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Glare, an operatic thriller by German/Danish composer Søren Nils Eichberg, will have its world premiere in the Linbury Studio Theatre on 14 November 2014, directed by Thaddeus Strassberger.
'I've never done a robot opera before, I've never created a robot before, I've never fallen in love with a robot before; I don't think these are things that you can immediately call upon in a method acting kind of way,' Thaddeus says of directing Glare.
The opera explores a complex web of human relationships through the story of Alex, a young man looking for love who become suspicious that his seemingly perfect girlfriend is actually a robot.
'Glare is a very simple love story that starts on a very hopeful note of new love blossoming,' says Thaddeus, who is making his ROH directing debut in 2014/15. 'The drama that ensues is figuring out and testing out the limits of perfect love versus something that is completely artificial and therefore not perfect.'
'We're all looking for the latest and greatest thing; whether it be a new mobile phone, a new iPad or a new robot girlfriend, the new model is always just around the corner. Perfection is something that's ephemeral and elusive.' says Thaddeus. 'The romantic ideal of finding your one soulmate isn't so much part of our narrative today.'
The opera's premiere will follow Thaddeus's staging of Verdi's I due Foscari on the Covent Garden main stage and is the second of two works from the director during the 2014/15 Season.
Glare runs from 14-22 November 2014. Tickets are still available.
The production is generously supported by the Friends of Covent Garden.
Luca Francesconi's acclaimed Quartett opens in the Linbury Studio Theatre in a new production by John Fulljames on 18 June.
The opera, described by Antonio Pappano as a highlight of the Summer Season, depicts two characters – both lovers and sworn enemies – trapped in a post-apocalyptic world.
'Luca Francesconi's Quartett is a dramatic and shocking reinterpretation of Les Liaisons dangereuses for the 21st century,' says Antonio. 'We haven't heard much of Luca's music performed in London, but I've worked with him in Italy and this is a chance to see a work by a truly significant composer.'
The opera had its world premiere at Milan's La Scala in 2011. It features two fiendishly difficult vocal roles, supported by a chamber orchestra and an ambitious electronic sound design.
Watch an interview with John Fulljames and Luca Francesconi about the production to find out more.
Quartett runs from 18-28 June 2014. Tickets are still available.
The production is a co-production between The Royal Opera, Opéra de Rouen and London Sinfonietta, and is staged with Generous philanthropic support from Mr Stefan Sten Olsson.]]>
Alexander Whitley's The Measures Taken opens in the Linbury Studio Theatre on 15 May.
Alex, who trained at The Royal Ballet School and has danced with Rambert and Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, was appointed Royal Ballet Choreographic Affiliate in 2012. He has previously presented work for Exposure Dance (2012), Draft Works, and a commission for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance.
His latest programme includes the world premiere of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, a piece he began working on during Draft Works last year. The title of the piece references Marshall Berman's book of the same name, which explores modernism and its effect on community and culture.
'I want to explore the pursuit of perfection in classical ballet, contrasted with the failure of that attempt to reach it,' says Alex. 'The third movement references The Sleeping Beauty', says Alex. 'For example, the first step in the third movement is from the famous Rose Adagio. However, each time the characters attempt a classical pose, they fail.
'Similarly, I have chosen three archetypal balletic characters: a prince, a princess, and a jester. When they all perform together in the second movement, there is a sense of it being bit strange and awkward: the jester is the spanner in the works between the prince and princess.'
Performed by Royal Ballet dancers Eric Underwood, Melissa Hamilton and Marcelino Sambé, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is set to Bow to String by Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason.
'There is a powerful undercurrent of dramatic tension in this music and a kind of darkness that appeals to me,' says Alex. 'Even when I heard it for the first time, there was a clear character to each act - each has a very tangible sense.
'The first movement, Sorrow Conquers Joy, is a solo for Marcelino. Marcelino's character is a jester or a fool, but there is an underlying sadness to him; his solo has a crazy, hectic madness, interspersed with quiet, lamenting passages. In contrast, the third movement, a pas de deux with Eric and Melissa, is very tender and moving.'
The titular work of the programme, The Measure's Taken, is performed by the five dancers of Alex's company and set to music by electronic sound artist Rutger Zuydervelt. A collaboration with visual artists Marshmallow Laser Feast, it had its world premiere at the EXIT festival in France this April.
The piece explores society's relationship with technology and how it affects our interaction and self-image.
'The dancers and visuals explore the intimate relationship we have with technology, and the link between technology and power,' says Alex. 'In particular, I allude to the idea of surveillance and the effect an objectifying system of power has in shaping our self-image.'
Particularly intriguing is Alex and Marshmallow Laser Feast's use of games-console technology to allow visual projections to relate to the movement on-stage.
'We are using bespoke software similar to that used by games consoles to track the movements of the dancers and then inform the visuals. Essentially, we have eight Xbox Kinects around the stage that use infra-red light to pick up the shapes of the dancers. It has been a long-time in development due to practical and logistical considerations!'
The Measures Taken runs from 15 to 16 May 2014. The production is sold-out but returns may become available.]]>
Ex nihilo/The Human Edge, two new works by Royal Ballet Choreographic Affiliate Mayuri Boonham, will have their world premiere in the Linbury Studio Theatre on Tuesday 29 April.
Mayuri, who is trained in classical Indian Bharatanatyam dance, is Artistic Director of ATMA Dance and has created two new works for the Linbury: Ex nihilo, performed by seven ATMA dancers; and The Human Edge, performed by Royal Ballet First Soloist Yuhui Choe and Soloist Kenta Kura.
We caught up with Mayuri at the start of rehearsals to find out more:
What has inspired your forthcoming works?
Ex nihilo is inspired by the 'Hymn of Creation' – one of the oldest in a collection of sacred hymns in the ancient Rigveda. It considers moments long before the Big Bang and the creation of matter. The poetry of the hymn is marvellous and I was attracted to its abstract imagery and mysticism. The dance is an expression of some of the ideas contemplated by the Vedic sages.
The Human Edge takes its cue from the Hindu story of Sati, the first goddess who appeared at the mythological moment of creation as embodied energy. The choreography draws on the drama of Sati's life, and her self-annihilation, a metaphor for the life cycle of stars.
