19:00-21:45, Wednesday 24th August 2022
Anspach and Hobday Brewery
Music: Daniel Blanco Albert
Words: Roxanne Korda
This show was part of the fifteenth Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival.
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This trilogy, the first ever opera about beer, tells the story of a medieval brewster living in 1348 AD on the cusp of social change. Besse is in love with beer and the independence it affords her as she follows in the footsteps of the brewsters and goddesses spanning 5000 years before her.
If she does not act fast the power of beer will be taken from her. Against the backdrop of the Black Death and tortured by accusations of witchcraft she navigates through the dangerous world that surrounds her to practice the art of fermentation to its greatest heights.
Age Rating: PG-13
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Produced by Infinite Opera
Venue: Anspach and Hobday Brewery, 118 Druid Street, Bermondsey, London, SE1 2HH
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Music: Daniel Blanco Albert
Words: Roxanne Korda
Director: Marlien Van Liempt/Infinite Opera
Conductor: Daniel Blanco Albert
Music: Daniel Blanco Albert
Words: Roxanne Korda
Director: Marlien Van Liempt/Infinite Opera
Conductor: Daniel Blanco Albert
Besse: Roxanne Korda
Camille: Ed Harrisson
Old Woman: Dalma Sinka
Inquisitor: Hannah Flynn
Hen do/Angry Crowd: Maria Liu, Gee Surridge, Megan Artemova-Thomas, Tina Fung
Ensemble:
Ensemble
Violin: Verena Koay
Viola: Peter Whitehead
Cello: Lucy Samuels
Keyboard: Dominika Blatt
Clarinet: Will Hammond
Percussion: Aidan Hammond