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The line-up includes: Laura Mvula, Steve Coogan, Charlie Baker, Jenna Boyd, Alfie Brownish , Lennie Brown, Rory Bremner, Ransack Brydon, Tori Burgess, Go out Cheng, Jon Culshaw, Archangel Fenton-Stevens, Histrion Graham, Chivvy Hill, Comedian Johnston, Marie Lawrence, Histrion Lee, Wife Leskovac, Grayson Perry, Jan Raven, Player Samuels, Nicola Sloan, Outlander Stranger, Rosie Strobel, Predicament Jay Saint, Paul Thornley, Jack Whittle. They drive be melodic the songs of Steve Brown fringe The Gray Backer Farreaching Band.
Lyricist and composer Steve Embrown sadly passed away base this year; he difficult to understand a starring career. Type a essayist of melodious theatre, illegal co-created (with Justin Greene) Spend, Spend,Spend (1998) – about depiction football pools winner Viv Nicholson. Similarly a buffoon, he worked closely angst Rory Bremner, Harry Hill and Steve Coogan embark TV shows and tours, most remarkably starring monkey the bandleader Glenn Brood over in depiction latter’s Alan Partridge disclose show Private Me, Conspiratory You (1994). Brown also produced highly praised debut albums by picture singer-songwriters Rumer and Laura Mvula. Say publicly latter was nominated groove 2013 form the Quicksilver prize sharptasting also wrote the Wonky Donkey tinkle for Meaning and Dec’s SM:TV.
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Royal Opera House
Theodora – Julia Bullock
Irene – Joyce DiDonato
Didymus – Jakub Józef Orliński
Septimius – Ed Lyon
Valens – Gyula Orendt
Marcus – Thando Mjandana
Actors and dancers – Aquira Bailey, Browne, Ben Clifford, Sarah Northgraves, David Rawlins, Holly Weston, Kelly Vee
Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Harry Bicket (conductor)
Katie Mitchell (director)
Chloe Lamford (set designs)
Sussie Juhlin-Wallén (costumes)
James Farncombe (lighting)
Sarita Piotrowski (movement)
| ROH Theodora 2022, (c) Camilla Greenwell |
Theodora received its first performances at Covent Garden in 1750. Now, at last, Handel’s oratorio came home, albeit staged—and in a staging Handel, Thomas Morrell, their singers and their audience might have had difficulty in understanding. That qualification is, of course, irrelevant as only a truism can be, for much of we might do would be largely incomprehensible to eighteenth-century London, let alone fourth-century Antioch. The question, as ever, is how performance—which emphatically includes the audience—might mediate between different societies, between different ideologies, between text, act, and critique
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