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The Clothesburger, Pegasus Opera Company / Sing Up | 23 March 2010
Time: 1pm Location: London, SE1 8XX Tel: 020 7501 9501 Email: alexandra@pegopera.org Website: http://www.singup.org
Pegasus Opera Company is proud to present The Clothesburger, an opera written and performed by primary school children, as part of their Sing Up Flagship Programme.
Pegasus Opera Company has worked with British composer Errollyn Wallen and director Frances M Lynch in an ambitious schools project. Errollyn, Frances and seven Pegasus Opera Singing Leaders, have supported over 420 children from eight schools across London in composing and devising an original opera about friendship, danger and adventure.
The children and Singing Leaders will perform The Clothesburger, at the Southbank Centre as a final showcase of this year long project.
The Clothesburger is an entertaining adventure of best friends Mick and Trishi. Fed up at home, the pair decide to run away and discover the Makeadin Café - a magical, adult-free zone where homework is finished in 4¾ minutes and they can eat all the sweets they like! However when their journey is foiled by the appearance of Alf, a terrifying dinodragon, the two runaways learn some important lessons about life, responsibility and the true meaning of friendship...
Pegasus Opera is the UK’s leading multi-racial mid-scale touring opera company committed to delivering engaging workshops in schools and the community alongside their professional performances. Pegasus aims to develop vocal and dramatic skills through long term projects in schools led by opera singers who have trained as facilitators on Pegasus’ workforce development programme.
Sing Up is a government initiative to bring singing into all UK primary schools by 2011 to help children find their voice.
The Clothesburger is directed by Frances M Lynch and performed by children at Allenby, Charlotte Sharman, Havelock, Ivydale, Jessop, St. Joseph, St. Raphael, and Stockwell primary schools, design by Miranda Melville, with pianist David Keefe.
The cast includes 420 children from the above mentioned schools and Pegasus Opera’s Singing Leaders who are: Aga Serugo-Lugo, Alison Nicholls, Denise K Christie, Fiona Thomas, Hervé Goffings, Hyacinth Nicholls and Robine Stevens.
Venue: Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
Ticket Information: FREE!
International Kaiso and Steel come to Morecambe!, More Music | 30 March 2010
Time: 8pm Location: Morecambe, LA3 1QT Tel: 01524 831997 Email: info@moremusic.org.uk Website: http://www.moremusic.org.uk
An international collaboration celebrating the vibrancy of Calypso, the steel pan, and story telling from Trinidad and Tobago, comes to More Music in Morecambe (the Lancashire Youth Music Action Zone) on Saturday 20th March.
The programme will be packed with ‘old time’ calypsos and steel pan music, telling stories about love, history and relationships.
Local community steel band 'Pantabulous' will be kicking things off with their highly infectious rhythms.
This guarantees to be a fun live music night in Morecambe suitable for all ages. More Music’s performance space includes a fully licensed bar serving the Kaiso and Steel Rum punch!
There’s plenty of free parking near by and for public transport buses 2 and 2a come directly to the West End of Morecambe from Lancaster.
Venue: The Hothouse 13-17 Devonshire Road Morecambe LA3 1QT
Ticket Information: Call 01524 831997 to book or buy on the door - tickets priced at £8 (£4 Concessions)
Brave New Worlds, The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain | 16 April 2010
Time: 7.30pm Location: Gateshead, NE8 2JR Tel: 0191 443 4661 Website: http://http://nyo.org.uk/index.php?/whats-on/detail/nyo-in-gateshead1/
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Conductor: Paul Daniel
Debussy - Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Debussy - Nuages and Fêtes
Varèse -Tuning Up
Varèse - Arcana
Varèse - Amériques
Experience the dazzling vistas of Debussy and his friend Varèse. The spectacular Amériques brings New York to the concert hall, gathering 180 musicians on one stage to generate the magic and mayhem of the city that never sleeps.
Tickets onsale from late January
Venue: The Sage Gateshead, St Mary's Square, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 2JR.
Ticket Information: Tickets between £5 and £15. All seats for under 25s are £5. Telephone 0191 443 4661 to book.
Space Odyssey - An Intergalactic Opera, Orchestra of the Swan/Talking Birds | 23 April 2010
Time: 4pm-24/4 4.30pm-25/4 Location: Stratford-Upon-Avon Tel: 01789 207100 Website: http://www.civichall.co.uk
Orchestra of the Swan, one of the UK’s foremost champions of commissioning new work, and Talking Birds, the Coventry-based theatre company that specialises in acts of transformation, present Space Odyssey – a newly commissioned community opera for Welcombe Hills School and Arts College in partnership with Thomas Jolyffe and Wilmcote C of E primary schools - on Friday 23 (4.30pm) and Saturday 24 April (4.00pm) in the Civic Hall, Stratford-upon- Avon.
Over the last 9 months composer Derek Nisbet, writer Nick Walker and designer Janet Vaughan have created music, words, sets and costumes for Space Odyssey by working with ideas generated by the young people at Welcombe Hills School. Space Odyssey involves more than 70 pupils from across all three schools, which take the role of the chorus and play a central part in telling the story of Odysseus’s exploits in space, played by the baritone Matthew Sharp and his wife Penelope, by the soprano Georgia Ginsberg. David Bradley, best known for playing Argus Filch, the caretaker of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series of films narrates Space Odyssey.
The performance lasts approximately one hour and is suitable for all ages.
Performance times:
Friday 23 April (4.30pm)
Saturday 24 April (4pm)
The project is funded by Youth Music, Arts Council England, West Midlands and Welcombe Hills School.
Venue: Civic Hall, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Ticket Information: Moonwalker Tickets priced: £5.00 for adults / £2.50 for children and concessions. Flight Lieutenant’s tickets at £12.00, which support the creation of the production and include a pre-performance drink, are available from the Civic Hall Box Office.
