We are so excited about the premiere of The Flying Dutchman! You can be among the first to witness this stunning new production from OperaUpClose, in partnership with Manchester Camerata.
Discover more about the creative team breathing new life into this classic story, and join us for one of three performances between Wednesday 28 June – Saturday 1 July…
Glyn Maxwell – Writer
Glyn is a prolific and celebrated writer of poetry, plays, novels and libretti. He has won several awards for his poetry, including the Somerset Maugham Prize, the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His work has been shortlisted for the Costa, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes. Glyn has written the English libretto (the text used in an opera) for The Flying Dutchman.
Our Flying Dutchman is about loneliness and borders, but so is Wagner’s, and the lines between life and death, love and isolation, welcome and hostility, are the essence of our story.
Glyn Maxwell
Tim Burke – Music Director
British conductor Tim Burke was born in Kingston in 1982. He learned violin and piano from an early age, sang as a Choral Scholar at HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, and trained as a repetiteur (a kind of tutor or coach of musicians, especially opera singers) at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and winning the Sir Henry Richardson Scholarship to study at the National Opera Studio. He went on to join the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, before working as Chorus Master at Opera North. A passionate believer in the importance of new writing, he has, since 2013, been the Music Director for pioneering opera company Tête à Tête. He has conducted for Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, English Touring Opera and Streetwise Opera amongst many others.
Lucy Bradley – Director
Lucy is a director working in the UK and Europe in settings ranging from large-scale Opera houses and regional theatres to site specific locations and drama schools. She makes vibrant, playful, beautiful theatre. Her work is detailed, accessible and full of heart. Lucy works across art forms in Theatre and Opera, she also regularly creates work with participation at its centre. Lucy has worked regularly on new music and world premieres of new pieces, as well as on contemporary works and on the Operatic canon. Lucy has made site specific performance in varied locations including The Corinthia Hotel, Brooklands Museum, The British Museum and Battle Abbey. Lucy wrote the original concept for this version of The Flying Dutchman.
Laura Bowler – Composer
Laura Bowler is a composer, vocalist and Artistic Director, specialising in theatre, multidisciplinary work and opera. She has been commissioned across the globe by ensembles and orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, ROH2, Opera Holland Park, The Opera Group, Manchester Camerata, London Philharmonic Orchestra and more. Laura has written the 8-piece chamber orchestration for The Flying Dutchman.
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