The Genesis Foundation was to have supported a London production in November 2009 of the new opera that it commissioned from Jean-Philippe Calvin based on the iconic French play by Eugene Ionesco, La Cantatrice Chauve. The production was being developed by the company Tête à Tête.

Due to various contractual complications, the Genesis Foundation has decided reluctantly that it must withdraw its support from Tête à Tête’s proposed November production at the Riverside Studios in London of the Genesis-commissioned opera The Bald Soprano (La Cantatrice Chauve) by Jean-Philippe Calvin. A French production of La Cantatrice is still being performed in Paris from 30 April to 3 May 2009.

Polly Stenham’s multi-award winning debut play That Face will transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre in May.  Stenham wrote the play when she was only 19 and was subsequently named Most Promising Playwright by the Evening Standard Awards and the Critics’ Circle Awards.

As part of a new collaboration with the opera company Tête à Tête, Genesis is supporting as a major sponsorship its current project, Blind Date, which plays at the Riverside Studios in London on 12,13, 15 and 16 November at 7.45 pm.

Jean-Philippe Calvin is a young French composer who is working with the Genesis Foundation to develop an opera based on Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play La Cantatrice Chauve.

Rough Cuts is a new season of diverse and experimental work-in-progress, presented informally in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs over two weeks.

On 12 June 2007 Genesis gave its annual Summer Drinks Party for friends and partners at the Young Vic in London. The building has just won the Royal Institute of British Architects Award for the best new building in London 2007!

Genesis Foundation Chairman and Founder, John Studzinksi, was interviewed by Tom Service on MUSIC MATTERS on Radio 3 at 12:15 pm on 10 March 2007.

In late January, Classical Music Magazine did a cover story about the Genesis Foundation’s recently developed OperaGenesis programme.

Small Talk: Big Picture is a unique collaboration between the International Department of the Royal Court theatre and the BBC World Service. Continuing and extending the work of the international department, the Royal Court has commissioned writers from all over the world to write short plays exploring personal experiences in their own societies in relation to public events in the world.

In its new initiative to find original approaches to opera and music theatre for the 21st century and also new audiences for the lyric stage, OperaGenesis has worked with French composer Jean Philippe Calvin to complete a one-act, absurdist piece based on the Eugene Ionesco play, La Cantatrice Chauve or The Bald Soprano.

Tuesday 27 June 2006 at 6.00 pm - The Genesis Foundation, founded by John Studzinski to nurture emerging talent in the arts and to encourage new audiences, is hosting its annual summer drinks party at St Yeghiche Church in South Kensington. This Armenian Church was recently restored and made into a concert hall by Bob and Tamar Manoukian through their foundation.