Gardens Open 14:00 Performance Runs 17:00-19:10
Sunday 3rd July 2022
Prideaux Place, Padstow, Cornwall, PL28 8RP
There are additional performances of this show at The Minack Theatre on the 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th, 29th June & 1st July.
Music: David Bruce
Words: Glyn Maxwell
Based on the novel by Philip Pullman
A Minack Production in association with Tête à Tête
In a faraway land lives Lila, who doesn’t want to be just a firework-maker’s daughter, she dreams of becoming a firework-maker herself. But to complete her apprenticeship, she must learn the most difficult and dangerous secret of all – the one that her father refuses to tell her. So, she starts off alone on a journey harder than she could possibly imagine, a quest for hidden knowledge … an adventure through which she will learn so much more than the secret she sets out to discover.
Philip Pullman weaves a magical tale of goddesses and demons, pirates and lovesick elephants that is both enchanting and profound, a landscape that is captured perfectly in David Bruce’s vibrant music and Glyn Maxwell’s witty libretto. Commissioned by the Royal Opera House the opera premiered in 2013 and was nominated in the 2014 Olivier Awards for Best New Opera Production.
Originally commissioned by The Opera Group and ROH2
By arrangement with Red Balloon Music, publisher
Sole Agent: Bill Holab Music
You can read a programme for The Firework-Maker’s Daughter here.
Venue: Prideaux Place
Tickets will give you and your guests access to the gardens from 14:00, the performance will begin at 17:00 and there will be a 30 minute interval. The auditorium is the lawn so please bring your own rugs or seats and enjoy your own picnic or a little something from the Prideaux Place, The Terrace Menu, tearoom.
Music: David Bruce
Words: Glyn Maxwell
Based on the novel by Philip Pullman
Director: Bill Bankes-Jones
Musical Director: Patrick Bailey
Designer: Sarah Booth
Lila: Lixin Liu
Chulak: Ryan Vaughan Davies
Hamlet: Feargal Mostyn-Williams
Lalchand: William Dalzeley
Rambashi: Andrew Slater as Rambashi
Instrumentalists: Kevos
Flute: William Sleath
Clarinet: David White
French Horn: Jacqueline Kershaw
Violin: Philip Montgomery Smith
Double Bass: Zoë Curnow
Percussion: James Robinson
Percussion: Ross Hamilton
Harp: Esther Beyer
Accordion: Karen Street
The Firework-Maker’s Daughter is produced by the Minack Theatre in association with Tête à Tête.