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There are few greater thrills for a fan of any art form than discovering a hitherto lost classic, either an entirely new discovery or a long-forgotten favourite. For many fans of music, film, theatre, painting or sculpture; finding works, artists, and composers new to us is what stimulates our appetite for art.
For opera fans, the art form's 400 year-long history offers plenty of opportunity for rediscovering works, attested to by regular news reports of newly-unearthed works or alternative versions, swiftly dusted off and performed for the first time in centuries.
Look a little closer and even works and composers that are now mainstays have been through the process of rediscovery:
Perhaps the most famous example of the change in fortune of an entire section of a composer's oeuvre is that of Gioachino Rossini's forgotten operas. Upon his death, Rossini was one of the most famous composers in history thanks to a string of comic hits including Il barbiere di Siviglia. With his passing, however, his more serious operas including Guillaume Tell and La donna del lago experienced a wane in popularity, only finding favour again in the mid-20th century.
Johann Sebastian Bach, who alongside Rossini is one of today's most popular composers of the modern day, also experienced a decline in popularity. His Baroque style was regarded as old fashioned in the years following his death and it took another composer - Felix Mendelssohn - to bring him back into performing repertory. Mendelssohn's 1829 performance in Berlin of Bach's oratorio St Matthew Passion was a landmark in the composer's reputational rehabilitation.
Bach's decline and rise again is symptomatic of the trend among wider Baroque and early music composers. L'Ormindo, the Francesco Cavalli opera so memorably staged by The Royal Opera at Shakespeare's Globe's Sam Wanamaker Playhouse last Season, was neglected for 323 years until Glyndebourne presented it in 1967. Monteverdi's Orfeo – now widely regarded as the first great opera – suffered a similar fate, neglected from the 1650s until its first public airing two and a half centuries later in 1904.
Though the aforementioned waxings and wanings of fortune have occurred over entire centuries, shorter time-frames also offer scope for flux: Leoš Janáček was well respected during his own lifetime in his native central Europe but his music became better known internationally through the championing of Australian conductor Charles Mackerras; and Weill and Brecht's opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny has proved a stellar example of nominative determinism in action. The opera, first performed in 1930,was not staged in the United States - the country whose ideals it critiques so sharply - until 1970. The anti-capitalist undercurrent of the work no doubt contributed to its stint on the operatic sidelines during the Cold War.
Such changing fortunes aren't only in the past, just take a cursory look at sites like Operabase or the programmes of recent BBC Proms programmes. Early 20th-century British works by composers like Ralph Vaughan-Williams and George Lloyd are currently enjoying a revival, and central-European composers like Król Roger composer Karol Szymanowski are finding new audiences following the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Of course, historic works are only one side of the coin. For any opera company - and indeed for the art form to advance creatively - it's important to commission and programme new works too. This is an approach taken by the Royal Opera House with a commitment to new opera that has included Written on Skin and Through His Teeth. The staging of Søren Nils Eichberg's 'robot opera' Glare, a work that - within the framework of an established artistic tradition - explores current issues through a contemporary sound-world.
It's this fusion of classic and contemporary which has led to The Royal Opera teaming up with publishers Pushkin Press. They will be giving away specially-selected books from their catalogue at performances of Glare, placed on the seats of lucky audience members. Like The Royal Opera, an important part of Pushkin Press's work is rediscovering previously-unknown masterpieces, alongside exciting new works. Among other authors they've been instrumental in championing the work of Stefan Zweig, the writer whose work inspired Wes Anderson's film The Grand Budapest Hotel. So, if you're going to a performance of Glare, make sure to look on your seat before you fix your gaze on the stage; both book and performance will reflect the importance of past as well as present in the artistic experience.
Glare runs from 14-22 November 2014. Tickets are still available.
The production is generously supported by the Friends of Covent Garden.
Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia and Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro
Inspired by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais' Le Barbier de Séville and Le Mariage de Figaro
Beaumarchais's three satirical 'Figaro' plays guaranteed him lasting fame – particularly the first two, immortalized in opera by Rossini and Mozart. The irrepressible energy of Le Barbier de Séville (the first and most lighthearted of Beaumarchais's comedies) proved irresistible to Rossini, who in Il barbiere created a comic masterpiece. In Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart focussed primarily on the most human aspects of Beaumarchais' second 'Figaro' drama (while keeping plenty of the original's humour), to create one of the warmest and most life affirming works in Western art.
Donizetti's Maria Stuarda
Inspired by Friedrich von Schiller's Maria Stuart
In his great political drama Maria Stuart, Schiller criticizes monarchical absolutism and highlights the dangers of power, embodied in the character of Elisabeth I, who sends her cousin Maria Stuart to death without a fair trial. Donizetti and his librettist Giuseppe Bardari kept much of the play's essential message in Maria Stuarda; but they also removed the complicated political subplots, and created a love triangle between the Duke of Leicester and the two queens. Schiller's explorations of the dangers of absolute power, the benefits of democracy and the heroism of freedom-fighting also provided inspiration for Rossini (in Guillaume Tell) and Verdi (in Don Carlo).
