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FULL HIDDEN LOVERS (Janet Oates) London 2025 Rosalind O’Dowd, Myrto Loulaki, John Twitchen
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Hidden Lovers
- Composer: Oates Janet
- Libretto: Simon Pettifar Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: The Cockpit, London, UK
- Recorded: September 2025
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Rosalind O’Dowd, Myrto Loulaki, John Twitchen
- Conductor: Leslie Ann Lewis
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Alex Gotch
- Stage Designer: V Hayward
- Costume Designer: V Hayward
Information about the Recording
- Published by: tete a tete, MyNewOpera
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
What would you sacrifice for love? A traveller is drawn to rediscover the rural idyll of simple content and loving self-sacrifice of the people he encountered years before in his innocent wanderings through the French countryside. His hopes are crushed when he is forced to confront a reality in stark contrast with his privileged complacency and is exposed to the darkness of life. Unusual instrumentation, a dream-like chorus and richly complex music are set alongside folk tunes from the Provençale area of the opera’s mise-en-scène, taking us on the Traveller’s tense journey from naivety into darkness.