Royal Ballet Dancers Kenta Kura and Yuhui Choe in rehearsals with Mayuri Boonham for Ex Nihilo / The Human Edge © ROH / Ruairi Watson
Royal Ballet Dancer Kenta Kura in rehearsals with Mayuri Boonham for Ex Nihilo / The Human Edge © ROH / Ruairi Watson
Royal Ballet Dancers Kenta Kura and Yuhui Choe in rehearsals with Mayuri Boonham for Ex Nihilo / The Human Edge © ROH / Ruairi Watson
Bharatanatyam informs much of your choreography. Can you describe the style?
Bharatanatyam originated in the state of Tamil Nadu and is the oldest Indian classical dance style that evolved in the sacred environment of the temples of South India. It uses the body as a form of expressive geometry, like triangles flowing in three dimensions. It has a codified movement language, and a rich and extensive vocabulary - 28 single hand gestures, 24 double hand gestures, 4 neck movements, 8 movements of the eyes, and so on. It can be physically distinguished from other Indian classical dance forms by its specific deep bend of the knee, which pushes out to the sides; it is similar to a ballet plié but more geometrical, and is sustained during some movements of the dance.
What other styles of dance influence you?
I am influenced by both ballet and contemporary dance; both have helped open up my own style and given me tools and ideas to work with. Last year I saw Marianela Nuñez and Thiago Soares in Onegin and Edward Watson in The Metamorphosis, and I found the physicality of their performances breathtaking. However, I always go back to classical Bharatanatyam when I want to know how to express an idea. It is my touchstone.
The music you're using for the two new works isn't what you might expect Bharatanatyam to be performed to. Can you perform Bharatanatyam to non-traditional music?
Yes. Bharatanatyam is a living, evolving dance form and anything is possible depending on the choreographer's imagination. For Ex nihilo I am using an installation of sound recordings by Bill Fontana. They range from recordings that have captured sounds such as the birth of particles from inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, where scientists reproduce and measure the conditions that existed a billionth of a second after the Big Bang, to recordings from the desert in Abu Dhabi, and an old woman from New York reciting her own take on The Book of Genesis.
In contrast, the music for The Human Edge is composed by MIDIval Punditz, long-term collaborators of mine who specialize in synthesizing classical Indian instruments with electronica. Their music aims to brings emotion to the concluding part of the programme and a harmonizing influence after the abstraction of Ex nihilo.
You have previously worked with Fumi Kaneko, Yasmine Naghdi, Sander Blommaert and Nicol Edmonds. What is it like working with Royal Ballet dancers?
Royal Ballet dancers are highly disciplined and have an extraordinary physical ability that I can use to push the movement material I give them. It is very interesting to see how the physicality of non-Bharatanatyam trained dancers can help power the language in a different way. I think they have found the dance form a little alien, but it is amazing to see how they transform the movement into something completely new.
Yuhui and Kenta are consummate classical artists and it's exciting to be working with some of the best dancers in the world.
Ex nihilo/The Human Edge will be performed on 29 and 30 April 2014. Tickets are still available.
The bill is a co-production with The Royal Ballet Studio Programme.
Autumn Season
Deloitte Ignite 2014
Free opening festival curated by The Royal Ballet and Minna Moore Ede.
Throughout September
BalletBoyz theTALENT (Linbury Studio Theatre)
Former Royal Ballet dancers Michael Nunn and William Trevitt and their award-winning troupe come to the Linbury Studio Theatre for the first time, with an all-new programme.
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 September at 7.45pm
By Kenneth MacMillan
Music: Jules Massenet, orchestrated by Martin Yates
Kenneth MacMillan's acclaimed tragic ballet is a modern masterpiece.
26 September at 7.30pm; 27 September at 12.30pm; 30 September at 1pm
1 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 16† | 25 | 29 October at 7.30pm; 4 October at 2pm and 7pm; 5 October at 12 noon; 11 October at 12.30pm
1 November at 7pm
† Live cinema relay
Scènes de ballet / Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan / Symphonic Variations / A Month in the Country
By Frederick Ashton
Music: Igor Stravinsky / Johannes Brahms / Cèsar Franck / Fryderyk Chopin
The Royal Ballet celebrates its Founder Choreographer, Frederick Ashton, with a mixed programme of some of his finest works.
18 October at 7pm; 22 | 28 October at 7.30pm
4 | 5 | 11 | 12 November at 7.30pm
Ceremony of Innocence / The Age of Anxiety / Aeternum
By Kim Brandstrup / NEW Liam Scarlett / Christopher Wheeldon
Music: Benjamin Britten / Leonard Bernstein / Benjamin Britten
A Scarlett world premiere and two recent works by Brandstrup and Wheeldon: contemporary ballet at its finest.
7 | 13 | 14 | 17 November at 7.30pm; 8 November at 2pm and 7pm
Cassandra NEW (Linbury Studio Theatre)
By Ludovic Ondiviela
Music: Ana Silvera
Choreographer Ludovic Ondiviela and singer songwriter Ana Silvera present a poignant exploration of what it is to be called mad.
30 | 31 October at 7.45pm
1 November at 2pm
Mapping / Document / Christopher Bruce (Linbury Studio Theatre)
By Darshan Singh Bhuller / Ivgi & Greben / NEW Christopher Bruce
Phoenix Dance Theatre
Phoenix Dance Theatre presents a mixed programme including a Christopher Bruce premiere and works by Darshan Singh Bhuller and the choreographic duo Ivgi & Grebem.
25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 November at 7.45pm
Don Quixote
By Carlos Acosta after Marius Petipa
Music: Ludwig Minkus, arranged and orchestrated by Martin Yates
Carlos Acosta's exuberant production of this classic tale of friendship, love and loyalty is bursting with joie de vivre.
25 | 27 | 28 November at 7.30pm
12 | 15 December at 7.30pm; 20 December at 1.30pm and 7pm; 29 December at 7pm; 30 December at 12.30pm
3 January at 1.30pm and 7pm; 5 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 19 | 21 | 22 January at 7.30pm
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
By Christopher Wheeldon
Music: Joby Talbot, orchestrated by Christopher Austin and Joby Talbot
Follow Alice down the rabbit hole in Christopher Wheeldon's thrillingly entertaining ballet.