Verdi's Rigoletto
Inspired by Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse
Hugo's great drama depicting the amorous exploits of King Francis I of France was banned after just one performance in 1832, due to its unflattering depiction of a French monarch. When Verdi came across the play in 1850 he described the subject as 'grand, immense' and the character of the crippled jester Triboulet (who became Rigoletto) as 'one of the greatest creations in theatre'. He and his librettist had to fight energetically with the Italian censors to get permission to use Hugo's play – necessary amends included changing the King into a lower-ranking Duke and moving the action from France to Italy. However, much of the play's plot and dramatic tone remained intact. Rigoletto was a sell-out success and is still one of the most popular of all operas.
Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande
Inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande
Maurice Maeterlinck's fantastical Symbolist plays are rarely performed today, but his Pelléas et Mélisande was hugely popular in the 1890s. Maeterlinck's aesthetic – the exploration of characters' inner feelings through elements of the natural world, often in a fairytale-like setting – was regarded as a welcome contrast to the naturalism prominent in Parisian theatre of the time. Debussy described the effect of seeing the play in 1893 as 'like dynamite' for him. He treated Maeterlinck's text with great respect when he wrote his opera, leaving much of it intact and only omitting a few short scenes. He also ensured that every nuance could be clearly conveyed, with a predominantly syllabic word setting, almost like 'sung speech'.
Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare's much-loved comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired one of Benjamin Britten's most popular operas, composed in less than nine months. Britten and his partner Peter Pears (who took the comic role of Flute/Thisby in the opera's premiere) wrote the libretto, skillfully compressing and reorganizing Shakespeare's text while sticking faithfully to the Bard's words – Britten noted that they added only one line of their own. Britten heightened the supernatural strangeness of the fairy scenes by making Oberon a countertenor (a voice rarely used in opera at the time) and Puck a spoken role, and added to the comedy of the rustics' Pyramus and Thisby play by deftly parodying grand and bel canto opera.
Maria Stuarda runs 5–18 July 2014. Tickets are still available. The production is a co-production with Polish National Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, and Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, and is given with generous philanthropic support from Lord and Lady Laidlaw, Susan and John Singer and Michael Hartnall.
Rigoletto runs 12 September–6 October 2014. General booking opens on 15 July 2014.
Il barbiere di Siviglia runs 19 September–5 October 2014. General booking opens on 15 July 2014.]]>
Whether through Dangerous Liaisons (1988) or Cruel Intentions (1999), Laclos' 1782 novel of depravity, desire and decay sunk its talons deep into late-20th-century consciousness. But far away from Hollywood's Glenn Close/John Malkovich's white-wigged sniping and the Ryan Philippe/Sarah Michelle Gellar pout-out, there was another adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses that emerged from the last days of the Soviet Union, far darker and more disturbing.
German playwright Heiner Müller lived all but nine years of his life under a dictatorship. Born in 1929, a few years before Hitler's rise to power, most of his years were spent in East Germany, where his plays were frequently censored or banned. He died in 1995, six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Though his works are – in the UK at least – still overshadowed by those of his compatriot Bertolt Brecht, their uncompromising, uncomfortable insight makes Müller one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century.
Quartett (1981) is Müller's adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses. It's often mentioned in the same breath as Christopher Hampton's 1985 play for the Royal Shakespeare Company, that went on to make it big on West End and Broadway and eventually become Dangerous Liaisons. But the two adaptations are poles apart. Hampton smoothly (and superbly) crafted a straightforward historical drama. But Müller saw something further in the insatiable libertinism of Laclos' two central characters. He created a contemporary parable in which the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil become the ultimate nihilists.
Quartett has a single setting: 'Drawing room before the French Revolution. Air raid shelter after World War III'. There is a cast of just two. Valmont and Merteuil complete the quartet through a perverse game of role-play, impersonating the only two other characters – Müller's genius interpretation of the structure of the original novel, written through an exchange of letters. Müller's language is reptilian, bitter, angry. But it is the stripped-bare depiction of a meritless power desperately indulging in pointless cruelty that really shocks.
In his preface to the play Müller describes Quartett as 'a reflection on the problem of terrorism, using material which on the surface has nothing to do with it.' It's characteristic understatement for a work that pursues to its absolute extreme the consequence of power applied without humanity. Müller's is an uncompromising message that continues to resonate violently in today's world.
Italian composer Luca Francesconi was drawn moth-like to Quartett, and in 2011 adapted the play into an award-winning opera of the same title. He explains: 'People in the West are spoiled. We live with our privilege without realizing that it's not sustainable… When you go to the theatre you feel very safe sitting in your seat. You watch something and there is a kind of wall of protection – an apparently normal story with two people, a man and a woman. Then, step by step, you understand that you are a part of what you are watching. You are not safe.'
The Royal Opera's new production of Quartett runs 18–28 June 2014. Tickets are still available.
The production is given with generous philanthropic support from Mr Stefan Sten Olsson, and is a co-production between The Royal Opera, Opéra de Rouen and London Sinfonietta.
Tonight's Olivier Awards were announced on the main stage of the Royal Opera House, and we are delighted to have won in two categories.
Stefan Herheim's imaginative production of Les Vêpres siciliennes won Best New Opera Production.
Will Tuckett's dance theatre adaptation of The Wind in the Willows was named Best Entertainment and Family winner.
Our colleagues English Touring Opera won Outstanding Achievement in Opera, while Es Devlin received XL Video Award for Best Set Design for Chimerica at the Almeida Theatre. Gillian Lynne and Marianela Nunez gave the Outstanding Achievement in Dance to lighting designer Michael Hulls.
