JOSIE IRELAND

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Autumn Opera Scenes 2022
Milton Court Studio Theatre
December 2022


A selection of excerpts from classical and contemporary operas, performed by First Year students of Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s Opera Studies course (Class of 2024). Taking place on a traverse stage in a black box studio space, the set design was based within a decrepit mannequin factory, with action commenting on the patriarchal images of women often portrayed in opera. With support from Colour Sound Experiment for our hire of Astera Titan tubes to create a modern, industrial space that could transform across time periods. 

Featuring scenes from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro and Die Zauberflöte; Donizetti’s La Favorita; Janáček’s Jenůfa; Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande; Massenet’s Chérubin; Britten’s Albert Herring and Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites.
 
Director: Martin Lloyd-Evans
Music Director: Jonathon Swinard
Designer: Nate Gibson
Lighting Designer: Josie Ireland
Sound Designer: Nick Dyne

Production Electrician: James Calliss
Programmers: Sam Bernstein, Farah Ishaq

Assistant Director: Anne Sutton
Assistant Music Director: Marlowe Fitzpatrick

Photography: David Monteith-Hodge