6 December at 1.30pm (Paul Hamlyn Christmas Treat) and 7pm; 10 | 16† December at 7.30pm; 19 December at 2pm and 7.30pm; 22 December at 12.30pm; 23 December at 1.30pm and 7pm; 24 December at 12 noon; 27 December at 1.30pm and 7pm; 31 December at 12 noon and 5pm
10 January at 7pm; 12 | 15 | 16 January at 7.30pm
† Live cinema relay
The Mad Hatter's Tea Party NEW (Linbury Studio Theatre)
ZooNation burst onto the stage with their family Christmas show, a wonderfully wacky take on the madcap characters of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Previews: 6 December at 12.30pm and 5pm; 8 December at 7pm
9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 December at 7pm; 13 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 27 December at 12.30pm and 5pm; 24 | 31 December at 12.30pm; 28 December at 2pm; 29 | 30 December at 5pm
2 | 3 January at 12.30pm and 5pm
Winter Season
By John Cranko
Music: Kurt-Heinz Stolze after Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
John Cranko's adaptation of Pushkin's verse-novel, set to music by Tchaikovsky, trembles with emotional charge.
24 January at 2pm and 7pm; 27 | 28 | 30 January at 7.30pm; 31 January at 12.30pm
2 | 4 February at 7.30pm; 7 February at 12.30pm; 11 February at 2.30pm and 7.30pm; 16 | 18 February at 7.30pm; 27 February at 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Swan Lake
By Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, additional choreography by Frederick Ashton and David Bintley
Music: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Anthony Dowell's production of the greatest romantic ballet draws upon the opulence of 1890s Russia.
10 | 13 February at 7.30pm; 14 February at 7pm; 19 February at 2pm and 7.30pm; 21 February at 1.30pm and 7pm
13 | 16 | 17† | 18 | 19 | 25 | 26 March at 7.30pm; 14 March at 12.30pm; 21 March at 1.30pm and 7pm
2 | 7 | 9 April at 7.30pm
† Live cinema relay
London International Mime Festival (Linbury Studio Theatre)
The acclaimed annual festival returns to the Linbury Studio Theatre.
TBC January
Murmur / Inked (Linbury Studio Theatre)
By Aakash Odedra
Aakash Odedra dances an exhilarating mixed programme, created in collaboration with choreographers Lewis Major and Damien Jalet.
23 | 24 January at 7.45pm
Draft Works (Linbury Studio Theatre)
By The Royal Ballet
Dancers from within the ranks of The Royal Ballet create and perform experimental new works.
24 | 26 February at 7.45pm
Ballet Black (Linbury Studio Theatre)
The award-winning company presents a dynamic mixed programme from leading choreographers.
10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 February at 7.45pm
Spring Season
Bayadère – The Ninth Life (Linbury Studio Theatre)
By Shobana Jeyasingh
Music: Gabriel Prokofiev
In a new Royal Opera House commission Shobana Jeyasingh reimagines Marius Petipa's India-set classical ballet La Bayadère.
25 | 26 | 27 | 28 March at 7.45pm
The Four Temperaments / Hofesh Shechter / Song of the Earth
By George Balanchine / NEW Hofesh Shechter / Kenneth MacMillan
Music: Paul Hindemith / TBC / Gustav Mahler
Masterpieces by Balanchine and MacMillan frame a world premiere from Hofesh Shechter in The Royal Ballet's thrilling mixed programme.
27 | 30 March at 7.30pm
8 | 10 | 14 April at 7.30pm
La Fille mal gardèe
By Frederick Ashton
Music: Ferdinand Hérold, arranged and orchestrated by John Lanchbery
Frederick Ashton's joyful ballet contains some of his most brilliant choreography.
16 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 28 | 29 April at 7.30pm; 26 April at 3pm
2 May at 2pm and 7pm; 5† May at 7.30pm
† Live cinema relay
Summer Season
Woolf Works NEW
By Wayne McGregor
Music: Max Richter
Royal Ballet Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor presents his first full-length ballet for the Company.
11 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 20 | 21 | 26 May at 7.30pm; 23 May at 12 noon
Afternoon of a Faun / In the Night / Song of the Earth
By Jerome Robbins / Kenneth MacMillan
Music: Claude Debussy / Fryderyk Chopin / Gustav Mahler
The Royal Ballet's mixed programme brings together two of Jerome Robbins's masterpieces with MacMillan's powerful depiction of love and loss.
29 May at 7.30pm; 30 May at 12.30pm
1 | 4 June at 7.30pm
The Architect / mixed programme (Linbury Studio Theatre)
By Kenneth Tindall / NEW TBC
Northern Ballet
One of the UK's leading touring companies visits the Linbury Studio Theatre with a mixed programme.
The Elves and the Shoemaker
By Daniel de Andrade
Northern Ballet
Northern Ballet presents new children's ballet from its award-winning series Short Ballets for Small People.
TBC May
Springboard (Linbury Studio Theatre)
Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance; Verve; Ballet Central; Dutch National Ballet
1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 June at 7.45pm
The Royal Ballet School Summer Performances
12 July at 12 noon (main stage) | TBC July (Linbury Studio Theatre)]]>
Acclaimed UK dance company HeadSpaceDance return to the Linbury Studio Theatre on 16 April to present a new programme of work entitled If Play is Play….
The programme, directed and curated by Charlotte Broom and Christopher Akrill, is comprised of three self-contained pieces, including a dance-drama collaboration with theatre director, playwright and actor Matthew Dunster.
'Matthew has a very strong sense of movement and, although he's not a choreographer, he has a passion and a real eye for it', explains Charlotte. 'He has a very different approach to choreography and has brought a real theatricality to the piece, creating it in scenes as if he were visualizing the dance as a play.'
'He told us all to watch a selection of Woody Allen films in which an over-the-shoulder camera follows the actor through a variety of scenes', says Chris. 'This sense of following a character from space to space is something he wants to re-create in the piece.'
'We used a technique common among actors but new to us in dance', adds dancer Clemmie Sveaas. 'He gave us scripted dialogue, and we had to action each line. The words inspired a certain movement from us, such that the whole script became about actions, and we used that to create a duet.'
Luca Silvestrini, the Artistic Director of dance-theatre company Protein who worked on Three & Four Quarters with the company last year, has also created a piece for If Play is Play….
'We wanted to work with Luca again to bring something from the old into the new', explains Charlotte. 'Luca asks a lot of questions, which creates a very personal piece; the movement he choreographs comes out of the dancers own experiences, beliefs and hopes.'
'We are only in our second day of creation at the moment', says Clemmie. 'We are throwing a medley of ideas into the room and playing with them, exploring what the piece could be. From all of that improvisation, he draws out the best bits, condensing the movement into a structure.'