See a list of all the 2014 winners
Highlights of The Olivier Awards will be broadcast by ITV tonight at 10.15pm.]]>
Acclaimed stage director Jamie Lloyd will open TheatreCraft 2013, the 'beyond the stage careers fair', by giving a welcome speech at 9am on Friday 22 November at the Royal Opera House.
TheatreCraft, now in its 8th year, is a free event for anyone aged 16 to 25 looking for a non-performance career in theatre. From directing to stage management, producing to marketing, lighting to designing, TheatreCraft offers young people a unique glimpse into the 'behind the scenes' world of theatre.
'As a director, I rely upon a huge team of brilliant people who work backstage on every production,' says Jamie Lloyd. 'I am thrilled to support this unique event, which will provide insight, expertise and inspiration for young people interested in those all-important behind-the-scenes roles.'
Attendees on the day can take part in 60+ workshops led by theatre professionals, join the 'Ask the Experts' zone for one-to-one advice and take part in networking hubs where attendees can interact with their peers.
'It is vital that our profession continues to reach out and engage with as many young people as possible in as many different ways as possible, not least to encourage and nurture the next generation of theatre makers,' continues Jamie. 'TheatreCraft is an absolutely essential event and I am very much looking forward to meeting some of the theatre practitioners of the future.'
Royal Opera House staff will be leading workshops on armoury, costume, education, lighting, lighting visualization, wigs and make-up. There will also be back-stage tours and visits to the costume, props and flys departments.
Bookings for workshops and 'Ask the Expert' sessions are now open at www.theatrecraft.org
TheatreCraft is organized jointly by Creative & Cultural Skills, Masterclass at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Mousetrap Theatre Projects, the Royal Opera House and the Society of London Theatre.
Find out more about employment and work experience opportunities at the Royal Opera House.]]>
'A drama of such extraordinary tragedy that seemed forbidding to music': so wrote composer Arnold Schoenberg, reflecting on his pupil Alban Berg's masterpiece Wozzeck. Certainly the opera's themes are dark, a harrowing psychological drama about a disturbed man who is abused, used for experimentation and - as a result - is driven to murder the only person he loves. 'Man is an abyss - you feel giddy when you look into it', declares the libretto forebodingly.
The opera is an adaptation of an incomplete play entitled Woyzeck by Georg Büchner. Berg saw the play in May 1914 and immediately knew he wanted to base an opera on it. The opera's subsequent success has been followed by a number of other adaptations of the tale:
Film: Woyzeck (1979, Dir: Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog's adaptation of Büchner's tale starred regular collaborator Klaus Kinski, who began filming just five days after the completion of Nosferatu the Vampyre, also directed by Herzog. The director intentionally exploited the actor's exhaustion for the part in which Kinski was described in a review as appearing 'like death given a reprieve'. The film follows Büchner's original narrative but, as Berg found, with the source play incomplete it was up to the adapter to reconfigure the fragmented scenes as he thought they should be ordered.
Woyzeck was an exercise in lightning-quick film-making and has just 27 cuts between shots throughout the whole film: 'People don't seem to understand that I hate to make difficult films,' said Herzog, 'That's the reason I liked making Woyzeck so much - That's how films should be made!'
Ballet: Different Drummer (1984, Choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan)
The idea of the underdog's struggle against the system driving him to madness immediately appealed to Kenneth MacMillan, who six years prior had created a ballet around themes of madness and betrayal with Mayerling. The early 1980s was a time of strong feelings towards the military - for and against - as a result of the Falklands War so the piece was certainly topical. In adapting Woyzeck, MacMillan jumped at the chance to give vent to his own father's resentment of the army in World War I, as well as his mistrust of the army doctors who treated him after he was poison-gassed in the trenches.
The creative process was a difficult one for MacMillan, who agonized over the choice of music for the score (opting in the end for a combination of Webern and Schoenberg), as well as changing his mind about the design of the production late on in the process: 'Petrified of my ballet. Can't do it. Feel helpless', he wrote in his diary. As a result, the work premiered on a practically bare stage, increasing the work's sense of claustrophobia. 'It is a frightening statement about the human condition that haunts the mind long after the curtain has fallen', said the Sunday Telegraph.
Immersive theatre: The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable (2013, Punchdrunk)
Trading Woyzeck's traditional central European setting for the darker side of Hollywood behind the whiter-than-white smiles, immersive theatre company Punchdrunk's latest work - a co-production with the National Theatre - updates Büchner's original to 1960s Los Angeles. The vast production takes over an abandoned sorting office in Paddington and sprawls over several floors, including film sets, shops, bars, a working cinema, and a number of hidden rooms. Mask-wearing audience members are free to roam as they please but at the climax, find themselves reunited to witness the dramatic finale.
Press reviews have been mixed, not a surprise when you consider the spontaneous nature of this style of theatre, but The Drowned Man is certainly ambitious and has its passionate fans: 'It's the first time we've played with the idea of more than one lead narrative,' explained Felix Barrett, Punchdrunk's Artistic Director.
The Royal Opera's Wozzeck runs from 31 October - 15 November. Tickets are still available.
