FULL APOLLO’S MISSION (Lambert) London 2019 Helen Bailey, Sofia Livotov, Natasha Agarwal

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Apollo's Mission  
• Composer: Lambert Edward   
• Libretto: Norman Welch    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: The Place Theatre, London, UK, Music Troupe, Tête à Tête Festival  
• Recorded: August 7, 2019
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Helen Bailey, Sofia Livotov, Natasha Agarwal, Daniel Joy, Dominic Bow, Samuel Lom
• Conductor: Michael Papadopoulos  
• Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble  
• Stage Director: Korina Kokkali  
• Stage Designer: Charlie Wood  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: The Music Troupe  
• Date Published: 2024  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Once upon a time, fifty years ago, Apollo (the sun-god) was President of Everything, while his dim sister (the moon-goddess) was just a cabaret artiste in a seedy nightclub. As the Americans invade the moon in July 1969, events take a sinister turn and chaos ensues. Can the gods sort it out or is the “dickhead” President too dysfunctional? Adding a bonkers twist to the Apollo 11 commemorations, this fun-opera investigates our fascination for all things lunar. Apollo’s Mission confuses fact with fiction, earth with moon, god-like humans with a Trump-like god – and then with now.

  First performed August 2019 The Place Theatre London
  as part of the 2019 Tête-à-Tête Festival of new opera ​

  “An amazing mash-up of myth and science… presented in a fast paced manner with the scenes overlapping and inter-cutting, and the hard-working cast of six singers and two dancers playing multiple roles. Lambert’s music moved between the popular and the more serious… This was a terrific ensemble show, and certainly made you think. There was an element of puzzlement too, but the sheer pell-mell nature of the piece and its deliberate car crash of competing facts and fantasies was rather appealing.” (Apollo’s Mission August 2019 Planet Hugill)​

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