Grimeborn OPERA FESTIVAL 4 August – 7 September Back for its eighth year, Grimeborn continues to present innovative adaptations of traditional operas, unknown, rarely seen or underappreciated and new works, featuring emerging composers, musicians and artists.
Grimeborn 2014 is supported by
The Hinrichsen Foundation
4, 5, 6 August
STUDIO 2
26, 27, 28 August
STUDIO 2
TKD PROD LTD presents
Size Zero Opera & Ligeti Quartet present
San Domino
Women Box:
by Tim Anfilogoff & Alan Whittaker Director Matthew Gould Music Director James Cleeve
Songs for the M8
Imprisoned for being gay, Carlo, Claudio and friends find a new freedom for love amidst the tragedy and isolation on San Domino.
+ Women Conduct
14, 15, 16 August
STUDIO 2
Operaview presents
The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti Director Natalie Katsou Music Director & Pianist Maite Aguirre Composed in 1946, The Medium invites us to a séance with dark voices, magic tricks and flying spirits. 19, 20, 22, 23 August STUDIO 1 Arcola Theatre presents
Werther by Jules Massenet, French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet & Georges Hartmann Director Aylin Bozok Music Director Philip Voldman
by Anna Meredith
+ Training is the Opposite by Jennifer Walshe by Laura Bowler Associate Director Matthew Monaghan A triple bill of music theatre and opera celebrating the inclusion of Women’s Boxing in the Common-wealth Games, and the rise of the female conductor. 25, 26, 27 August
STUDIO 1
Radius presents
Madame X by Tim Benjamin Director Tim Benjamin Music Director Antony Brannick
29, 30 August
STUDIO 1
Ryedale Festival presents
20, 21, 22, 23 August STUDIO 2
by Monteverdi, New translation by John Warrack Directed by Nina Brazier Music Director Christopher Glynn
Acis and Galatea by Handel Directed and Conducted by Chris Parsons Join the wedding celebrations of Acis, a shepherd, and the semi-divine nymph Galatea, whose delight is doomed when the raging giant Polyphemus discovers their love.
Box Office www.arcolatheatre.com 020 7503 1646 Arcola Theatre 24 Ashwin Street Dalston, London E8 3DL
The Coronation of Poppea
Ryedale Festival Opera return to Grimeborn with Monteverdi’s great-est opera: an ‘immorality tale’ of lust, power and corruption in Imperial Rome.
Tickets and Times Studio 1 performances 7.30pm Studio 2 performances 8.00pm All operas £15 (£12 concessions) See website for full schedule of dates and times.
STUDIO 2
Marsyas Trio, Size Zero Opera & Smoking Apples present
Shadows of Time Music by Mario Lavista, George Crumb & Laura Bowler The protagonists of this performance – shadow puppets and a trio of amplified flute, cello and piano – tell the story of a planet travelling through time in a story of hope and renewal. 1, 2, 3 September
STUDIO 1
Culture-cooperative ExClaM! presents
Aikainen by Miika Hyytiäinen Director Jaakko Nousiainen Aikainen presents the aspects of time. Experience 3D-printed Ocarinas, Möbius strip score, 3D-Norns, real-time composition, performance art and the whole spectrum of the human voice. 5, 6, 7 September
Impoverished, cold and starving: Masetto, a brilliant but impoverished artist, and Zerlina, his love and muse, are being ripped off by his agent and exploited by powerful, wealthy collectors in this bloody Jacobean revenge tale with Baroque musical inspiration.
This opera in four acts tells the story of a young poet, Werther, and his muse, Charlotte, in a tragic tale of forbidden love.
Eboracum Baroque presents
29, 30 August
STUDIO 1
Melos Sinfonia & Helios Chamber Opera present
Façade Music by William Walton Text by Edith Sitwell
+ Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies Text by Randolph Stow & George III Director Ella Marchment Conductor Oliver Zeffman This double bill takes you on a journey into the heart of twentieth-century musical innovation, whilst examining different states of human psychology and what it means to be truly mad.
Grimeborn Funders Circle Members: Daniel Monk, Joe Cullen, Camilla Davies, John McGirr, Julia Eisner, Mehra Rukshan, Neil Watson & Nicholas Murphy.