Opera at Home
Opera at Home is a professional chamber opera company based in South East London.The possibility to stage chamber opera production was proposed and supported by producer Michael E. Corby. The creative team include director Jose Gandia (RADA/Birbeck, MA) and operatic soprano Alexia Mankovskaya (MMus Westminster), who already hasperformed at such a famous venues as St.Martin-in-the Fields; Chipping Campden Festival; Kaisersaal (Munich, Germany); Rachmaninovsky Hall (Moscow, Russia); Royal Palace (Madrid, Spain). For the event chaired by the Queen Sofia); Festival de Otoño (Palacio de La Granja, Segovia, Spain). The first performance of La Finta Semplice wascompletely sold out and had a big success.
Hansel & Gretel
Opera At Home Company is a world-class London based company that introduces the magic of opera to children and adults through performance of established operatic repertoire.
Hansel and Gretel is the most famous children opera. The colourful costumes for all performers were especially designed by professional fashion designer. Simple scenery and set make it easy to adapt to any halls/theatres in less than half an hour. Hansel and Gretel is a fully staged opera accompanied by string quartet and piano.
Opera At Home will be happy to organise an ‘opera day event’ in your school. It will include performance of the opera and open dress rehearsal workshop.
The workshop can be delivered in collaboration with the Music Department of the school. We can provide an opportunity for young string players and singers to perform in the opera.
During the workshop The Fairy introduces the story and together with Hansel and Gretel, children will learn short chorus of’ ginger bread kids’ to perform it at the end.
Grimeborn Opera Festival
On Thursday (25th August) at 19.30 we are performing at Arcola as a part of Grimeborn Opera Festival.
Grimeborn is an annual musical theatre and opera festival which coincides with the world famous Glyndebourne Opera Festival. Founded by Arcola Theatre’s artistic director Mehmet Ergen in 2007, the festival is held at Arcola Theatre in Dalston, East London. It runs for two weeks during August and is considered a dynamic alternative to the traditional "summer season".
Evening Standard Review
Prima la Musica / Der Schauspieldirektor / Grimeborn
Description: An operatic double bill of the Mozart and Salieri classics, both performed true to the rival composers' differing styles, with English translation by Simon Callow.
It was the nearest that opera ever got to a title fight. In 1786 the Emperor Joseph held a competition in Vienna's Schonbrunn Palace. During the course of a banquet, Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario) played at one end of the hall, followed at the other by Salieri's Prima la musica e poi le parole (First the music and then the words). Joseph wanted to test the relative merits of Italian and German opera; the assembled worthies judged Salieri the winner.
News Shopper Review (Greenwich Playhouse)
Mozart's La Fintas at Greenwich Playhouse
WHAT were Mozart operas like before they became global, mega-venue juggernauts?
Experience for yourself the intimacy of a Salzburg drawing room and get down to the Greenwich Playhouse, where the youthful Opera At Home company are performing his early Finta operas until October 10.
The tenors and sopranos are so up-close and personal, you’ll feel like part of the on-stage chorus and the orchestra is stripped down to a single piano.
I managed to catch the second Finta, The Pretended Garden Girl.