic aria from the opera, La Traviata. With themes of desire and mortality, our film (filmed on 16mm) is about an ambitious fighter pilot who must face her fate after a devastating plane crash. Shot on location surrounded by 500-ft tall sand dunes, this contemporary silent film is a poignant piece that features minimalist yet surrealist visual storytelling.
Markus Kaatsch: Ich Armer Mensch. A man, caught in a vicious circle of self-accusation and self-pity, tries to find relief by surrendering to a higher entity.
Madina Altynbayeva: Azars Aria. This is a story of of pure eternal but forbidden love between Azhar and Aidar. Despite all of the obstacles they faced, with Abai's help they seemed to stand a chance. This story is from Azhar's perspective.
Frederike Bruijn: Elektra is a film inspired by the Greek family tragedy of Euripides / Sophocles and " Elektra " Richard Strauss libretto Hugo von Hofmannst.
Giorgio Fontana: American Marriage. Leonardo, an Italian immigrant who lives in New York, marries a Latina woman, Nikki, to obtain the American greencard. Through the comedy of it all Nikki and Leo fall in love “for real” but it looks like "Uncle Sam" will be the one to have the last laugh.
Atobe Hiroshi: Playing With Mirror. This film is aming to new interpretation of Noh Playing by the point of view "Person" means "pass(per) the sounds (sona)" in origin.
Dawn Mac Allister: A Concrete Song. Oona Doherty creates a physical prayer celebrating all we have and an invocation for all that we are missing.
Rebecca Morris : Buleria II. Elegant and raw documentary tracking the legendary Flamenco singers and dancers of Jerez Spain.
Harvey Wang- The Cantors Last Cantata
Gordon Le Page- Chloe and The Five Elements
Sjaron Minailo - Undine Act 1 , Act 2, Act 3
David L Bertman- PANDEMIC ! The Musical
Scott Cook- Tutti
John La Bouchardière- The Stag Hunt
Tadeusz Kabicz- Hie Ego Novi
Giorgos Efthimiou- Without Bones
Antonia Bain- The Narcissistic Fish
Alison Pogorelc- Che si può fare?
Frederike Bruijn- Lied van de aarde
Shihyun Wang- Poems By Two Emperor Poets
Nicole Kenley-Miller- A Hand Of Bridge
Omar Jabareen- The Children And The Wolf
Lutz Gregor Il Conte ( Brian Asawa)
Pieter Sieben- A day In June
1. Still Here- Kaye Tuckerman
2. Ghost Singer Genesis- Storm Di Scozia
3. Five Moments- Magdalena Herfurtner
4. Émeilie and Voltaire- Beth Daly
5. Murder- Gordon David Pepper
6. Letters To Our Children- Christopher Ash
7. This Is For You- Emelie Crewe
8. Love Fail- Luke Landric Leonard
9. A Bronx Aria - Adam Taylor
10. Cosair- George Cederquist
11. Mournful Apparitions, Pale Flames- Liz Kiger
12. Beautiful Carnivals -Thiago B. Mendonça
13. Three Romances -Erling Wold
14. Skool Yah- Gino Cyrus
15. I Will Go Faraway- BT Hathaway
16. Full Fathom Five- Deb Ethier
