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
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
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)