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FULL THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS (Charlotte Marlow) London 2021
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Language of Flowers
- Composer: Marlow Charlotte
- Libretto: Cecil Castellucci Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: The Cockpit, London, UK
- Recorded: August 11, 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Eleanor Sanderson-Nash, Helene Mathiesen, Flora Macdonald
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Celia Denore-Lopez, PIANO
- Stage Director: Lily Dyble
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Tête à Tête
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
“She drinks, smokes, swears, [and] is scarily ugly”— men would say, yet women would say “she was a lady to her fingertips”. Who was the enigmatic Princess Metternich?
The most infamous belle laide in Paris, she helped birth haute couture, introduced Wagner to Paris, and was a muse to painters such as Degas, had countless songs written about her, was known to turn cartwheels in her crinoline, founded a smokers’ club where she and her friends enjoyed cigars, and smuggled the crown jewels out of France after the Second Empire fell.
She was close to Empress Eugenie, with whom she made waves across Europe with her daring style and enduring friendship.
The threads Princess Pauline Metternich wove into the fabric of western history have mostly been lost to time.
Now, she is largely remembered for her infamous and disputed emancipated topless duel with a countess over a flower arrangement.
So who was the real Pauline Metternich?
Come and join Medusa Collective as New York Times bestselling author Cecil Castellucci and composer Charlotte Marlow and a woman and non-binary led collective bring a feminist and forward facing look at Pauline’s legacy to a scratch performance of this new work combining sequential art and opera, featuring new art from several exciting comic book artists.
This performance contains mild injury and non-sexual nudity. Please be aware this is a scratch performance and as such is still a work in progress.