Genesis Opera Project Concludes on a Note of Triumph

Three opera projects that resulted from the workshops of the Second and final Genesis Opera Project, came to fruition in May, June and July 2006 and received their first performances.

Push!, by composer David Bruce and librettist Anna Reynolds, was produced by the Tete a Tete company under its founder Bill Bankes-Jones. The hilarious, quasi-absurdist theatricality of the piece made it one of the most extraordinary pieces of music theatre of the year.

Three opera projects that resulted from the workshops of the Second and final Genesis Opera Project, came to fruition in May, June and July 2006 and received their first performances.

Push!, by composer David Bruce and librettist Anna Reynolds, was produced by the Tete a Tete company under its founder Bill Bankes-Jones. The hilarious, quasi-absurdist theatricality of the piece made it one of the most extraordinary pieces of music theatre of the year.

Sante, by composer Emily Hall with a text by Kit Peel, receives two performances directed by Tim Supple. Based on a true story, Sante is about love and betrayal at the time of the genocide in Rwanda. It was performed with the forces of the London Sinfonietta.

The Original Chinese Conjuror, music by Raymond Yiu and libretto by Lee Warren, received its world premiere at Southwold Pier on Thursday, 15 June. Based again on a true story, it is the tale of a magician in the early 1900s the libretto written by a writer who is also a practicing magician. An opera-cum-musical-cum-vaudeville show, was one of the most unusual and entertaining events of this year's Aldeburgh Festival.