The Cumnor Affair

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The Cumnor Affair
An Elizabethan Murder Mystery

Words: Iain Pears, Music Philip Cashian

On 8th September 1560, Amy Robsart was found dead at the bottom of the stairs at Cumnor Place.

She had been left at home by her husband, Robert - Earl of Dudley, while he spent his time cavorting with Queen Elizabeth the First.

Did she fall, or was she pushed…?

Best selling novelist Iain Pears (An Instance of the Fingerpost) and Head of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, Philip Cashian, team up with Tête à Tête’s renowned musical and dramatic forces to create a cliff-hanger of an operatic murder mystery.

Amy Robsart: Amy Carson
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Andrew Rees
Cecil: Robert Gildon
Walsingham: Roderick Earle
Toby: Damian Thantrey
Catherine: Phyllis Cannan

Conductor: Tim Murray
Director: Bill Bankes-Jones
Ensemble: Chroma www.chromaensemble.co.uk

Performances:
Mon 10th Nov 7:45
Wed 12th Nov 7:45
Frid 14th Nov 7:45
Sat 15th Nov 7:45
Sun 16th Nov 2:30

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