OperaUpClose are bringing a new perspective to the world of classical music, innovating and offering a contemporary perspective on much loved classics. They create small scale intimate performances that highlight the power of musicla storytelling and allow audiences to see and feel music like never before.
OperaUpClose have brought together an exceptional creative team and cast to produce The Flying Dutchman. The team have worked on productions with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Glydbourne, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and many more.
The Flying Dutchman is at the Pavilion Theatre, Friday 7 & Saturday 8 July 2023, tickets are on sale now. Book here or by calling the WTM Box Office on 01903 206206.
The Creative Team
Laura Bowler – Composer
Laura Bowler, described as “a triple threat composer-performer provocatrice” (The Arts Desk) is a composer, vocalist and Artistic Director specialising in theatre, multidisciplinary work and opera. She has been commissioned across the globe by ensembles and orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, ROH2, Opera Holland Park, The Opera Group, Manchester Camerata, London Philharmonic Orchestra and more.
Glyn Maxwell – Writer
Glyn is a prolific and celebrated writer of poetry, plays, novels and libretti. He has won several awards for his poetry, including the Somerset Maugham Prize, the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His work has been shortlisted for the Costa, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes.
Watch award winning poet, novelist and librettist Glyn Maxwell’s interview with Artistic Director Robin Norton-Hale. He discusses his process and his ongoing relationship with Wagner’s mythical masterpiece, The Flying Dutchman.
Lucy Bradley – Director
As Director, credits include: Blank Canvas (OperaUpClose); Belongings (Glyndebourne); The Finding (Mahogany Opera Group); Recital 1 (British Museum and Gemäldagalerie, Berlin); Found and Lost (Corinthia Hotel); Tycho’s Dream and Into the Harbour (Glyndebourne Education); Street Scene (Revival Director for The Opera Group); The Last Pearly (Rich Mix); The Wind in the Willows and Grimm Tales (ALRA).
Tim Burke - Music Director
British conductor Tim Burke was born in Kingston in 1982. He learned violin and piano from an early age, sang as a Choral Scholar at HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, and trained as a repetiteur at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and studied at the National Opera Studio. He went on to join the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, before working as Chorus Master at Opera North. He has conducted for Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, English Touring Opera and Streetwise Opera amongst many others.
The Cast
Philippa Boyle
A Sea of Symphony, Royal Philharmoinc Orchestra
Tosca, King’s Head Theatre
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Agrippina, English Touring Opera
Ortlindedie Walküre, London Opera Company
Timothy Dawkins
La Traviata Royal Opera, House Covent Garden
La Traviata GrangePark Opera
Arabella Glyndebourne Festival
Don Giovanni Queens Hall Edinburgh, ETO
Carolyn Holt
The Rape of Lucretia, Royal Opera House
Peter Grimes, Royal Opera House
The Turn of the Screw, Grassington Opera
Paul Putins
La bohème, ENO
Le nozze di Figaro Scottish Opera
Madama Butterfly, Royal Albert Hall
La traviata Birmingham Opera Company
The Flying Dutchman is at the Pavilion Theatre, Friday 7 & Satruday 8 July 2023, tickets are on sale now. Book here or by calling the WTM Box Office on 01903 206206.