The programme also includes a new duet by Johan Inger, Associate Choreographer at the Nederlands Dans Theater. Johan, who has been working with HeadSpaceDance in Seville, has created a new piece set to Arvo Pärt's Silouans Song for String Orchestra.
'When we were rehearsing, Johan would often have the music on repeat and be improvising to it and creating material while we were warming up, as if the music was feeding him', says Chris. 'The more times you heard the piece, hidden nuances - instruments, sounds, rhythms - that you didn't hear the first, second or fifth time, became audible which really inspired the creative process.'
HeadSpaceDance made their debut as a company last year with Three & Four Quarters, a programme that was critically acclaimed. This year, the company has expanded to include dancers Gemma Nixon and Jonathan Goddard.
'The Linbury is a very nuturing space and has really encouraged us to develop as a company', says Charlotte, 'and it is great to now have the input, experience and artistic weight of Jonathan and Gemma in the company. We want the company to grow so that we can both extend the relationships we have and create new ones with young dancers and choreographers.'
If Play is Play... runs 16–24 April. Tickets are available. It is a co-production with The Royal Ballet Studio Programme.]]>
Northern Ballet, the UK's busiest touring ballet company, will perform in the Linbury Studio Theatre for the first time on 8 May.
The programme includes Hans van Manen's Concertante, set to Frank Martin's Petite Symphonie Concertante; and Lar Lubovitch's Concerto Six Twenty-Two, which marks Northern Ballet's first work with one of America's leading choreographers. Set to Mozart's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, the ballet is an inventive portrayal of male dance duets.
The programme also features the London premiere of Kenneth Tindall's Luminous Junc•ture. Set to music by Wayne McGregor collaborators Max Richter (Infra/Sum) and Ólafur Arnalds (Dyad 1909), as well as film score composer Hans Zimmer, Luminous Junc•ture is Tindall's second commission for Northern Ballet.
'It is a great thrill to able to showcase the immense talent of our dancers to audiences in Covent Garden,' says Northern Ballet Artistic Director David Nixon. 'I am also delighted for Kenneth Tindall to be staging his work at such a high profile venue. It's very important that we encourage and nurture such talent in our dancers; I'm sure that audiences in London will be seeing a lot more by Kenneth as his star rises in the years to come.'
With 40 dancers in the company, Northern Ballet is one of the UK's five largest dance companies and tours extensively both in the UK and overseas. The company mixes classical dance and theatre, and is renowned for its unique interpretations of classical works. In 2013, the Company performed The Great Gatsby to sell-out audiences at Sadler's Wells Theatre. Other full-length Northern Ballet productions include Cleopatra and Cinderella.
Northern Ballet will perform in the Linbury Studio Theatre from 8-10 May 2014. Tickets are available. Find out more about Northern Ballet's - and other companies' - tour plans on our Tour-watch blog.]]>
Royal Ballet Choreographic Affiliate Mayuri Boonham will create a double bill of new works entitled Ex nihilo/The Human Edge in the Linbury Studio Theatre on 29 and 30 April 2014. Mayuri is known for combining ballet with contemporary bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form.
First Soloist Yuhui Choe and Soloist Kenta Kura will perform in The Human Edge, a piece inspired by the story of Sati, a Hindu goddess who appears at the mythological moment of creation.
Yuhui, who is currently performing as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, has previously created roles for Wayne McGregor (Infra, Limen, Live Fire Exercise) and Christopher Wheeldon (DGV: Danse à grande vitesse). Last Season, she took part in a Twitter Q&A.
Watch her perform the role of the Bluebird in The Sleeping Beauty:
Kenta joined The Royal Ballet in 1997 and has since danced in productions including La Bayadère, Mayerling and Romeo and Juliet. He has created roles in productions including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and DGV: Danse à grande vitesse.
The Human Edge will be performed alongside Ex Nihilo, a piece inspired by the Hymn of Creation from the Hindu text Rig Veda, performed by dancers from ATMA Dance.
Mayuri, who is classically trained in bharatanatyam dance, is Artistic Director and Choreographer for ATMA Dance. Her previous work with The Royal Ballet includes Vāc II, staged as part of Draftworks in April 2013, and Forsaken, a commission from The Royal Opera for the Verdi/Wagner Deloitte Ignite Festival 2013 that featured Royal Ballet artists Yasmine Naghdi, Sander Blommaert and Nicol Edmonds.
As Choreographic Affiliate, Mayuri has had access to rehearsal space at the Royal Opera House, Royal Ballet dancers and mentoring support to create new work. Alexander Whitely, who is also Choreographic Affiliate, will present his new work – The Measure's Taken – in the Linbury Studio on 15 May.
Ex Nihilo/The Human Edge will be performed on 29 and 30 April. Tickets are available.]]>
Gerald Barry, George Benjamin and David Bruce, who all had new work performed at the Royal Opera House last Season, have been short-listed in the British Composer Awards.
The Awards, now in their eleventh year, are presented by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA). Firmly established in the cultural calendar, they shine a spotlight on British composers and work as a catalyst for commissions, performances and broadcasts.
George Benjamin and David Bruce have both been nominated in the Stage Works category, for Written on Skin and The Firework-Maker's Daughter respectively.
Written on Skin, which had its premiere at the 2012 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, was rapturously received when it opened in Covent Garden last Season. Read audience reactions to the opening night. A collaboration with playwright Martin Crimp and directed by Katie Mitchell, the opera is a dark and passionate tale based on a 12th-century Occitan legend. Benjamin's music features rich orchestration, including a glass harmonica, mandolins and cowbells. Find out more about the opera from members of the cast and creative team.
Christopher Purves as Protector, Bejun Mehta as Boy and Barbara Hannigan as Agnès in Written on Skin © 2012 ROH/Stephen Cummiskey
Christopher Purves as Protector and Barbara Hannigan as Agnès in Written on Skin © 2012 ROH/Stephen Cummiskey
Barbara Hannigan as Agnès and Christopher Purves as the Protector in Written on Skin © 2012 ROH/Stephen Cummiskey
Allan Clayton as John, Bejun Mehta as Boy and Victoria Simmonds as Marie in Written on Skin © 2012 ROH/Stephen Cummiskey
David Bruce's The Firework-Maker's Daughter is based on a fairytale by Philip Pullman. The story follows the adventures of Lila, who sets out to discover the secrets of making fireworks. The score, characterized by energy, humour and folk-inspired melody, brings the fantasy to life. The opera, directed by John Fulljames, opened in the Linbury Studio Theatre last Season. Watch an interview with John Fulljames about the production.