Punchdrunk/The National Theatre's Drowned Man runs until 30 December. Tickets are still available.
It's not giving too much away to say that the last act of Berg's opera Wozzeck is unpleasant – in fact it includes a brutal murder and an accidental drowning. How does a director stage such gruesome events? The late Stefanos Lazaridis, who designed Keith Warner's stark production from 2002, came up with an ingenious solution. He focused the action on four large tanks which sit on stage throughout the performance. Wozzeck falls into a full tank of water while trying to retrieve the knife with which he has just murdered his common-law wife Marie. His drowning looks horribly realistic.
When the tank was first designed, Matthias Goerne, who was singing Wozzeck, insisted on plunging into the water and staying under until the end of the opera. When the production was revived, the next Wozzeck, Johan Reuter, followed suit. 'I didn't hesitate – I was thrilled!', he said. 'I thought it was a great idea and I wondered how it would feel to be suspended in water for a good seven or eight minutes. Strangely I found it quite tiring to lie very still in the water.'
You can't have an expensive baritone drowning, so Wozzeck has a snorkel mouthpiece and air pipe hidden inside the tank which he must grab as soon as he falls in. Production Manager Colin Maxwell explains that safety at the ROH is taken very seriously. 'Before the performance there's a careful procedure of checking. Of course if anything happens, they could just get out.' Maxwell says the other things to worry about are making sure the water is sterile so Wozzeck doesn't catch any germs, getting the temperature of the water right so Marie's blood disperses realistically, and ensuring that the cable supplying power to the light inside the tank is completely waterproof.
Even the best-laid plans sometimes go wrong. Johan Reuter remembers the night when he felt the mouthpiece slipping out of his mouth. 'I took a deep breath, not knowing what was going to happen, and I floated up to the surface. I lay like a lifeless person, my mouth and nose were the only things above the water. It was very effective – but also a bit scary!'
Simon Keenlyside, who sings the title role this autumn, is known to be a physically fearless performer and Johan Reuter has no doubt that he will enjoy the role. 'Keith Warner has made a wonderful production and it's brilliant to be in it. But I've never seen it from the audience. I imagine it's pretty terrifying!'
Wozzeck runs from 31 October - 15 November 2013. Tickets are still available.]]>
Liam Scarlett's hotly anticipated dark balletic take on Hansel and Gretel has now opened, causing much conversation and debate among the audience. The ballet, a dark re-telling of a traditional fairytale, features set and costume designs by Jon Bausor, whose previous credits range from productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company to the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games 2012.
Jon began working on Hansel and Gretel with Liam last year, discussing how to give the Brothers Grimm fairytale contemporary relevance.
'It's been interesting learning about one another as well as the piece we are trying to create. Darkly, the first thing we started talking about was its relevance in our society, in particular the Fritzl case in Austria. It gave us a keyhole to understanding the story.'
Staging the ballet in the Linbury Studio Theatre also presented challenges - The staging arranged in traverse, with the audience seated around the set: 'The design is very much informed by the Linbury architecture. We're really exploring ideas of restriction and imprisonment. It is also very immersive, and seen in traverse: every single person will have a particular viewpoint.'
Hansel and Gretel runs until 11 May. Tickets are sold out though returns may become available. The ballet returns for five performances in January 2014 as part of the 2013/14 Season.
This production is made possible due to generous philanthropic support from Sarah and Lloyd Dorfman, Sir Simon and Lady Robertson, Sue Butcher, Siri and Rob Cope, Victoria Sharp and The New Ballet Works Syndicate.]]>
The Olivier Awards, Britain's most prestigious theatre honours, are to return to the Royal Opera House on 28 April 2013.
Now in their 37th year, the awards will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 with highlights on ITV shortly after the ceremony ends. As well as being available on TV and radio, big screens in Covent Garden Piazza will relay the ceremony to the theatre-loving public. Proceedings will feature performances from some of the nominated musicals, tributes to award winners, and some very special guests.
Nominations will be announced on 26 March with one award - the BBC Radio 2 Audience Award for the Most Popular Show - decided by the public. Voting for this award is now open on the Olivier Awards website.
MasterCard holders can attend the ceremony itself, with a limited number of Amphitheatre tickets for sale online.
Details of this year's ceremony follow the release of last year's Box Office figures from the Society of London Theatre showing that despite unique factors affecting theatre-going in 2012 such as the Olympics and Diamond Jubilee, attendances remained high, slightly up on 2011. Gross sales across London theatres rose to £529 million, generating £88 million in VAT for the Treasury.
For next year's 2014 ceremony, the Olivier Awards are looking for public members of the judging panel, in particular for the Opera and Dance categories. To apply, fill in the online application form stating which shows you've seen over the past year, and including a 150-word review of one of them. The deadline for applications is 5 February 2013.
Which show or performer do you think will do well at this year's Olivier Awards?
Since 1605, when Guy Fawkes planted 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the Houses of Parliament, we've celebrated 5 November as Bonfire Night. Fires are lit, effigies are burnt and the skies across England sparkle with fireworks; whether to celebrate Fawkes's failure or to honour his attempt to overthrow the government is up for debate.
While the Gunpowder Plot was successfully foiled and the Houses of Parliament escaped an explosive end, the Royal Opera House has a less fortunate history: in the 19th century, the theatre burned to the ground twice in just fifty years.
