Grace Notes
(2018)
Music: Samuel Bordoli
Libretto: Bernard MacLaverty
Produced by Scottish Opera in 2018, Grace Notes follows the story of Catherine Anne McKenna, a young composer from the north of Ireland. She has shown enough talent to have been commissioned by the BBC to create a piece of music which will be broadcast worldwide. Catherine finds that motherhood makes composing challenging and has been working on Vernicle, a soundscape that has grown out of her life and out of the troubled place where she was born and brought up. When we first meet her she is in a state of nerves. Is her work good enough? The musicians are in place, the red recording light goes on…
(2018)
Music: Samuel Bordoli
Libretto: Bernard MacLaverty
Produced by Scottish Opera in 2018, Grace Notes follows the story of Catherine Anne McKenna, a young composer from the north of Ireland. She has shown enough talent to have been commissioned by the BBC to create a piece of music which will be broadcast worldwide. Catherine finds that motherhood makes composing challenging and has been working on Vernicle, a soundscape that has grown out of her life and out of the troubled place where she was born and brought up. When we first meet her she is in a state of nerves. Is her work good enough? The musicians are in place, the red recording light goes on…
Amerika
(2012)
Music and Libretto: Samuel Bordoli
Produced by Tête à Tête Opera Festival in August 2012, this whimsical adaptation of Kafka’s Amerika follows naïve young German Karl Rossman, exiled to New York after he accidentally impregnated a servant. Thrown from one crazy situation to another he chases the American Dream in a strange country where loyalty and justice are never quite what they seem.
Conductor: Tony Castro
Director: Bill Bankes-Jones
Designer: Ellan Parry
Karl Rossman: Rupert Charlesworth
Bureaucrat 1/The Stoker/Mr Green: Keel Watson
Bureaucrat 2/Chief Engineer/Mr Pollunder: Owen Gilhooly
Bureaucrat 3/Uncle Jacob/Clara: Katherine Bond
Orchestra: CHROMA
Trumpet – Heidi Bennett
Alto Saxophone – Tom Law
Clarinet – Massimo di Trolio
Violin – Caroline Balding
Piano – Rob Bottriell
Trombone – Neill Hadden
Double Bass – Elena Hull
Drum Kit – Steve Gibson
(2012)
Music and Libretto: Samuel Bordoli
Produced by Tête à Tête Opera Festival in August 2012, this whimsical adaptation of Kafka’s Amerika follows naïve young German Karl Rossman, exiled to New York after he accidentally impregnated a servant. Thrown from one crazy situation to another he chases the American Dream in a strange country where loyalty and justice are never quite what they seem.
Conductor: Tony Castro
Director: Bill Bankes-Jones
Designer: Ellan Parry
Karl Rossman: Rupert Charlesworth
Bureaucrat 1/The Stoker/Mr Green: Keel Watson
Bureaucrat 2/Chief Engineer/Mr Pollunder: Owen Gilhooly
Bureaucrat 3/Uncle Jacob/Clara: Katherine Bond
Orchestra: CHROMA
Trumpet – Heidi Bennett
Alto Saxophone – Tom Law
Clarinet – Massimo di Trolio
Violin – Caroline Balding
Piano – Rob Bottriell
Trombone – Neill Hadden
Double Bass – Elena Hull
Drum Kit – Steve Gibson
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New World
(2011)
Music: Samuel Bordoli
Libretto: Mark Ravenhill
Produced by Tête à Tête Opera Festival in 2011, this collaboration between Mark Ravenhill and Samuel Bordoli will "tell us everything we need to know..."
(2011)
Music: Samuel Bordoli
Libretto: Mark Ravenhill
Produced by Tête à Tête Opera Festival in 2011, this collaboration between Mark Ravenhill and Samuel Bordoli will "tell us everything we need to know..."
M. Butterfly
by David Henry Hwang
Director: Whitney Mosery
Music: Samuel Bordoli
Produced by RADA in June 2013, this unique play tells the story of a former French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer who have been sentenced to six years in jail after a trial which traced a story of clandestine love and mistaken identity.
by David Henry Hwang
Director: Whitney Mosery
Music: Samuel Bordoli
Produced by RADA in June 2013, this unique play tells the story of a former French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer who have been sentenced to six years in jail after a trial which traced a story of clandestine love and mistaken identity.
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