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FULL AVANT CABARET (Laura Bowler,Joseph Davies) London 2011 Joe Bolger, Janet Fischer
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: AVANT CABARET
- Composer: Laura Bowler,Joseph Davies
- Libretto: Laura Bowler, Joseph Davies, Lavinia Murray, Charles Baudelaire Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: London, UK, Size Zero Music Theatre
- Recorded: August 19 & 20, 2011
- Type: Staged Opera Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Synopsis
Trains of Thought
Music: Laura Bowler & Words : Lavinia Murray and Laura Bowler
A hung-over music teacher, a gay businessman with a passion for interior decor, a highly-strung cocaine snorting Sloane Ranger, a stalker suffering from a severe bout of de Clérambault’s syndrome and a clothe-less pole dancer share a tube from King’s Cross to Turnpike Lane. This piece takes a glimpse into their troubled psyches.
All About Me
Music & Words by Joseph Davies
A setting for countertenor and ensemble of an autobiographical ‘book’ of the same name by the composer aged 5. The music sometimes reflects and sometimes comments upon the naive, frequently surreal text.
‘Birth’; ‘The Man on the Moon’; ‘Playgroup’; ‘Choosing’; ‘Venus’
Five Settings of Tanya Gold
Music: Laura Bowler & Words taken from articles by Tanya Gold
These settings take fragments from the controversial Guardian journalist and set them to music which enhances and sometimes wryly exaggerates their innate theatricality.
‘Whitehall Fat Police’; ‘The Quitter’; ‘This is an emergency’; ‘The Art of Haggling’ and ‘Sit Up. Scream. Rest’
Un Cabaret Folâtre (Three Settings of Charles Baudelaire)
Music: Joseph Davies & Words: Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867)
Settings for mezzo-soprano and alto melodica of Baudelaire’s ‘Bouffonneries’ (‘Buffooneries’), three minor poems first published in ‘Les Épaves’ (‘Scraps’), 1866. Their satiric and conversational manner makes the poems ideal for a cabaret setting.
‘Sur les débuts d’Amina Boschetti Au Théâtre de la Monnaie à Bruxelles’; ‘À M. Eugène Fromentin à propos d’un importun qui se disait son ami’; ‘Un Cabaret folâtre sur la route de Bruxelles à Uccle’