Giving life to unperformed and underperformed operatic works, inspired by early-C20 collaborations. Recently: The Boatswain's Mate, Treemonisha 💃🏽
London, England
Joined March 2015
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On the birthday of @DameEthelSmyth, @RetrospectOpera is announcing its plan to record her final opera, Entente Cordiale. Read the full statement here: retrospectopera.org.uk/enten…
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Rare image of composer Arnold Schoenberg in his office with lots of bananas, L.A. 1937 probably
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Can't help feeling that ACE is treating opera as a symbol as much as anything else here.
As #BlackHistoryMonth comes to an end, we're remembering our glorious production of Treemonisha, written by Scott Joplin in 1911 but not fully staged until the 1970s. Treemonisha is about a Black community living in Arkansas in the 1880s and reckoning with the legacy of slavery.
ALT Black and white photograph of Scott Joplin, a Black man with short hair, wearing a white shirt and a dark suit and tie.
ALT Photograph by Robert Workman of Spectra Ensemble's production of Treemonisha. The image shows Andrew Clarke, a Black man with black hair and slightly greying stubble, wearing a loose white shirt. His expression is hard and intractable and his arms are crossed. In the background are several other cast members in different postures.
You can learn more about the "genre-defying and epically ambitious" Treemonisha here - especially its range of musical influences, including ragtime, jazz and African-American spirituals.
Watch from around an hour in 🕒
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
Happy #WorldOperaDay!
We're proud to be helping to create an opera world that is more expansive and inclusive - in it stories, its sounds, its aesthetics; for audiences and for those on and off the stage who make it all happen.
Here's to an art form that is full of life ✨
📸 (clockwise from top left): @lidiacrisafulli, @BobWorkman_, @claireshov, Katie Edwards
MT singers! Get your hands on this new release from our friend @shaunaquilina 📚
It's release day!! My book on singing Musical Theatre is now available. I really hope it will help singers unlock their true voice and sing with freedom, expression and impact! amazon.co.uk/dp/1032261595/r… via @AmazonUK
We said goodbye to The Boatswain’s Mate at the weekend! 👋🏼
Thank you to the beautiful @StGeorgesGY for hosting our last performance, and congratulations to the whole company for a fantastic run. We’re proud to have been able to spread appreciation for Ethel Smyth across the UK.
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Preparations continue for @SpectraEns’s performance at @StGeorgesGY tonight! What a pleasure to cruise around the seafront - we cannot wait to meet our audience!
Great Yarmouth, we are ready for you!
We're performing at @StGeorgesGY at 7pm - a few tickets left here: tinyurl.com/boatswainyarmout…
Sadly @Josephine_FG is unwell today for our performance at @StGeorgesGY, but we are very lucky to have @HilaryCronin stepping in to sing as Mrs Waters after having performed the role with us in 2018. Welcome Hilary and thank you for joining us at short notice!
ALT Image of Hilary Cronin, a white woman in a dark purple dress with long blonde wavy hair, smiling slightly. Photographed by Helena Cooke.
Hello Great Yarmouth! 👋🏼
Our advance party has arrived and we are looking forward to performing at @StGeorgesGY tomorrow 🎵
ALT The outside of St George’s Theatre, looking majestic in the evening sun.
ALT Great Yarmouth beach at sunset, with a calm sea and gentle pinks, yellows and blues in the sky. In the foreground you can see what we think is a wooden wave breaker.
We loved performing at @AldeJubileeHall a couple of weeks ago, highly recommend an autumn visit!
Need a culture fix? Live entertainment is in abundance at Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall this October and November. Click on the link below to book your tickets for theatre, music and inspiring talks: 🎭🎼🎻🎤🎸 aldeburghjubileehall.co.uk/w…
Posters like this one inspired the aesthetic for our production of The Boatswain's Mate - so we're very excited to be taking the show to Great Yarmouth this Sunday!
Come and join us at @StGeorgesGY for the last stop on our tour 🏖️
🎟️ tinyurl.com/boatswainyarmout…
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YOU CAN NOW PRE-ORDER QUARTET!!!! amazon.co.uk/dp/0571366104/r…
Very pleased to be able to offer free tickets to young people in Norfolk via @NMHub! The Boatswain's Mate boasts a really interesting range of musical styles; it's fantastically funny, performed in English, and only 80 minutes long - a great first opera 💃
📣 Free tickets for all students aged 10+ and their families! Join @StGeorgesGY for a revival of Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera The Boatswain's Mate on 9th October.
Show info: buff.ly/3UP4U3G
To book free tickets please email [email protected]
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Our friends at @SpectraEns are bringing Ethel Smyth's 1914 opera The Boatswain's Mate to @StGeorgesGY on Sunday 9 October! Join them for a "deliciously sassy" (@guardian) comedy celebrating female empowerment and summer loving.
Tickets: tinyurl.com/boatswainyarmout…