ACE Application – Sample & Additional Information

(Image: Hopkins, frame from response to String Quartet No 1 by Judith Weir) ACE Application – Four Quartets and Two Ensembles (working title)Tim Hopkins – applicant no AP-002244 Sample and additional information SampleThe project presents a 90 min film...

Land of Song (as proposed)

Tim Hopkins / Welsh National Opera – Land of Song (or Wild West) (working titles, 2013) Current technology can appear to respect no defining boundary – no sense of place. Able to connect to anywhere, what is the value of being where we are. Excited by digitally...

The Dream of John Logie Baird, Aged 10

Proposal The Dream of John Logie Baird Aged 10 Music Theatre A dream of 1930 imagined in 1890, and as we imagine it now… a future which did not in fact happen, but is intriguingly like what did. Rooted visually in an historic world (1898,) this imagines the...

Abiding Love (Strauss’ Four Last Songs)

Proposal Abiding Love – a staging of Strauss’ Four Last Songs (Image: Frans Masareel) Music theatre / media theatre / live cinema based around a performance of Richard Strauss Four Last Songs For Mezzo-soprano, actor and piano Singer – a younger...

Vagabondage

(Image: FBC Stravinsky documentary, 1965)Proposal Vagabondage –  Tim Hopkins and Lena Langer, composer 4 love stories, threading across time and space, passing briefly through an episode in the life of Stravinsky, a figure featuring in the dreams of four couples...

States of Innocence

States of Innocence (2024) OperaComposer Ed Hughes; Libretto Peter CantJohn Milton dictates Paradise Lost to his family, as other voices visit his world, some from the future.  They read, imagine, ventriloquise and test his creation. Premiere 19 May 2024Direction,...