"GALA" by Ergo Phizmiz, at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival

GALA

Opening Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival, 2013

Thursday 1st & Friday 2nd August, 1900-1930

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Puppet Centre and Tête à Tête co-production in collaboration with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance 

Music and Words: Ergo Phizmiz 

 Gala is a puppet-opera inspired by the aged Gala Dali’s rapacious relationship with Jeff Fenholt, a young actor then playing the role of Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway. 

In a collaboration springing from the 2012 Puppetry in Opera Conference, Tête à Tête works with Isobel Smith (Grist to the Mill), and puppeteers together with singers from Trinity Laban on a longer commission from Festival favourite Ergo Phizmiz following his 2012 Lite Bite Caring in the Community. 

Director: Bill Bankes-Jones 

Design/Puppetry: Isobel Smith 

Music Director: Timothy Burke 

Gala: Becca Marriott 

Jesus Christ Superstar: Alex Gilchrist 

Maid: Laura Monaghan 

Puppeteers: Isobel Smith, Teele Uustani, Darren East

The Mourning Show - May 2010

De Player presents
"The Mourning Show"
An Opera about Death, Magic & Radio

Written & Composed by Ergo Phizmiz

Starring Erik Bumbledonk as Chris Evans

With the voices of Lucinda Guy, Martha Moopette & Margita Zalite

Project Consultant The Travelling Mongoose

Masks by Vulnavia Vanity

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The first performances of The Mourning Show
will take place at:

May 6th 2010 - Extrapool, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

May 8th 2010 - DePlayer, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

May 9th 2010 - Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels, Belgium

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Download the hi-res poster

Download an mp3 preview of a Pot-Pourri of music from "The Mourning Show"

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We will be delighted to see you there .....

Introducing ..... The Snow Flea

We are jolly excited to point you in the right direction for the first images and sounds from "The Snow Flea", a forthcoming new puppet opera from Buchinger's Boot Marionettes, with musical score by Ergo Phizmiz.

Go to Buchinger's Boot Snow Flea page.

The score is arranged for acoustic instrumentation, & electronically manipulated recordings of instruments, combined with samples of traditional Inuit music and Arctic field-recordings

And exclusively to this blog, here's an mp3 of a sequence showing a Raven fighting over a fish with a seagull.

Then if you're thirsty for more Snow Flea previews, you could do worse than try on James Tregaskis' Outsider In with Ergo Phizmiz.

The Snow Flea premieres in Marseilles, November 2009.