Gutter Press at Tête à Tête 2010
Riverside Studios W6
Saturday 21st 5pm & Sunday 22nd 2pm August 2010
Performances £4 - 6
Ticket office 020 8237 1111
www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/OpFest2010/
The Riverside Studios is plunging back into the gutter with two performances of new ‘operusical’ Gutter Press at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival 2010. After a sell-out exhibition featuring Abi Titmuss at last year’s festival, Gutter Press returns to dole spoonfuls of sleaze onto the laps of unsuspecting opera audiences on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd August.
Sung-through and fully scored (75 mins), this satirical, comic show takes place on the front lines of the Fame Game and features characters to savour and melodies to take home.
Composer Fergal O’Mahony’s first collaboration with writer/lyricist James Richards heralds the arrival of a major new creative partnership. This year, John Brant, associate director at Perfect Pitch, joins the team directing a West End
cast of ten, featuring Antony Hansen, whose credits include ‘Marius’ in Les Miserables (Cameron Mackintosh) and Kirsty Malpass who will be appearing as ‘Maria’ in the National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of The Sound of Music,until October 2010.
O’Mahony’s score for five-piece orchestra (horn, clarinet, flute, double bass and piano) is certain to raise the roof over Studio 2’s West End-size stage, while Richards’ witty but touching libretto captures a moment of our celebrity-obsessed culture. Join them in the gutter but leave your scruples at the door…
“With its comedy and gags, plus moments of Bernstein, Britten and Sondheim in the score, it might develop into one of those shows that sits on the cusp of music theatre and opera, like Sweeney Todd… could go quite far.” – Opera Talent