James Laing as Hamlet and Andrew Slater as Rambashi in The Firework-Maker's Daughter © Robert Workman
Mary Bevan as Lila, Andrew Slater as Rambashi, James Laing, Amar Muchhala and Wyn Pencarreg as pirates in The Firework-Maker's Daughter © Robert Workman
Gerald Barry has been nominated in the International category for The Importance of Being Earnest. The opera was met with huge acclaim when it had its concert premiere at The Barbican in 2012. Last Season, it opened in the Linbury Studio Theatre with a staging by Ramin Gray. The opera is exuberant bordering on outrageous, and the instrumentation includes megaphones, pistols and wellington boots. Read more about the musical world of Gerald Barry. Read audience reactions to the opening night.
Paul Curievici as John Worthing, Stephanie Marshall as Gwendolen and Alan Ewing as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013
Ida Falk Winland as Cecily and Hilary Summers as Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013
Benedict Nelson as Algernon, Simon Wilding as Lane and Paul Curievici as John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest. © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013
Percussionist Helen Edordu with Stephanie Marshall as Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest. © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013
Benedict Nelson as Algernon and Ida Falk Winland as Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest. © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013
Any works that received their UK premiere between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013 were eligible for nomination for the British Composer Awards in a range of categories. View the full list of nominations.
Winners will be presented with awards at a ceremony on the 3 December at Goldsmith Hall in London, and will be the focus of a BBC Radio 3 broadcast about the Awards on Sunday 8 December 2013.
What is your favourite new opera for 2013?]]>
Just saw the Wasp Factory. Profoundly unsettling, deeply weird, and I'm not sure if I liked it, so I think it was a brilliant adaptation.
— Another Angry Woman (@stavvers) October 2, 2013
The Wasp Factory @RoyalOperaHouse was one of the most extraordinary and exciting performances that I have ever seen. Thoroughly recommended.
— Matthew Rees (@reesmf) October 2, 2013
Wasp Factory the predictable box-ticking exercise. Also about 1 hr too long
— inter mezzo (@inter_mezzo) October 2, 2013
Did the opera version of The Wasp Factory @RoyalOperaHouse *really* omit the crucial plot twist at the heart of the novel, or did I miss it?
— Rory Foster (@Rory_Foster) October 2, 2013
The Wasp Factory was easily the best piece of theatre I've seen. I've walked out feeling equally disturbed and turned on. I need a whisky.
— Alasdair (@AlasdairGH) October 2, 2013
Just saw #waspfactory @RoyalOperaHouse with @jackmaninoff . Loved the amazing set. Great spectacle. Must read the book now!
— Eleanor Banks (@eleanorbanks) October 2, 2013
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What did you think of The Wasp Factory?
The Wasp Factory runs until 8 October. A limited number of tickets are still available.
The production is staged with support from Capital Cultural Fund Berlin and Nordic Culture Point.
What did you think of The Importance of Being Earnest?
The Importance of Being Earnest runs in the Linbury Studio Theatre from 14 – 22 June.Tickets are still available.
The production is generously supported by The John S Cohen Foundation.
Ramin Gray's production of Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest opens in the Linbury Studio Theatre on 14 June.
The opera is exuberant bordering on outrageous, with instrumentation featuring megaphones, pistols and wellington boots. It also includes an ostinato for 40 plates, all of which are smashed by goggle-wearing percussionists. In short, it is a fitting match for Wilde's absurdist comedy of manners.
'When you hear Gerald's music it is - in the best way - like a crazy child let who has been let loose with crayons and scribbled all over the manuscript,' says Ramin. 'The challenge is to keep that bubbly, champagne-like quality you can get off a concert performance, and make it live as a fully staged production.'
Ramin, the former Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre, met Barry at a concert performance of the opera in April 2012.
'Ramin felt it worked so well in concert that one of the tasks of the director was not to screw that up by the wrong kind of staging,' said Barry in an interview with Michael Dervan for The Royal Opera House Magazine, the publication of the Friends of Covent Garden. 'The theatre is written into the music, which is something I did instinctively.'
Following sell-out success at concert performances at the Barbican last April, Barry's fast and furious score has already been hailed as a comic masterpiece. Pushing singers to the extremes of their vocal spectrum, the music careers from distorted snatches of Beethoven and Schoenberg, to fortissimo orchestral eruptions and melodic serenades. In another twist, the aging Lady Bracknell is sung by a bass, delivering the famous line 'A handbag?' as a violent retch.
'Sometimes I think of the opera as being like a jumper that's been turned inside out,' continues Ramin. 'It is the same thing it always was, just seen a different way. This goes right back to what Oscar Wilde's whole process was: the process of paradox, giving you something and absolutely turning it on its head. You re-think it, you re-see it and re-experience it.'
The Importance of Being Earnest runs in the Linbury Studio Theatre from 14 - 22 June. Tickets are still available.
The production is generously supported by The John S Cohen Foundation.
Liam Scarlett's Hansel and Gretel, the choreographer's first full-length narrative ballet, opened in the Linbury Studio last week. Read the audience reaction to the opening night. Based on the popular Brothers Grimm fairytale, the ballet explores the sinister side to the well-known tale.
'The original fairytales are horrific,' explains Liam. 'The story has devious, selfish children, a horrible stepmother, an incredibly cowardly father and a witch that is a cannibalistic monster. I wanted to delve into the darker animalistic side of it.'
Bennet Gartside as The Father and Laura Morera as The Stepmother in Hansel and Gretel © ROH / Tristram Kenton 2013
James Hay as Hansel, Leanne Cope as Gretel, Brian Maloney as The Wtich and Steven McRae as The Sandman in Hansel and Gretel © ROH / Tristram Kenton 2013
Steven McRae as The Sandman and Leanne Cope as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel © ROH / Tristram Kenton 2013
The ballet, which features an original score by Dan Jones and designs by Jon Bausor, is set in the style of a 1950s horror movie. Watch an interview with Jon Bausor to find out more about the set.
There are only six characters in the ballet, and Liam worked closely with the dancers to create the roles.
'It's been a real collaborative process,' he explains. 'I want the dancers to feel comfortable with the characters that they are creating so they are not imposed or superficial at all.'