The first theatre on the Covent Garden site was opened by theatre manager and actor John Rich in 1732. Built next to the city's principal fruit and vegetable market (which moved to Vauxhall in 1974), it was primarily a playhouse for the first 100 years of its existence. However, in 1808, the theatre was destroyed by fire. The pipe organ of Baroque composer George Frideric Handel, who frequently performed there from 1735 until his death in 1759, was just one of many valuable items lost.
The theatre was rapidly rebuilt and re-opened in 1809. Over the next thirty years, the theatre became increasingly popular with high society. By the 1830s, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert would frequent the Royal Box up to four times a week in high season. However, in 1856, disaster struck once again. The theatre, hired for a masked ball by a man known as the 'Wizard of the North', burned to the ground following a night of drunken revelry and had to be completely rebuilt.
Much of the current Royal Opera House building dates back to this rebuild, including the beautiful velvet-clad auditorium, a Grade 1 listed building that seats some 2,250 people. It has been used as a furniture repository (during World War I) and a dance hall (during World War II). The historic auditorium is now surrounded by a 21st-century labyrinth of modern offices, state-of-the-art backstage areas, dressing rooms and workshops. Needless to say, these days it is also equipped with fire alarms. From time-to-time, the entire cast of an opera or ballet are evacuated into the Covent Garden piazza in full costume, much to the delight of passersby.
The Royal Opera House of today is the result of an extensive renovation that took place between 1997 and 1999. Over the course of two years the auditorium was re-raked, re-seated, re-painted, re-gilded and re-lit, and the surrounding building equipped with high-tech storage mechanisms, new public areas and studios. Take a look at just what goes on behind the main stage:
From the light and airy ballet studios that overlook the piazza, to the cavernous set-storage carousel three stories beneath the stage; from the rooftop props workshop, to the enormous set-construction area built on a rotating floor; the building is an architectural feat.
Monitoring and maintaining the auditorium and its historic contents is the responsibility of the ROH Collections Department, who carry out and oversea extensive renovations and conservation projects. Most recently, a frieze of Queen Victoria in the Auditorium was conserved.
Take a look behind the scenes and find out more about the colourful history of the Royal Opera House on one of our public tours. For full details, visit our Tours pages.]]>
There may be no productions on stage in Covent Garden this August, but things are as busy as ever at the Royal Opera House. The Costume Department, in charge of preserving and fitting the thousands of costumes that appear on stage at the Royal Opera House, is already hard at work getting ready for the forthcoming season.
The team is currently preparing for The Nutcracker, re-making skirts for 36 snowflake ballerinas. Each skirt will be double-layered and decorated with more elaborate detail. At a rate of one skirt per day, it is already over a month's work. In addition, the costumes for John Cranko's Onegin and the dresses for the 40 swans that will dance in Swan Lake are being altered and adjusted.
Working on five to six opera and ballet productions at a time, carrying out around 6,000 fittings per season, it pays to plan ahead. Mal Barton, Costume Department Manager, explains:
"At the end of the season we tend to fit the first three or four productions of the next season so that the costumes are ready to go in September. Every production revival involves a refit, and each production can have some 500-600 costumes."
However, despite such planning, unavoidable last-minute cast changes for The Royal Ballet can lead to the department starting refits at 5.30pm, for a performance at 7.30pm. Soraya Parsa, who has been working with the Costume Department for eight years, explains:
"Fittings can take anything from five minutes to two hours. Towards the end of the season, there are always lots of last minute re-fits to do and we often have to make adjustments just before performances or from the side of the stage."
The Costume Department is focused on heritage, as well as performances, and works hard to maintain costumes true to their original designs. Faded colours are re-dyed, worn darning is repaired, and shapes and patterns are revised to ensure that costumes can stay in use for decades.
Tailors work from a "costume bible", a hefty volume that meticulously details original designs and subsequent revivals, to make sure that costumes stay accurate to their original design. The oldest costumes still in use include those from La bohème, which date back to 1974, and Swan Lake, which are from 1986.
Find out more with a look at Soloist Claire Calvert's Lilac Fairy costume from The Sleeping Beauty.
The Royal Opera House is home to the largest collection of theatre costumes in the UK, a selection of which is available to view online. The earliest opera item in the collection is a pair of shoes worn by Italian soprano Adelina Patti from her debut in 1861. The earliest ballet item in the collection is a single pointe shoe worn in the 1930s by Royal Ballet Founder Ninette de Valois.]]>
To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, the Royal Opera House recently invited staff, college tutors, friends and family to attend a prize-giving ceremony congratulating our latest group of graduating apprentices.
The work of three apprentices was celebrated at the event - Community Arts Apprentice Shaun Bajnoczky and Technical Theatre Apprentices Louis Hector and Andrew Hulstrom.
For many talented young people like Shaun, Louis and Andrew, getting a first job in the arts is a challenge and as such we are proud to offer a pioneering and well respected apprenticeship programme. This provides places for up to eight young people each year to gain high-quality vocational training, learning from people within our organisation who are some of the most highly skilled in the industry.
