Opera speed dating
Posted on 28 September 2006
Last week I attended an 'opera speed dating' event, organised by Tete a Tete, who are setting up a new Opera Festival. People from all walks of opera life were there, and it was a lot of fun. I was also given about 4 minutes - yes FOUR - to compose 30 seconds of an opera scene, and that included working with a librettist to make the words! At the end of the evening 5 or 6 such scenes were run together, with a connecting piano motive, and the result was a remarkably consistent and decent-sounding new opera!
One of the things the event brought home to me was how, with the closure of ENO Studios and BAC Opera moving on, there were really quite limited possibilities when it came to putting on new opera. Full marks to Tete-a-Tete for doing their best to turn things around.
Update: I just found out the event was covered by The Spectator magazine, you can read it here
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Iris commenting on Opera speed dating:
06 August 2009 at 16:55
ooooh my....my dream is to have a duduk, please tell me how are you proceding with the study!!
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