The first cast featured Leanne Cope as Gretel, James Hay as Hansel, Laura Morera as The Stepmother, Bennet Gartside as The Father, Brian Maloney as The Witch and Steven McRae as The Sandman.
'They are six dancers that I admire and have worked with a lot,' Liam continues. 'I know them inside out and back to front, and they know me as a choreographer. I've been able to really push them to their limits."
Hansel and Gretel returns in the 2013/14 Season]]>
A new opera based on the Philip Pullman children's novel of the same name, The Firework-Maker's Daughter has been adapted for the lyric stage by director John Fulljames.
'It feels like the dream book to take as the starting point for an opera,' says John, 'it's got a fantastic story, it's full of magical adventure, and it takes place in a fantasy world which is ideal for setting to music.'
The opera examines at the relationship of the young Lila who desperately wants to be a firework-maker like her father, but he claims it is no job for a girl. She runs away to learn the trade, meeting pirates, tigers and the terrifying Fire-Fiend on the way. 'She goes on a journey to the ends of the world in order to prove to herself, as well as to her father, what she can achieve.'
John's production reflects one of the inspirations behind Pullman's original, Balinese shadow puppetry, while composer David Bruce's music is folk-inspired: 'It's impossible not to smile when you hear it'. The director promises a fun theatrical spectacle for audiences.
The Firework-Maker's Daughter runs from 3 - 13 April 2013 in the Linbury. Tickets are still available.]]>
English Touring Opera (ETO) are to present a trio of works in the Linbury as part of their Autumn tour.
'The company will stage Britten's comic classic Albert Herring; a pairing of Victor Ullmann's jazz-tinged black comedy The Emperor of Atlantis and Bach's sublime cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden; and Peter Maxwell Davies' ghostly thriller The Lighthouse. Ticket-holders to the Ullmann/Bach evening can also attend the inaugural performances of Towards an Unknown Port, a new song cycle by Helen Chadwick, as part of ETO's programme of free events for ticket-holders before the performances. The songs will feature lyrics adapted from poems written by children in the Terezín concentration camp, alongside children's accounts of the Balkans conflicts.
The upcoming ETO residency is the latest example of ROH2 working with other companies to further the artforms of opera and ballet as well as share skills through collaboration. Previous visiting companies include Opera East, Music Theatre Wales, The Opera Group and Ballet Black.
The country's foremost touring opera company since their formation in 1979 under the name Opera 80, ETO have long been a proving ground for up-and-coming artists and directors. Singers whose careers began with the company include Sarah Connolly and Jonathan Veira. ETO also staged early work from the likes of Richard Jones, whose production of Gloriana will be on the main stage later in the season, and Robert Carsen, who recently directed Falstaff at Covent Garden.
ETO adopt a hands-on approach to their work with Chief Executive James Conway also directing some of their shows. As part of their Linbury residency, James will be directing The Emperor of Atlantis.
View pictures from rehearsals ahead of ETO's residency:
The company also have a strong education output and current projects include a project with the National Portrait Gallery, inspiring operatic responses from primary school pupils to artworks in the gallery's collections, as well as a new opera for children based upon the story of Laika - the first animal in space.
Find out what happens behind the scenes at ETO.
English Touring Opera will be resident in the Linbury from 4 - 13 October 2012. As part of their Autumn tour they will also visit Cambridge, Exeter, Tunbridge Wells, Harrogate, Bath, Aldeburgh, Malvern and Buxton.]]>
A collection of celebrated choreographers and dancers have joined forces to create a dynamic programme of solos, duets and trios entitled Three & Four Quarters.
The programme is the debut of fledgling dance company HeadSpaceDance. The company, which brings together producer-performers to create original new work, is the brainchild of long-term collaborators Charlotte Broom and Christopher Akrill.
"Usually it's the choreographer that picks the dancers," Charlotte explained, "but because we've been working in dance for a long time, we've established relationships with a lot of choreographers. We thought that perhaps we could reverse the roles so that the dancers get to choose the choreographers."
The show, danced by Charlotte and Christopher alongside fellow dance artist Clemmie Sveaas, features new pieces by choreographers Javier de Frutos, Luca Silvestrini and Didy Veldman, as well as the UK premiere of Mats Ek's Light Beings, which was first performed in Sweden in 1991.
Maverick choreographer Javier De Frutos recently collaborated with pop legends Pet Shop Boys for the award-winning The Most Incredible Thing, in which Charlotte, Christopher and Clemmie all performed. In stark contrast, his latest work sees Javier opting to set his piece, Studies in M, to a concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach.
The four-piece bill features a diverse range of dance, from theatrical cabaret sequences to contemporary twists on ballet. View some of shots of the dancers in rehearsal:
For each piece, the dancers gave the choreographers a basic brief, and then worked closely with each to develop the piece.
"It has been very much a joint process," said Christopher. "The three new works have really been drawn from us. For example, Didy asked us to write down a five-minute stream-of-consciousness blurb of whatever thoughts or stresses we had, and created solos for each of us based on that text."
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The entire production team - from set designer Fabrice Serafino to lighting specialist Simon Bennison - have all worked with Charlotte, Christopher or Clemmie previously.
Christopher and Charlotte previously performed at the Royal Opera House in Cathy Marston's Ghosts, which premiered in 2006, and William Tuckett's Pinocchio. View photos of these productions
Charlotte Broom as Mrs Alving, Omar Gordon as Pastor Manders, Clemmie Sveaas as Young Mrs. Alving in Ghosts. ©Dee Conway/ROH 2006
Three & Four Quarters will have its world premiere on Friday 7 September at the Linbury Studio Theatre and runs until Tuesday 11 September. Tickets are now on sale.]]>
Last Sunday 40 children aged 8-9 years old took over the Linbury Studio Theatre with Chance to Dance. They were performing Jam Tomorrow, a new ballet by Royal Ballet Soloist Kristen McNally.
Kristen, working with children for the first time, guided them through the themes and characters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, harnessing the children's imagination and sense of fun, allowing them to be themselves every step of the way.
The result was magical. The children, joined on stage by Royal Ballet dancers James Wilkie and Iohna Loots, danced their way through Wonderland – the flower garden, the sea of tears, clocks and doorways – to distract the 'parents' from eating the last jam tart!
Beforehand, backstage was buzzing with nerves and excitement, but once the show started natural performers were born. The children owned the stage and their personalities shone through as they brought Wonderland to life. The cherry on top was the reaction to Sunday's performance: the children's families were brimming with pride.
