You are invited to join in an open Zoom discussion about the role of the librettist in new opera today.
Who chooses what stories are told? Does it matter to you who does the telling? Why are the ‘universal’ stories usually told by white men? What is the role of the people who commission and produce new work?
Do writers from diverse backgrounds have to ‘out’ themselves as ‘other’ and does doing so then confine their work to their own lived experience?
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In the heart of the summer 2024, Grimeborn Opera Festival returns from the 14th of August for its seventeenth year of radical opera, featuring seven innovative productions from across the globe.
Feast your eyes and ears, as fashion and song intersect in this lieder recital like no other. Turning the defiant mindset of the 1920s New Objectivity movement towards today’s social attitudes, Rowan Hellier explores the role of symbolism and sensuality in the modern female identity.
Join us for an enchanting evening as we delve into the vibrant world of 18th-century Venice with novelist, Harriet Constable.