19:00-19:40, Saturday 3rd September 2022
The Cockpit
Music: Luciana Perc
This show was part of the fifteenth Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival.
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Film performance is a brand new opera exploring the intrinsic physicality of musical performance and the odd comical ways in which we interacted with cameras over the pandemic.
A musical response to the short film Film (a 1965 collaboration between Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton), this work uses microphones and cameras on stage to create electroacoustic sounds and a film projection in real time. Everyday objects featured in Film are brought to the stage and turned into sound-making devices. The show is composed of a series of solos. Each solo focuses on a specific combination of objects featured in the short-film, from a newspaper and a hat to a fish tank and a bird cage, combining the sounds produced with these objects with vocal, instrumental and electroacoustic sounds.
We embrace Keaton’s breathtaking
Age Rating: All ages, but mostly adults
Content Advisory: None. To see content advisories for Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2022 shows, click here.
In a festival of new work, please note that shows can often overrun.
Produced by Luciana Perc
Venue: The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, London NW8 8EH.
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On the same day:
Composer/Director: Luciana Perc
Costume Designer: Eugenia Fiusco
Set Designer: Amara Cooke
Performers:
Soprano: Anna Marmion
Soprano: Katherine Allen
Countertenor: Garreth Romain
Mezzo-soprano: Miranda Ostler
Performer: Hannah Magdalena
Percussion: Lindsey Eastham
Baritone: Thomas Niesser
Mezzo-soprano: Camille Maalawy
Composer/Director: Luciana Perc
Costume Designer: Eugenia Fiusco
Set Designer: Amara Cooke
Performers:
Soprano: Anna Marmion
Soprano: Katherine Allen
Countertenor: Garreth Romain
Mezzo-soprano: Miranda Ostler
Performer: Hannah Magdalena
Percussion: Lindsey Eastham
Baritone: Thomas Niesser
Mezzo-soprano: Camille Maalawy