FULL SHE SAID THE ‘F’ WORD (Dan Gillingwater) London 2017 Cheryl Enever, Lawrence White, Felix Gillingwater, Alice Redmond

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: She Said The ‘F’ Word or Get Dressed  
• Composer: Gillingwater Dan   
• Libretto: Dan Gillingwater    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: RADA Studios Theatre, London, UK  
• Recorded: August 13, 2017
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Cheryl Enever, Lawrence White, Felix Gillingwater, Alice Redmond, Ellen Campbell, David Lucus
• Conductor: Stefan Bednarczyk  
• Orchestra: The Edge Ensemble  
• Stage Director: Sarah Redmond   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: tete a tete  
• Date Published: 2017  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  How is it you wake up one day with the idea of writing an opera about getting your child ready for school in the morning? Let me re-phrase that, how is it you don’t wake up….? I have often been asked, ‘Why the Homosexual Necrophiliac Duck Opera?’ My thought is – why not! Do it before someone else does. I am still surprised that no one before me thought of an opera about sexual attraction and voice pitch?

  I had been researching She Said The ‘F’ Word round our breakfast table for more than 30 seconds before slinking away to the study to tinkle on the piano. It is a universal subject that unites all families in misery. A time of day hardly researched by sociologists. A Neverland where body clocks collide with breakfast. A purgatory where toilets are forever purple, damp cereal litters the lino and toothpaste tubes are grounds for divorce. No, it is not drawn from my family experience. I’ve cut the gory bits out. It is a realistic representation of what happens first thing, set to music. Perhaps it will make us look differently our own morning habits.

   

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