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OperaUpClose
United Kingdom
Приєднався 13 бер 2015
OperaUpClose exists to produce high quality productions, and performance and engagement opportunities which have a lasting impact on our audiences, on the people who we work with and on the industry. We aim to open up what opera can be, by producing opera for everyone, with compelling storytelling and high production values and by being innovative, professional and ambitious.
OperaCocktail Trailer
Summer Sweet & Sour
A delicious cocktail of classics by Puccini, Mozart, Verdi and more, in sparkling English translations with a contemporary twist, performed by the UK’s brightest and best.
A summer’s day. A picnic. And a story of five friends trying to make sense of life and love. Is it finally time to grow up?
Told through brilliantly evocative music including the famous Habanera from Carmen and Verdi’s timeless Drinking Song from La Traviata, OperaCocktail will move, entertain and delight.
OperaUpClose is a national touring opera company with storytelling, partnership, and innovation at its heart. Intimate in scale, mighty in impact.
A delicious cocktail of classics by Puccini, Mozart, Verdi and more, in sparkling English translations with a contemporary twist, performed by the UK’s brightest and best.
A summer’s day. A picnic. And a story of five friends trying to make sense of life and love. Is it finally time to grow up?
Told through brilliantly evocative music including the famous Habanera from Carmen and Verdi’s timeless Drinking Song from La Traviata, OperaCocktail will move, entertain and delight.
OperaUpClose is a national touring opera company with storytelling, partnership, and innovation at its heart. Intimate in scale, mighty in impact.
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OperaUpClose - THE REINVENTIONS
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OperaUpClose is thrilled to share the new programme of reinvented classics by Vaughan Williams, Puccini and Richard Strauss. A series of three one-act operas reimagined for the modern world in thrilling new chamber orchestrations by some of the UK’s most exciting composers and writers. Artistic Director Flora McIntosh Producer/Photographer Grace Weltch DOP Kasra Firouzyar Cam Op Lance Penez Per...
Merry Christmas from OperaUpClose | 2023
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Merry Christmas to one and all from OperaUpClose 🎄🎅🎁 Our office will be closed from Friday 22nd Dec until 2nd Jan 2024 for some much-needed peace (at last) 🧸🦉💫 See you next year 🤩
Q&A with Artistic Director Flora McIntosh for The Big Give #ChristmasChallenge
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As the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge deadline nears (Tues 5th Dec 12pm), we chat with OperaUpClose Artistic Director, Flora McIntosh, on why this project is so special. Learn more at operaupclose.com/big-give-2023.
Q&A with Michael Betteridge (Composer & Founder of The Sunday Boys)
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We chat to Michael Betteridge as part of The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2023. This year our Big Give Christmas Match-Funding Campaign will help us raise crucial funds to support our work with coastal community choirs across the UK. This new project is a significant development of OperaUpClose’s long-term commitment to community engagement, first seen in our successful and widely praised 2023 ...
The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2023 | OperaUpClose
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For The Big Give Christmas Challenge this year, OperaUpClose are on a mission to raise crucial funds to support their work with coastal community choirs across the UK. As part of a major new touring production in partnership with MAST, Mayflower Studios, OperaUpClose will engage a network of coastal community singing groups directly in the making of their work, collaborating with experienced sp...
Peace At Last Trailer
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OperaUpClose in partnership with Chickenshed Theatre and Southampton and Isle of Wight Music Hubs present Peace At Last, an opera for 3 - 5 year olds based on the picture book by Jill Murphy. Mr Bear is desperately trying to get to sleep but is kept awake by the varying sounds of the night: Mrs Bear snoring, Baby Bear playing, a dripping tap, a clock ticking, an owl hooting…will he ever get any...
The Last Bit of the Moon - new prologue inspired by Vaughan Williams’ 1 act opera Riders to the Sea
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In partnership with ArtfulScribe, we collaborated with Manchester based open access choir The Sunday Boys in September 2023 for an inspiring day of music making. An ensemble of baritone, accordion, clarinet and oboe joined a fantastic group of community singers at Halle, St Michael's in Manchester to explore a powerful and evocative new choral prologue to Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea by ...
