Elephant and Castle

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Owen Wingrave

Owen Wingrave Owen WingraveBritten. OperaDirection, scenic design, video design Costume, Gideon DaveyLighting, Wolfgang Goebbel The Royal Opera Created in 2007-8Proposed online version Photo credit: Bill Cooper / ArenaPAL Comment in Opera and Video, Townsend, C, Art...

Give Me Your Blessing, for I Go to a Foreign Land

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Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail

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The Lost Chord II

The Lost Chord II The Lost Chord IINew music theatre / media theatre work inspired by Sullivan, Balfe, Tennyson, and the Victorian creative imagination.Script, direction, design Opera North Created in 2009-10 Howard Assembly Rooms, LeedsTete a Tete at Riverside,...

BBC Proms Music Walk 2012

BBC Proms Music Walk 2012 BBC Proms Music Walk 2012WebsiteI mp3I mobile live performance/ audience upload Artistic Director11 new commissions from contemporary composers, each related to a physical location around Exhibition Road and Hyde Park.Creative direction,...