Having worked as a casual in our Technical department after leaving school, Louis Hector jumped at the opportunity of gaining formal training at the Royal Opera House and of working towards a qualification in technical theatre. Thanks to the John Lyons Charity who fund our Technical Theatre apprenticeships, over the last 18 months Louis has spent time working in several areas within the technical department – lighting systems, sound and broadcast, both in the Linbury Studio Theatre and on the main stage. Since the apprenticeship began, he has studied for his NVQ at City and Islington College and achieved an NVQ Level 3 in Technical Theatre (Lighting, Sound and Rigging).
"My apprenticeship has been a very positive experience where I have been able to learn new and varied skills that will be invaluable to me in the industry. Everybody here took time to teach me what they knew and I feel very lucky for having had this experience."
Like Louis, Andrew Hulstrom also worked across many of the technical departments, particularly enjoying his time working with the lighting and sound and broadcast departments. Having already completed a City and Guilds Level 2 and 3 in Electrotechnical Technology, Andrew came to the Royal Opera House with an excellent grounding in electrics that would stand him in good stead for some of the work as a stage technician. For Anna Nicole, Andrew was responsible for wiring up a very large fridge on set which contained a rather substantial 4Kw worth of light, which certainly lit up the stage!
"I will relish the fact that my work will now be seen all over the world on future Anna Nicole productions. I have been challenged every day of my apprenticeship and I look forward to building on the knowledge and skills I have acquired in whatever role I do next."
Shaun Bajnoczky spent two years with our Education Team in Thurrock, his first job after leaving further education and completed a Level 3 Award in Community Arts Management:
"The apprenticeship has been an amazing experience. I have enjoyed being part of an exciting and vibrant team and being local to Thurrock, I have loved being able to take the work of the Royal Opera House in to the community."
Previous Royal Opera House apprentices have achieved continued success in the sector, making costumes for the Olympic Opening Ceremony, painting scenery at the Sydney Opera House and gaining employment within the organisation. As they come to the end of their time at the Royal Opera House, we are certain that Louis, Andrew and Shaun have equally promising futures ahead of them. We wish them well!]]>
5. What's Opera, Doc? (1957) Dir. Chuck Jones featuring various Wagner operas
Whilst not a full length film, its influence as one of the first experience youngsters have of opera means that we couldn't avoid including this short masterpiece. A pastiche of various Wagner operas, we're treated to Elmer Fudd hunting 'Wabbits' to pieces from the likes of Die Walküre and Tannhäuser before falling for a rather familiar looking Brünnhilde…
4. Philadelphia (1993) Dir. Jonathan Demme featuring Andrea Chénier
Hailed as one of Tom Hanks's finest performances, Philadelphia was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to tackle issues around HIV/AIDS and homophobia. Inspired in part by true story of Geoffrey Bowers, the film tells the tale of a lawyer's fight in the courts for wrongful dismissal through discrimination.
In this clip, the severely ill Andrew Beckett (Hanks) waxes lyrical to his attorney Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) about the power of opera and in particular Maria Callas's rendition of La Mamma Morta from Andrea Chénier. Passionately translating the libretto, Miller is clearly moved, afterwards making his excuses to return home and embracing his daughter and wife, realising how fortunate he is…
3. Apocalypse Now (1979) Dir. Francis Ford Coppola featuring Die Walküre
A masterpiece of cinema, Vietnam war classic Apocalypse Now (based on Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness) tells the tale of Captain Willard, sent deep into the jungle to assassinate the deranged renegade Kurtz who has set himself up as a God to the local people.
This clip with the use of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries employed to devastating effect by the twisted Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, who attaches speakers to the helicopters and plays the piece to soundtrack a horrific napalm strike.
2. Pretty Woman (1990) Dir. Garry Marshall Featuring La traviata
No not Pirates of Penzance, it's a performance of La traviata that high flying businessman Richard Gere takes prostitute Julia Roberts to see on her journey from pavement to penthouse.
This scene features one of the most famous opera in pop culture quotes courtesy of Gere: "People's reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul."
La traviata is, of course, the story of fallen woman Violetta ends up dying tragically in her lover's arms. Thankfully, Pretty Woman features a rather happier ending…
1. Shawshank Redemption (1993) Dir. Frank Darabont featuring Le nozze di Figaro
Wrongly convicted for the murder of his wife and her lover, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) gives comfort in the face of adversity to his fellow prison inmates by breaking into the warden's office and playing the beautiful Sull'aria...Che soave zeffiretto from The Marriage of Figaro.
Single-handedly stopping everyone the prison in their tracks (exemplified with a stunning crane shot of the yard), Dufresne ended up in solitary for the stunt. Still, it was worth it - friend Red (Morgan Freeman) testifies; "It was like some beautiful bird flew into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments every last man at Shawshank felt free". Ironic, as the duet features duplicitous love letter to expose the infidelity of Count Almaviva…
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Vikings WR Bernard Berrian was listed as questionable on the Friday injury report because of a hamstring injury. The "questionable" designation means there's a 50-50 chance that he'll be able to go.
Against Green Bay in Week 4, the speedy Berrian scored on a 31-yard pass from Favre, a score that put the Vikings ahead 28-14 and ultimately provided the winning margin in a 30-23 victory. Berrian led all Vikings receivers on the day with 6 grabs for 75 yards.
Berrian's importance to the Vikings offense is that he has exceptional speed, with the ability to beat coverage by simply out-running it. This opens up situations underneath for players such as WR Percy Harvin and TE Visanthe Shiancoe.
