Open Door Opera presents: Opera Gets Spooked

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TWO DOUBLE-BILL PERFORMANCES FOR THE NOTTING HILL MAYFEST
Tuesday 31st May and Wednesday 1st of June
7.30pm

The Enchanted Child and The Medium

Following our hit (and) run at the Edinburgh Fringe and triumphant transfer to St John's,
Smith Square, we continue to indulge our passion to share opera with a
new audience. At this year's Notting Hill Mayfest we present a bewitching evening
devoted to the supernatural, Opera Gets Spooked, comprising of two well-loved works.

The Enchanted Child

The company's production of The Enchanted Child (hailed as 'a work of genius' by the
founder of the Edinburgh Fringe) presents an adolescent tornado, obsessed with
independence, make-up and boys, flung into a series of surreal hallucinations. Updating
the classic opera The child and the spells by Ravel and Colette, this is a powerful story of
the tensions between adolescence and romance, self-discovery and reconciliation,
growing up and letting go of childhood.

After an argument with mum and a tantrum in which she destroys her bedroom, the
heroine's temper gives way to a paranoid fantasy in which her toys, storybooks and even
the wallpaper come to life. Seeing how much hurt she has caused, rejected and scorned
by everyone important to her, she is forced to consider what (or who) she really wants.

The Medium

In Menotti's 100th year Open Door Opera present The Medium, the story of Madame
Flora's fake séances and the fright she gets when one of them produces real contact with
the Other Side.

As her daughter Monica's relationship with her adopted son Toby develops beyond the
platonic, Mme Flora tries in vain to convince her clients – and herself – that she is a fraud.
One of the composer's most popular pieces, The Medium has never lost its power to
thrill... or chill.


Tickets available from http://www.nottinghillmayfest.org.uk/viewlist.php?type=Events;stype=Opera