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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 |
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