'i' - The Opera - 11th August 2017
Photography by Claire Shovelton
Tête à Tête Festival
August 11th 2017
August 11th 2017
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"A supremely creative production, at once exhilaratingly, wildly original and immaculately stylised."
- Charlotte Valori (Operissima)
Click here for full review
- Charlotte Valori (Operissima)
Click here for full review
RADA Studios Theatre, 16 Chenies Street, London, WC1E 7EX
ABOUT
Set in an oppressively happy valley ruled by a mad king and his morose daughter, ‘i’ is a twisted love story about an inventor who teaches his invention how to speak. Both the music and text are based on research on Artificial Intelligence, and the cast combines singer-songwriters and opera singers.
Composer & Director | James Oldham
Librettist, Designer & Director | Klara Kofen
Neural Network Programming | Janelle Shane, Dr. Amita Kapoor
Music Director | Daniel Galbreath
Assistant Costume Designer | Triin Kolmkant
3D Animation | Maurice Andresen
Associate Producer | Cameron Dodds
Marketing | Freddy Gelati-Meinert
The Jester | Suzie Purkis
The Princess | Rodrigo Sosa Dal Pozzo
The King | Przemyslaw Baranek
The Queen | Caroline Kennedy
The Inventor | Ben Kane
The Android | Anna Palmer
Trumpet | Aaron Diaz
Violin | Sarah Farmer
Viola I | Daniel Galbreath
Viola II | Danyal Dhondy
ABOUT
Set in an oppressively happy valley ruled by a mad king and his morose daughter, ‘i’ is a twisted love story about an inventor who teaches his invention how to speak. Both the music and text are based on research on Artificial Intelligence, and the cast combines singer-songwriters and opera singers.
Composer & Director | James Oldham
Librettist, Designer & Director | Klara Kofen
Neural Network Programming | Janelle Shane, Dr. Amita Kapoor
Music Director | Daniel Galbreath
Assistant Costume Designer | Triin Kolmkant
3D Animation | Maurice Andresen
Associate Producer | Cameron Dodds
Marketing | Freddy Gelati-Meinert
The Jester | Suzie Purkis
The Princess | Rodrigo Sosa Dal Pozzo
The King | Przemyslaw Baranek
The Queen | Caroline Kennedy
The Inventor | Ben Kane
The Android | Anna Palmer
Trumpet | Aaron Diaz
Violin | Sarah Farmer
Viola I | Daniel Galbreath
Viola II | Danyal Dhondy
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'i' - 27th January 2017
[lo-fi devised version]
27 January 2017
27 January 2017
Photography by David Stanley
What's it about?‘i’ - a love story
What if you had the power to program your own creation so they love you, and never betray you? You would feed it with the music you love, the books you care about, your ideas, your entire cosmos. A lovely, pretty simulacrum of yourself. From Ovid’s Pygmalion, to E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Doll, to Bernard Shaw’s My Fair Lady, to Blade Runner, you find ingenious men who create beautiful women, and program them to perfection. Our story fits into the same tradition, but the endeavour goes awfully wrong. It is the story of an inventor, who is forced to build a toy for a morose princess who is holding him as her prisoner. The Princess demands that she must talk and so he undergoes a complex and clumsy process of teaching The Doll speech and knowledge. Featuring Ben Kane (The Bank Accounts) and Anna Palmer (Dorcha) from the Birmingham gig scene and opera singer Suzie Purkis, accompanied by classical musicians, jazz musicians and composers. |
Who's in it?The Inventor: Ben Kane
The Doll: Anna Palmer The Princess: Suzie Purkis Narrator: James Oldham Nobody: Klara Kofen Music Director: Daniel Galbreath The Band: Beth Bellis, Zachaeus Dawson, Aaron Diaz, Daniel Galbreath, Ben Muirhead, Jenny Wood |
Who's it by?Story: Klara Kofen, Inma Férriz
Music: James Oldham, Ben Kane, Jean-Phillippe Rameau Libretto: Klara Kofen, James Oldham |