The Flying Dutchman - Trailer
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OperaUpClose in partnership with Manchester Camerata, present Wagner's The Flying Dutchman - setting sail this summer to extraordinary venues across the UK. Poet and novelist Glyn Maxwell’s English libretto and award-winning composer Laura Bowler’s 8-piece chamber orchestration combine in a fresh and radically rethought version of a classic. A haunting political tale exploring the psychology an...
What OperaUpClose are doing with The Flying Dutchman...
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Get behind the scenes of The Flying Dutchman touring the UK this summer. OperaUpClose in partnership with Manchester Camerata, present Wagner's The Flying Dutchman - setting sail this summer to extraordinary venues across the UK. Poet and novelist Glyn Maxwell’s English libretto and award-winning composer Laura Bowler’s 8-piece chamber orchestration combine in a fresh and radically rethought ve...
What three words describes The Flying Dutchman?
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Get behind the scenes of The Flying Dutchman touring the UK this summer. OperaUpClose in partnership with Manchester Camerata, present Wagner's The Flying Dutchman - setting sail this summer to extraordinary venues across the UK. Poet and novelist Glyn Maxwell’s English libretto and award-winning composer Laura Bowler’s 8-piece chamber orchestration combine in a fresh and radically rethought ve...
The Flying Dutchman - Behind the Scenes trailer
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Get behind the scenes of The Flying Dutchman touring the UK this summer. OperaUpClose in partnership with Manchester Camerata, present Wagner's The Flying Dutchman - setting sail this summer to extraordinary venues across the UK. Poet and novelist Glyn Maxwell’s English libretto and award-winning composer Laura Bowler’s 8-piece chamber orchestration combine in a fresh and radically rethought ve...
TRAILER: We two were lovers - The Sea and I
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Performed in English by a singer and harpist, We two were lovers - The Sea and I centres around Toria Banks’ new, contemporary version of Haydn’s dramatic cantata Ariadne on Naxos, with additional music by Wagner, Dvorak, Rebecca Clark, Colleridge Taylor and Michael Betteridge, with poetry by Emily Dickinson and Carol Ann Duffy. Thematically linked and running adjacent to OperaUpClose’s nationa...
Meet the team...We two were lovers - The Sea and I
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Performed in English by a singer and harpist, We two were lovers - The Sea and I centres around Toria Banks’ new, contemporary version of Haydn’s dramatic cantata Ariadne on Naxos, with additional music by Wagner, Dvorak, Rebecca Clark, Colleridge Taylor and Michael Betteridge, with poetry by Emily Dickinson and Carol Ann Duffy. Friday 16 June The Key, Peterborough 6pm Sunday 18 June live-strea...
Riders to the Sea - Creating a Prologue with words and music
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Riders to the Sea - Creating a Prologue with words and music
Flora McIntosh and Kath Page talk about The Big Give Christmas Challenge!
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Flora McIntosh and Kath Page talk about The Big Give Christmas Challenge!
Peace At Last - The Big Give Christmas Challenge!
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Peace At Last - The Big Give Christmas Challenge!
The Flying Dutchman: In Conversation with the Creative Team
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The Flying Dutchman: In Conversation with the Creative Team
In Conversation with Director Lucy Bradley
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In Conversation with Director Lucy Bradley
Former trainee Emily Louizou discusses OUC's Trainee Scheme
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Former trainee Emily Louizou discusses OUC's Trainee Scheme
Willow Song by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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Willow Song by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Concerts in the Café: Shakespeare Re-Shaped Trailer
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Concerts in the Café: Shakespeare Re-Shaped Trailer
The Flying Dutchman: Epic and Domestic
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The Flying Dutchman: Epic and Domestic
Song's Poetry & Poetry's Song: Coffee Break Concerts panel discussion
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Song's Poetry & Poetry's Song: Coffee Break Concerts panel discussion
Trailer: Coffee Break Concerts, Songs of Solace and Spring
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Trailer: Coffee Break Concerts, Songs of Solace and Spring
Sammy and the Beanstalk: a new urban fairytale
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Sammy and the Beanstalk: a new urban fairytale
Sammy and the Beanstalk - There Once was a Girl
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Sammy and the Beanstalk - There Once was a Girl