Speaking of Harvin, he was also listed as questionable on the injury report but was able to practice on Friday after missing Thursday's practice. I would be surprised if he didn't go today.
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Just in time for the holiday season, the Baltimore Farmers' Market has hit full stride.
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Helping the hungry, one veggie at a time. On Sunday, "Gather Baltimore" gave away more than 30,000 pounds of free produce on Bond Street.
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A steel drum band, festive atmosphere and lots of local food can only mean the Baltimore Farmers' Market is back in full swing.
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Farmers and merchants have packed their wares and said goodbye for another season. The 2012 Baltimore Farmers' Market and Bazaar has finished for the year.
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It was perfect weather for opening day at the Baltimore Farmers' Market. For 35 years, shoppers have been loading up on fresh food. This year, the market is off to a great start.
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For "Coffee With" Don talked to NBA player Steve Nash. Mike Schuh had "People Are Talking" about the Baltimore Farmers' Market & Bazaar opening this weekend.
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Brian Schmidt -- one of three U.S.-born scientists who won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace -- has an Alaska connection.
The 44-year-old astronomer who now lives in Australia went to school in Alaska. Heather Sawyer, a spokeswoman for the Anchorage School District, says Schmidt graduated from Bartlett High School in 1985.
Schmidt, along with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess, overturned the conventional idea that the universe was expanding slowly more than 13 billion years after the big bang. The three discovered that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate, and that perhaps something scientists call "dark energy" is pushing the universe apart. They made the discovery by looking at dozens of exploding stars called supernovas.
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from the ET Barnette Homebrew Competition held up here in Fairbanks. I took 3rd in the fruit beer, and 3rd in the porter. Got alot of schwagg including tshirts, mag subscriptions, glasses, coasters, hops, grains, etc. But, alas, they had run out of the medals. I plumb forgot all about it until the box showed up today, and woohoo, 2 bronze medals. I feel Olympic now.
Just thought I would share with folks that might appreciate it.
A great day to all...
Sean Thornton (John Wayne) "I'll have one of those black beers."
Pat Cohan (Harry Tyler) the publican "Ah, the porter. Yes sir."
From 'The Quiet Man' 1952
"Tell me, Alvis - for all wights' fate
I deem that, dwarf, thou knowest -
how the beer is hight which is brewed by men,
in all the worlds so wide?"
- The Lay of Alvis
Visit my beer blog at http://homebrew.medofernandez.com
Great job. Now get to work on that Gold entry.
Awesome what were the beers in those styles you made?
Primary: All grain pale ale, Pliny The Elder clone
Bottled:Double Noogie IPA, Amber Ale
Kegged: Brewcraft Dead Guy kit,Apfelwein, Raspberry wheat beer
Ahoy hoy,
The porter was a standard British to the bone porter.
The other was a Belgium blond w/ hibiscus flowers added. Made it red as blood, and weird like a beer/wine. The women love it.
Hibiscus is edible?
Interesting, I just happen to have a FireBall Hibiscus and plan to make a Belgian Red.
Congrats, keep up the good work.


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IT bloke denies trying to shag sheep outside football ground
An IT worker has appeared in court accused of trying to have sex with a sheep outside football club Tottenham Hotspur's training ground in North London. Paul Lovell, of Magpie Close, Enfield, North London, faces a charge of indecent exposure under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 as well as a further charge of outraging public …
"Reports did not divulge how Lovell was caught."
With his pants down, presumably.
Caught on CCTV
It was on Ewetube.
Re: Caught on CCTV
Ewe online, I reckon.
Re: Caught on CCTV Bhaaadddd bad bhhhaaadddd badd
Ewwwe, how .... Baaaad
Perhaps, end-descent exxsposure while attempting to spin a white web inside the white webb sheep caught a tension of with/due to a lot of
Baaddd to da bohn.....
talk about "ten ding sheep...
Old buggerer....
Re: Caught on CCTV
Pauls obviously got a lot of lovell to give :D
and given the choice of spurs fans and sheep he made the logical choice!
Was it a wool jumper?
"who attended court wearing a brown suit and turquoise jumper"
It always makes me wonder why people attending court are described by the clothes they wear
Re: Was it a wool jumper?
"who attended court wearing a brown suit and turquoise jumper, was also charged with outraging public decency "
Too right. Brown suit and turquoise jumper, eeew.
Re: Was it a wool jumper?
It's the brown suit that's offensive - anyone wearing one is definitely guilty of something ;-)
Re: Was it a wool jumper?
The jumper and suit combo deserves a second count of outraging public decency.
Re: Was it a wool jumper?
"Too right. Brown suit and turquoise jumper, ewe"
Fixed that for you.
Re: Was it a wool jumper?
And wellies
Re: Was it a wool jumper?
"brown suit and turquoise jumper,"
Damn, I was going to point this out, but............
Outraging public decency indeed.
Re: Was it a wool jumper?
"Too right. Brown suit and turquoise jumper, ewe"
Fixed that for ewe.
Fixed that for ewe....
Re: Was it a wool jumper? - "And wellies"
Nah mate, their for the other end. (heavy Antipodean accent)
AC because of the Sheep Station Mafia
Re: Was it a wool jumper?
