19:00-19:30, Thursday 8th August 2019
Music: Isabella Gellis
Words: Julia Schofield, transcribed and adapted by Isabella Gellis
The eccentric musings of an eight-year-old and her ten stuffed animals come to life in this one-woman chamber opera that toddles between the silly and the surreal. The libretto is an exact transcription of a video the composer’s sister had secretly made in their shared bedroom years earlier. It’s a truly fantastical, wacky story, in which fairy-tale tropes and hallmarks of children’s TV shows are enacted by a cast of animals: a virtuosic undertaking for the singer, who has to inhabit all eleven characters. Come witness childhood fantasies become a reality in this eclectic, joyful opera.
Produced by All The Townsfolks
The Place, 17 Duke’s Road, London, WC1H 9PY
Music: Isabella Gellis
Words: Julia Schofield, transcribed and adapted by Isabella Gellis
Director: Gareth Mattey
Julia: Lotte Betts-Dean
Julia as The King
Julia as The Queen
Julia as The Daughter
Julia as Coffee
Julia as Elephontia/Master Toot
Julia as Guard Goffalona
Julia as Guard Zigzag
Julia as Bella
Julia as Frog
Julia as Googles
Julia as Narrator
Conductor: Elias Peter Brown
Also on the same day
Music: Isabella Gellis
Words: Julia Schofield, transcribed and adapted by Isabella Gellis
Director: Gareth Mattey
Julia: Lotte Betts-Dean
Julia as The King
Julia as The Queen
Julia as The Daughter
Julia as Coffee
Julia as Elephontia/Master Toot
Julia as Guard Goffalona
Julia as Guard Zigzag
Julia as Bella
Julia as Frog
Julia as Googles
Julia as Narrator
Conductor: Elias Peter Brown