Friday 15 July 2022

7.45-9.00pm

St George's Church

Hope House, 8a St George's Rd, Deal CT14 6BA

https://dealmusicandarts.com/events/frida-kahlo/

Following the great success of this piece's premiere at the Oxford Festival of the Arts in 2019, we are delighted to be giving the second performance of Paul Max Edlin’s operatic monodrama FRIDA at Deal Festival 2022.

FRIDA sets text from Frida Kahlo's diary in twelve tableaux. The work takes the audience on a tumultuous emotional journey from Kahlo's childhood to her death, reflecting on a number of key events in her life, including her tragic accident at the age of eighteen, scenes from the Mexican Revolution, and her turbulent marriage to fellow artist Diego Rivera.

We are thrilled to be joined once again by mezzo-soprano Katie Bray, winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at Cardiff Singer of the World 2019. Since then, Katie has become known for her magnetic stage presence and her gleaming, expressive tone.

Edlin's score, written for flute, clarinet, string quartet, Magnetic Resonator Piano (MRP), and mezzo-soprano, uses a wide-ranging palette of ensemble colour and rhythmic invention, portraying serene lyricism, humour, suspense, and high drama. The MRP, an invention of Andrew McPherson, QMUL Professor of Musical Interaction and leader of the Augmented Instruments Laboratory, lends a number of extra capabilities to a regular piano, including pitch-bending, indefinite sustain, single-note crescendos, and harmonic glissandi.

More information and tickets available here: https://dealmusicandarts.com/events/frida-kahlo/

We are delighted to present the world premiere of Edward Nesbit’s Antigone - a Chamber Opera in three parts.

In the face of tragedy, Antigone struggles to give her brother the burial he deserves – but at what cost to herself?

Creon, King of Thebes, has forbidden that burial and promised death to anyone who disobeys him. Will Antigone pay the ultimate price for her disobedience?

In the world premiere of his new chamber opera, Edward Nesbit brilliantly illuminates the ancient tragedy of Antigone, and tells a story as vividly urgent today as it was two and a half millennia ago.

Tickets £10/£5 - available here: https://space.org.uk/event/antigone/

Edward Nesbit (QMUL Composer in Residence) Antigone (world premiere)

East London Music Group, directed by Matthew Hardy, with QMUL singers

7pm, The Octagon, Queen Mary University of London

Edward Nesbit’s retelling of the Greek myth of Antigone presents three snapshots from the life Antigone (Rosie Middleton) from her childhood to her death at the hands of Creon (Oliver Brignall). Polynices, Antigone's brother, has died in battle and has been declared a traitor. Creon has ordered that the body of Polynices should not be buried, but should be abandoned to be eaten by birds. Antigone boldly decides to defy Creon's order - with disastrous consequences.

Tickets £8 [FULL], £3 [STUDENT & STAFF] available soon!

Concert supported by Kings College London and QMUL Centre for Public Engagement

Edward Nesbit’s retelling of the Greek myth of Antigone presents three snapshots from the life Antigone (Rosie Middleton) from her childhood to her death at the hands of Creon (Oliver Brignall). Polynices, Antigone's brother, has died in battle and has been declared a traitor. Creon has ordered that the body of Polynices should not be buried, but should be abandoned to be eaten by birds. Antigone boldly decides to defy Creon's order - with disastrous consequences.

Tickets £8 [FULL], £3 [STUDENT & STAFF] available from Edward Nesbit (edward.nesbit@kcl.ac.uk)

Concert supported by King's College London and QMUL Centre for Public Engagement

ELMG perform a concert alongside 200 young musicians from Waltham Forest as part of the Waltham Forest Music Festival.