Ewe... End deed
maybe he wanted to "service" it and create something ab-bomb-end-nimal.
Maybe he thought it safer to try something sheep-shape rather than stick his testy tube into a bird's beakerv
Re: Was it a wool jumper?
Anyone wearing a suit is suspect. Ever seen a honest lad in a suit ? no .. Politicians wear suits , bankers , lawyers , see a pattern here ? :)
Football fan?
Sure it's a sheep?
Derby County supporter?
Re: Football fan?
Most probably an Aberdeen supporter.
Can you make a U turn
No but I can make it's eyes water.
Shiver me timbers
>Whitewebbs Lane, north London, with Spurs' training facility in the foreground.
AAaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgrhhrghgfrhgrghghrhgggggggggggggrhgr.... cheap rum and loose women 'ave rotted yer brain me young lubber. A plan has no foreground.
Avast there!
... May many cobblers be laid upon yer forehead for correcting mine magical plan, that be nay such thing. Here be no admission that ye have an point, ye scurvy cur!
(ye have an point)
Re: Shiver me timbers
Aye, me hearty, and ye may lay to that! Unless they play suspended in mid air? Several hundred feet up, from the look of it?
'Ewe a Spurs fan, me hearty?'
I've only just realised - it must be national pirate day. Again, already? Oh, God.....
Re: Ohmigod...
Yes, it is:
IT gets lonely.
How much ram did he have?
Re: IT gets lonely.
Altogether too much by the sound of things.
Re: IT gets lonely.
He probably had a lack of ram due to being kicked by a rack of lamb....
Reminds me of high school in Texas, maybe 7th or 8th grade:
How does a cowboy f*3k a sheep?
Oh, I don't know. How?
Put the left leg in the left boot, right leg in the right boot, raise the sheep's front legs skyward, and walk to the edge of a cliff. The sheep will keep backing up trying to live.
Some would respond with "Ewe", only to be met with, "Rightttt..."
I wondered where some of these kids learned things....
IT bloke
Sure, all very amusing and such (not sure the sheep was amused though). But why is it important information that Paul's an IT guy? Is it 'cause many of us are sexually a bit eccentric?
Re: IT bloke
it's just another of those ewephemisms.
Re: IT bloke
Just getting the IT angle in there somewhere I would guess.
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A IT guy asked a friend to recommend an attorney to defend him against a charge of bestiality.
"I know a great trial lawyer," the fellow said, "but he's expensive and doesn't know how to pick a jury. I know another lawyer," he continued, "who' s not a great trial lawyer, but he's cheap and really knows how to pick a jury."
The IT guy settled on the cheap attorney, but immediately had second thoughts when the key witness began his testimony. "I saw that man mount his sheep from behind," he said, "and when he was finished, I saw the sheep turn around and lick his pecker."
The accused IT guy was devastated and had all but given up hope of acquittal, when a juror in overalls whispered to the fellow next to him, "You know, a good sheep will do that."
I don't think this is a suitable topic for the Register. However, my dad told me that when he was a village kid in Yorkshire, a farmworker was brought before the magistrate for having carnal knowledge of a sow; he was fined £5. After that the village kids used to follow him around making grunting noises.
I don't think this is a suitable topic for the Register.
Still replied to it. (It's OK, I'm a complete hypocrite myself).
"...a farmworker was brought before the magistrate for having carnal knowledge of a sow; he was fined £5."
Ahhh... happy times. It's ten grand, public vilification in perpetuity and a couple of years of sodomy these days.
Not suggesting there's anything wrong with a couple of years of sodomy of course...
How do you go about encouraging a sheep to perform a sexual act on you? Dinner, drinks and a movie?
Quality, freshly mown grass and promise of a cuddle afterwards.
Er, I'm told.
Just how...
Do you encourage a sheep to perform a sexual act on a human?
Re: Just how...
Peanut butter works quite well.
So I hear...
AC for no particular reason.
Re: Just how...
Ewe whisper sheep nothings in its ear.
Failing that it's not so much encourage as threaten, you take out a jar of mint sauce and when she opens her mouth in horror, well you can guess the rest.
Re: Just how...
Well, 'welsh speed daters' seem to know
No wonder they baaed him from returning to the area
"attended court wearing a brown suit and turquoise jumper ... outraging public decency"
"trying to encourage a sheep to perform a sexual act on you"
How would you...? I don't even...
I suspect he works for Wellington IT Solutions. (If there is such an entity I apologize, I thought I made it up)
Keep your Magpie Close ...
but your sheep closer.
Do you know which IT firm Lovell works for? Email me and spill the beans. ®
You dont think thats going a bit far?? Have a chuckle sure, but why the cyber bully angle??
Re: Do you know which IT firm Lovell works for? Email me and spill the beans. ®
If he works for one of the big firms then that makes it slightly newsworthier to Reg readers. What are you more likely to read: "bloke accused of shagging sheep" or "BIG IT VENDOR bloke accused of shagging sheep" - subtext of the last part being, "did I ever work with this guy?"
Of course, he's innocent until proven guilty and as he's opted for a jury trial at Crown court I wish him the best of luck in arguing his case. The evidential threshold needed to charge someone with a criminal offence is less than that needed to convict, remember.
Re: Do you know which IT firm Lovell works for? Email me and spill the beans. ®
It might be Ewelet Packard
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