A triple bill of operas: Il segreto di Susanna by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari; Zanetto by Pietro Mascagni; Rita by Gaetano Donizetti. Presented by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama at the Barbican Silk Street Theatre in times of Covid-19. Without an audience, the seating removed to make space for a socially distanced orchestra of fifty players. The production was live-streamed.
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Un ballo in maschera – London
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi, presented by Opera Holland Park in the summer of 2019. It will be revived in 2026.
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Simon Corder was honoured as a Knight Of Illumination in 2017.
Continue readingThe Queen of Spades – London
Opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, presented by Opera Holland Park in the summer of 2016.
“The nightmarish hallucinatory quality of the music in the final scenes is reflected in lighting designer Simon Corder’s shifting play of light and shadows.” – Clare Colvin, Daily Express, 7 August 2016
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Opera by Bohuslav Martinů, written in 1958 – presented in a Martinů double bill with Alexandre Bis at the Silk Street Theatre at the Barbican for Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
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Costumes, and choreography by Lea Anderson. Presented at Candid Arts Galleries, London.
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Opera by Alessandro Stradella. The first opera production in the new Milton Court Theatre at The Barbican, in a baroque double bill with The Cooper, for Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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Opera by Thomas Arne. The first opera production in the new Milton Court Theatre at The Barbican, in a baroque double bill with San Giovanni Battista, for Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Continue readingThe Bough Series
Three brick wall mounted fluorescent artworks by Simon Corder.
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