Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Alice Usher

Alice

Soprano

Charlotte Hoather

Catherine

Tenor

Matthew Clark

Albéric

Andrew Rawlings

Bertrand

Baritone

Ashley Mercer

Raimbaud

Isabelle Atkinson

Ensemble

Madeleine Todd

Alexandra Dinwiddie

Eleanor Kemp

Stage director

Eleanor Burke

Conductor

Juliane Gallant

Set designer

Anna Kelsey

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Gabriel Finn

Repetiteur

Francesca Lauri

Edwina Strobl

Béatrice de Larragoïti

La Reine

Contralto

Anna-Helena Maclachlan

Lelio

Lars Fischer

Perlimpinpin

Charlotte Osborn

Stella

Phil Wilcox

Krakamiche

Gothic Opera

English

The Werewolf + The Last Sorcerer

London

United Kingdom

Round Chapel

Le Loup-garou (+1 More)

Public

Le Loup-garou

The Last Sorcerer

Approved

Now almost totally unknown, Le Loup-garou (The Werewolf) was performed at the Opera Comique when the composer Louise Bertin was aged just twenty-two. Although an anonymous review at the time stated that the work was good “for a woman,” Bertin has all been but forgotten as a composer and the opera performed only a handful of times since.

We will be performing Le Loup-garou alongside Le dernier sorcier (The Last Sorcerer), written in 1867 by considerably better-known composer and singer Pauline Viardot to a libretto by Ivan Turgenev. Unheard in the UK before now, this opera tells the tale of a bad-tempered sorcerer, the target of teasing by the elves in the forest, and his daughter, who has fallen in love with a young prince.

United by their supernatural, fairy-tale like themes and their light-hearted but subtly sinister character, these two neglected operas will challenge you to experience something brand new this Halloween. Performed with chamber orchestra.

The Werewolf + The Last Sorcerer by Bertin, Louise, Viardot, From (2022/2022), Directed by Eleanor Burke, Edwina Strobl,, Conductor Juliane Gallant, Round Chapel, London, United Kingdom

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