This is the first time a dancer from The Royal Ballet has choreographed for Chance to Dance, a company that offers children the opportunity to experience dance creatively. The annual performance is when everything starts to click into place. Children see the results of their hard work and get a full picture of the world of dance. With inspiration from dancers like Kristen, we see transformations takes place.]]>


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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – Hundreds of activists for immigration reform rallied Saturday at an Ohio office of House Speaker John Boehner to urge his support for a plan that includes a path to U.S. citizenship.
Civil rights activists, labor leaders, religious leaders and others want Boehner to push for immigration changes that include a path for citizenship that they say will help the economy and families.
Boehner and other Republican leaders in the House have been trying to decide how to move forward on immigration after the Senate passed a comprehensive bill that included a path to citizenship for 11 million people already in the country illegally.
The rally drew people from the local area and from out of town, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
We're here to ensure that pathway to citizenship is part of a bill that emerges and gets voted on quickly, the Rev. Troy Jackson, director of Ohio Prophetic Voices, told the crowd.
Ester Arteaga, 41, of Louisville, Ky., also attended the rally.
Arteaga, a U.S. citizen naturalized from Guatemala two years ago, said she attended in an effort to help ease the path for others who want to live peacefully and work in America.
Some Republicans have favored a narrower path to citizenship. Boehner is among those who have embraced legislation to offer citizenship to some immigrants brought here illegally as children by their parents. Opponents of that plan have said it would split families.
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FRIDAY, May 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of stillbirth among pregnant women greatly increased following hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a new study shows.
Katrina struck Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005, and Rita struck on Sept. 24 that same year. Both hurricanes caused widespread property and infrastructure damage, along with many deaths and injuries.
In this study, researchers investigated the risk of stillbirth among pregnant women in damaged and undamaged areas in the 28 months after Katrina struck.
Compared to undamaged areas of Louisiana, the risk of stillbirth was 40 percent higher in areas where 10 percent to 50 percent of housing had been damaged, and more than twice as high in areas were more than 50 percent of housing had been damaged, according to Sammy Zahran and colleagues from Colorado State University.
After accounting for other known risk factors, the researchers calculated that every 1 percent increase in the extent of damage to housing was associated with a 7 percent rise in the number of stillbirths. Based on those figures, the investigators concluded that up to half of the 410 stillbirths in extensively damaged areas may have been the direct result of the hurricanes and the damage they caused.
Their estimates suggest that stillbirths accounted for about 18 percent to 30 percent of all the deaths that occurred in the wake of the hurricanes, according to the study published online May 8 in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
Previous research has found a link between stress, depression and mental trauma in pregnant women and increased risk of birth complications, including stillbirth, the study authors said.
They noted that climate change could lead to more and stronger hurricanes, resulting in increased risk to pregnant women and their unborn babies.
Although the study has found an association between hurricanes and the risk of stillbirth, it can't definitively prove that the storms were the cause of the increase in stillbirths.
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- Jamey Johnson, Eric Church, and The Grascals are joining Hank Williams, Jr. for his Rowdy Friends Tour. The initial round of dates will kick off April 2.
- Blake Shelton's list of the top six words that should never be used in a country song concludes with "badonkadonk."
- Ken Tucker has a new favorite and her name is Sarah Buxton. Read his interview with her on his blog Plain Speak.
- Austin Music Source's Michael Corcoran, a self-confessed snob of black gospel music, scorned the new Patty Griffin record:
Patty Griffin is an amazingly athletic singer and her fans will love her attempt to get next to God on "Downtown Church," recorded at a Presbyterian one in Nashville. But there's no growl in the gal. Praising a higher power who can't get the electricity turned back on takes an innate quiver or twist that, like Lady Soul, Griffin just doesn't have. Don't know why she thought she could bring something fresh to "If I Had My Way" and "Wade In the Water." When the Staple Singers did those songs in the '60s, they were done. Produced by Buddy Miller as if he has too many albums and loves them all, "Downtown Church" is often divinely stirring but lacks a deep spiritual core.
Be sure to watch tonight at 7 Central as Livestream broadcasts a few live performances from Griffin.
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Blake Shelton's list this week is a kick in the pants. He has set the bar pretty high this go round.
Tralier's BadAss O-Meter is spot on yet again!Being "vertically challenged" is Justin Moore's achilles heel!
Nice to see Ken Tucker climb aboard the Sarah Buxton fan train. Someone should give him a copy of Sarah's unreleased debut disc from Lyric Street from a couple years back as I prefer those songs over her more recent material, except for "Outside My Window" that is.
In Craig Shelburne's article on Shelby Lynne he says her "Restless" album swings. I've not heard that album but is it possible he was referring to her fantastic "Temptation" western swing album instead? If "Restless" is anything like "Temptation" I'll pick up a copy!
"Randy Foster on Zane Williams: "He has the wordsmith chops of a young Guy Clark and the melodic sense of Rodney Crowell."" The enthusiasm built up by the former half of that description was completely deflated by the latter. Oh well…
I think Hank Jr.'s tour should include Blake Shelton…not Eric Church! Blake is pretty stinking rowdy if you ask me!
FLATT, not "Flatts"
That Rowdy Friends tour is looking pretty good – with the possible exception of an Opry encounter, I believe it'll be the first chance for folks to catch Jamie Johnson and Jamey Johnson.
Last of the Stringduster residency at the Station Inn tonight – http://bit.ly/bzjlva .
They just GOTTA bring that Rowdy Friends tour a little farther north. I think I choked a little when I read that bit of news (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Jamey Johnson and Eric Church – two of the best songwriters going right now, with old Bocephus to guide them along?? Good gravy – THAT is going to be awesome!!!!
David Ball! Awesome. Very underrated artist, I can't wait to hear some more stuff from him, especially after "Freewheeler".
Im gonna see hank april 9th in bossier city and i rly want to know if jamey johnsons gonna be with him that day or not please help
The rowdy friends tour would be unreal to attend. I saw Merle, Jamey, and Church this past summer at Hodag in northern Wisconsin. Seeing Bocephus one time would be amazing. Jamey is by far my favorite artist, not to mention plays the best show in country music right now and Church is a great songwriter.
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The staff we're very helpful and friendly. The location was perfect, a two minute walk from restaurants, shops, the tram.
