WRITTEN WORKS
Tom Stoppard was the first to write an English narration for the piece. SIMON BUTTERISS has replicated that idea but with more wit and much more charm than even Stoppard.
Edward Seckerson The Arts Desk The Merry Widow/Philharmonia Orchestra
TELEVISION
A SALARIED WIT
60 minute television film commissioned by Sky Arts TV
A GOOSEBERRY FOOL
60 minute television film commissioned by Sky Arts TV
A MOTLEY PAIR
Five part series commissioned by Sky Arts TV
RADIO
I AM THE VERY MODEL
Five part radio drama series commissioned by BBC
FILM
DRAW ON SWEET NIGHT
Translated Tony Britten’s screenplay into seventeenth century English
He has published essays on Schὅnberg, Mahler, Strauss, Verdi, Britten, Lehar, Offenbach, Gounod, Charles Dibdin, Gilbert & Sullivan and George Grossmith.
Applications to perform any of the below should be made to Nicki Stoddart at United Agents nstoddart@unitedagents.co.uk
OPERA LIBRETTI
VOLTAIRE’S AMPHIBIAN (composed by Gary Yershon)
SIGNOR KELLY'S SOUFFLÉ (composed by Andrew Nicklin)
PLAYS
MAKING MASSINGER
A 17th Century Revenge TragiComedy
Full length play (3m,3f) commissioned by Wiltshire Creative
LET’S MAKE AN OPERA
A new play, commissioned by the Britten Estate and Aldeburgh Productions, to precede THE LITTLE SWEEP
ADAPTATIONS
THE DIARY OF A NOBODY
One man version of George and Weedon Grossmith’s novel (commissioned by the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival)
TRANSLATIONS
Auber FRA DIAVOLO Stanley Hall Opera commission
Busoni ARLECCHINO Aldeburgh Festival commission
Gounod LA COLOMBE Opera Danube/West Green House Opera commission
Handel SOSARME London Handel Festival commission
Mozart DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment commission
Plato SYMPOSIUM Q Classics commission
Poulenc LA VOIX HUMAINE Critical Mass commission
Rossini IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA Opus One commission
LA PIETRA DEL PARAGONE Stanley Hall Opera commission
Schoenberg BRETTL-LIEDER RCM commission
VERSIONS
Humperdinck/Mozart THE MAGIC FLUTE AND THE BROOMSTICK
A 70 minute conflation of Hansel and Gretel and The Magic Flute for three singers and a pianist, commissioned by Wigmore Hall
Mozart THE KISS AND TELL MOZART SHOW
A 70 minute version of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro for six singers and a pianist, commissioned by Covent Garden Festival
NARRATIONS
Beethoven FIDELIO Brighton Festival commission
Bizet CARMEN RTE commission
Britten YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA Aldeburgh Festival commission (the publisher, ukhire@boosey.com. controls the rights for this)
Gilbert & Sullivan PRINCESS IDA OAE commission
Herman HELLO DOLLY! RTE commission
Lehar THE MERRY WIDOW Philharmonia Orchestra commission (the publisher, Josef Weinberger, controls the rights for this)
Loewe BRIGADOON RTÉ Concert Orchestra commission
Mozart DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL Boston Symphony Orchestra/Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment commission
Offenbach ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD Opera Danube commission
Prokofiev PETER AND THE WOLF Aldeburgh Festival commission
Strauss DIE FLEDERMAUS Philharmonia Orchestra commission