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Dateline: 5th November, 2009
Pub Opera Pub Theatre has been with us for many years but now Kilburn's Cock Tavern Theatre has introduced Pub Opera. OperaUpClose is a new company formed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher (Artistic Director of The Cock Tavern Theatre) to make opera accessible and to give young world-class trained opera singers a venue to perform in, thus offering the chance to see the opera stars of tomorrow and to experience opera up close. The company is dedicated to presenting new, difficult and classic operas in intimate spaces. Its first production will be Puccini's La Bohème in a new translation by by Robin Norton-Hale (who also directs) which will run from 8th December to 23rd January. Director Robin Norton-Hale studied English at Oxford University and trained at The King's Head Theatre on their Resident Assistant Director programme. Opera directing credits include: Spirit of Vienna (English Touring Opera); Pimpinone (Colourhouse Theatre); Revival Director on Ariodante (English Touring Opera); Assistant Director on Katya Kabonova and The Abduction from the Seraglio (both English Touring Opera). Theatre directing credits include: Best Man Speech (UK tour) and Pick 'n' Myths (Lyric Hammersmith and UK tour); Associate Director on Cloudcuckooland (Edinburgh Fringe, UK and European Tour) and Assistant Director on Sweet Charity (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). Conductor Andrew Charity trained at the Royal College of Music and London Opera Centre and has won the Ricordi Prize For Conducting. He has coached at the National Opera Studio and has a long-standing relationship working as Musical Director and singing teacher at ArtsEd and RADA (Chorus Master since 1990). He has conducted Opera Galas at LSO St Luke's, concerts with Camerata of London, Loki Orchestra, Corelli Orchestra and Co-Opera Co and at the Aldeburgh, Almeida, and Arcola Festivals. Conducting credits include: Pierrot Lunaire (Arcola), Cosi Fan Tutte (European Chamber Opera) and Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Guildhall School of Music and Drama). Premieres conducted include: Martinu's Concerto for Violins and Piano. He has worked as Musical Director for the National Theatre, RSC and Peter Hall and as Associate Director for London Opera Group and Divertimento Opera. This new version of Bohème begins on Christmas Eve and revolves around Mimi and Rodolfo, profoundly in love but unable to find a way to make their relationship succeed. Mimi has moved to England from Romania and is working as a cleaner. She lives alone in a North London bedsit, amid a group of middle-class boys who are indulging in a carefree, artistic, Bohemian lifestyle; spending the little money they have on nights out and parties. When Rodolfo falls for Mimi, the group discover the complexity of living for love and art. Puccini's score is a rollercoaster of human emotion that juxtaposes comedy with deep love and underlying tragedy. The production plays from Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm and Sunday at 5pm. There is no show on 12th December or from 25th December to 4th January, except New Year's Eve at 5pm. Tickets are £15 (£10 concessions) and there are a limited number of £5 tickets every night.
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