The double bed was two single beds pushed together , this is not ideal for a couple as the beds kept separating
Excellent service of the staff. Sometimes too noisy at niht
Service, breakfast - good and reasonable
I booked this hotel as a surprise for my boyfriends 21st for uproar in the dam weekender. Me and my boyfriend loved this hotel! The room was spotless, and exactly what I asked for. 2 minute walk from the centre with easy access to the tram stops to get over to the station, red light district and dam square however only a 20-30 min walk away. The guys who work at the hotel were great. Let us keep our luggage in the kitchen until our room was ready and after we had checked out so we could go do some site seeing before our transfer. All in all an excellent stay!
Our room was on the fourth floor which meant a cracking view but with no lift the stairs were heart attack material. They are the steepest stairs ever but it is the same every where in amsterdam. Also the drains get a bit smelly at certain points in the day but the canals are everywhere you go so no surprise.
Cool design Good location - close to both the old part of the city and the new one Friendly staff Ipod/Iphone dock station with radio in the room Cool bar downstairs with 1 euro billiards
Shared bathroom Sink is located right in the room It can be really noisy at night from the trams going by right under the window and drunk companies returning from nearby bars Beds tend to slide aside forming a gap between them 2 lamps were not working
Helpful friendly staff
Those stairs. ....wow
The staff were amazing very helpful
My room had half a curtain missing meaning people could see in
V friendly staff .... Quirky place, definitely go again.
Extremely close proximity to Melkweg (was in Amsterdam to see a band). Clean room/bathroom, comfortable bed, good facilities.
Stairs, but that can not be avoided!
No elavator,
Very friendly stuff
The room was in the cellar, so it was a bit noisy because of the street.
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Where do I start? First of all this place is a hostel posing as a hotel. Our room was dark, we found a cigarette under our bed in a non-smoking room and when my friend opened her duvet she found a spider. We were in the basement so apparently according to the guy at reception "spiders are common". In a hotel. Our room smelt bad, it was dark, there was no television, we could hear the traffic on the road and to add insult to injury, they kept us up all night because the walls are paper thin and we could hear the people upstairs moving around. Worst of all the bathrooms are shared. It was like staying in the worst hostel but at EUR145 per night. This will go down as undoubtedly the worst hotel experience of my life
Great location.
The atmosphere and presentation in both the shared sections and the rooms are amazing. The staff are friendly and helpful. I would recommend this hotel but maybe not the top floor
It wasn't a fantastic nights sleep two people to sleep on the "twin" share beds and the stairs are difficult with bags
Stuff was really helpful Location is awesome
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Location was awesome staff was helpful bar is great one of the best I've stayed in
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Locations was good, fairly close to museums and the tram station
My room was in a basement, I found dirty towels on the floor of my room upon entrance, very damp, poor lighting, poor ventilation, the shared bathrooms are not big enough; I strongly believe that you can certainly can find something better for the price you pay, staff was friendly though.
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- Anonymous4 February 2012 15:00
So I'm in the Uk where they don't have chicken pox as part of the routine vax schedule, so I took my child to a private clinic and paid £130 pounds for it. This 'clinic' turned out to be some woo-fest that offered measles, mumps and rubella individually for some crazy amount of money, plus a lot of other nonsense 'treatments'. The only problem was they said they didn't currently have the mumps vaccine, so parents wanting MMR individually were realy only getting measles and rubella. So I was sitting in the waiting room eavesdropping on the receptionist obviously talking to a potential client about the 'individual' MMR. When she got to the bit about there not being any mumps vaccine available there was a long pause. Then the receptionist said 'Well, I had it as a child' Implication: 'I'm sitting here talking to you, so it can't be THAT bad, right?' I suppresed the urge to grab the phone out of her hands and scream 'why are you asking a receptionist at a chelation therapy clinic for pediatric medical advice??'ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5 February 2012 00:32
I think that receptionist said the right thing to say. In any case, they couldn't offer that vaccine, then why exacerbate the concern? If you can get an MMR shot, perfect, if not, the world won't end. There are much more serious infectious diseases around, and in many cases there's no effective vaccine available, and still affected people don't whine for it! In my case, I wasn't vaccinated of any of the MMR when I was a child and I'm still alive, I've been lucky and I 've never been infected with any contagious disease. Who knows, perhaps I'll suffer Alzheimer at 60. In life you can't give anything for granted.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5 February 2012 04:36
Yes - you were LUCKY. Some people aren't so lucky - like those unborn babies exposed to rubella in utero. Look it up. The receptionist is an idiot and a con artist. The MMR is available to EVRYONE for FREE on the NHS in the UK. The clinic was cashing in on the residiual fear from that crank Andrew Wakefield's entirely specious claims about the combined MMR. As a result, the private doctor is getting rich off scared, ignorant parents and more people get mumps - all for no fxxxing good reason. Reprehensible.ReplyDelete
I don't think the receptionist was right to say that - one persons experience is no match for studying how the virus effects an entire population. I guess it is correct to say that mumps generally is not life threatening but even that statements hides a lot of - albeit rare - danger: encephalitis, painful testicular swelling and even miscarriage. And what about those people who immunosuppressed?ReplyDelete
To the second person, the people who live in countries that are continuously at risk from dangerous infection do cry out for vaccination. Look at dengue virus in South-East Asia, measles in sub-Saharan Africa and also worldwide HIV infection.
To summarise: the MMR affords us an incredibly safe and effective means to control three serious infections across the world.
- Anonymous5 February 2012 09:12
Conor, I didn't realize until I read your 'about' section that you're in Belfast, too. The clinic I referenced is in Belfast - on the Cregagh Road - that's all I'm going to say. - First AnonymousReplyDelete
I assume you're talking about Synergy Healthcare (http://www.synergyhealthcareni.com/). These guys are well known for this kind of stuff (along with autism treatment with chelation therapy) but yeah they do offer the single vaccines except they can no longer source the individual mumps vaccine. They do however state that you should get your child all three, which is kind of funny given the best option for you to do so is through the MMR.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5 February 2012 11:07
Yep - that's them. When the doctor was preparing the CP vax for my child, he launched into a 'warning' about how 'too many vaccines' were given to children 'too young' and recommended I read some literature around the topic. Er, sure, whatever: I tried to strike the right balance between polite but unreceptive. His unease with vaccines didn't preclude him from taking my £££ for administering the vaccine.ReplyDelete
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