FULL A Coffin, A Confession, and A Cautionary Tale London 2022 Tête à Tête Opera Festival

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: A Coffin, A Confession, and A Cautionary Tale  
• Composer: Alasdair Nicolson, Samuel Hogarth, and Luke Smith  
• Libretto: Craig Raine, Samuel Hogarth after Chekhov, Michael Burden    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: The Cockpit, London, UK  
• Recorded: August 31, 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Karol Jozwik, Lindsay Bramley, William Purefoy
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Michael Burden  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Tête à Tête  
• Date Published: 2022  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs  
• Video Recording from: Vimeo     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

This triple bill consists of three pieces of music theatre each having its London premiere. Each is a monologue in which the solo singer takes the audience through series of events, some past, some present. Last Things is a tale from a deathbed in which the soul departs at the end of it. The Evils of Tobacco, a monologue based on Anton Chekhov, is a parody of an evening lecture, given on ‘the platform stage of a provincial club’ in which the speaker’s text crumbles under the pressure of thoughts of domestic misery. The Organist’s Confession moves backwards and forwards between hymns, anecdotes, and new incidents in the process of which we learn of sexual misconduct and murder.