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An Opera Triple Bill
May 2007: Covent Garden Film Studios
 
The Two Blind Men - Offenbach 
A black comedy containing some of Offenbach's wittiest music, The Two Blindmen is a short satirical opera with a brand new script by Michael Flexer.


Rothschild's Violin - Fleischmann/Shostakovich 
In honour Shostakovich's centenary year, Second Movement produces Rothschild's Violin for the first time in Britain. A piece close to the heart of the twentieth century's greatest composer, this powerful and moving opera based on a Chekhov short story was completed by Shostakovich after the death of his student Benjamin Fleischmann in the Siege of Leningrad.


The Knife's Tears 
Never before performed in the UK, The Knife's Tears is an effervescent 1920s jazz opera by Czech composer Boheslav Martinu, best known for his operatic fantasy "Julietta". Containing influences as far ranging from ragtime, surrealism, pungent modernism and traditional Czech folk music, Second Movement's production of The Knife's Tears will be a rare chance to hear a forgotten masterpiece.
An Opera Double Bill
January 2006: Covent Garden Film Studios

Cast:
Allison Bell, Jane Harrington, Hannah Pedley, Margaret Rapacioli, Sean Clayton, Simon Thorpe, Daniel Leatherdale

Director: Oliver Mears
Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers
Set and Costume Design: Simon Holdsworth
Costume Design: Alexie Kharibian

Mozart - The Impresario

Written at the same time time as The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart's hilarious satire on the foibles of opera singers, producers and the theatre remains as fresh as ever in this newly commissioned adaptation by one of the UK's leading young playwrights, Michael Flexer.

Menotti – The Medium

Menotti's most powerful score, The Medium is a gripping portrayal of the sinister world of the seance: Madam Flora's meddling with the supernatural leads to the revelation of a terrible secret - and a horrifying descent into madness.

Trouble in Tahiti

Cast:
Paul Carey-Jones; Jane Harrington, Alastair Merry; Hannah Pedley; Tom Raskin.

Director: Oliver Mears
Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers
Set and Costume Design: Simon Holdsworth & Alexie Kharibian

Written by one of the all-time great masters of American music, Trouble in Tahiti is both a searing indictment of apple-pie suburbia and a haunting exploration of marital breakdown. With the jazzy inflections and raw emotionalism of his best work, Bernstein painfully dissects the American Dream - and what happens when it turns into nightmare.

Second movement's production at Hoxton Hall received rave reviews, which can be read here.

Mozart and Salieri

The company's inaugural production was Mozart and Salieri by Rimsky-Korsakov. This fully staged opera was paired with a first half performance of Rachmaninov’s Vespers. Performances took place at the Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair, London on 22nd and 23rd October 2004 and reviews can be read here.

Cast included:
Tom Raskin and Viktor Rud
Director: Oliver Mears
Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers