Rough for Opera #19 - TEXT

OPEN CALL

for librettists & writers of text for
opera & music theatre

funded time to develop your work
in studio July 4 & 5
in theatre Sept 11 & 12
London 2024

//call closes midnight May 1st//

info & application details at
roughforopera.com

🗣️ Opportunities to get involved with Second Movement

'We particularly encourage librettists/text writers with lived experience of disability (and neurodiversity) to apply for this.'

✔️ Extra budget available for access support & a fully accessible venue.

🎶 Second Movement have an open call for Rough for Opera #19 – TEXT, an opportunity for librettists/text-writers to develop their texts for opera.

Closing - 01 May
Location - London

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🌊 Don't miss the final few shows of our epic reinterpretation of Wagner's Dutchman with OperaUpClose.
⛵️ Final shows this weekend at Invisible Wind Factory.
🎟️ Tickets: manchestercamerata.co.uk/performances/t…

Lucy Bradley's original concept comes alive in a fresh English version of The Flying Dutchman.

It's opera like you've never seen before!

Coming to a town near you 😎👇
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#Dutchman #KeepingItFresh
#UKTour

UCL Communication Clinic UCL Language & Cognition UCL speech & language therapy UCL Culture UCL MASc Creative Health Study_PALS UCL Psych & Lang Sci UCL Giving Voice Second Movement oedipa Say Aphasia UCL IOE Psychology and Human Development wow, that was an evening well spent. Thanks to the performers and the facilitators. The audience also made my night. So much pride in a small space

The Aphasia New Music Group
Performances today!

Live Streaming from the Bloomsbury Theatre Studio

3:30 pm link:

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7:00 pm link:
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Join us for some for some wonderful music making!

A group of people with aphasia, family, friends and music producers have been writing and rehearsing original music and song. After 6 months work, we are inviting you to a performance! 6th June at the Bloomsbury Theatre Studio, 3.30 or 7pm. Tickets here: tinyurl.com/56tdrrhj

If you came to Rough for Opera #18 and would like to share some feedback the form is still live at

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Rough for Opera #18:

Thank you to everyone who came,
made work
performed
and to Sadler's Wells who looked after us so brilliantly.

This was an amazing day of music and performance making by some wonderful and generous artists.

Rough for Opera #19 is on its way

Tomorrow, sit a spell with me Ella Jarman-Pinto (she/her) Simone Ibbett-Brown + Simone Seales (they/them) to cast a spell as we share belly/back, an opera-in-progress for Second Movement #RoughForOpera #BlackOperamakers

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We’re really excited to welcome Peter Brathwaite to Rough for Opera #18. Peter will be leading the post performance discussions with the RFO18 composers and librettists. These insightful sessions will round off a great programme of new opera.

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Pinching myself that after a month of intense rehearsal - it is tomorrow we premiere UNTOLD co-created w Julia Cheng at CONCERTGEBOUW BRUGGE at All Arias Festival !! 🥹❤️

Huge thankssss to everyone who has joined us on this journey so far - it means everything 🙏😭

Wading in, never surrendering our tenderness. Come see my collaboration w/ Ella Jarman-Pinto (she/her) Simone Seales (they/them) + Simone Ibbett-Brown as we explore maintaining softness while existing in a Black politically feminised body, 3 May for Second Movement 's #RoughForOpera
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Rough for Opera #18

03.05.23
14:30 and 19:30
Lilian Baylis Studio

relaxed performances

new opera from

Annie Lee
Calla Esperanza and
Hannah Calascione
Ella Jarman-Pinto and Jennifer Farmer

post show discussion with Peter Brathwaite

Tickets £8

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